Healing in WoW: The big healer guide - part 2 with add-ons, tips for M+ and more!- gamehama.com

In the first part of the healer guide, we showed you how to efficiently heal your teammates, remove debuffs, and safely guide your allies through combat even in stressful situations. In this part, we'll get down to the nitty-gritty: We'll show you the most important add-ons and explain the ins and outs of Mythic-Plus dungeons. If you want to be among the best healers in both dungeons and raids, you need to understand how the different tanks and healers work. Finally, we'll show you how to use WoWAnalyzer and WarcraftLogs to prepare for the most difficult bosses.

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Table of Contents1

. Five important healer add-ons1.1. Deadly Boss Mods1.2. 2. WeakAuras1.3. 3. Exorsus Raid Tools1.4. 4. Grid21.5. 5. Clique2. Heal in Mythic-Plus3. Know your tank!3.1. protection warrior3.2. guardian druid3.3. brewmaster monk3.4. blood death knight3.5. vengeance demon hunter3.6. protection paladin4. Raid healing is teamwork!5. equipment and preparation

Five important healer add-ons

Last time we showed you how to heal your teammates effectively with the standard interface. But if you want to conquer more difficult bosses, there is no way around some add-ons. These make the life of the healer much easier.

1. deadly boss mods

In dungeons as well as in raids, an add-on like Deadly Boss Mods

is indispensable for every player! Deadly Boss Mods ("DBM") displays timers for the most important abilities of enemies and warns you with large font as well as acoustic signals of particularly dangerous mechanics of the boss. The timers are especially important for healers. You'll want to distribute your HoTs before the strong boss abilities and medicate individual teammates so that your entire party survives the attack. DBM displays the different timers as colored bars. It's best to position these bars near your raid window. This way you can see at a glance when the next dangerous ability is coming and which teammates need healing beforehand.

You can learn more about DBM in our big guide to the popular add-on.

Position bars

To move the bars, first enter "/dbm" in the chat and go to the "Options" tab. Under "General Settings -> Core & GUI" you can click on "Start Test Bars" to get a feel for what kind of bars, sounds and text warnings are available. You can change the size of the bars under "Bar Settings -> Bar Appearance". Check if "Color by Type" is enabled there. Then go to "Color by Type" and click on "Position" in the upper right corner. You can then drag the two test bars next to your raid window. If you want to see how the whole thing looks when more than two bars are active, you can always start the test bars again under the general settings. Click "Position" on the Deadly Boss Mods add-on in WoW to be able to move the bars. Source: buffed

Colorful bars and evil bosses

The different colors of the individual bars each have their own meaning, which you can view under "Color by Type". There you can also change the color. Most important are the AoE bars, which indicate dangerous spells that do a lot of damage to the entire party. Choose a color so that you can also quickly find the AoE timer when several bars are active at the same time. However, to keep track most easily, you need to disable the bars that are unimportant to you. DBM filters out many bars for you already. For example, shamans are the only healers that can interrupt spells, so they are the only healer specialization that sees the corresponding bars. However, there are timers on individual bosses that are not as important to you. For example, the appearance of adds is only interesting to you if they do a lot of damage to teammates and they need a lot of healing in that time period. If a boss only has adds that can be defeated by the DDs on the side, you don't need a timer.

Before you pull a boss for the first time, go to the settings of the boss. You can find them in the "Bosses" tab to the left of "Options". Select the appropriate raid (for example, Castle Nathria) and then the boss. Scroll down to the timers and uncheck the abilities that are not important to you.

Sounds and announcements

As a healer, you have to keep track of many things at once, so even the largest and most beautiful bars can get lost in the heat of the moment. To keep track, you'll want to have an audible warning for the most important abilities. For example, DBM warns you with a horn when you're standing in an area of fire. This lets you know that you need to move, even if you're just staring at the raid window. In the boss settings, you can set different warning sounds for individual abilities. The default settings usually have too many sounds enabled. The same applies here as with the bars: if you're not interested in the appearance of new adds, for example, you don't need a sound for them. If you hear a horn, drum or trumpet every few seconds, you won't be able to distinguish between important and unimportant abilities. Moreover, this "musical" background can quickly become very annoying.

