Something to help me heal
John Salerno
each character so I don't have to target them. When I use PartyBars, I
get errors or conflicts with Ace add-ons -- plus, I can never quite
understand how it works. Whenever I replace the spell icons in the
PartyBars, it messes up the spells I have on my action bar too. Somehow
they are connected and I don't like that.
I tried XUB, which seems nice at first and highly customizable, but the
way the bars line up (or don't, really, as the case is) with the
character portraits is really quite ugly and obtrusive. Maybe there's
something I'm missing, but even after repositioning them (with x and y
coordinates) it still doesn't place the bar in the right place for other
people, just for me.
So is there anything else that does this kind of thing? It would help
out immensely when healing.
Thomas Jespersen
<john...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>So is there anything else that does this kind of thing? It would help
>out immensely when healing.
Clique:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5108-Clique.html
Does not apply buttons to the portraits but you can define
mouse-button clicks to apply spells to the targeted player. Like Heal,
Renew etc. You can also define ALT and SHIFT clicks if you wish.
Catriona R
wrote:
>I'm looking for an add-on like PartyBars that lets me attach buttons to
>each character so I don't have to target them. When I use PartyBars, I
>get errors or conflicts with Ace add-ons -- plus, I can never quite
>understand how it works. Whenever I replace the spell icons in the
>PartyBars, it messes up the spells I have on my action bar too. Somehow
>they are connected and I don't like that.
Hmm am I right in thinking you're a druid? It does clash with shapeshift
bars, yep, my undead priest had a problem when I went shadow for a bit - I
kept the partybars up for healing but it kept overwriting the shadowform
bar which annoyed me a lot, luckily I didn't last long as shadow anyway.
There's a few others that work the same way though, Benecast if you can
find it, UnitButtons
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=6965 , extreme
unitbuttons
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6794-eXtremeUnitButtons.html -
both those seem to be being kept more up to dat than PartyBars too, just
I've not got around to switching yet, even though they've been in my
favourites menu as possible alternatives for ages :-)
--
EU-Draenor:
Balgair - Human Rogue (lvl 70)
Naomh - Draenei Priest (lvl 70)
Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 70)
Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
Sagart - Undead Priest (lvl 62)
Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 53)
Beag - Dwarf Paladin (lvl 53)
Cathach - Gnome Warrior (lvl 30)
Chris Bromley
patch that broke all addons, even though it has been kept up, it has just
been too buggy for me....
"Catriona R" <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
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John Salerno
> Hmm am I right in thinking you're a druid?
Oh sorry, I'm was looking for my shiny new priest. My druid is still feral.
Catriona R
wrote:
>Catriona R wrote:
>
>> Hmm am I right in thinking you're a druid?
>
>Oh sorry, I'm was looking for my shiny new priest. My druid is still feral.
Ahh, if it's a shadowpriest you'll have trouble with the shadowform bar but
I never found PartyBars causing trouble otherwise, do you use any actionbar
mods or just default Blizzard bars? I've always used the default bars and
it works fine with both my priests as long as I keep them holy specced.
John Salerno
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:39:17 -0400, John Salerno <john...@NOSPAMgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Catriona R wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm am I right in thinking you're a druid?
>> Oh sorry, I'm was looking for my shiny new priest. My druid is still feral.
>
> Ahh, if it's a shadowpriest you'll have trouble with the shadowform bar but
> I never found PartyBars causing trouble otherwise, do you use any actionbar
> mods or just default Blizzard bars? I've always used the default bars and
> it works fine with both my priests as long as I keep them holy specced.
I use the default UI. What happens seems to be that when PartyBars
starts for the first time, the icons in the bar mirror what's in my
action bar (although this last time it just had the "Shoot" icon in all
the slots, Shoot being in my #1 slot on my action bar). When I remove
anything from the PartyBars bar, it also gets deleted from my action bar.
Catriona R
wrote:
The all the same icon thing came with this last patch, there was a
workaround posted on the addon page, which worked for me - it's all working
normally again anyway. Can't remember exactly what the workaround was; it
was changing text in a couple of files anyway.
John Salerno
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:36:35 -0400, John Salerno <john...@NOSPAMgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Catriona R wrote:
>>> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:39:17 -0400, John Salerno <john...@NOSPAMgmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Catriona R wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hmm am I right in thinking you're a druid?
>>>> Oh sorry, I'm was looking for my shiny new priest. My druid is still feral.
>>> Ahh, if it's a shadowpriest you'll have trouble with the shadowform bar but
>>> I never found PartyBars causing trouble otherwise, do you use any actionbar
>>> mods or just default Blizzard bars? I've always used the default bars and
>>> it works fine with both my priests as long as I keep them holy specced.
>> I use the default UI. What happens seems to be that when PartyBars
>> starts for the first time, the icons in the bar mirror what's in my
>> action bar (although this last time it just had the "Shoot" icon in all
>> the slots, Shoot being in my #1 slot on my action bar). When I remove
>> anything from the PartyBars bar, it also gets deleted from my action bar.
