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80 Resto Druid

figment103 — Sun, 03/15/2009 - 13:49

Character Info
Name: 
Kelp
Server: 
Gorgonnash
Race: 
Night Elf
Class: 
Druid
Role: 
Healing
General Questions
Which days are you available for organized guild events? (Raids, RBGs, etc): 
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday
Saturday
Sunday
UI
Which addons do you consider essential and why?: 
I personally use DBM and recount (and I also downloaded Ora2 and SmartRes recently) as far as mods that pertain to raiding. I would be willing to try more.
PvE
Raid Experience: 

All BC (except Sunwell and limited knowlege with BT and TK)
All 10/25 Man in Wotlk (except Kael'thas and Sapphiron on 25 man Nax)
These were all done healing on Kelp and dpsing (as a shadow priest) on Tautiana.

Personal
What timezone are you in?: 
Texas
Tell us a little about yourself.: 
I'm a girl who plays soccer three times a week, loves video games, and takes voice lessons.
Open/Closed: 
Closed
Kerilyn's picture

WTB GRID..

Kerilyn — Mon, 03/16/2009 - 19:39

in all honesty how DO you heal without Grid? i saw no mention of it in your app and do not see it in your UI screenshot. IMO go get grid right now.

I have tried both grid and

figment103 — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 11:26

I have tried both grid and healbot and though I know some healers will hate me for it, I just dislike them both. I heal better with the basic UI. It works great for some but just not as well with me.

garreth's picture

And, so we're clear. This

garreth — Thu, 03/19/2009 - 01:51

And, so we're clear. This isn't me saying "GTFO". But, if we're going to continue with this app, I need screenshots of you using it or at least some real questions on how it works so you can get better with it.

garreth's picture

Though I don't expect you to

garreth — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:36

Though I don't expect you to magically go this far, every single of one our hardcore healers has a UI with at least this level of modification: /node/5719

There's "healing" and then again, there's "endgame healing". I'm talking Sunwell-pre-3.0 endgame. Something you have not had the the pleasure to experience yet. Do us all a favor and start building your UI to accommodate that level of difficulty now instead of wiping your raid for a month because you can't keep up.

Nas, Taut, I'm sure you both

Lorb — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 20:07

Nas, Taut, I'm sure you both remember me from the old guild. I made myself use grid for a month of raiding and now can't believe I thought I was good before that. I often think, what the people who thought I was great back then would of thought if they saw the huge improvement in me while useing grid. It's that much better!!...lorb

jaibyrd's picture

Grid is the thing

jaibyrd — Wed, 03/18/2009 - 23:06

I think every one has talked the 'I'm a way better healer' part of grid up but I want to point out the obvious: If you raid with Downfall you use grid. The other healers need to know what the heck you are doing so they can make their heals count. Downfall doesn't appreciate misuse of mana. When you have grid (whether you make use of it or not) the rest of the raid can check out what heals you are adding so as not to overheal your target. Works like a charm. A charming charm.

saedo's picture

Actually Grid isn't need for

saedo — Wed, 03/18/2009 - 23:12

Actually Grid isn't need for Grid users to see incoming heals. Grid doesn't really send out any info for sync'ing with others. It's just a compact display of the raid with a fuck ton of info crammed into there.

jaibyrd's picture

And here I thought that it

jaibyrd — Thu, 03/19/2009 - 12:44

And here I thought that it didn't work as well in groups where all the healers didn't have it. O my, are those enough negatives in that sentence or what...trying to decode and make sure I actually said what I think I wanted to say.

garreth's picture

I guarantee you are forcing

garreth — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 14:08

I guarantee you are forcing yourself to be less effective than you could be. We have enough bad players that feel they're "good enough" and won't try to get better. I have no time to coach players that can't keep up with the rest of us.

