Your favorite healer UI/HUD

There will be new and returning healers plus possibly long-time healers looking for ideas.

If you're willing, share your favorite(s) here :cool:

My key points to an effective healer hud:

Try to keep important points of focus as central as you can get away with. Having them off in Narnia in the corner of the screen makes keeping an eye on mechanics and the party health more tiring and difficult than it needs to be.

Don't forget you can have multiple copies of an ability or spell on several different hotbars. I have a small vertical hotbar alongside my character that I drop second copies of my cool downs in to help keep track of what's due when.

Whilst seemingly counterproductive to the last two points... Try to keep your UI clear of unnecessary clutter. If you've got a pile of job, emote or crafting macros taking up valuable space, consider condensing them all into one UI switching macro.

Lastly, be sure to set your chat log filters correctly. Having combat spam go to your chat window is a bad time in any content where you might have other people trying to communicate mid fight.

Common, show your UI's, i need inspiration too!

Here is my Healer HUD:

https://i.imgur.com/Ehdn6R7.jpg

I try to follow the points Sebazy mentioned, namely keeping important information in a central location. My hotbars, my status info, my Job Gauge, boss info, and Focus Target info are all very close together in the bottom centre of my screen. I also keep stuff like my UI macros off to the side on the bottom right where they aren't particularly noticeable to me when I'm in combat, and they've been there for four years now so honestly I don't even notice them anymore anyways.

That said, my Party List actually is out in Narnia in the corner of my screen because I'm not a Healer main and I'm too lazy to actually reorganize my HUD to bring the Party List closer to the centre. Still, it would be smart of me to bring it down to the left of my hotbars, but that's also where my chatbox is, I just hid it for screenshot purposes. I could also stand to move the Limit Break bar elsewhere, but I'm fine with the current location because Limit Break usage is planned in raids so I'll know when it's full and needed, and there's a loud ping when it caps out anyways so who cares.

Anyways, hope that's helpful. It isn't the greatest Healer HUD for the reasons listed, but I do follow some smart practices like keeping the majority of my information grouped together and largely keeping the screen free of clutter.

I like to have the enemy target HUD be enlarged and right below the party list (I might put it to the right so it's easier to see, now that I think about it) so I can see what the boss is charging up while taking care of my teammates. That way I can weave in a mitigation, a heal, or simply know when a mechanic is about to start.

Of course, make sure your whole HUD is hugging the center of the screen so your eyes aren't darting around at a million miles per hour trying to process what resources you have in order to handle a specific scenario.

I'm actually currently working on trying to reduce what is on my UI while also retaining all the information it's giving me. This element alone tells me that a huge problem with healers is the amount of oGCDs they have to keep track of. WHM isn't that bad but both SCH and AST are ridiculous. Right now, there are a total of 13 oGCDs I keep track of on my SCH. Good...freakin...lord. And these are only inclusive to abilities with significant CDs so I didn't even include oGCDS like Emergency Tactics or Energy Drain. AST is even worse.

There are so many, that I placed them into sub categories, and their UI element size differs depending on their importance/priority. I was really hoping that in the LL, healing was really going to get addressed in much more detail than what we saw. I predicted that Yoshi would come out and say that they wanted to encourage healers using their GCDs towards healing, and that they were going to cut their oGCDs abilities in half.

Obviously I was wrong, and when I took a look at the early SGE kit, I knew that I wasn't even remotely close to that prediction. I still think this will eventually happen; just not for at least another couple of years. That kind of unveil is massive, and that's an understatement. It would quite honestly need a whole LL of its own if that decision was made.

Thanks for all replies so far...

...more please?

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here's the UI setting I've been using

I hope this doesn't count as spoiler

https://i.imgur.com/78hRFNv.png

Important abilities and the abilities that interact with job gauges are set at right side

Abilities with long cool downs or abilities that are rarely used are set at middle right

GCDs are set at left hand side, with abilities that I frequently use

The middle left are for giving commands mostly, since I'm a raid leader myself.

https://i.imgur.com/H2KRooK.png

I use some part of the default bindings, but mostly, Adlo is mapped on Q, Broil III is mapped to E, and Aetherflow and Lustrate are on my mouse back/forward keys. Sprint on click roll as well.

The most handy is having the party list close to the center of the screen. That way,if you need to target different people, you can do it faster, rather than going middle -> upper left border -> middle again.

Also, Surecast as a panic button. It's always good to have it handy haha.