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zenga
09-23-2010, 10:17 AM
Action Bar Saver (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/action-bar-saver.aspx)

I came across this addon just a few days ago and felt in love with it. In conjunction with Talented (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/talented.aspx) this is awesome for people who like to respec.

Basically I've spent a lot of time on finding a good mix on my action bars between boxing pve, solo pve, boxing pvp, solo pvp, etc ... and depending on the team i'm playing. For example:

1 is my flame shock on my shaman, 2 my lava burst when i play him solo
1 is my avenger's shield on my tank, 2 is my holy shield when i play him solo

obviously I don't want my shammies to cast flameshock or lava burst when i pull with the tank when i box, so I either need to remove the spells on my shaman for time being, or i need to use empty keybinds on another bar and have double spells on the palladin

with this addon i do:
/abs save ShamanSoloPve -> this saves the state of the action bar into a profile of how i play them solo
i remove the spells on the buttons that would interfere with my tank whenboxing
/abs save ShamanBoxPve

whenever I want to switch around, to have the spell layout i want for my actionbars all it takes is
/abs reload ShamanBoxPvP

This is so awesome for me, since I tend to use 5 specs for my paladin for example. A MT raiding spec, a tank spec with aura mastery; specially for LK fight, a protection pvp spec, a ret spec pve and a boxing spec. With talented I just save the talent as a template, and with ABS it takes a single command to restore the old state of your actionbar.

Well i just felt like sharing the tip.

Littleburst
09-23-2010, 10:50 AM
Action Bar Saver (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/action-bar-saver.aspx)

I came across this addon just a few days ago and felt in love with it. In conjunction with Talented (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/talented.aspx) this is awesome for people who like to respec.

Basically I've spent a lot of time on finding a good mix on my action bars between boxing pve, solo pve, boxing pvp, solo pvp, etc ... and depending on the team i'm playing. For example:

1 is my flame shock on my shaman, 2 my lava burst when i play him solo
1 is my avenger's shield on my tank, 2 is my holy shield when i play him solo

obviously I don't want my shammies to cast flameshock or lava burst when i pull with the tank when i box, so I either need to remove the spells on my shaman for time being, or i need to use empty keybinds on another bar and have double spells on the palladin

with this addon i do:
/abs save ShamanSoloPve -> this saves the state of the action bar into a profile of how i play them solo
i remove the spells on the buttons that would interfere with my tank whenboxing
/abs save ShamanBoxPve

whenever I want to switch around, to have the spell layout i want for my actionbars all it takes is
/abs reload ShamanBoxPvP

This is so awesome for me, since I tend to use 5 specs for my paladin for example. A MT raiding spec, a tank spec with aura mastery; specially for LK fight, a protection pvp spec, a ret spec pve and a boxing spec. With talented I just save the talent as a template, and with ABS it takes a single command to restore the old state of your actionbar.

Well i just felt like sharing the tip.

Awesome thanks, i'm gonna love that :D

Had the same problem on my feral,resto,boomkin druid. I play him solo and boxed. This will allow for much better configuration etc.

zenga
09-23-2010, 10:57 AM
I find quoting me as the first poster to be a pure win, lol.

Littleburst
09-23-2010, 10:59 AM
I find quoting me as the first poster to be a pure win, lol.

pfft. /slap :>

I didn't even think about that, just automatism.


Oh and i guess i shouldn't quote either because it's somewhat obvious? :P

MiRai
09-23-2010, 11:15 AM
I find quoting me as the first poster to be a pure win, lol.
I usually quote the OP as well if I'm the first poster after them. You could have edited your post to say "Here are some great movies I found on the interwebz of sexy ladies doing dirty things with farm animals." Littleburst's reply is "Awesome thanks, I'm gonna love that."

tripleboxed
09-23-2010, 11:16 AM
Action Bar Saver (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/action-bar-saver.aspx)

I came across this addon just a few days ago and felt in love with it. In conjunction with Talented (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/talented.aspx) this is awesome for people who like to respec.

