Struggling to heal with nUI (advice needed)

[spiel2001]

Yeah -- I'm well aware that the current nUI design is very DPS biased. That will be addressed with a healy layout option in nUI6.

[Kaean]

Understood. I hope my comments didn't come across as overly negative.

My overwhelming experience with nUI is a positive one.

[spiel2001]

Not at all... you'll find I deeply value user input and often make changes to nUI's code and design based on their input.

[Chmee]

"If we had our way, there wouldn't be any users." -- NSA systems analyst, at a conference on computer security.

[xarkath]

Hello,

I have only been using nUI for a couple days now but healing has been a breeze for me. I use Clique and the only problem I encounter is accidentally hitting the small target bar within the party bars. My healing has actually improved with nUI.

[dcb]

Just a thought

I have several level healers 80 Sham, 74 Druid and 37 Priest.

Sometimes I lose heals but, over all I'm still just as good as before as long as I remember in dungeons to click on the person's picture.

In BGs & Raids I find clicking in the designated box to be ok with no loss of heals.

I hope this helps!!

[speedio]

I love nUI! but to be honest the first time I tried to heal a 5man using nUI the dps shammy started healing the group because i was screwing up

I'm not the best healer for sure and I realize that it can take time to get used to a new layout. but honestly I was strugling with detecting who needed the heal and how much of a heal he needed. I 100% forgot my own health and almost died.

As I'm always the paranoid kind i had still installed grid but not enabled it so I reloged with grid running on the left side of the screen.
and things went better for me.

my sugestion would be something similar to grid. that displays what a healer needs to know and nothing more. and that has as little clutter as posible on the party/raid frames.

and as sugested earlier in this topic. use the entire space right under the primary bars. remove the map. And personally. I have no need for player frames while healing. I get the info i need from the raid/party frames.

this is not ment as critique as I know the current frames are made with DPS in mind.
I just wanted to add my input as a new user that primarly play a healer.

on another note. This is an awesome addon and the amount of support and info I got in my mail box after registring is awesome. 10/10 mate.
keep up the good work.

[Xrystal]

I am sure that if the healing setup isn't quite what we want it will be tweakable enough for us to make it the way we want

Even as a healer say I have the map for focus setting and strategy and res map pinging etc. So I would perhaps move the map off to the side and then have the healing bars fill the rest of the spot.

After trying out grid and healbot I find that grid does what I want the most. After getting used to macro healing on grid instead of click healing on healbot I find the info feedback customization on grid extremely useful.

[spiel2001]

To be sure, as soon as I get nUI6 to a place where I'm ready to transition from Alpha to Beta I will build a healer layout and offer the option of DPS or Healy mode and we can beta both layouts and tweak them so they're both ready for release.

[Xrystal]

Coolies. As long as we can customize it as well I'd be happy. I see alot of people using thin unit frames with just 3 letters of the raid member names but I prefer to have bigger unit frames with all or most of the name on display. Same with having the frames colored for health or class. I tend towards the class coloring more than the health coloring. Even now I fiddle with grid to get it to look right.

[darkhalfdk]

Been a massive fan of NUI for some time with my rogue and dk... but i find it a pain to use with grid on my priest, so I cant wait for NUI6 with the healler option!!!!!!!

Any idea how long till its in beta?

[Xrystal]

One step at a time .. the unit frames are in alpha and you can currently use them to heal with but I still end up using grid at the moment because that is where all the debuff icons appear helping me to respond more quickly to cleansing and healing requirements.

Hopefully, nUI6's healing setup will have the ability to black list and white list certain debuffs on the fly for certain fights like Frost Blast in Naxx.