chocolatemalt
4/29/2011 7:53:00 AM
To: alt.games.warcraft
In article
<0ad30168-e8e5-4961-88a2-09d097439a51@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
petertrei@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2:14apm, BLMX <junkbin5...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > The most helpful thing you can probably do is heal. aStand back and
> > try to be unnoticed for as long as you can, heal like crazy, then when
> > you come under attack bubble and heal some more.
> >
> > This topic was brought up a short time ago, and I have to agree:
> > There's a definite lack of healing on the Alliance side.
>
> I've tried that, but my pally is a great big draenai with a brightly
> shining
> Icy Weapon enchanted polearm. He stands out like a sore thumb,
> even he unequips the weapon. Now, if he were a gnome priest...
> As it is, the target icon appears above him even if he isn't doing
> anything.
>
> I also find its really difficult to target specific players - either
> to heal
> or hurt - in the furball that is a BG fight.
The default raid display is terrible, clunky and almost non-adjustable,
and doesn't show who is in range, who has incoming damage, who has
debuffs you can dispel, etc.
One of the hands-down favorite alternatives recommended in this
newsgroup is Grid + Clique. Grid is the display and Clique is the
binding of your spells to keystrokes and/or mouse buttons which you use
on the Grid squares (or regular party portraits for that matter). I
can't imagine healing without it now. There are 40 people on your team
in AV and only a fraction of them are in range at any given time. Grid
shows exactly who they are, what their health/mana/debuff status is and
you can react to it instantaneously with clicks on the Grid squares.
I recently respec'd my dwarf priest as a Disc/Holy pvp healer and have
great fun in the battlegrounds. Even when we can't take IB gy for the
life of us and the top 15 spots on the Killing Blows and Damage Done
charts are all Horde, I often have the #1 healing spot by a huge margin.
At least I'm giving the team a chance, and Grid+Clique is the key. :)
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