Handling healing on tank's view

My basic question is not very basic at all becuase as hard as it is to IWT in this game i was trying to firgue out how in the world would i handle healing while on my tank see now..i run a dual box class makeup are a warrior tank & cleric healer yeah i run around with my main the tank im pretty sure thats the right thing to do. What im trying to firgue out is how can i possibly heal a party efficiently and effectively without having difficulties for the fact that there are no addons to help you & the macro system needs work.

If anyone cloud help me out on this topic because i sure would like to get 100% or atleast 90% out of my healer thanks guys later.

Okay further into my investigation i now have an understanding of mouse-over healing macros which would be good with isboxer's repeater regions what i would simply do is set my tank's party's frame in the same postion as my healer's party frame so the layout must match my tank. im just not sure my healer's party's names will match my tank's party names as in class order etc.

I handle healing through macros i have 2 basic macros my cleric uses to heal the tank and i made an ATG in ISBOXER to send his healing rotation as i spam my tank skills. its pretty basic he just spams heals on the tank the whole time im tanking stuff.

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Originally Posted by cichard

I handle healing through macros i have 2 basic macros my cleric uses to heal the tank and i made an ATG in ISBOXER to send his healing rotation as i spam my tank skills. its pretty basic he just spams heals on the tank the whole time im tanking stuff.

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Question 1: What is ATG within isboxer where may i find it?

Question 2: What might be these two basic macros & may i test them myself?

Question 3:On your healer are your heal spells on spefic actionbars where you only place healing spells & buffs?

example below
Actionbar 1 Shift-1-0 for heals only.
Actionbar 2 Ctrl 1-0 for buffs only.

Now this is what i was thinking would be a good idea.

In the Upper box in ISboxer there is a section called Action Target Group you can make a target group for each one of your classes then you can make a new mapped key for a rotation that sends just to the specific action target group, then you can have your mapped keys 1-= do a new mapped key action and call on the mapped key for the action target group.

the way i handle healing is i mark everyone up in the group 1-5 with a raid mark. Then my cleric has a macro
#show Healing Spray
cast @mark 1 Healing Spray

and he has a macro

#show Restorative Flame
cast Caregiver's Blessing
cast @mark 1 ward of the ancestors
cast @mark 1 Restorative Flame

So i make an action target group called Heals
then in non combat i make a new mapped key called Heals
Then it has 2 steps first one is do new key stroke action target group all of heals keystroke combination is 1 at the top i have do not advance to next step for 1.5 seconds

step 2 is do new keystroke action target group all of heals keystroke combination is 2 at the top ihave do not advance to next step for 12 seconds. because the hot doesnt need to be refreshed for 12 seconds.

then in combat on my keymap for 1 it says domapped key non combat assist-> all others
then 1->tank
then do mapped key non combat heals-group all of heals

The way that I first had it setup and probably the simplest way is like this.

Create a macro similar to this:
#show heal spell
suppressmacrofailures (this stops the annoying macro failure pop up messages)
targetexact Tanks_Name
cast heal spell with long cooldown
cast heal spell with shorter cooldown
cast instant cool down
targetlasttarget (so once you have cast the heal you target the enemy again and can get to damaging)

Put that macro on a spot 8 on your main hotbar ( this is just an example)

In ISBoxer create a new keymap in the Combat keymaps. The step in the keymap wants to look like 8->cleric_character_name.
Then bind that keymap to a convenient key. Now whenever you hit that key on your keyboard the cleric will heal the tank using the macro.

That is a nice simple way of getting heals working. Initially I used that and had macros bound to the extra keys on my G15 keyboard to heal any of my 3 characters. I still have it setup for emergencies.

I have been able to get click bar/mouseover healing working with the raid frame. It works very nicely, is relatively simple to setup and transfers quickly between character sets. I should have a guide up some time this week. For anyone that can't wait that long, the method I used is based on Zorba's Click Healing+ guide: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33614

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Originally Posted by Alge

I have been able to get click bar/mouseover healing working with the raid frame. It works very nicely, is relatively simple to setup and transfers quickly between character sets. I should have a guide up some time this week. For anyone that can't wait that long, the method I used is based on Zorba's Click Healing+ guide: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33614

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i like how you use the clickbar system to actually heal its very good idea keeping things simple now & about clickbars i understand so little of this clickbar system is this like reaptor regions? im sure a couple of friends of mine on the forums would love to see that video tutorial your going do on this if you cloud make that possible for us on the forums great idea btw.

Swamped at work this week - will get to it on Friday night. Video has been shot, just needs edited/uploading. Guide is about 25% done.

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Originally Posted by Alge

Swamped at work this week - will get to it on Friday night. Video has been shot, just needs edited/uploading. Guide is about 25% done.

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Thank you sir this makes this thread so much worth it im sure me & my phews wont be confused anymore thanks for your effort.