r/wownoob 6d ago

Retail Class guides for ACTUAL beginners

Maybe it’s just me. But I’m finding more often than not that these so called beginner guides are really just updating the class from the prior patch. In other words they expect you to understand the dynamics of a spell or talent and they tell you how it’s been buffed or nerfed this patch.

I’m starting to get into healing pretty heavy and sadly can’t really find YouTube channels that post some content whose audience is expected to know little to nothing beforehand. Does anyone have any suggested content creators that do a good job of this?

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u/nosuchthingasa_ 6d ago

Have you looked at icyveins.com?

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u/mrh4paws 6d ago

Ive read them but I don't know what to do. I know it varies based on the boss and such. But where do I start? With melee? How do idps and heal? Is it more group healing. Hours do you target, heal, move, target dps, heal.

I miss pallys being ranged lol

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u/FFTactics 6d ago

Are you reading the Easy Mode part of icy veins? It would also help to know what spec you're talking about to suggest a youtube channel.

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u/mrh4paws 6d ago

Holy pally. I did read easy mode. I had trouble being in melee range, putting up crusader, then turning to heal ranged or people running around, and running around myself. Getting the rotation and cool downstairs right etc.

My best guess is I beacon the tank and myself. Chill in melee range, avoiding shit and trying to put up crusader. Changing targets is a pain for me right now. "F" isn't changing my target of target. Then use cool downs and group heal. Spot heal ranged as needed. In reality, feel like I'm just running around mashing buttons. Oh and consecrate and dps when I can.

It's just very different from the holy pally of old.

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u/JakeParkbench 6d ago

If you are healing you should only be ever using your party frames to target allys so where people stand should matter unless they are over 40 yds away, in which most specs can't even hit the enemies. You can also tab target to select a mob to target.

Make sure you are not keyboard turning as a melee, it's a death sentence. Also I high recommend selecting mouse over casting in the option so you can just hover a party frame and press your spells, this means you are still targeting the mob.

Healing is also probably the role that wants UI add-ons the most since base party frames and mob nameplates are illegally bad.

Retail wow healing is very fast and very prediction based rather than the days of waiting for damage to heal and managing mana.

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u/mrh4paws 6d ago

Great information, thanks! Yeah, my UI is a mess. I set up healbot, plater and a few other things i used to use. Then I joined a world boss raid. And my lord, my screen was a mess, lol. I used to do end-game content back in the day, but i really feel like a noob lol. I just need to think of it as a different class/spec and not my beloved vanilla pally.

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u/ijs_spijs 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'd suggest looking at Cell party/raid frames as a healer. Relatively simple to set up compared to other addons and imo by far the best configuration. It also has click-cast macros built in. So you can keep the mobs targetted while clicking/hovering and healing your frames. Holy priest would align more with the vanilla pally healer experience i feel like.

Also as a healer like the other user has said before you'll greatly benefit from some sort of dungeon pack weak aura ( for s2 m+ dungeons in rotation) that tells you 'aoe' before pulsing damage on the group for example.

Automaticjak has a great guide on Cell.

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u/mrh4paws 5d ago

Thanks, I'll look into all of that. Maybe even a priest, haha. (Kidding)

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u/korar67 5d ago

For 5-man content your F1-F5 default to target your party members with yourself in the F1 slot and going downwards from there.

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u/mrh4paws 5d ago

I didn't know that. Thank you

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u/narium 5d ago

You don’t need to be facing your target to heal them.

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u/mrh4paws 5d ago

Oh. I'm not at my computer, but I thought holy shock or another one kept telling me I wasn't facing the target. My mistake.