Kyte
07-20-2007, 05:56 AM
Well, I hope this is not too OT, but here goes...
I've played around with triple-boxing in WoW on and off for some time now, and I just recently decided to start leveling a pair of mages again (each about 40, with a 70 shaman for support). Obviously, grouping with a 70 is horribly inefficient in terms of xp gains, so I'd prefer to have only the mages grouped with one another while the shaman hangs around to toss out heals when needed. However, I find that it is not nearly as easy to monitor the health of each mage when they're ungrouped, as I end up having to divide my attention between 3 screens. So, I was wondering if there would be any way to mimic the functionality of party frames without actually being grouped with the players they're representing.
I figured it might be possible to write a simple mod for each of the mage systems that uses the addon channel to relay health updates to a 'server' addon on the shaman system, which would construct facsimiles of the party frames for each character. As far as I can tell, this should be possible. However, it seems that Blizz has severely limited the targetting functions available to addons, so while I might be able to display the health of each character on a single screen, it seems as though there would be no simple way to target them as I would if they were grouped. I suppose macros would work, but that just adds another level of complexity that I would prefer to avoid.
Is there any way around this? Could there be a more elegant solution than resorting to targetting macros?
Thanks for any info.
I've played around with triple-boxing in WoW on and off for some time now, and I just recently decided to start leveling a pair of mages again (each about 40, with a 70 shaman for support). Obviously, grouping with a 70 is horribly inefficient in terms of xp gains, so I'd prefer to have only the mages grouped with one another while the shaman hangs around to toss out heals when needed. However, I find that it is not nearly as easy to monitor the health of each mage when they're ungrouped, as I end up having to divide my attention between 3 screens. So, I was wondering if there would be any way to mimic the functionality of party frames without actually being grouped with the players they're representing.
I figured it might be possible to write a simple mod for each of the mage systems that uses the addon channel to relay health updates to a 'server' addon on the shaman system, which would construct facsimiles of the party frames for each character. As far as I can tell, this should be possible. However, it seems that Blizz has severely limited the targetting functions available to addons, so while I might be able to display the health of each character on a single screen, it seems as though there would be no simple way to target them as I would if they were grouped. I suppose macros would work, but that just adds another level of complexity that I would prefer to avoid.
Is there any way around this? Could there be a more elegant solution than resorting to targetting macros?
Thanks for any info.