Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand pooh-bah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a WoW
blog for all things UI-, macro- and addon-related. If you're looking for more healing advice, check out the Plus Heal community.
I race-changed to a goblin. I look so weird with the hair and riding a Frost Wyrm. It feels like my mount could eat me in one gulp.
Little by little, Blizzard continues to make adjustments to the default user interface to make the overall experience better. I don't think its intent is to completely stamp out third-party addons. But it is nice to have tools and features already in place so that a player doesn't have to feel
required to get some addon in order to do something. In the past, players used threat addons like KTM and, later on, Omen.
For healers, though, the ultimate addon we need to do our jobs is some form of raid frames. Whether it is
Grid,
Vuhdo (see the
Cataclysm version if you wish to test it on the test servers) or something else, it is these addons that give us the capability to keep the raid alive and remove nasty debuffs. The default raiding UI falls short in many areas. It's not really
bad or anything; we just had better choices.
So what new UI elements are out there that help make the experience a better one for healers overall?
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