Use countdown

For important skills, on the other hand, you choose a clear sound. The rule of thumb is: the more important the ability, the more annoying the sound can be. However, the most practical are the "Voice: XY" announcements, which are hidden relatively far down the list due to the alphabetical sorting. When your raid meets at the dangerous boss ability at the yellow star marker, you simply use the "Voice: Star" announcement for that ability. However, since as a healer you need to make preparations before the ability, you can set a countdown for the most important abilities. As with the pull timer, a voice will then count down the last few seconds. You can find the countdown announcements in the timer settings of the individual bosses, where you have just deactivated individual timers. Instead of "normal" you select a different tone there. For example, "Count Voice 1" is the same voice as the pull timer. DBM in WoW: Sets countdown announcements for particularly dangerous abilities. Source: buffed

By the way, a good alternative to DBM is the add-on BigWigs.

2. WeakAuras

Hardly any add-on is as powerful as the well-known WeakAuras

. After the installation this add-on has no functions at first. You have to create or import auras yourself. The basic principle is simple: As soon as a certain trigger is activated, WeakAuras shows you a certain icon, text or even a bar. You can choose buffs or procs as triggers, for example. But also, if an opponent casts a certain ability, you can have this displayed. Experienced users can thus create powerful auras for each boss mechanic, making an additional add-on like Deadly Boss Mods obsolete. You can download these auras from other users on websites like wago.io and import them into your add-on. For example, for the strongest boss abilities, you can additionally download a WeakAura, which is even easier for you to see than the DBM bars.

You can learn more about WeakAuras

in our big guide to the add-on.

Pay attention to buffs

You can easily create auras that clearly show you selected procs or tell you that abilities are ready to be used again. This way you don't have to constantly check your buff bar or action bars, but can see all important procs and abilities at a glance. First you open the menu of WeakAuras by typing "/wa". At "Use template" you will find the most important procs and spells of your healer specializations. With the Weakauras add-on you can create icons that flash when a buff is active. With this aura you can see the duration of the buff. Source: buffed Let's take the Restoration Druid as an example. With the ability Stimulate, he can cast spells for twelve seconds at no mana cost. In the standard interface, however, you can only see how long you can cast free abilities in the upper right corner of the buffs. You want this buff to be clearly displayed as an aura. Then select "Symbol" in the templates and look for your buff under "Buffs". "Show only if buffed" causes the aura to be displayed only while buffing is active. Now the excite icon

appears on the screen, which you can enlarge and move as you wish. In the WeakAuras menu under "Display" you can also enlarge the icon, but also change the font and add special effects. Finally, go to the "Actions" tab. There you can add sound effects to your auras. For excitations, it makes sense to play a sound when you fade out. As soon as you hear the sound, you know that from now on you will have to pay mana for your abilities again.

Keep an eye on cooldowns

Since Stimulate is so powerful, you'll want to use the spell as often as possible, and to do that you'll need to keep an eye on the cooldown. Once again, you create an aura from a template. This time, however, instead of selecting "Buffs," you'll now select "Abilities" and again choose Excite from the list. "Cooldown Tracking" will then always show you the excitation. This way you can always see when the ability is ready again. If you only want to be reminded when the ability is ready again, choose "Basic Show On Ready". You can also just display it small, but then choose a sound "when fading in". Only the acoustic signal will let you know that the ability is ready again and you can concentrate on healing in the meantime.

3 Exorsus Raid Tools

The Exorsus Raid Tools (ERT)

add-on offers various functions to make raiding easier. Many functions are especially interesting for the raid leader. They can inspect all members of the raid, create logs, set marks or read out statistics. But also as a healer there are two important functions: Raid Cooldowns and Note. You can open the menu of the add-on by typing "/ert".

More information about ERT

can be found in the comprehensive guide to the raid add-on.

Raid cooldowns

If you activate this display, ERT will show you the most important cooldowns of all (!) healers in your raid. This is especially useful if not all cooldowns are fixed. If your teammates are losing a lot of health and you see that no cooldowns are ready, you can anticipate that you will need to heal a lot now. Such an indicator is essential for good interaction with other healers (more on that later). Under "Spells" you can set which cooldowns you want to be displayed. In the tab "Appearance" you first go to "Templates". There you can choose between a space-saving list or you can display the symbols of the cooldowns. In the other settings you can set the size, font and visibility. Exorsus Raid Tools: This useful add-on has been around for a few years in WoW. Source: buffed

Create notes

This feature allows a player to enter text in the field and share that note with the rest of the raid. This is handy when players have to take on certain tasks or when a kick rotation is set, for example. But it's also handy for dividing up healer cooldowns. Before the fight, you determine which healer uses his cooldown for which boss ability and enter it as a note. This way, a quick glance is enough to know when to cast your cooldown and saves announcements in voice chat.

