Guide To Pugging Mythic Plus, Healer, 2023

[00:00] welcome to the Mythic plus pug healing

[00:03] guide 2023 my name is Bowser the Healer

[00:06] and if you're not a Healer player don't

[00:08] worry there's still a lot of very good

[00:10] Mythic plus information here but then

[00:13] eventually we're going to transition

[00:14] into more healing based things so if you

[00:15] want to get into the mind of a Healer

[00:16] you're also in the right place down

[00:18] below I'm going to have everything I can

[00:20] possibly grab linked my add-ons my

[00:23] profiles my Wii cores you name it I'm

[00:25] going to try to have it down below no

[00:27] pay walls no nothing like that I only

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[00:33] there's a ton to go through let's get

[00:35] into it use the comment section if you

[00:36] have any questions Mythic plus culture

[00:39] so it's a bit of a wild west out there

[00:41] my only request to you as a player is

[00:44] that you're personally responsible for

[00:45] your place so if you have something like

[00:47] Nvidia Shadow play like an instant

[00:49] replay system that's wonderful for

[00:51] double checking things that go wrong or

[00:53] things that go incredibly well you can

[00:55] use things like details to track damage

[00:57] taken or deaths to kind of see what

[00:59] people were doing wrong or getting him

[01:00] by the most there's lots of tools out

[01:03] there and players they're gonna vary

[01:05] you're gonna have groups that do amazing

[01:06] in groups that do terrible you're gonna

[01:08] have people calling you out for mistakes

[01:10] that are completely right you got to

[01:11] take that on the chin and just learn and

[01:13] then you're gonna have people calling

[01:14] you out for mistakes that have no idea

[01:16] what they're talking about so try not to

[01:19] get too personally invested right if a

[01:21] group falls apart try to be nice and

[01:23] just go next it's the best advice I can

[01:26] give okay on to some weak auras we got

[01:29] two here they're both gonna display in

[01:30] the party finder window and these make

[01:32] finding groups a heck of a lot easier

[01:34] the server region names is going to tell

[01:36] you where the group is located that's

[01:39] going to help you avoid any unnecessary

[01:41] lag and so you don't have to memorize a

[01:42] bunch of server names and where they are

[01:44] the week or for class colors is just

[01:46] going to display what classes are in a

[01:49] key they're not going to necessarily be

[01:50] able to give you specializations outside

[01:52] of uh the process of elimination it can

[01:54] be great to go into a dungeon knowing

[01:56] hey this group has two battle resses or

[01:59] oh there's a there's a there's a priest

[02:01] in this party we're gonna have mass

[02:02] dispel that sort of thing is an absolute

[02:05] godsend and also if you want to find a

[02:07] good meme key right like four Warriors

[02:09] and a Healer or a whole monk party this

[02:13] is another great way to find those keys

[02:15] I have some pretty strong opinions about

[02:17] this one deadly boss mods and bigwigs I

[02:20] honestly think basically every player

[02:22] should have them installed if you don't

[02:23] like how invasive they are they're very

[02:26] customizable so I highly recommend

[02:28] customizing them but we we know this

[02:31] from Esports we know this from Sports

[02:32] and from rally racing and all sorts of

[02:34] disciplines having call outs just helps

[02:37] with the mental stack it helps players

[02:39] focus on their gameplay while still

[02:41] doing mechanics it's great it's super

[02:44] useful highly recommend you set it up I

[02:46] would not be entering Mythic Plus

[02:47] without it it's it's simply too good

[02:50] it's too strong and it'll make you a

[02:52] better player if you're the Keystone

[02:54] holder and it's your run that you're

[02:56] posting make sure that you initiate a

[02:58] ready check you can use Slash RC for

[03:00] this and a pull timer once everyone's

[03:03] ready with Slash pull slash pull by

[03:05] default will do 10 seconds players have

[03:07] pre-pull things to do but they always

[03:09] want to set up and even if they don't

[03:11] it's a nice polite way to tell people to

[03:13] Tab out of whatever internet browser or

[03:15] something that they're doing and be

[03:17] ready to play

[03:18] for learning dungeons I have a couple of

[03:21] piece of advice first and foremost the

[03:23] Mythic plus dungeon Journal actually

[03:25] gives you a ton of information short

[03:27] reads great for bosses it's a good start

[03:29] but if you need more my best advice is

[03:32] find a favorite YouTuber go watch them

[03:34] do a run on Twitch or on YouTube and

[03:37] you'll get a general sense of the route

[03:39] if you want to get into the nitty-gritty

[03:41] though Mythic dungeon tools is an add-on

[03:43] that's simply a mapping tool for routes

[03:45] and you can click into every single mob

[03:47] see what they cast see what kind of CC

[03:49] is uh usable on them incredibly powerful

[03:52] tool but what if that intimidates you a

[03:55] whole percent business well unless

[03:56] you're a tank it's not really your job

[03:58] so you'll learn those magical little

[04:00] percent numbers as you play try not to

[04:03] make that something you're stressing

[04:04] about as a Healer because we already

[04:06] have enough things to stress out about

[04:08] interrupts CC and off healing for your

[04:11] DPS player are mandatory at this point

[04:14] in World of Warcraft so make sure you

[04:16] have them on hand and they're easy to

[04:18] hit you will learn as the key levels go

[04:20] up some moves you have to interrupt them

[04:23] and then other moves can be ignored but

[04:25] as that key level goes up there are some

[04:28] things that go from like oh that hurts

[04:30] to oh that's lethal details is an add-on

[04:32] that lets you track DPS in healing but

[04:35] it also lets you track a ton of other

[04:36] things too and one of the ones I

[04:38] mentioned earlier are track some deaths

[04:40] it's not toxic to see why people died

[04:43] it's in fact super useful because you

[04:46] can learn some very Niche things about

[04:47] the game and you can also learn like hey

[04:49] what move is that oh I could have

[04:50] interrupted that or oh that's a frontal

[04:52] I didn't know that mob had a frontal and

[04:54] that kind of information again it just

[04:57] saves lives so have a death window thank

[04:59] me later okay so now on to more of the

[05:02] healing side of things Mana management

[05:04] is important on every single healer

[05:06] first of all make sure you are talented

[05:08] into your Mana region of whatever your

[05:10] class does and learn how to play in low

[05:13] Mana spend time reviewing what you can

[05:15] do that doesn't cost a ton of Mana see

[05:18] if you have any combinations or spells

[05:20] that you can use that might be even Mana

[05:22] positive it is important that we yell

[05:24] the tank sometimes that we need a drink

[05:26] before we go into the next boss fight

[05:27] but I've had bosses that get pulled and

[05:31] I'm at 20 mana and what do you do you

[05:33] gotta work with what you got so the

[05:35] better you can manage your Mana the

[05:37] easier your life is but make sure you

[05:39] have a stack of Mana pots around it's a

[05:41] very good investment make sure you speak

[05:43] up as a Healer you are in control of the

[05:46] lives of the team so telling people use

[05:48] personals or Focus this enemy down will

[05:50] help save you the amount of healing you

[05:52] need giving you a little more free time

[05:53] free time is useful for doing damage or

[05:56] interrupting things or positioning my

[05:58] favorite line to say of all time is

[06:00] during no coup defensive during the

[06:02] storm boss I'll say move in on storming

[06:04] or die works every time another good one

[06:06] is watch for frontals or stop getting

[06:09] hit by frontals again it's okay to say

[06:12] those things don't worry about it plan

[06:14] your cooldowns as the key levels get

[06:16] harder fortified and tyrannical hit very

[06:19] different you'll have very hard phases

[06:21] of damage but they might vary from week

[06:23] to week or from pull to pull and it's

[06:25] not Universal sometimes it's class to

[06:27] class I have some setups in the Ruby

[06:28] Life Pools or preservation evoker to

[06:31] deal with the blazebound Destroyers and

[06:33] their infernal cast yeah I gotta save

[06:34] temporal anomaly and cycle my cooldowns

[06:37] correctly but like yeah I could just

[06:39] spin on mystreeper so it's important to

[06:42] plan things out but just remember that

[06:44] it's not always going to be the same

[06:45] across all healers okay I'm gonna try

[06:47] not to scare anyone with this one doing

[06:49] short math on incoming damage so let's

[06:52] say a spell hit someone for 40 of their

[06:54] health bar that means in theory that if

[06:57] they are 40 health and they get hit they

[06:59] would die but that's also sort of

[07:01] cutting it close right so I always like

[07:03] to give them a 10 20 Health buffer ah

[07:06] that spell does about 40 damage or 40

[07:08] percent of their health right okay then

[07:10] I'm not gonna let them drop below 50 or

[07:12] 55. there are situations where you can't

[07:15] just keep people topped up as a Healer

[07:17] and so it's important while you're doing

[07:19] damage or interrupting or whatever the

[07:20] heck you're doing that you can stop and

[07:22] go hey that person's a little low I

[07:25] don't want them to die one thing you can

[07:26] do that really helps though is making

[07:27] sure that your plates are set up your

[07:29] enemy nameplates are set up in such a

[07:31] way that you can see who they are

[07:33] targeting for their next cast this is

[07:35] great for a you can know who's about to

