Setting up your UI to heal with click casting

One of the most fundamental improvements to my healing was when I moved over to click casting with my mouse instead of my keyboard.

The advantages are the reduction of just a button click, but with the amount of healing going out those button clicks soon add up. That first heal lands fractionally quicker allowing you to save more lives.

When I first started in Warhammer I went straight to Squared. You can set it up to take all your spells with different combinations of CTRL, ALT, SHIFT and your left mouse button. Unfortunatly there's not the same functionality as in WoW where you can also use keybinds when your mouse is hovering over your unitframes. I've added a few extra addons to enhance Squared:

• SquaredHDIndicator shows you when your target has a heal debuff. Purple 25%, Black 50% and Orange is an outgoing debuff. 
• SquaredHOTIndicators allows you to view what length of HOT you have on your target. This allows you to see when you have Rune of Regeneration up (default green) and Rune of Serenity (default yellow).
• LibRange & RangeFadingSquared featured in my previous post. This improves the fading functionality of Squared when your group members are out of range. Remember to untick 'Enable range/LOS fade' under Misc Options when installing this.

I've also changed the style of Squared from the default as seen on the right to the one below. Choose and adjust to suit yourself, there are other examples on the Squared website here.You can easily adjust to this functionality by opening the Squared configuration, going to Import/Export and pasting in this code:

icon-offset-x:n:-19|color-hpbars:b:true|direction-member:s:down|leaderbordercolor:t:156,156,189|hot-color2:t:255,0,0|color-hpnames:b:true|boxheight:n:30|colorgroup-msupp:t:110,255,178|bordersize:n:3|hot-color1:t:0,255,0|groupbordercolor:t:100,100,150|spacing-member:n:6|icon-alpha:n:1|texture-border:s:squared_border_1|boxwidth:n:85|colorgroup-hpdead:t:40,0,0|hd-color1:t:190,0,128|colorgroup-rmdps:t:251,227,60|testmode:b:true|hd-color2:t:0,0,0|text-position-level:s:top|hd-color3:t:255,128,64|texture-background:s:squared_bar_3|hot-color4:t:255,255,255|colorgroup-tank:t:218,218,255|bordercolor:t:0,0,0|hp-low:n:20|meep:n:2|update-freq:n:0.3|rangefading:b:false|icon-position:s:left|fgcolor:t:0,188,0|color-classbars:b:true|colorgroup-rsupp:t:189,255,0|text-position-hp:s:bottom|hot-color3:t:255,255,0|direction-group:s:right|text-align-top:s:bottomleft|status-buff:s:none|spacing-column:n:160|color-hpborders:b:true|texture-offline:s:tint_square|icon-scale:n:0.8|text-align-bottom:s:rightcenter|namelength:n:10|colorgroup-rpdps:t:233,194,0|text-align-center:s:bottom|status-hot:s:topright|columnsize:n:4|spacing-group:n:25|text-font-top:s:font_clear_tiny|texture-foreground:s:squared_bar_6|status-debuff:s:bottomleft|direction-fill:s:right

You may wish to read the whole article before you set the keybinds in this section:

• Click - Grungni's Gift
• CTRL + Click - Rune of Regeneration (if you use a lot of RoR you may wish to move this to an ALT click to work your thumb instead of your little finger).
• SHIFT + Click - Rune of Cleansing
• ALT + Click - Rune of Shielding
• ALT + SHIFT + Click - Rune of Serenity
• CTRL + ALT + Click - Protection of the Ancestor's
• Z - Rune of Restoration
• SHIFT + CTRL - Rune of Mending (again I never cast this and thus it is on an awkward key combination)
• Blessing of Valaya, for those of you are interested, is bound to a nice spammable C key

The main issue I had with using a vanilla Squared is whenever someone was out of LOS or out of range it would self-cast the spell. Often in the heat of battle I would have fired off two Grungni's Gifts on myself before I realised they weren't landing on their intended target. Back then, at 30AP a pop it wasn't doing much for my AP pool! The only way I found to get round this was to install NerfedButtons and bind all my heals through NBSquared. Instead of the first cast instantly landing on click, that first click selects my target. I lose a bit of efficiency as I have to double tap my target for the first heal but I thought this a small price to pay for not crippling my AP. If anyone knows another way to prevent War self-casting in these situations please let me know.

You can load up the NerfedButtons ui with /nb ui. Drag your spells from your abilities menu (shortcut key V) and save. Make sure you have choose addon 'NBSquared' and type in n for a normal mouse click; s for shift click; sa for shift alt; sac for shift alt control; etc.

Now there's no need to do any fancy-pants checking using NerfedButtons, you can if you want to but it's beyond the scope of this guide. One little addition I have enjoyed is to add Rune Of Life to the cast list with Rune of Cleansing on shift click. This just gives you the ability to shift-click on a dead player in battle to rez them.

I'd like to go on to bind Divine Favour to a cast but I've run out of key combinations. Maybe I should replace Rune of Mending...

I hope this helps anyone who hasn't yet moved over to this way of casting, although I'm sure the majority already have. There are a couple of other mods that allow you to do this: Enemy and HealGrid. If you can't get Squared how you like it, try out either of these two mods! Finally if you're not convinced, here's a short example video showing you how you can stay mobile and heal at the same time: