@healer types

[Lisarayne]

I don't like the new in game raid frames.. They are HUUUUGEE and I made em as small as they will go. I'm a minimalist and having a big chunk of my screen in big blocks annoys me, lol. I have a 27" monitor and I think that thing takes up a quarter of my screen! While leveling I switched to healbot, it keeps me buffed and just so easy to use.

 

[Gilga]

Did the new raid frames come out before the new grid did?

The old grid looked great... but thats it; it was never really that useful imo.

Also, I don't use clique or healbot (granted I'm somewhat new to healing).

I use 3 fingers for 1, 2, 3 and for WASD. The other hand is on the mouse for people selection and to move my character.

My setup works for me and clique seems wayyyyy too different.

^this

Although I blame it less on being "different" and more on there being a learning curve to getting my right hand to unlearn left=select, right-menu and instead have it be lots of different things. I'm conditioned to do a combination WASD and then stretch up to the function keys. When i'm on the ball, that's 6+ function keys ... more than I could remember with shift-click or alt-click on the mouse. Or back when I used the G-keys on a logitech keyboard, somewhere between 6 and 12 keys moving hand back and forth between WASD and those buttons. However, I'll admit that I spent a lot of time immobile and standing in a fire back then and so not sure whether it's really a viable option moving the hand back and forth.

Having said that, my lofty plan is, once I hit 85, to learn to use my Naga mouse and its 12 side-under-the-thumb buttons. Easier than clique because index and middle finger buttons will stay select and menu, but it'll give my otherwise unoccupied right thumb something to do. Question is, whether, I can manage to get my right hand to do 2 things at once (or 3 if you consider "pointing moving" and "select/menu" clicking two things). Usually I have trouble beyond just walking and chewing gum, the third thing makes me trip on the sidewalk.

But I really do think that these decisions depend on personal preference and/or brain wiring. I think it's safe to say that almost every healer can benefit by some sort of mod that efficiently displays information in a defined area and that allows efficient access to applying healz to them ... but there are a bazillion things that could turn into. If you play on a laptop, the answer is invariably something very different than if you have a 24" monitor. And so on and so on.

 

[Sedesh]

I used to use Healbot, try Vuhdoh, I stopped using Healbot for that one, lot more features and even shows you what way to go if you are out of range for a heal.