How do you handle Healing

[cichard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7_SKRJZd7g Hey a new vid of my new click bar UI and explanation

[Oatboat]

That looks really good! I need to take a little time to set mine up cleaner, currently i dont use click bars just healing macros.

of course i dont run a dedicated healer so there isnt a huge need for it.

[cichard]

Thanks ya it is awsome im loving it im doing RD right now ill post some RF vids when im done

[Krago]

Cichard, I notice you don't have the FTL macros on your action bars visible.
I assume they are hidden away?

Reason, I ask, is that when I tried to hide them away initially they either didn't work or got removed.
If this is working properly now, awesome.

[cichard]

i dont have FTL macros i only have 1 macro to follow Cleavez for the fact that i dont PVP i never really switch off of my tank.

[Krago]

i dont have FTL macros i only have 1 macro to follow Cleavez for the fact that i dont PVP i never really switch off of my tank.

Ah, that would explain it, thanks!

Also, very nice setup, you have motivated me to clean mine up.

[cichard]

Ah, that would explain it, thanks!

Also, very nice setup, you have motivated me to clean mine up.

Thanks alot I really like the setup im going to make 1 more click bar with resmacros in them so that if im in combat it will use a battle res if im out of combat it will use the normal res.

[Alge]

Cichard, I notice you don't have the FTL macros on your action bars visible.
I assume they are hidden away?

Reason, I ask, is that when I tried to hide them away initially they either didn't work or got removed.
If this is working properly now, awesome.

Those macros must be on an action bar that is enabled. This means you can't set RIFT to use 1 side bar, put your macros on that bar, and then set RIFT back to use no side bars. In that case those macros don't work. I'm pretty sure you also can't disable that bar in Edit Layout.

What I do to avoid this is to leave the side bars enabled but turn make them as small as possible and turn their opacity right down using Edit Layout. I rarely change anything on those bars so this works well for me. YMMV.

[keth]

Finally got around to changing my healing setup. Mindless spam just isn't cutting it on deeper bosses in experts, runs out of mana early.

I started to try to use berserker's mark based setup, but I'm so short on macros it was going to be difficult. Then I came up with something I think is simpler that I know has been mentioned before but may not be obvious to set up for everyone.

First of all, anyone who doesn't know this, convert your group to raid frames and you can then see a red box around who has agro, as well as rearrange the group order to anything you like. You lose mana bars but I'll be setting up video feeds for that.

Edit: Tried this with click bars overlaid with repeater region and it worked great for awhile but then it started prioritizing the click bar on top of the repeater and no longer worked at all, the repeater would stop showing up. Not sure if there's a setting to fix. If so please do let me know. Or maybe it's a fix we could ask for - a priority setting? To get it working though I changed to a little more complicated and less elegant setup as follows:

First you'll need key binds that call your heal rotations, or single heals, which are linked to mouse1, mouse2, ctrl mouse1 etc. Heals will need to be macrod in rift as "cast @mouseover blah".

Then, you need a mapped key that turns those binds on and off with mapped key action states. This key needs 2 steps, one for "on", one for "off". Make sure to set it to advance to next step when pressed or released.

Then, create a repeater region, and set the "mapped key on enter/exit" to your key map action state bind.

You can set up an action target group of "healers" or whatever to keep the clicks to those characters only if you want.

Now, when you mouse over your group bar, it should turn the clicks into heals from your healers targeted at the proper character.

Also, I still have a simple "mindless tank spam" key that just needs one macro instead of the focus bar I used to have, for one-key tank spam heals when I need my mouse for other things. If you're not short on macros like me you could still have a focus bar or multiple hotkeys to handle this. I *think* but haven't tested you could also just make every macro have a fall back "cast blah" that would then let you click someone once and press a key to keep healing that target (just remember to only let the repeater region work on the healers, otherwise dps will be losing target).

Note: this works best if you're running all on one box and all windows match up, but I did have some success with 2 computers and manually fiddling with the repeater regions and raid frame locations on each character.

Another note: still having a few problems with sometimes the keys not turning off properly. For now just mapping it to extra mouse keys. At least it's still mouseover healing that I can expand to raid groups etc. Straght click bar buttons seem a lot more reliable but aren't as easy to expand and require retyping macros every time you change group characters.