Well i was away for a few days and arriving home was informed that my comp is non-functional now. I messed a bit around trouble-shooting but no dice.

In the end a comp upgrade was in my future anyway and all of that is not really the substance of the post... just back story. I was a noob and my HD was not backed up properly. So now i am needing to start from scratch setting up and reinstalling wow, downloading addons and all this jazz. I do have a file on my laptop that has most of my old macros in it.

So my questions to the community are about setting up my followers assisting my main and action bars (and i think they relate).

I had been using Macaroon as my action bar addon and was using the Leaderless/Targetless Focus based Hydra written up in the thread by Zanthor and enjoyed it. As i understand it Macaroon is not going to be maintained anymore and so using a different bar mod seemed to be in my future anyway.

Anyone have any experience they would like to share about using Bartender or any alternative they would recommend besides Bartender? Anyone had any luck getting the assist style team function Zanthor presented with Bartender? I believe it was not possible before.

I think i can get the same basic functionality with a combo of Jamba (Jamba was essential before as well) and the /click command. Only thing about this is that every attack i want to have would need to be macro'ed with the /click command in it (where there is another macro that has the target info in it). I loved Macaroon for the ability to have basically limitless macros, and with Macaroon gone and Bartender not providing this it seems that a macro for every attack spell would eat up my macros very fast.

I have looked into Bindpad for the extra macro opportunities that this addon gives.

Anyone have any experience with ActionBarTargeting as an addon to solve this problem? As i understand it ActionBarTargeting will still need the many macros that my bartender option (assuming that bartender still can't use the targeting information into the bar itself like macaroon could) needs but ActionBarTargeting would free up my "focus" for other stuff.

Anyway now that i am setting up again i wanted to hear what other peoples preferences, perspectives and experience has been to help me make my own decisions.

Thanks