The first optical mouse was demonstrated in 1980. Steelseries makes decent mouse pads these days. My MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 and Steelseries QcK+ make a really nice couple!
The time I 'waste' to figure out how many HP left my target has never hurts my actions in any way just because I usually do it BEFORE starting combat or WHILE casting something and it's pretty easy to keep it in your head and calculate what you should do next
In the end its personal playstyle and I cant argue against what your preference is, I am just of the opinion that adding an extra step to the already multi-step job of healing is time lost that could be better spent in a different thought process or action sequence.
Before combat, you should be prepping for what the combat is going to be, laying down HoT's, calling focus, making sure your positioning is perfect, analyzing as a healer what your teams weakness for this certain clash is and what the enemy strengths are based on their size, comp, gear, etc. If you can do all of that in the seconds you have before a clash AND scroll over everyone's health bar to then understand their relative gear level, usefulness, and whether they will need special attention, I salute you.
It just seems like adding paint to an already crowded canvas.
As for doing it while casting, you should already know their relative health and percentage BEFORE casting, as that is a part of deciding whether or not to cast, and what heals to cast, etc etc.
I dont mean to be an ass about personal playstyles, but I go OCD when I see what I think of as an easily solvable waste of the most valuable resource, time.
If you can get by as you do now, by all means, but I assume that most cannot and therefore suffer a net loss from not clicking one button in the interface that gives them invaluable information without a change of playstyle or a cost of time.
Cheers, Pattern
