After showing miserable performance, given my gear, in the healing recount, I made several changes to my character. My gear gems on my healing set I changed to pure Intellect (for a larger mana pool) or spirit (key healing stat for druids) as well as tweaking my glyphs and enchants, and fixing my talent tree http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Eonar&;n=Tequima&group=2
Reading up on add-ons, for how to improve my use of healbot, I came across several bloggers commenting on how sluggish and latency-impacted healbot is. It also does not talk to other healing add-ons about incoming heals (resulting in overhealing for other healers) unless you have LibHealComm add-on installed...
So I thought I would give Grid another try. After watching a VERY helpful youtube video on how to configure it so that the bars are vertical, the colours change properly etc. I have also added the optional add-ons: GridManaBars, GridStatusHots, and GridUnitMenu. Sadly, Blizz broke the ability to set focus from unit frames, so you have to set your main healing target by clicking on the MT and right click, set focus.
However, in order to use it, instead of using Clique, I did have to learn about Key Binds and Macros.
Found these useful videos later on:
However, I could not get castsequence to work - perhaps I had a typo (e.g. a ; where I should have used a ,). More research required.
Then off to the Battleground to test them, on my newly level 80 Paladin, DawnSmith...
Teq came second place in a Naxx25 run for the bosses I healed on, and within 1% of the top guild healer - not bad for a few changes!
Macros
The basic macro is:
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash of Light
and this is set as icon 2, with a secondary key-bind of Shift W.
So, just by pressing the Shift key, Flash of Light is instantly to
hand.
However, replacing an icon with this macro removes the tool-tip,
and if you are casting something else, it will fail. So I have 2 extra
lines:
#showtooltip Flash of Light
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash of Light
The full version, which will not cast if your target is dead, or
your mouse is not over a friendly target, and will cast a harmful spell
if over an enemy, is:
#show Flash of Light
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover,help,exists] Flash of Light
/cast [target=mouseover,harm,exists] Holy Light
For druid dispelling, use this instead, drag the icon to your Right 2 action bar, button 4, and bind to Shift C:
#Show tooltip Remove Curse
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,help] Remove Curse; [target=focus,exists] Remove Curse; Remove Curse
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm] Moonfire
However, I still have Decursive, as (a) it is a lot easier to see and select the targets that need de-cursing and (b) using a priority list (MT, OT, healers, aggro-whores) I can spam Shift D to decurse (as I found out today...).
Action bar R2, 7, bound to Shift H, is Cure Poison. For paladins,
use Cleanse instead of Remove Curse, and Lay on Hands instead of Cure
Poison. For priests, Cure Disease and Dispel Magic etc. If you wanted
to spam one key, try (but I have not tested, as this wastes cast time
e.g. Noth=curse, Maexx = posion):
/castrandom [target=mouseover] Remove Curse, Cure Poison
For Paladin hands and blessings, (e.g. when caster gets aggro) use
this, dragged to Right 2 action bar, key 6, and key bound to shift B:
/cast [help] Blessing of Protection; [target=targettarget] Blessing of Protection
For more on macros and how to use them, see WoWwiki - Most_Used_Macros
and the Blizzard UI and Macro Forum
