It is a hard time to be a dedicated battleground healer because of HHTD, with opponents focusing on you relentlessly. Healers Have To Die is also one of the most hated addons in the game right now, with people on the forums regularly calling for it to be banned or broken by Blizzard, at the same time people are encouraging its use in Tol Barad. In a courtyard scrum or pitched fight in a keep, HHTD makes finding the healers easy, and killing them easy, too. HHTD marks those folks who cast healing spells – not healers, that’s an important distinction – and marks them so you can target them easily. In a chaotic place like Tol Barad, Isle of Conquest, or Alterac Valley, this kind of information is a godsend – my screen gets very cluttered, I have trouble seeing who is doing what, and I rely upon nameplates to convey information. There’s also a mouseover function that will sound a chime when the nameplates aren’t visible, though I confess I don’t play with the sound up loud enough to hear it. This addon looks through your combat log to see who’s casting healing spells around you if it detects that a player has cast a healing spell, it puts a big red cross over their nameplate.
I’ll come right out and say it: I like the addon Healers Have To Die.
