Best You Can Be (Part 3)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 [Views: 549]
It's a common misconception that there are good WoW players and bad WoW players. I think there are lazy WoW players and dedicated WoW players, end of story.... [Read more]
Overhealing
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 [Views: 1675]
I got an interesting question from a reader who asked about Overhealing. Lets take a look at overhealing, whether it's good or bad and what you can do about it.... [Read more]
Transition from FOL Style to HL Style
Monday, July 12, 2010 [Views: 1804]
Feedback: ....we would gain more if you talked about getting from FoL to Holy Light while staying on top of healing duties.... [Read more]
How to set up Grid - Powerpoint presentation
Monday, June 28, 2010 [Views: 2734] [Registration Required]
A long time reader spent a lot of time putting together a powerpoint presentation to help you be able to set up Grid in a more visual manner.... [Read more]
Dollar Saved is a Dollar Earned
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 [Views: 1240] [Registration Required]
We've all heard that saying, but how can we take advantage of it? I use it in raids to reduce my raiding costs. On progression raiding nights I can save myself an easy 100g.... [Read more]
Close Encounters
Monday, June 21, 2010 [Views: 897]
Sometimes to improve your raid awareness you need to increase what you see. How do we do this within wow?... [Read more]
Legal Cheating Feedback
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 [Views: 1873] [Registration Required]
I got a chunk of feedback on the legal cheating. Personally I'm surprised and impressed that no one claiming that it took away from the game of wow. Anyway, I got some feedback of other pieces of hardware that may improve your game aswell!... [Read more]
Chat Boxes
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 [Views: 673]
If you took a look at my user interface, you may notice that there are two chat boxes. Why two chat boxes?... [Read more]
Action Bar Next To Grid
Thursday, June 10, 2010 [Views: 1269]
I've got an additional thing different from most other user interfaces. This causes it to have a little extra functionality but makes it a lot more ugly than usual.... [Read more]
How Macros Work With This Interface
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 [Views: 1369] [Registration Required]
This is where everything actually starts to come together. You've got most of the parts in place now we start putting everything together. Macros are a huge part of how everything works in my interface.... [Read more]
Legal Cheating
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 [Views: 3430] [Registration Required]
There is some hardware that is particularly wrong and others that just give you an advantage. This items lets you do both, but I don't suggest you use it for cheating. If you use this item well it will give you a massive legal advantage.... [Read more]
Combat Log Processors
Monday, June 07, 2010 [Views: 581] [Registration Required]
Not a very sexy title I assure you. I am talking about mods like Scrolling Combat Text. These mods can help present information that are not part of your usual user interface that are very important that either happen often or very infrequently.... [Read more]
Placement of Boss Mods and Removing the Clutter
Thursday, June 03, 2010 [Views: 978]
When raiding there is usually a single requirement that most raid leaders have in common. You must run with boss mods.... [Read more]
Timing of Information and Information Overload
Wednesday, June 02, 2010 [Views: 599]
We've heard of the term "Information is power". While it is true while healing, there are some issues you need to pay attention to.... [Read more]
Screen Real Estate: Placement of Some Items
Tuesday, June 01, 2010 [Views: 1033] [Registration Required]
Placement of Quartz, character frame, target frame, focus frame, target of target frame and Target Cast Bar... [Read more]
Where to place your Raid Frame on your screen
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 [Views: 2150] [Registration Required]
So we've looked at what information is classified into what and we know that the information that is within our raid frames falls into the critical information area, where do we place our raid frames to take advantage of this?... [Read more]
Classifying Critical, Important, Handy and Useless Information
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 [Views: 1134] [Registration Required]
This is a core part of your healer user interface. Many new healers are tempted to install lots of mods, sometimes in the number of 100 or more with each mod giving you some information. We need to put that information into classifications.... [Read more]
Quartz
Monday, May 24, 2010 [Views: 1858]
This is going to be a really short article. If you're a raider and you're not using Quartz, get it now.... [Read more]
Aperture
Sunday, May 23, 2010 [Views: 1193]
Here's a really old mod that I'm going to bring a little attention. It's called Aperture.... [Read more]
Clique - Turning Grid into a Pro version of Healbot
Saturday, May 22, 2010 [Views: 2629] [Registration Required]
There are a lot of people who prefer the point and click method to healing. We'll go one step further. How about we teach you how to turn Grid into the Pro version of Healbot (or VohDo) and how to turn the rest of your user interface to act the same way.... [Read more]
User Interface: Monitor Size and Screen Resolution
Thursday, May 13, 2010 [Views: 1553]
In healing information is power. Getting that information in a quick and efficient manner is important. Having that information laid out well also makes the world of difference.... [Read more]
Mana Management: Tying it all together
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 [Views: 3025] [Registration Required]
