I would suggest using the Illusion card over the Snowflake unless you have mana issues. IIRC, the Illusion card also has an on use ability that restores mana as well, so that should help. But yeah, if you don’t PvP seriously or just PvE more often than PvP, then I would make those spec changes as they will definitely boost your PvE abilities.
Infusion of Light is the primary CD that I would put on Power Auras, but I also have a few to help remind me when things like Judgments of the Pure is not up or when my trinket is off CD so that I can Divine Plea safely.
Yeah, I mean, gear will come with time, but I definitely recommend picking up the Talisman of Resurgence as it’s on use will compensate for Divine Plea all by itself. Plus, the Intellect is just great for holy paladins.
Yeah, I guess you just have to kill a few to open a space up and then keep dragging them back to kill them. Or, just skip that quest, lol.
Did you do a real Ignore or a Report Spam? For the former, find your friends list and pick the Ignore tab on the same page. I think you’re out of luck if you did the latter.
On both my pally and priest I use a combination of Grid/Clique and key bindings.
For example on my pally, Holy Light is right-click. Flash of Light is Ctrl + right-click. Holy Shock is Atl + right-click. I also have Cleanse and some of my Hand spells bound to mouse clicks. But my seals and judgements and special abilities like Turn Evil are all on my action bar bound to my number keys since I usually have more time to cast them.
On my priest I don’t use Clique quite so much because I healed for so long with the key bindings I’m just used to it now. I just use grid to select my target and then use my keys to cast.
No, I did /ignore. I don’t know that I’ve used it before, though, so I didn’t know if you could see your ignore list. I’ll have to look at it later to remember the name.
It’s been a LONG time since I did that quest as a druid, but I do remember having problems because of runners. The standard strategy is to clear the entrance, then clear the single mobs on each side of the point where the entrance opens out to the ramp. Stand there until the patrol enters that cleared killing floor and take him or her out. Then work upward and take out each mob or pair of mobs, looting mushrooms as you go. There are enough of the ones you need the most of on the way up to the landing up top to fulfill that part of the quest, and there is one of the other kind (which I think is all you need) right up at the top. No need to go delving to the bottom.
I remember that quest too – another tip: don’t loot the mobs that you kill (I know, sparkling corpses are s-o-o-o tempting!). That keeps the mobs from respawning as quickly as they would if you loot the bodies.
I just have these bound to my keys. I use 1-5, Shift+1-5, Q, E, R, T, G and Shift+Q, E, R, T, G for my bars. Those keybinds basically cover all the abilities/spells I need to use and then some. Using mouseover macros allows me to forgo one action for every heal (targeting) just like using Clique does, but also ensures that I’m never beholden to an add-on to heal effectively. I used to use Clique or Click2Cast to heal, but these add-ons broke for me in the past, and I felt pretty useless without them, so I decided to go the macro route.
Healbot. Haven’t tried grid/clique; I’ve found that the biggest difference in using Healbot vs. not using it comes in raids & BGs; I can heal perfectly adequately with just a vanilla layout in 5 mans. If a patch breaks healbot I’ll just have to dps until it’s fixed, I guess.
I’ll give it a shot and see if mana issues develop. The card does have a mana restore ability, but it’s a flat 1500 mana which doesn’t really go very far. (OTOH, I don’t have hymn of hope anywhere accessible at the moment, which I should really change).
Hoorah, Heroic Blood Wing down! BPC took a few attempts to get everyone synched up–I think part of the problem is that the GM has gotten used to having the same group of people, so we just kind of plunged in without really taking the time to work out who would be standing where, which meant that we had way too many people getting hit with Empowered Shock Vortex.
BQL wasn’t nice enough to drop her shield for me (and I’m sure I would have gotten it, since the only other main-spec shield-using tank in the raid who I think has more DKP than me already has it), but she did cough up a 264 token, so I upgraded my helm.
I had a thread or two time out yesterday. Working fine now, though.
Dunno if you can do it in the addon, but you can definitely do it in the default UI. You can make a mouseover macro for the ability you want to use, drag it onto your action bar, and then bind that action bar button to your mousewheel up- or downscroll.
That’s actually how I heal on my priest–keybound macros + Grid. The macros I use have a cascading priority where it first attempts to heal my mouseover, then my friendly target, then my hostile target’s friendly target, then me. Or something like that.
It’s probably worthwhile to keep trying occasionally. The filter here sometimes catches cached pages and sometimes doesn’t.
Yes. I use Grid for my raid frames. I can then just move my cursor over any target that I want to heal, and without clicking them to target them (or changing my target at all) I press whatever bind to cast a heal on them. I don’t use F because I’m used to it being used to assist (the default binding) and I like having that easily available. I also have Ctrl+F bound to focusing my current target though I do actually use Shift+F as a bind, now that I’m thinking about it.
Yes, definitely put Hymn of Hope somewhere on your bars on an accessible bind. Using Hymn right after casting Shadowfiend will significantly increase the amount of mana you will have returned, due to the Shadowfiend returning a percentage of the enlarged mana pool that Hymn initially provides. If you can find opportune situations to use these two in combination, you can easily regain 80-90% of your mana back. As for the Illusion card, yeah, the mana restore is lackluster, but the spellpower is better overall than having the cheaper costs of spells that may not be useful at all.
Grid is basically your raid frames, so you can click on anyone to target them.
Cheers! BPC is definitely a pain in the ass if people are running around without any coordination. Glad to hear you got the wing down (I’m assuming in 25?). And cheers on the upgrade and the new guild as well.
Yeah, my macros have that fall through logic in them as well, I just put a simplified version of it up on here. I find the macro+Grid to be very effective and fairly intuitive. But, I also try not to rely on too many add-ons in general, at least as far as pure gameplay is concerned. I don’t like being gimped because Blizzard borked an add-on in some way or another.
