Interface
Setting up your UI as a healer is extremely important.
The main things you wanna pay attention to:
- Make sure your frames are close to your character. Reducing the time eyes need to travel between the UI and the character tends to alleviate some of the stress that being a melee-healer brings.
- Make sure your frames are set up: This mainly means that you see all the important debuffs, stacks and their duration, as well as important buffs such as your HoTs.
- Make sure you have all your abilities keybound, and you either use click-to-heal, or have mouseover macros for them. Clicking on spells and frames to target an ally is suboptimal and can lead to losing a lot of uptime and a lot of wasted time you could’ve spent casting.
For frames, I currently recommend Danders Frames while waiting for the creator of Cell to fully support Midnight. There’s also a great set of premade UI configs you can use from swirlui over at Wago.
Macros
This is an example default mouseover macro, which you should do for all your beneficial spells (or click-to-heal).
#showtooltip Renewing Mist
/cast [@mouseover,exists] Renewing Mist
Mystic Touch Mouseover Macro
A macro which will allow you to debuff an enemy that is far.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead] Crackling Jade Lightning
/cast Crackling Jade Lightning