Healer cooldown karaoke

To help everyone keep track of a longer list, you can use icons and colors. You can color the Restoration Druid's name orange and use the Serenity icon when that cooldown is to be used. If you know the exact time, you can write the note something like this:
{time:0:25} Serenity Philip{time
:1:30} Hymn of God Sebastian{time
:

2:50} Invigoration AdrianAfter
25 seconds of the start of the fight, the first line then turns green

.

A few seconds later, the line turns gray. This allows any healer to see that Serenity

has already been used and that God's Hymn is next. At 1 minute and 30 seconds, the second line then flashes, so now Sebastian knows to trigger God's Hymn. The curly brackets and the word "time" is no longer visible in the note on the screen. Instead, at the start of the fight, it only says the time, but then it runs out. So Sebastian sees at 1 minute and 20 seconds that his god hymn is on in 10 seconds.

4. grid2

In the first part of the healer guide, we showed you how to use the default raid window. There you can adjust some settings and change the size. Other than that, it offers you few customization options. The most important buffs and debuffs are automatically displayed in the raid window, so you can quickly jump into battle with a new healer specialization. However, if you want to see specific buffs that the standard interface doesn't have, there's hardly any way around an add-on like Grid2. Below we'll show you how to customize Grid2. If you use the complete interface of ElvUI or prefer to use Vuhdo or Healbot instead of Grid2, you can find many of the following settings in your add-on as well. The differences between the add-ons are small.

Setting up raid windows

First you call the add-on by "/grid2" and press "General". On the right you will find the tab "Layouts". There you press on the magnifying glass at "Raid". Now you can see what the raid window would look like if you were in a raid. In the "Appearance" tab you can now adjust the size. You can easily move the window with the mouse. Under "Other" you can lock the window. There you can also switch between horizontal and vertical groupings.

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Indicator and status

In the standard interface, the positions of buffs and debuffs are fixed. In Grid2, you can set the positions of them yourself. For example, if you are a Restoration Druid and you want to see your HoT rejuvenation in the bottom right, go to "Indicators" and select "Icon-Right" from the list. On the right side, a list called "Available Status" will pop up. There you will select "Buff: Rejuvenation". Now Rejuvenation appears as the current status. You can have multiple current statuses. The top status in the list overwrites the status below it. Your main class buffs are already available to you after installation. If you want to see more buffs, you can also create a status yourself. Go to "Status" and click on "Buffs". Enter the name of the buff there and then press "Create".

Show CooldownsThe

big advantage of add-ons like Grid2 is that you can also show buffs from other classes

This way you can see some of the other healers' cooldowns in the raid window. The Druid's Serenity, for example, gives players a buff that you can display. But you can also see the defensive cooldowns of the tanks. If you just see that the Protective Warrior has Shield Wall running, he will need less healing for the next few seconds. This will save you valuable mana! Before you create the status, check the "Show if not me" box so that Grid2 only checks the buffs that were not cast by you.

Raid DebuffsIn the

default interface, almost all debuffs that the boss casts during the fight are shown

However, many debuffs are superfluous and take up valuable space. With Grid2 you can disable individual debuffs. Go to "Status" and select "Debuffs" and then "Raid Debuffs". Check the "Shadowlands" box and go to the "Debuff Configuration" tab in the upper right corner. Select the Shadowlands module and the instance "Castle Nathria". Now you can select the individual bosses in the list and deactivate special debuffs.

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5. clique

Last time we showed you how to create mouseover macros so you don't have to click on your teammates

The Clique

add-on saves you the trouble of creating a separate macro for each spell. After you install this add-on, another icon will appear in your spellbook under the specializations. When you click on the icon, you can assign keys to your abilities in the spellbook. To do this, simply move the mouse over the ability and press the corresponding key. The big advantage of Clique is that you can also assign your left and right mouse buttons in this way. Spells that you use frequently can be assigned to the mouse buttons. This way, you only have to click on your teammates to patch them up. You can also set shortcuts for abilities. For example, a Holy Priest can left-click for healing and alt-left-click for lightning healing. Alt-right click can then be normal interaction with a player, for example, to trade with them or look at them. So you then have right-click available for another spell.