>
> The all the same icon thing came with this last patch, there was a
> workaround posted on the addon page, which worked for me - it's all working
> normally again anyway. Can't remember exactly what the workaround was; it
> was changing text in a couple of files anyway.
Ok, somehow I worked around it (even though PartyBars is conflicting
with Ace addons it seems), but when I invited someone to a group to test
it out, it didn't add a bar for that person. Or rather, it added a new
empty bar....is there a way to just make the same bar appear for anybody
in your group, or even anyone you target?
Catriona R
wrote:
>Ok, somehow I worked around it (even though PartyBars is conflicting
>with Ace addons it seems), but when I invited someone to a group to test
>it out, it didn't add a bar for that person. Or rather, it added a new
>empty bar....is there a way to just make the same bar appear for anybody
>in your group, or even anyone you target?
If you set up the bar for one party member it'll give the same bar for all
other party members - the idea of a different one for you the player is so
you can put self-only spells like inner fire on it I think. Haven't seen a
target bar in that version but probably one of the others does it - I'll
have to look into that, as if I can find one, planting it beside Grid could
solve some of my ui layout problems (I'm a clicker and atm have to put Grid
near my normal actionbars... which means it's usually on top of my
character :-/)
Darin Johnson
than maps. It even helps out non-healers quite a lot as well, and
I set up the middle mouse button to be "target this person's target"
which is useful for any class.
Ctrl-click for minor heals, shift-click for medium, alt-click for
major,
and so forth (then there's the right-click that can be used).
For 5-man groups it's perfect.
--
Darin Johnson
John Salerno
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:03:01 -0400, John Salerno <john...@NOSPAMgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, somehow I worked around it (even though PartyBars is conflicting
>> with Ace addons it seems), but when I invited someone to a group to test
>> it out, it didn't add a bar for that person. Or rather, it added a new
>> empty bar....is there a way to just make the same bar appear for anybody
>> in your group, or even anyone you target?
>
> If you set up the bar for one party member it'll give the same bar for all
> other party members - the idea of a different one for you the player is so
> you can put self-only spells like inner fire on it I think. Haven't seen a
> target bar in that version but probably one of the others does it - I'll
> have to look into that, as if I can find one, planting it beside Grid could
> solve some of my ui layout problems (I'm a clicker and atm have to put Grid
> near my normal actionbars... which means it's usually on top of my
> character :-/)
But does that same bar remain if you leave a group and then join another
one later, or do you have to set it up again each time you get in a group?
Catriona R
wrote:
It saves it, yes, so when you join a new group the same bar is there. I set
mine up ages ago, never needed to change them since :-)
John Salerno
> It saves it, yes, so when you join a new group the same bar is there. I set
> mine up ages ago, never needed to change them since :-)
One thing I don't like, though, is that it's a pain to have to rearrange
all the buttons when you have a new spell to add. If you want to insert
it, then you have to manually move everything around.
I tried Grid just now but didn't even see a "partybars" type of
interface. All I saw was a single little button with my name on it, and
even in a group I saw no way to make a spell bar for the members.
I'm wasting so much time right now just trying to figure out these
add-ons. :(
Catriona R
wrote:
>Catriona R wrote:
>
>> It saves it, yes, so when you join a new group the same bar is there. I set
>> mine up ages ago, never needed to change them since :-)
>
>One thing I don't like, though, is that it's a pain to have to rearrange
>all the buttons when you have a new spell to add. If you want to insert
>it, then you have to manually move everything around.
>
>I tried Grid just now but didn't even see a "partybars" type of
>interface. All I saw was a single little button with my name on it, and
>even in a group I saw no way to make a spell bar for the members.
Grid isn't a partybars type addon, it's a raidframes addon, that's why :-P
Unless you raid, don't bother with it, you don't need it.
John Salerno
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:03:10 -0400, John Salerno <john...@NOSPAMgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Catriona R wrote:
>>
>>> It saves it, yes, so when you join a new group the same bar is there. I set
>>> mine up ages ago, never needed to change them since :-)
>> One thing I don't like, though, is that it's a pain to have to rearrange
>> all the buttons when you have a new spell to add. If you want to insert
>> it, then you have to manually move everything around.
>>
>> I tried Grid just now but didn't even see a "partybars" type of
>> interface. All I saw was a single little button with my name on it, and
>> even in a group I saw no way to make a spell bar for the members.
>
> Grid isn't a partybars type addon, it's a raidframes addon, that's why :-P
> Unless you raid, don't bother with it, you don't need it.
Yeah, I abandoned it pretty quick, despite the in-game advice of a
priest. :)
I went back to Unit Buttons. It's like PartyBars but a little more
customizable I think. All I need to do is place the bars in the proper
place whenever I get into a group, and then it will be as I want it.
Catriona R
wrote:
>I went back to Unit Buttons. It's like PartyBars but a little more
>customizable I think. All I need to do is place the bars in the proper
>place whenever I get into a group, and then it will be as I want it.