This is where balance comes into play, but it's more than just balance with your gear, it's a balance between your gear, your consumables, your buffs and what you do to maintain your mana.... [Read more]
Mana Management: Gear and Stat Management.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 [Views: 3249] [Registration Required]
In the whole scheme of things, gear and stat management isn't as important as the other parts of mana management. There is downside however, managing your gear incorrectly and your ability to heal dwindles rather fast.... [Read more]
Mana Management: SOW Management.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 [Views: 4167] [Registration Required]
Seal of Wisdom management is a critical part of your understanding to be a Holy Paladin. It makes me sad that so few Healadins understand how to best benefit from the buff they all use so often. It's an extremely powerful and important tool to use correctly.... [Read more]
Mana Management: Consumable and Buff Management.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 [Views: 1695] [Registration Required]
The next step in mana management is consumable and buff management. This is stuff that you have to bring along to the raid or people you need to bring along to the raid.... [Read more]
There are 4 things that i think make a good healer
Monday, April 05, 2010 [Views: 3982]
Guest Post: I got some great feedback. Well it's more like a guest post. Well... a cross in between. I really like it when people post an in depth alternative view of one of my articles.... [Read more]
Mana Management: Ability Management.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 [Views: 2128] [Registration Required]
Ability management is probably the most important part of mana management. Without it, our ability to have unending mana pools decreases. This part of mana management just requires a little bit of discipline and some up front planning to do best.... [Read more]
How to start to learn how to heal
Monday, March 29, 2010 [Views: 7817] [Registration Required]
What is the best way to start my learning? Should I just join randoms and plug away at it? I fell into a Heroic Forge of Souls on my first try....I'm sure you can guess how that went. So, what should a noob healer do to learn - starting out at 80? I appreciate any insight, cause I'd prefer not to be a failadin.... [Read more]
Introduction to Mana Mangement
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 [Views: 2581] [Registration Required]
Mana management is a skill that most paladins didn't have to work on until Icecrown Citadel with the exception of a few fights or the top progression guilds. It used to be, gem for intellect, cast a few Divine Pleas and you'll never really have mana issues. It is a topic that I've avoided talking about. It's actually a tough topic to deal with and so easy to go wrong if you run with only some of the information.... [Read more]
Raid Etiquette
Monday, March 22, 2010 [Views: 1504]
Guest Post: Hey I just sat down and threw this together in regards to some recent experiences I have had in raids. There were several reasons behind writing it. First, writing is a hobby of mine that I really enjoy almost as much as raiding. Second, I think it would be a good read for any raider, not just healadins, and finally, it was server maintenance day. ;p If you feel it would be good for the site, feel free to post it. If not, that's cool too. I still enjoy reading your blogs and more imp... [Read more]
Time Management: Heroics
Thursday, February 25, 2010 [Views: 2689] [Registration Required]
There are so many things to do. Random Heroic Daily, Raid Weekly Quest, your dailies to keep up your gold not to mention your guild 10 and 25 man raids. It really eats up your time. If you're anything like me there is a limit to how much time you can spend playing. We're going to talk about a small part of your time management. Running Heroics.... [Read more]
Interpretation and Understanding
Thursday, February 18, 2010 [Views: 1707] [Registration Required]
What sparked this article was a spirited debate with one of the readers of www.theholypaladin.com quoting elitist jerks about haste and how I was just plain wrong in how haste works. While I don't mind being wrong, I have done the math multiple times on the subject.... [Read more]
Raiding While Fatigued
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 [Views: 1650]
Fatigue is a topic that I haven't seen covered when related to healing, but it's a very important thing to consider when evaluating a healers performance and can be something that could be dragging your performance down. The reason that I thought about this is I've been plagued by it lately :(... [Read more]
Healing is often Contradictory
Monday, February 01, 2010 [Views: 3976] [Registration Required]
We hear it all the time, "Great healing" and "I died, you suck noob". "You got to keep your cool" and "You stupid **** **** noob ****er". "Stick to your healing assignment" and "a good healer knows when to adjust". No wonder we all get confused when starting out as a healer.... It's important to understand how contradictions effect our healing and what we can do about it.... [Read more]
Don't get ahead of the tanks
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 [Views: 2008]
It's important to let the tanks do their job. One thing that makes it hard for them is when you get in front of them....... [Read more]
Greed Costs
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 [Views: 2574]
It's human nature to get everything we can, often as fast as we can. Most don't realize that greed has its costs.... [Read more]
Abilities that are not used are wasted
Thursday, January 07, 2010 [Views: 5549]
I see it all the time, so many holy paladin's casting only one or two spells, claiming that they're doing all they can to avoid the dreaded wipe. The truth of the matter is: If you're not using all your abilities, you're wasting them.... [Read more]
Healer Burnout
Monday, December 28, 2009 [Views: 3581]
First of all, this all assumes you're in a raiding guild as a healer. Healer burnout isn't really relevant if you only pug since you get to choose when you play and what you play as. One of the biggest problem for healers is burnout.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Thinking For Yourself
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 [Views: 4739]
Question: What's the difference between a good Holy Paladin and a great Holy Paladin? Answer: The ability to think for yourself.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Searching For a New Guild
Friday, May 15, 2009 [Views: 1340]
I hear some people have lots of problems finding a guild to join. So many people I know are having issues like this. Being a healer really does help as good healers are always in demand but...... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Recruiting - Beward of the Seasonal Player
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 [Views: 914]
Our guild is very selective when we recruit. We particularly look for players that will be here in years, now just months.There are some players that fit into the description of a Seasonal Player. They are typically those who only play during holidays or those who only come out to play when there's fresh content.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Improving Healers as the Healing Lead
Sunday, May 10, 2009 [Views: 1536]
Being a healing leader isn't something that is easy. In truth, its damn hard. Not only do you have to be a good healer, you have to be a good leader. It's important to lead by example.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Fear of Loss
Monday, January 19, 2009 [Views: 1267]
It feels wierd talking about a pop psychology topic on a Holy Paladin site but I feel it's important. I see many topics posted on forums about how they feel unappreciated as a healer, especially after a wipe.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Trust Your Tank
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 865]
There needs to be a trust between you and your tank. You need to trust that your tank will hold agro, and your tank needs to trust that you’ll keep them up.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Should We Really Always Be Casting
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 3252]
Should you always be casting?... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Healing Agro
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1406]
If you suffer from continual healing agro, there is something wrong. It's usually one of two things that can be wrong.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: PUG = Probably Under Geared?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1142]
This is a small topic about group selection. It's a good idea to group with players that are similarly geared as you. Everyone wants those who are over geared, but it isn't always a good an idea in a pug.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Heal Someone Who Refuses To Eat
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1375]
Should you heal someone who refuses to eat? Yes and no. It depends on the group. Most of the time, the answer is no...... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Players Failing To Run Back
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1354]
Your group wipes. You run back with some others and when you arrive, you find one or more waiting for you to resurrect them. Not only is this a pet peeve of mine, it boils my blood when another healer in a pug raid resurrects them.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: When Grouped With Idiot Players
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1639]
You know the kind.... So what do you do with them?... [Read more]
Healing Lesson #9: Trust Your Fellow Raid Members
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 467]
I know it's hard to do, but you have to do it...... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Accepting Responsibility
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 782]
This is a really tough part for many raiders, not just healers. You’ve really stuffed up and it caused a wipe, or if not a wipe, multiple deaths.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Healing Outside Your Assignment
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1170]
All healers want to help, it's probably the reason they became healers in the first place. Its natural that you want to do as much as possible and stretch your abilities to the limit.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Trinkets
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1799]
Are you the kind of person who forgets to pop their trinkets whenever they are on Cool Down?... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Healing Pets
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 1113]
Healing pets is quite important. It's something that you should do and so few do it.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Staying Alive
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 982]
A dead healer does no healing. Just like others in the raid, you have a responsibility to not only do your assignment, but to keep yourself alive as best you can.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: Raid Awareness
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [Views: 825]
Experience usually teaches this and it's often what separates a great raider from an ordinary one (assuming both are similarly geared).... [Read more]
Healing Lesson #18: I have a life
Monday, January 05, 2009 [Views: 1709]
If I had a 50 gold for every time I heard this from someone in a failed pug I'd be rich. Every time I hear this, I just want to reach through my screen and stangle them.... [Read more]
Healing Lesson: The funny 3 rules of healing
Saturday, January 03, 2009 [Views: 3622]
There are 3 funny rules of healing... and they are...... [Read more]
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