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. Five important healer add-ons1.1. 1. Deadly Boss Mods1.2. 2. WeakAuras1.3. 3. Exorsus Raid Tools1.4. 4. Grid21.5. 5. Clique2. Heal in Mythic-Plus3. Know your tank!3.1. protection warrior3.2. guardian druid3.3. brewmaster monk3.4. blood death knight3.5. vengeance demon hunter3.6. protection paladin4. Raid healing is teamwork!5. Equipment and Preparation

Healing in Mythic-Plus

You can only

raid

dungeons

with

five

people.

As the only healer, you must ensure the survival of the group. The basic principle of healing remains the same: always play ahead, heal players before they take a lot of damage, and remove important debuffs. However, there are four important differences from healing in raids:

Battles are shorter

: many enemy groups are defeated in less than a minute, and even the bosses in the dungeons are history in less than three minutes.

Therefore, you have more mana available in a fight and can use expensive spells more often accordingly.
Single-target healing is moreimportant:
You'll need to heal less, but be more attentive:
Healing is not your only task

: in the time when you don't have to heal, you don't twiddle your thumbs. There is always something to do. Using control spells and offensive abilities isn't a nice bonus, it's your job.

Drink often and drink a lotAfter

each party and after each boss encounter, leave the fight. Then you can use buff food and replenish your mana. Therefore, be sure to get at least the water beforehand, which you can buy at almost every innkeeper. Better, however, is the magician's conjured food, as this replenishes your mana faster. In dungeons, you take every opportunity to replenish your mana. Source: buffed

You don't wait until your mana bar is completely empty. Instead, you use the few seconds after the fight and before the next pull each time. Once you drink, you continue to regenerate mana in combat. You don't have to jump up and cancel the effect as soon as the tank loses life. Tanks can last several seconds without healing, and even if he's at 70 percent health, his life isn't in danger yet. The short drink breaks prevent your group from having to wait longer for you. In Mythic-Plus, every second counts.

Control is mandatoryEach

healer specialization has various control and support spells. These are not nice gimmicks that you cast every now and then when you're bored. Rather, they are skills that you will want to use as often as possible. The Monk's Foot Sweep stuns all enemies in the vicinity for three seconds. A well-placed Ring of Peace allows enemies to not attack the tank for five seconds. The bottom line is that the tank takes no damage for three and five seconds respectively. In many situations, this is better than using your strong healer cooldowns like Health Cocoon.
In Mythic-Plus dungeons, there are hardly any abilities that don't come into play. Restoration Shamans cleanse effects from various enemies to reduce damage taken. Earthblast Totem removes fear effects from the party. These two spells are rarely used in raids, but are important in dungeons. In dungeons, use your control spells like Ring of Peace to prevent damage! Source: buffed

Cause DamageEach

healer specialization has the simplified version of the corresponding damage specialization

up its sleeve.

For example, the healing Monk, like the Wind Runner, can use Blackout Kick and Rising Sun Kick, among others. Some healers already require you to use offensive abilities to heal, such as the Discipline Priest. However, all other healers also want to use their offensive spells as often as possible. Basically, you are not a healer with damage spells, but a damage dealer with healing spells. Your teammates don't need to have full health all the time. It's usually enough to heal them to about 80% of maximum health and let your HoTs do the rest of the job. This will save you a lot of time and also allow you to deal more damage.

Identify

prioritiesYour tank takes the most damage and, on average, needs the most attention from you

If several players lose a lot of health at the same time, it doesn't mean that you have to heal the tank first. Unlike the DDs, the tank has many strong defensive cooldowns or occasional heals to ensure survival. But there are also differences in the damage dealers. Shamans, for example, have few options to ensure their own survival, while classes like Mages, Hunters or Paladins can make themselves immune to damage for a short time. Communication is key here! Tell them to use those defensive cooldowns when you're in the middle of saving someone else. You are the best judge of how much healing is necessary and possible. Again, anticipatory play is rewarded. If a DD is losing a lot of health, but there are no enemies that will damage him in the next few seconds, you may prefer to focus on another player.

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Know your tank!

