So it's been a long while since I've posted my misadventures with Pally alt healing.

Levels 70-80

The first thing I did was messing with mods and UI.   With new tricks with Judgements, Beacon, and stuff the old one definitely couldn't do what I wanted.    The first thing I wanted was something to better track the Bacon, ClassTimers wasn't good enough for me.   I figure since it only tracks Focus, Target, and Self, the Bacon I may need to track more targets than that. 

The mod I found was SpellReminder, able to set up timer bars and audible warnings of debuffs/buffs you cast.   This allowed me to put a beacon on anyone, heal someone else, have a focus on another person, track judgement debuff on a boss without focusing/targetting it, track mutilple sacred shield casts, while still targetting a different guy, etc.    The bars are similar to boss mods, with a "short timer" warning you can move to somewhere more visible to you while having it audibly alert you.    And able to set up each buff/debuff to have diff audible warnings so you don't even have to look, just listen for what's falling off.

Anyways, after that was over with, I decided to try my hand at instancing, and it was quite interesting.    It usually only took a few mins for me to find a group for instance rested xp and loots!    By the time I was 80 the only quests I really did was Dungeon ones, Borean, and Fjord.     Well, exception to that is at level 77, I started up on the Hodir quest chain.    So I was doing dailies by level 78, and 3 weeks into 80, already exalted with them.

Week 1:

So being a noobie 80 my plan was to get a bunch of heroics under my belt.   I wanted the gear, experience, and knowledge that I can pull my weight in anything higher I'd do.    Though, I did get into a Salmon VoA25, couldn't do much though, slow and weak heals!    Same with a random OS25.

Sticking back to Heroics, chugged along what was approximately an increasing level of difficulty.  Nexus and UK were easy targets.   VH was sorta but a bit of a crapshoot if the Void Walker showed up, still managed through it, but definitely needed a lot of spamming.   Even did AN and OK, but those were shaky, well more cause the groups themselves were too.   Strath, Pinnacle, HoS, and even Occulus, were on the completed as well.

Week 2:

With the heroics, I took as much gear as possible, leather, cloth, mail, etc, all to boost stats, fuck the armor.  lol    Still wearing a leather helm to this day.    Also by this time there were of course some epics, heroic ones, heroism emblems ones.

So tried my luck with a pug Naxx10.   Partial pug maybe, a few of them did know/run with each other a bunch I believe.   Definitely an experience in noob healing.   Mistakes were made, I died, people died, Pudo lived, stuff took forever to die, etc, etc.   It did take a 2nd night, but did manage a full clear.

For the most part I think I did fine.  Mistakes on trying to heal during Heigan dance killed me.   Learning to time things on Loatheb took getting used to.   Sapphiron took some running around, but it wasn't much trouble.     It was Kel'thuzad that became something that forced me to learn more.

The trouble was Frost Blast.   First was the folly of not configuring Grid to properly show it, well I thought I did, but it didn't work, so had to look it up.    Second, really need better reaction time to handle it, clicking to target then casting heal was a bit slow, and of course the other healers probably fail at this too so when all 3 of us fail, fun times.   Especially when they don't have a mod to show em who has it and started relying on yell macros to read then find the person then heal.

Anyways, got the kill eventually, but it definitely forced me to look up another mod afterwards.   Clique.   Binding spells to mouse buttons basically.   Spent a day experiementing with it and mouseover macros with heals.   My first thought was to just bind heals to standard mouse clicks, only have a 3 button mouse.     But that quickly was a mistake, doing that no longer allowed me to target anyone, anything, or right click for stuff like inspections and stuff, it all got sent to heals.  

Scrapping that idea, leaving the standard click alone, I went with modifer keys to combine with clicking to use this.   I set up CTRL-LEFT, CTRL-RIGHT, and CTRL-MIDDLE as my Flash of Light, Holy Shock, and Holy Light buttons.    CTRL being easy to just rest my palm on for standard healing scenarios.   The next set of buttons was Shift ones, putting the Hand of Salv, Prot, and Sac on those.   Lastly, the Alt handled my Sacred Shield and Beacon spamming.   Had one left over so I just slapped it on Hand of Freedom for that one.

Week 3:

This was also the first week I did heroic HoL, never want to go back.  lol

Anyways, Naxx10 this week was a fail pug.   Real pug, truly random bunch gathered together with no real organization.   Did 2 of the wings before falling apart.  lol

But the highlight this week would be Naxx25 partial pug, I guess, seems to be some guild hosted or something.   Went through that with minimal difficulty with all my new fanlged mod and macro set ups.   I did screw up on Thaddius charges, towards the end, failed to keep watch.

At this point, I've actually finished with Heroic gear.  Well, heroic emblem gear.   There are still a few upgrades I suppose in heroics themselves, but nothing major or it's an instance I'd like to block from memory.   lol

Week 4:

That would be this week.   Last night I did a pug Naxx10 again, semi-organized people though so good start there.   The problem was, they decided to just 2 healer it.    Scream in terror!

It was definitely the most ooming experience I've had.   I actually had to pot a few fights, and used Divine Plea quite a bit.   And, it was pulled off.    Only wipe was at 4H in which only cause the 2 handling the back fudged it up.

And by ooming I really meant ooming.   For Sapphiron though it was kinda close sometimes, there were enough breaks in the air phases that I could Divine Plea and stuff without much trouble.    For Kel'thuzad, it was very very close.   Especially coupled with the mana detonation, even with Divine Plea just ran out of mana for the Holy Lights.   Resorted to Flash spamming a bunch at the end barely keeping up both tanks, couldn't afford to keep bacon up, and started to ignore dps, cept for maybe a frost blast one heal to save em.

Anyways, stay tuned for more misadventures of the noob pally!