Priest Keybindings and Mods

Up until level 70 I used the mouse for everything…moving, turning, casting spells, targeting.  At the time, it was comfortable and all that I knew.  The only mod I used was KTM Threat Meter.

After a Kara run or two, I learned that something had to change. I would click a portrait, find the spell on my spell bar that suited the situation, then click the spell.  Click another portrait, find Binding Heal, click it. The lag from me having to drag my mouse from the portraits (left corner of the screen) to my toolbar, and to actually find the spell that I’m interested in casting was just painful and lead to unnecessary deaths.

That was then and this is now.

Currently I still do not use (or some might say “take advantage of”) many mods.  Here is my current set up which works wonderfully for me.

- Clique. It’s a lifesaver and I can’t imagine healing without it. Clique is a mod that allows me to set all of my mouse buttons to cast certain heals.  Right clicking a portrait casts Greater Heal, middle mouse button casts Renew, shift-right click casts Prayer of Mending, etc. So now I can keep my cursor near portraits and can click the button on my mouse that corresponds with the heal that I need.Some might argue that I should bind my heals to the number keys but I don’t agree. I’d still have to select a portrait, then press the number key. I’d rather just right click over a portrait and cast than click a portrait, THEN press a number.

- I move with S,D,F,E. I turn with my mouse. I plan to bind Prayer of Healing to a few different keys since we don’t have to target a party member in order to cast and it beats having to find it on the toolbar.

- HealBot. I use Healbot almost exclusively for battlegrounds. It displays all of the raid’s health bars and behaves similar to Clique in that you can set up your mouse buttons to trigger spells when clicked over a player’s health bar. HealBot is nice in battlegrounds because the health bars of targets that are out of range of a heal (which is most players in AV) won’t even appear. This means that you’ll only see health bars of players that you can actually help.A lot of healers use Healbot for raids but I haven’t been able to get use to gauging Healbot’s bars in relation to how bad they actually need a heal. I’m use to the default portrait health bars so if it’s a raid I prefer to drag raid frames out of the social tab, over using Healbot.

- Decursive. Decursive is a mod that creates tiny boxes on your screen that represent your party members. If you’re in a 5-man group, you’ll have 5 small boxes. The boxes will illuminate if and only if someone in your party is infected with a magic/disease/poison/curse you can dispel. All that you have to do to dispel is click the box and the mod will automatically target and attempt to remove the debuff immediately.  If your class is incapable of removing a certain debuff (for example, a curse if you’re a priest), the box will remain empty/unlit since there’s nothing you can do about it anyway.The mod is a HUGE help and just about necessary  for fights such as Maiden where her Holy Fire spell can burn people down in 3 ticks and needs to be removed immediately. It’s also helpful in PvP situations where Warlocks are DOT’ing up as many players as they can.

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