Healing with Controller Vs. Mouse/Keyboard

[Kinseykinz]

I'm about to ask a potentially dumb question, so forgive me.

For those of you finding it harder to target with M+KB, do you know that you can just select people from the party list with your mouse?

Trying to select a moving target without Tab or F-keys is harder yes, but the party list is stationary (you can even change the party-list order to always have the tanks on top if you want).

[Nonlinear314]

Am I the only person who press both mouse buttons to run and do target with F1-F8 keys?

If I turn and run I use right mouse to turn then press left to run in the direction I am pointing. I also use mouseovers to heal. I am still leveling my healer but in other games (raids) I would put the raid/party frames to the bottom center so I could turn and move with mouse (which caused cursor to disappear) while still being able quickly mouseover and heal when I was done turning. I would do most of my moving and instant cast heal stuff with slight mouse turn + strafe to keep the cursor from disappearing.

I'm about to ask a potentially dumb question, so forgive me.

For those of you finding it harder to target with M+KB, do you know that you can just select people from the party list with your mouse?

Trying to select a moving target without Tab or F-keys is harder yes, but the party list is stationary (you can even change the party-list order to always have the tanks on top if you want).

if is even easier to use a /ac "Cure" <mo> macro because you don't even have to click them, just mouse over. Drag the raid/party frames to the bottom middle and put the ability bar somewhere else and it makes it even easier because you don't have to move the mouse far. Ability bar is really only good for CD timers since nobody should be click casting anyway.

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Keyboard users can also give themselves 2-3x as many convenient keys to bind by setting secondary bindings to function key (i.e. ctrl, alt and shift) +1-0, +Q-T, +A-G, etc. and even more if they unbind turn left and turn right. Unbinding left and right and setting A/D and shift+A/D to abilities gives you four easily accessed spells without costing you anything.

e.g. set your normal 1-5 bar, then set bind 9 and 0 to A and D and the abilities for another bar to shift+1, shift+2, ..., shift+5, shift+q, shift+q, shift+a, shift+d, etc. bar 3 to ctrl+1, ctrl+2, etc.

That way you have 2-3x as many abilities literally at your fingertips based on your pinky.

[Kako0404]

I'm about to ask a potentially dumb question, so forgive me.
For those of you finding it harder to target with M+KB, do you know that you can just select people from the party list with your mouse?
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This is how I healed now after adapting the style from SWTOR. This is great because you can keep your eyes on the party bar and only check on the battle whenever you know an mechanic is being triggered. Minimal eye movement and limited mouse control is required and it's pretty safe. I don't even use heal macros anymore. I just click party list and enmity list.