Comments on: Tunnel Vision – A Healer’s Bane

By: Zaafir

Zaafir — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:28:11 +0000

I like they your Screen looks. is there a way to get that off Curse as a addon pack set up for holy priest

By: duffry

duffry — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:50 +0000

I notice your grid does not show pets. Shame on you!
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By: Phaythe

Phaythe — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:16:19 +0000

I think screen size plays a big part in how you set up your UI. My main is a Shaman, and especially before totem bar came out (and even now to a lesser degree), I found that I had so many abilities that my 3 ability bars took up the bottom center of the screen. Because of this, I have always used Middle Left for my raid frames (I use Healbot).

Thanks to one of these comments, I just realized what the mod is that reserves the bottom of the screen for addons/etc., so I may have to try that since it will help alleviate my concerns of not being able to see something important.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:12:23 +0000

I'm convinced that Blizzard had it right with the default UI: the place for health bars is on the top left.

The things you have to worry about as a healer are generally at ground level. That means blocking your view of the ground is always a bad idea. The screenshot showing Grid right at the player's feet had me cringing: it's just asking for the player to step backwards into a patch of flaming death.

My UI has an unobstructed view from the center of the screen downward. The health bars are at the top left rather than top right, because the top right gets used for all kinds of default UI crap (map, paperdoll, quests, timers, vehicle icons, etc.)

By: blodphenix

blodphenix — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:25:26 +0000

I think you have to understand your strengths. For me i put my healing "grid" in the top right corner because i have what i call "shooter's eye" where i can process alot of information indirectly with my right eye alone. Still leaving the middle clear so i dont stand or see something coming.

By: Peet

Peet — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:21:37 +0000

I use X-Perl in the middle-bottom, with DBM notifications slightly above, my focus frame (assigned heal target) to the right of raid-frames and power auras over my character for time-based info I might forget (Disc: Power Infusion off CD, Weakened Soul not active; Holy: Weakened Soul & shield not active, serendipity stacks & timer; both: Inner Fire not up).
As blackdawn says, using power auras gets me used to flicking my eyes up and down between raid frames & character to try and keep some extra awareness.

24" screen definitely means I have to try and keep as much of my important info in the middle 1/3rd of the screen otherwise I just lose track too quickly if it all goes crazy.

By: Ethidium

Ethidium — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:24:11 +0000

i'm using healbot in the center bottom of my screen.
as i play on a 24" screen that leaves me plenty of sourrounding area of my char to see and enough space for other add ons.

one thing i use is mikscrolling battletext (?).
i configured the incoming periodic dmg in fights with aoe (lady deathwhisper's D&D) to be displayed all across the healbot interface so if i want to keep on healing i have to move out. a dead healer is a bad healer after all

By: uncaringbear

uncaringbear — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:38:12 +0000

I definitely prefer keeping my healbot frame to the left-middle, otherwise known as 9 o'clock. I might try the bottom-middle placement for something different on my next raid.

By: Derevka

Derevka — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:25:03 +0000

Great commentary so far on this post!

@crankyhealer I'm not a huge Viewport fan as I said in the post, it has too 'silent' of a background, and contributes to tunnelvision for me at least. If it works for you, awesome!

@Keeva with a 19" monitor you do probably have some advantages when it comes to that. I agree.

@Peng yes its ForteXorcist

By: Peng

Peng — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:10:18 +0000

I see just below your fame for your toon is the COH and POM icons. I'm guessing those icons will flash or something then they are off CD. Is ForteXorcist the addon to set this up?

For me, Firefighter really made me shake up my UI to avoid tunnel vision. I cleared everything in the middle third of the screen like you. Only thing is I can't see where you placed your DBM.