Especially in Mythic-Plus dungeons but also in raids, tank interaction is incredibly important. To do this, you need to understand how each tank works. Some tank specializations take a lot of damage at the beginning of the fight. Some tanks heal themselves well, but don't handle damage spikes well. And other tanks have few responses to magic damage. In the following, we'll show you the strengths and weaknesses of each tank and tell you the most important cooldowns to keep an eye on. With a raid frame add-on like Grid2, you can display these cooldowns on the tank's health bar. When such a cooldown is running, you can usually take care of other players.

Protection Warriors

Cooldowns: Shield Block, Shield Wall, Last StandWarriors
rely on the resource Rage

They build up rage by using abilities in combat. After combat, this resource slowly decays. The Protection Warrior uses rage to increase his defense. Most often, he uses shield block to improve his block chance. He can't do quite as much against magic damage. Gritting his teeth grants the Warrior an absorption shield. This also allows him to absorb magic damage. At the beginning of a fight, he has little rage, so a few seconds will pass before he can use a defensive spell. Keep an eye on the Warrior's health bar, especially at the beginning. Shield Wall and Last Stand are strong cooldowns. As long as one of the cooldowns is running, the Protective Warrior needs very little healing. The shield block from the warrior tank intercepts many blows from opponents. Source: buffed

Guardian Druid

Cooldowns: Tree Bark, Iron Fur, Survival InstinctsGuardian Druids
also use Rage

Bears can't have enough rage at this. Unlike the warrior, the druid can use his defensive spell Ironfur indefinitely and without a cooldown - provided he has enough Rage to do so. Ironfur stacks and increases armor. Always keep an eye on the stacks of Ironfur. If you have more than three stacks, you don't have to worry about the tank. On the other hand, bears are even worse if they don't have any rage. If the red bar is empty and Ironfur has run out, the druid needs healing immediately. Guardian Druids can heal themselves with Frenzied Regeneration. They also use this for magic damage. Otherwise, they have little self-healing and rely on you to heal them when the health bar is rapidly shrinking. The Guardian's problem can be alleviated with the help of his Legendary Souvenir of Ursoc's Fury.

Brewmaster Monk

Cooldowns: Relay, Celestial Brew, Fortifying BrewBrewmaster Monks
are the strongest tanks for preventing damage spikes

The reason for this is the Relay mechanic. Whenever the Monk takes damage, he only takes a portion of the damage immediately and the rest of the damage is spread out over the next few seconds. Healer specializations with a lot of HoTs, such as Druids or Monks, therefore harmonize very well with the Brewmaster. Make sure you have the debuff Staffs displayed. Even the developers at Blizzard consider this important, since the debuff is also displayed in the standard interface. In the traffic light colors, the debuff shows you how much damage the Brewmaster suffers every second. With green and yellow, your HoTs are sufficient. If the relay indicator stays red for a long time, you need to actively heal the brewmaster. For magical damage, he has Celestial Brew up his sleeve. However, the Monk tank has very little self-healing and is therefore dependent on a healer. Brewmaster Monks in WoW receive little damage in one hit. In return, they can hardly heal themselves. Source: buffed

Blood Death Knight

Cooldowns: Dancing Rune Weapon, Vampire Blood, Icy ResistanceThe
previous tanks use their defensive spells before taking damage

The Blood Death Knight uses mostly his abilities after being attacked. Deathblow heals the Death Knight by a large amount. The more damage he has taken, the greater the healing. This reactive play style has the effect of rapidly decreasing the Death Knight's life bar, but the unholy knight also heals himself quickly through his abilities. The great skill for healers is not to panic immediately when Death Knights are low on health. However, you can't ignore the Death Knight tank completely. Especially against large groups he depends on your help. His strong self-healing is great for both physical and magic damage, making him the star against spellcasting enemies.

Vengeful Demon Hunter

Cooldowns: Demon Sting, MetamorphosisThe
Demon Hunter has a lot of self-healing similar to the Death Knight

However, he can also increase his defense. Other than that, though, he has few cooldowns. In Mythic-Plus dungeons, he can compensate for this well with his numerous control spells. He is also very mobile and can "kite" opponents. However, if the Demon Hunter then takes a lot of damage, he immediately relies on your healing.

