World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 8 | Page 63

World of Warcraft Community Magazine // 63

is being displayed in more

especially near patch day, cause

than one place, trim it out.

they never work anyways.

As a healer, you want a clean

Anonymous: All raiders should

UI. I’d also advise making

be using Deadly Boss Mods or

your UI your own instead

Bigwigs, but as a healer you

of using a package. It gets

should be able to heal blindly

you thinking about what you

for patch day when nothing

need to see and how best

works. Once you can, using

to see it. Your UI should be

addons to improve yourself can

personalized to your needs.

be quite beneficial; I always
suggest finding an addon that

Bendice: As any raider,

really gives you the ability to

you have to have Deadly Boss

tailor your raid frames to your

Mods or something that is

personal play style such as

going to keep up with the

Vudho, Grid, MoveAnything.

fight mechanics, because
sometimes we get caught

Healers often have a lot of

up in things, and we need

responsibility in raids, what is

that reminder to say hey

your opinion of the better ways

watch your feet, or this ability

to combat a situation when

is coming. As for steering

healers get blamed/take the

clear, I would say steer clear

flak for failure of a raid?

of too many addons. I feel
like people begin to rely on

Twistedmind: It’s okay to tell

addons. One or two isn’t

the group you messed up. It’s also

bad to help you visualize or

really important to diagnose raid

tweak your healing things;

wipes accurately because it isn’t

but when you start using 4-5

always the healers’ faults. The

addons to help you do two

best way to combat criticism is to

things, it starts to clutter up

take it in stride. Just remember

and you can lose track of

that you’re a team. Doing what’s

what you’re actually doing.

right for the team isn’t always

So I would say, steer clear

pointing fingers/witch hunting.

of having to rely on addons

I’d highly advise that all healers

and having too many of them,

play with people they know
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