Basically I've spent a lot of time on finding a good mix on my action bars between boxing pve, solo pve, boxing pvp, solo pvp, etc ... and depending on the team i'm playing. For example:

1 is my flame shock on my shaman, 2 my lava burst when i play him solo
1 is my avenger's shield on my tank, 2 is my holy shield when i play him solo

obviously I don't want my shammies to cast flameshock or lava burst when i pull with the tank when i box, so I either need to remove the spells on my shaman for time being, or i need to use empty keybinds on another bar and have double spells on the palladin

with this addon i do:
/abs save ShamanSoloPve -> this saves the state of the action bar into a profile of how i play them solo
i remove the spells on the buttons that would interfere with my tank whenboxing
/abs save ShamanBoxPve

whenever I want to switch around, to have the spell layout i want for my actionbars all it takes is
/abs reload ShamanBoxPvP

This is so awesome for me, since I tend to use 5 specs for my paladin for example. A MT raiding spec, a tank spec with aura mastery; specially for LK fight, a protection pvp spec, a ret spec pve and a boxing spec. With talented I just save the talent as a template, and with ABS it takes a single command to restore the old state of your actionbar.

Well i just felt like sharing the tip.Well thought out im going to test this out and see what i can do thanks.

Oatboat
09-23-2010, 11:22 AM
Why not just use wows built in Page system?

Shift 1 = bar1 pve
Shift 2 = bar2 pvp

/boggle

Littleburst
09-23-2010, 11:42 AM
Why not just use wows built in Page system?

Shift 1 = bar1 pve
Shift 2 = bar2 pvp

/boggle

Because i use bar 1,2,3 for normal spells. Then 4,5,6,7 for treeform/boomkin, cat, cat stealth, bear. and bar 10 to bind HS, other items and follow buttons etc.

2 free bars isn't a lot.

Oatboat
09-23-2010, 12:05 PM
Are you trying to use every spell in the game?

I use 1 bar for my druids with a couple of extra mapped keys. To be honest i only use probably 5 keys total
Starfall, Rejuv, Typhoon, Treants, Rebirth :)

Catform has its own bar, Bear form has its own bar

zenga
09-23-2010, 12:29 PM
Are you trying to use every spell in the game?

Sentry totem aside, I use most spells on my shaman yes. How else are you going to do max dps in a raid or perform well in a pvp? Thats when I play solo.

I use a general layout for my 10 action bars with bartender. On each and every toon / class I have.
Bar 1= 1-0 Normal play, individual spells
Bar 2= Numpad boxing macro's, & spells, bound to G11 keyboard
Bar 3 = F1-F12, buffs, mount, food, etc
Bar 4 = Alt 1-0 abilities i use less frequent ... bound to G13
Bar 5 = Alt Numpad, totems
Bar 6 = Ctrl Numpad my ftl macro's
Bar 7 = Ctrl 1-0 healer only (i use keybinds to heal)
Bar 8 contains macro's for click bindings
Bar 9 contains stuff like professions, spec1, spec 2, equipment sets
Bar 10 is a trash bar whenever i need to moved a spell / macro i drop it there for future use

That's for me the best way to keep stuff clear and maintain the overview. 1 standard bar / keybind layout for every toon.

Littleburst
09-23-2010, 01:10 PM
Are you trying to use every spell in the game?

I use 1 bar for my druids with a couple of extra mapped keys. To be honest i only use probably 5 keys total
Starfall, Rejuv, Typhoon, Treants, Rebirth :)

Catform has its own bar, Bear form has its own bar

I have a very basic setup on my druid really. Quite a difference between fitting a char with 5 other chars for pve or play pvp and pve as solo. I have virtually no macro's on him, no spells double bound for focus stuff etc.

David
09-24-2010, 03:33 AM
[QUOTE=zenga;296441]Sentry totem asideQUOTE]

Din`t that get removed a year ago or so? :eek:

Sbrowne55
09-24-2010, 03:46 PM
I have had this for quite some time. Excelent addon. By going the shift 1 , or shift 2 way it's unreliable. Sometimes I forgot who was where, and so on, causing a wipe. This addon makes it simple and organized.

Ughmahedhurtz
09-24-2010, 08:32 PM
Very cool addon. Thanks for sharing. :)

zenga
09-24-2010, 09:57 PM
Very cool addon. Thanks for sharing. :)
And it even runs on linux !!