Protection Paladin

Cooldowns: Shield of the Righteous, Guardian of the Ancient Kings, God Shield, Tireless DefenderThrough
his abilities, the Protection Paladin gathers Holy Power

He spends this resource on his defensive spells. Shield of the Righteous increases armor similar to the Guardian Druid. Word of Glory heals the Paladin and is good against magical damage. However, the Paladin usually does not have enough Holy Power to use both regularly. If Shield of the Righteous is not active at the time, then the Protective Paladin takes a lot of damage and he needs your attention. To compensate, it has a lot of powerful cooldowns. Be sure to check out these cooldowns that can save his pixel butt.

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Raid healing is teamwork!

When we introduced the main healer add-ons above, we didn't go into popular damage meter add-ons like

Details, Skada or Recount

. These add-ons are quite powerful and provide you with important information. At the same time, they quickly distract you from what's really important: Namely, you are not a good healer if you push the most HpS (Healing per Second; indicates how much healing you produce per second), but if you work together with the other healers.

Healers are much more dependent on their colleagues than damage dealers are. Until the boss is defeated, DDs can deal unlimited damage and increase their DpS. As a healer, you can be as good as you want. But as long as the party doesn't lose health, you don't generate healing and thus no HpS. It is easy to use your cooldowns whenever your fellow healers also resort to a cooldown to out heal them. It is much more difficult to work with the other healers.

Know your healers!

Just as you need to understand how the tanks work, you need to know what makes the other healers tick. This includes first knowing the basic principle of each healer specialization. A Druid heals the party slowly with his HoTs, but very mana-efficiently. His Serenity is a powerful cooldown. However, it takes a few seconds for the group to regain full life. An overzealous Monk can nullify Serenity with his instant cooldown Invigoration if he and the Druid draw their cooldown at the same time.

It's almost as important that you know the player behind the hero. Even if you heal with two Restoration Druids, neither will use the exact same ability at any given time. Each player has their own play style and makes different choices. However, if you heal frequently with the same players, you will automatically adapt to each other's playstyle. But even with a welded-in group, the following counts.

Talk to each other!

For the difficult raid bosses, there's no way around a voice chat program like Discord or TeamSpeak. This simplifies the tactics discussion and skills can be announced in battle. But it also makes it easy for healers to coordinate their cooldowns in combat. If the Monk hears that the Druid is activating his Serenity, he will not cast his Invigoration (hopefully). Also, other players can announce that they will take a lot of damage now and need a lot of healing. Healing druids also need to coordinate - otherwise spells can just fizzle out in the raid. Source: buffed

Create community and plan

cooldownsYou can discuss

important

things in TeamSpeak or Discord, both in battle and afterwards. For fine tuning it is practical to have your own healer channel. The easiest way to do this is to create a community (default key "j") and invite all healers of your raid there.

There you can also clarify whether individual healers prefer certain players in healing. It is not advisable that each healer heals only a certain group. Paladins and Monks usually stand with the melee players and therefore always have them in range. Other healers may then prefer the ranged fighters.

If you know the exact battle sequence, plan all healer cooldowns in advance. Then you won't have to announce the cooldowns in battle, because each healer will know when to use which ability. For longer and more complex battles, it's best to use the note function of the Exorsus Raid Tool mentioned above. This way you still have an overview of when which healer uses his cooldowns in battle.

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preparation

equipment and preparation

Proper preparation for the boss fight is incredibly important for healers

But even after the fight, you can look at what you can do better next time. In this section we will show you how to improve your healing with the help of WoW (buy now 14,99 € )

Analyzer, QuestionablyEpic and Warcraftlogs.

Determine Value PriorityWith

damage dealers, it's fairly easy to determine a best-in-slot list

Various programs can simulate the perfect rotation for maximum damage and use the data to calculate which values promise the most DpS for the damage dealer. With healers, this is not so simple. There is no fixed rotation. Each battle requires you to use your healing spells in a different order. In addition, each healer has his own play style. Therefore, as a healer, you can't determine exact value distributions in advance, but can only orient yourself on the values of other players of the same specialization.