[07:37] get double bolted by something and B

[07:39] it's also useful for oh that one's gonna

[07:41] hit the tank okay well the Tank's fine

[07:43] the tank can handle it or hey that

[07:45] Warrior probably has spell reflect up I

[07:47] can let them reflect it and of course if

[07:49] they don't reflect it you should go

[07:50] check if spell reflect is now on

[07:52] cooldown

[07:53] speaking of omni CD is an add-on that I

[07:56] use that lets you track cooldowns most

[07:58] things show up in Omni CD I'll have my

[08:00] profile down below that covers most

[08:02] mitigation active mitigation and health

[08:04] pods it's really important to know when

[08:07] your tank has absolutely no gas left and

[08:10] you need to start babysitting them or if

[08:12] a player has been targeted by too many

[08:13] mechanics you can see they have nothing

[08:15] left you can put a bubble on them or

[08:17] whatever you need to do to keep them

[08:18] alive and while we're on interface make

[08:20] sure for whatever you use for party

[08:22] frames you can see debuffs make sure

[08:25] it's very visible as the dbm and bigwig

[08:28] Style mods don't always call out every

[08:30] nasty disk spell I know lvui has a

[08:33] feature where the health bar would turn

[08:34] like an alternative color when there's a

[08:36] dispel you can manage features like this

[08:38] are a game changer especially for new

[08:40] healers Health pods you should have a

[08:43] fat stack of these within easy reach as

[08:46] a Healer you don't really use them when

[08:47] DPS use them you use them when you're

[08:49] busy healing other people and can't stop

[08:51] to heal yourself their own gcd so you

[08:54] can use them right after casting a spell

[08:56] or right before you cast a spell it's

[08:58] very very important that you don't die

[09:00] as the Healer damage is time save I have

[09:03] an entire video on this topic if you

[09:05] want to watch it once you're in the 15

[09:07] and Beyond category I want you to start

[09:09] knowing how to weave in your damage

[09:11] there's footage that's been playing this

[09:13] whole time I had a super close Temple of

[09:14] the Jade serpent 23 it went down to a

[09:17] couple of seconds if you do the math of

[09:19] the combat time and my percentage of

[09:21] damage you'll find out that in that boss

[09:23] fight alone I save 12 seconds due to my

[09:25] DPS yeah if if I wasn't doing damage we

[09:28] probably didn't time that boss fight

[09:30] it's that important at high level play

[09:32] be flexible coming up with their own

[09:35] builds is fun and it's more than viable

[09:37] and I encourage it but as the content

[09:39] gets harder especially towards the 20

[09:42] range or whenever gear score starts

[09:43] letting up make sure you have

[09:45] cross-reference The Meta builds metagame

[09:48] is inevitable and I've also done an

[09:50] entire video on that on my old Channel

[09:52] but there will be a point where you run

[09:55] into trouble healing or doing damage or

[09:57] helping control a pack and you can't be

[09:59] doing something subpar if it starts

[10:01] costing entire runs this isn't a huge

[10:04] deal again until that 20 and Beyond

[10:07] category you can get away with a lot of

[10:09] fun builds it's very important as you

[10:11] start getting better at the game that

[10:12] you do cross-reference more meta builds

[10:14] so you can understand the why and the

[10:16] how that being said sometimes there are

[10:19] easier builds that work well with

[10:21] different stat weights so if you're

[10:22] learning a class and something is a

[10:24] little bit easier to start off with for

[10:26] healing it's okay to use that while

[10:28] you're learning just again be sure to

[10:30] cross-reference the more meta builds so

[10:32] that as you get better you can swap to

[10:34] maybe more efficient talents also note

[10:36] that the game gets easier the more your

[10:38] rotations and buttons become second

[10:40] nature this is something I see across

[10:43] all of Esports but the less time you

[10:44] need to spend looking at your bars and

[10:47] the more time you could say focus on the

[10:49] fight itself in your party frames the

[10:51] easier your life gets but this is a time

[10:54] thing let your brain do its whole

[10:56] neuropathway thing and learn it will

[10:58] come to you I really wish I had a list

[11:01] like this when I was first learning how

[11:02] to learn there were a lot of pieces of

[11:04] information that players weren't telling

[11:06] me about Dungeons and about runs that I

[11:08] just wish I had a better understanding

[11:09] of start with low Keys there's nothing

[11:12] wrong with learning on the lower end of

[11:13] things as you work up the gear score and

[11:16] the ability to start doing higher keys

[11:18] but that's going to do it for this video

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[11:24] see you all in the next one take care

[11:26] friends