5 man probs

[Bazibaz]

hello:> i have a 5 man druid team, wich i have a tank and a healer, but i find it verry dificult to manage the tank and healer, easiest is to play on tank cuz to see the mobs, but its a pain in the ass to heal:/ is there anyway i can heal with my healer but from the tank's screen? like i have healbot, can i press it and my healer heals? or is there anyway to manage this? or have any1 some help or tips:)

[daviddoran]

what you are asking for is available in ISBoxer, and it can do just that, clickin in regions on one screen passes the clicks to another.

However healing isnt that hard to macro for 5 mans. Just make a few macros that heal your main, either by focus if you use that system, or by character name, and make a few macros that target off of the tanks's target, meaning whoever has aggro. I heal with a holy priest and don't have to do much other than pre cast some hots before the fight, and i have a healing macro thats on the same button as my dps buttons, that is mostly commas. its something like this

/castsequence [target=focustargettarget] renew,,,,,,,,,,,prayer of mending,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,flash heal,,,,,,,,,,,,,,renew,,,,,,,,,,,,greater heal

and thats my mindless "heal whoever has aggro" button, and on top of that, I have keybinded a few other heals directly to my tank, and then there's AoE heals for the rest of the group.

You will get the hang of it. And as you get geared, youll find that you dont need much healing at all. lately ive been swapping action bars on my priest to spam smite, as her heals were just a waste of mana...

[Bazibaz]

alright, thanks alot for the help, might try ISboxer:) but for now its working wonders with my macro:>

[Ualaa]

Macro's are an ok method.

You have two general approaches.
Either assist off of the mob.
Or have toon specific heals.

The assist method involves assisting the hot/active toon, or having your first condition be target=targettarget, should you target them instead.

#show Renew
/cast [target=targettarget, help] Renew; [target=targettargettarget, help] Renew

#show Holy Light
/assist ToonName
/cast [help] Holy Light; [help, Target=targettarget] Holy Light

#show Rejuvenation
/cast [help, target=focustarget] Rejuvenation; [help, target=focustargettarget] Rejuvenation


Basically, if the hot toon's target is friendly, it casts fine.
So you can use your active toon to target heals.

But if the active toon's target is hostile, then the heal goes to the target of the hostile.
Which is almost always either the tanking toon or a friendly dps who took threat.



I personally go with a mix of methods.

I'm using ISBoxer repeater regions as my default heal.
I can Alt Left Click for Rejuvenation.
I can Alt Right Click for Lifebloom.
I can Right Click for Regrowth.

However, I have Nourish and Healing Touch as keyboard assist macro's.
I rarely use them, but they're available if I need to.
Also at the moment, my GridCustomLayout only shows my group.
So if someone else is tanking, I can use assist based macro's to heal them.
Or alternatively, switch Grid views to see more toons.

[BobGnarly]

The click passing mechanisms are great for healing something like another team member (because you probably won't have a simple macro for them), but I don't recommend it for main healing.

As far as I know, there are two approaches:

1. embed the heal into your tank/dps key. IOW, when you press 2, it hits the tank macro on the tank, dps macro on dps, and heal macro on healer. Depending on your healer's gear, you might not even need a macro. Sometimes you can just spam something like flash heal throughtout the fight. If not, you can do something like:

/castsequence reset=nocombat regrowth,,,,,

if you aren't getting enough heals, either hit the button faster (which won't affect tank/dps since they'll be on GCD, but the macro will advance), or take some "," out of the macro. If too many heals, add commas.

2. have a separate button for healing. This is the way I prefer, and while it lacks simplicity (and I'm all about simplicity), I feel that the healing needs are unique enough that they need their own button.

That's just what's worked for me though. Good luck.

[Bazibaz]

thanks alot guys:D this was verry helpful:) i can manage it now:>