Sounds good, I need to get round to looking at a mod that's slightly more
customisable; PartyBars suits me nicely but there's 1-2 options that'd make
it that little bit better, and it seems to have been pretty much abandoned,
so I can't hope for updates. Trouble is having got it set up how I like it
I'm reluctant to to the steap and actually change :-)
Catriona R
<catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>Trouble is having got it set up how I like it
>I'm reluctant to to the steap* and actually change :-)
* "to take the step"... tired, and it's showing in my typing ;-)
Chris Bromley
intention of ever going back.
PartyBars was nice for most things.. completely simple.. but UnitButtons is
much nicer. For example... pet bars. :) That, alone, is enough to cause
me to move to it.
"Catriona R" <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
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Catriona R
<cbromley[removethisline]@[andthis]cox.net> wrote:
>You would like Unitbuttons, Cat. I went from PartyBars to it, and have no
>intention of ever going back.
>
>PartyBars was nice for most things.. completely simple.. but UnitButtons is
>much nicer. For example... pet bars. :) That, alone, is enough to cause
>me to move to it.
Sounds handy, but when I previously had a mod with pet bars I had to turn
them off because there just wasn't enough room, it was ending up hiding
debuff displays etc ;-) I'll take a look though, it's just a case of
getting around to it - took me forever to try Grid instead of CTRA for my
raidframes for example :-)
John Salerno
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:04:21 -0700, "Chris Bromley"
> <cbromley[removethisline]@[andthis]cox.net> wrote:
>
>> You would like Unitbuttons, Cat. I went from PartyBars to it, and have no
>> intention of ever going back.
>>
>> PartyBars was nice for most things.. completely simple.. but UnitButtons is
>> much nicer. For example... pet bars. :) That, alone, is enough to cause
>> me to move to it.
>
> Sounds handy, but when I previously had a mod with pet bars I had to turn
> them off because there just wasn't enough room, it was ending up hiding
> debuff displays etc ;-) I'll take a look though, it's just a case of
> getting around to it - took me forever to try Grid instead of CTRA for my
> raidframes for example :-)
Yeah, UnitButtons has a similar look to PartyBars but you can set it to
display pet bars as well as a bar for your current target. You can
customize the size of the buttons on the bar, and it's easy to add or
remove buttons (up to 12). Also easy to turn off the ones you don't
want, such as the one for your current target, for example, if you don't
want a bar for that.
It's much more customizable than PartyBars, but at the same time really
simple and not overwhelming with options (basically there's just a few).
Now, there's also XtremeUnitButtons, which *seems* very nice and highly
customizable, but positioning the bars is very painful and doesn't even
seem to work right. It ends up looking like a big mess for me, so I went
with the original UB.
Catriona R
wrote:
>Yeah, UnitButtons has a similar look to PartyBars but you can set it to
>display pet bars as well as a bar for your current target. You can
>customize the size of the buttons on the bar, and it's easy to add or
>remove buttons (up to 12). Also easy to turn off the ones you don't
>want, such as the one for your current target, for example, if you don't
>want a bar for that.
Hmm, up to 12 buttons? Now that sounds useful, the 8 that PartyBars has are
alright but I'd really prefer 9-10, as I just end up never using binding
heal or gift of the naaru due to not having room for them on the bars
(shield, renew, flash heal, 2 ranks of Gheal, PoM, abolish and dispel... no
more room :-( ) - having to manually target the player and then find the
icon on a bar at the other side of the screen takes too long so I rarely
bother.
And a bar for current target would be nice if I can plant it in another
place on the screen away from the target frame; that way I could maybe put
it and Grid together at the side of the screen for raid healing instead of
having Grid on top of my character so it's somewhere near my usual
actionbars ;-)
Oki, I predict some UI customisation is called for when I have time later
on :-)
steve.kaye
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:03:10 -0400, John Salerno <johnj...@NOSPAMgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Catriona R wrote:
>
> >> It saves it, yes, so when you join a new group the same bar is there. I set
> >> mine up ages ago, never needed to change them since :-)
>
> >One thing I don't like, though, is that it's a pain to have to rearrange
> >all the buttons when you have a new spell to add. If you want to insert
> >it, then you have to manually move everything around.
>
> >I tried Grid just now but didn't even see a "partybars" type of
> >interface. All I saw was a single little button with my name on it, and
> >even in a group I saw no way to make a spell bar for the members.
>
> Grid isn't a partybars type addon, it's a raidframes addon, that's why :-P
> Unless you raid, don't bother with it, you don't need it.
I use Grid on all my characters and I don't have any raid healers (not
counting BGs here):
On my healers I use it with Clique and I don't press a button for any
heal or debuff cure except for Prayer of Healing. I just use mouse
clicks (with alt for some stuff - no other modifiers needed yet) That
gives me 9 actions before I'd need to go to a second modifier.
On my non-healers I just like the small party bars to see who is low
on health/mana etc. Much better than the big, ugly things that
Blizzard did.
steve.kaye