There is NO way that you can outheal any of our raiding healers with stock UI raid frames, even taking into account gear. You'll always be slower than me because I know who WILL get hit, not just whom got hit after the fact. You'll never be as efficient as me because I already know whom has incoming heals and I can therefore direct my heal elsewhere. You'll always be making the wrong choices on whom to heal, because you can't see whom already has HoTs on them, thus you'll waste valuable time and mana healing people that could be left alone while you go heal someone who is about to take real damage. But wait! You won't know who is about to take real damage because you have no indicators of incoming damage or aggro.

Are you that horribad druid that never decurses in my raids? I'm sure the stock raid frames have some sort of debuff indicator, but I doubt it's filtered for only what you can cleanse. I bet your stock frames don't show you whom has the boss debuff that's ticking for 5k a second. You know THAT debuff - the one that you have to heal on within milliseconds or the person dies (Sarth3D flame wall debuff/KT iceblock/Bloodboil/etc)

I don't need any more guildies that feel the need to rationalize to me why they are bad, why they should stay bad and why they refuse to get better

Heal mods overrated imo.

butternut — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 11:10

I personally have never used a healing mod to heal and ive been healing for 4 years. Alot of people dont like the mods I dont see any need for it myself I just use xperl raid frames and keybind all of my heals so that way I can watch everyones health/mana bars click on them and hit the number key that corresponds to my heals.

If you want to see kelps healing abilities carry her into a group I guarantee you will not be disappointed. =p

raid frames!!

poisondonut — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:18

NAS! Even you said that you use xperl raidframes. Kelp's UI is as stock as they come from what I saw in the screenshot. I have no doubts in kelp's ability to heal well, i have witnessed it firsthand, but in end-game /hardcore raiding, you need to be the very best, and to be the very best, you have to be in coordination with the other healers. Grid allows you to do that. Downfall runs two full 25 man raids, both of which have cleared all the content available (both raids have sarth3d kills, by far the biggest challenge in game currently besides achievements). definitely get grid, i also reccomend picking up a unitframes such as pitbull xperl or ag frames.it just gives so much customizability and things such as target of target (of target even!) and the ability to move frames around on your screen. and change size/opacity, and other stuff. These things can only make you a better player in the long run (at least in a raid setting).

Jayel's picture

Grid

Jayel — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 12:26

Grid is so much more then just a healing mod. Its very useful for healing but I put it in the raiding mod category for its overall usefulness.

saedo's picture

You may be good at what you

saedo — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 11:58

You may be good at what you do. But that does not mean you can't be better at what you can do with better tools.

Analogy time! Let's see I'll use...

You may be very good and proficient with a screwdriver. But you won't beat someone using a power drill!

Anyways, this is Grid. /node/5719

Derchlon's picture

Grid does it all.

Derchlon — Tue, 03/17/2009 - 12:24

I agree. Grid doesn't just help you heal, it tells you everything you need to know about people's status. Its so small and convenient too, that I'm not sure why you would be against it. My bet is that you've done it one way for so long, that any change feels uncomfortable. I guarantee that if you stick with grid for 1 month of raiding, you'll love it, and regret not sticking with it sooner.

Atar's picture

I like the fact that you have

Atar — Mon, 03/16/2009 - 07:32

I like the fact that you have an 80 Shadow Priest. Hmm.......Salmon might could use one of those.........

I'd honestly be happy to raid

figment103 — Mon, 03/16/2009 - 17:01

I'd honestly be happy to raid on either Kelp or Taut but would prefer to raid on Kelp if possible.

garreth's picture

I like healers. Can you

garreth — Mon, 03/16/2009 - 01:55

I like healers. Can you please post a link to a screenshot of your UI with a description of what's going on in it?

Yessir!

figment103 — Mon, 03/16/2009 - 17:00

Added it to my app. :-P

go go gadget tree form

poisondonut — Mon, 03/16/2009 - 00:44

As tautiana she was a pretty amazing dps priest. as kelp we ran ZA bear runs where she did an awesome job keeping everyone alive. No emo/bitchiness and she sings on vent!

Plus she's a girl, we need more females. Its a real sausage fest in KB.

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