What

WoWAnalyzer can do

If you

have defeated a boss, however, and logs have been created from this fight, you can determine your stats for this one fight

To do this, visit the website WoWAnalyzer.com, paste the link from Warcraftlogs and press "Analyze". In the "Player Selection" you choose your character. If you don't have the link, you can enter your character name and server in the "Character" tab to find the appropriate log. Then switch from the "Overview" tab to "Statistics". There you will find many details about the different spells and buffs of your class. At first, however, you'll only be interested in "Stat Values" directly at the top right. The numbers show how much HpS you got from one point of an attribute in exactly that one fight. This means, however, that you cannot determine a basic value priority from a single log. For example, if a boss requires a lot of tank healing, you'll use different spells than you would in a fight with a lot of group healing. For example, one spell might scale great with the Mastery value, while the group heal might benefit most from the Speed value. But even with the same boss, there can be variations in the individual logs, depending on which skills you used and how often. On the WoWAnalyzer website you can find out many details about a particular battle and read out your stats distribution for the battle. Source: buffed

Use PawnIf

your stats priority is far apart on different bosses, it is advisable that you carry multiple equipment sets

In our example above, this allows you to carry the gear with speed most of the time. Then, when you get to the boss where your tanks are getting hit, swap out some of the gear for items with mastery. However, if your stats are close, you can simply choose the stats priority of a boss with group damage, but then raise the Mastery value a bit to effectively heal tanks as well. You can't create a perfect value scaling that is precise to several decimal places anyway, because every fight is different.

Once you've determined your value priority, you won't have to pull out your calculator every time you capture a new item. With the add-on Pawn

you can enter your determined values. The add-on then calculates for each item whether it is an improvement according to your value distribution and shows this with a green arrow under the tooltip of the item.

We have summarized more information about the Pawn add-on for you in an article.

Comparing

Trinkets and Legendarys WoWAnalyzer and Pawn

are of

limited help, because the unique effects cannot be compared

You can get the most accurate results on QuestionablyEpic.com. First click on the "Open Questionably Epic Live" button in the value distribution on the WoWAnalyzer.com

page. This way, you will directly take over your character's data. In QuestionablyEpic's tool you can now click on "Trinkets" and compare trinkets there. QuestionablyEpic also has many other functions. For example, you can use the "Upgrade Finder" to quickly find even stronger equipment.

Improve gameplay

You can constantly improve not only your equipment, but also the way you play. Since many battles are hectic and you often wonder what exactly went wrong, you can examine each battle in detail afterwards at WoWAnalyzer. In the "Overview" tab, the site suggests what you can do better next time. This does not necessarily mean that you did something wrong. For example, if your healer cooldowns were fixed, it's not surprising that you could use your cooldowns more often if they weren't fixed. For each of the points you can find more details at WoWAnalyzer. If, for example, the site criticizes you for using some spells too rarely, switch to the "Statistics" tab and scroll down to "Abilities". There you can see how often you cast the ability and the maximum number of spells you could have cast. Then switch from "Statistics" to "Timeline". Now you can see exactly when you used which spell. If there are long gaps, you can ask yourself what happened during that time. If you moved around a lot and therefore couldn't cast spells, you can think about how to shorten those walking distances. Basically, there is always something to improve.

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information at WarcraftLogsYou

can get

even

more information about a fight at WarcraftLogs.com

There you can get an overview of the entire raid. For example, you can see all the healing in "Healing". If you and another healer are generating a lot of healing at the same time, but are running low on healing at another time, you can better coordinate your cooldowns. Otherwise, Damage Taken is very important. It tells you how much damage the entire raid is taking. Take a look at the times when a lot of damage comes in. Set up healer cooldowns for those times to absorb the high damage.

The perfect preparationYou

can also create a cool-down division before you face a boss for the first time

To do this, take the logs of other guilds that have already defeated the boss and look there to see when the raids take a lot of damage. If these are the same times for each guild, then these are usually the times when the boss casts dangerous abilities. Then divide up the cooldowns for those times, and record that in the Exorsus Raid Tools note, for example. Since you know the exact number of seconds, you can also write this, for example, as follows: {time:3:20} Serenity.

Then all you have to do is share the note with your fellow healers before the fight and save yourself the mess from the first pulls. The Damage Taken tab will also tell you what the dangerous ability is called. Deadly Boss Mods will then allow you to set a distinctive tone or countdown for that ability. If the ability leaves a nasty debuff, then check Grid2 to see if the debuff is clearly visible in the raid window. With good preparation and a bit of routine, you can get your teammates through difficult boss battles safe and sound - we wish you the best of luck!

What tips can you add as a healer? Is there another add-on that has helped you a lot but is not listed here? Which healing style do you prefer? Tell us in the comments!

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