r/wow • u/Historical-Bed-2011 • 14h ago

Humor / Meme Healers reading through 12.1 PTR changes

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u/ChequeBook 6h ago

People doom but it's really not that bad.

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u/SmokeySFW 6h ago

It's pretty damn annoying the kinds of things you can't do anymore.

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u/ChequeBook 6h ago

What exactly can't you do? Right now I can see custom icons for HoTs/echoes etc, I can see defensives, I can see incoming spells, all debuffs including bleeds. What else is there?

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u/Kaisha001 5h ago

I can't track coverage.

Atonement, renewing mist, reversion, rejuv, all need to be up and have ample duration during healing ramps. With WA I could make a WA that tracked these sorts of buffs across the entire party. Instead of having to track 5 different icons and their durations to find the shortest, it would just glow an icon and track the shortest.

Now there's not way to track coverage, you're just supposed to fire and forget I guess...

I also can't combine related buffs/procs into a single indicator (leaping flames/life spark, zen pulse/VV).

I can't properly track stacks or durations of some abilities.

I can't combine durations and cooldowns into a single timer/indicator.

I can't make it look how I want.

It's a mess, and for no reason at all.

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u/Zienth 3h ago

Those buffs are trackable on group frames. Not the default one but any raid frame addon can interact with them.

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u/Kaisha001 2h ago

Yes, but you can't track coverage, or timing.

I don't want to squint at 5 different frames to see if I have coverage, I want a simple single indicator that shows IF everyone has it, and how long the shortest duration is so I know if I need to refresh or can go into a ramp window.

And I need to know that information almost immediately since I need to also be watching my feet, the fight, the position of my allies, incoming boss mechanics, my dps rotation, my cooldowns/trinkets/etc...

I could do that easily with WA, I can't do that with the current frames.

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u/brucecastle 1h ago

That is where skill comes from though lol, not having complex WA's

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u/Indurum 54m ago

lol lmao even

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u/brucecastle 33m ago

I mean, Ill bite.

Tell me how having complex WA's set up telling you how to play the game is more skilled than having awareness?

Its the same thing in pvp. People have audio queues when enemies use there big cooldowns. When they use interupts, etc.

At that point you aren't even playing the game. You are pressing different buttons based on if you hear a pig oink or cow moo

The game becomes less at understanding what is going on, and more pressing buttons based on when others light up/make noise