Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

I have a hypothesis I’d like to share, and I’d love to hear your take about this in the comments. Healers react better to sound as opposed to visual cues on the screen. We should embrace this. Now, this isn’t to say we need to clutter Mumble with various players calling out different abilities. There are a few addons out there (such as GTFO) that make use of sound indicators whenever you’re standing in something you shouldn’t be standing in.

Healers have a heavy responsibility to:

Oversee the raid.

Watch the ground they’re standing on.

Remove or mitigate boss buffs or debuffs.

Constantly range check their healing assignments (like tanks).

Gauge the timing of mechanics or phases.

Used cooldowns (depending who you are).

I’d like to think most of us can handle that simply by staring at the screen. With the assortment of timers and other visual addons, we’re exposed to a plethora of information used to feed us information. The sad part is that it can be extremely overwhelming, to the point that we don’t know what to do next. That split-second decision could be the wrong move because we reacted to something that wasn’t as important. For example, I may have cast Prayer of Healing on the group, but I would not have done that if I had realized earlier that the boss did his super move, causing a death to a tank or another player.Continue reading Raid Rx: The power of audio cuesFiled under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Raid Rx (Raid Healing)Raid Rx: The power of audio cues originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

I have a hypothesis I’d like to share, and I’d love to hear your take about this in the comments. Healers react better to sound as opposed to visual cues on the screen. We should embrace this. Now, this isn’t to say we need to clutter Mumble with various players calling out different abilities. There are a few addons out there (such as GTFO) that make use of sound indicators whenever you’re standing in something you shouldn’t be standing in.

Healers have a heavy responsibility to:

Oversee the raid.

Watch the ground they’re standing on.

Remove or mitigate boss buffs or debuffs.

Constantly range check their healing assignments (like tanks).

Gauge the timing of mechanics or phases.

Used cooldowns (depending who you are).

I’d like to think most of us can handle that simply by staring at the screen. With the assortment of timers and other visual addons, we’re exposed to a plethora of information used to feed us information. The sad part is that it can be extremely overwhelming, to the point that we don’t know what to do next. That split-second decision could be the wrong move because we reacted to something that wasn’t as important. For example, I may have cast Prayer of Healing on the group, but I would not have done that if I had realized earlier that the boss did his super move, causing a death to a tank or another player.Continue reading Raid Rx: The power of audio cuesFiled under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Raid Rx (Raid Healing)Raid Rx: The power of audio cues originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments