Question about group setups?

[TheLostBoxer]

Okay I am currently playing around with IsBoxer, and it's awesome. I currently 4 box, though when I started I instance boosted them to 60 using keyclone. But since switching I am liking the fact I don't need to macro everything. I plan to go to 5. But currently would like to add a healer to the mix, I've never really healed so it'll be a new experience. I also plan to add a 5th account, My question is how do fellow IsBoxer handle there healers. Since the 1-= are auto assist. I am guessing I would need to make seperate keymaps for my heals. I tried searching and checking the wiki for guide about other's groups but alot of the links are broken. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[thefunk]

With isboxer you can make a repeater region so the mouse will get replicated to all windows in a certain area of the screen. Once that's configured, get an addon like grid+clique or vuhdo which will have your party names in order of name, and will allow casting heals on a portrait as long as they all line up on each instance.

e.g my druid left click is wild growth, shift left click is healing wave, alt left click is rejuv, shift right click is rebirth and so on. It's VERY awesome.

Otherwise you could bind heals on the numpad, which is what i used to do.


edit: one more thing - do a search on "grid clique", loads of stuff came up on the forums on how to etc...

[luxlunae]

clique takes too much micro management, for 5 mans I just use numpad

[Lax]

I use Vuhdo with a repeater region, I don't know what luxlunae means about micro management, perhaps Grid+Clique is more work than Vuhdo ;) AFAIK Vuhdo is less work than Grid+Clique.

[Ualaa]

Depends on the clique... or vuhdo, or healbot etc.

With a frame for each toon, which is the same on every screen (ie top frame is toonA on every screen, as the bottom frame is toonE on every screen), healing is very easy.

There is a slight learning curve, to remember what each click does.
But once you know what your heals are, it is a lot faster to move the mouse to a frame and click (with mod keys, maybe) it, then it is to press a numpad key... especially considering you'll probably already have one hand on the mouse and another on half of your keyboard.

With a five man group, and the heals: Renew, PW: Shield, Penance, Flash Heal... I might go:
- Alt Left = Renew
- Ctrl Left = Penance
- Alt Right = Shield
- Ctrl Right = Flash Heal

I bet you won't be able to hotkey four different heals to five different toons, using the numpad.
Although the numpad can work, depending on how limited the number of heals you need is.





As far as the click to heal goes, Vuhdo = Healbot = Clique.
It's just Grid requires GridCustomLayouts for non-standard sorting methods, and Clique to interpret the assorted clicks.
It's the most flexible, in what you can display and how you can have it displayed, but requires the additional two addons to run.

It's a preference on which way to go.
But Repeater Regions, with one of them is the premier healing method for boxing.