Keybound Healing

[Team Squishee]

Using Trinity you can bind the bar targets to 'party1' , 'party2' etc.

This caused a little confusion at first but the simple workaround was - always have the same char do the group invites, and always accept the invites in a particular order.

My slave 1 issues the invites, and I accept in the order - Main, slave 3 , slave 2, - this way my party is always set up in the same order. I guess if you were grouping with someone else you would invite them last and they would always be party4.

[Djarid]

Ah but as , I think, Xzin pointed out, the party order is sorted by reverse character creation order so it is irrelevant of the accept order, they will always sort according to the character's age.

I haven't tested this but Xzin and a few others have used this when creating characters to ensure they get their characters in the desired order.

[zanthor]

And since my goal is to be able to heal ANYONE the order is completely meaningless since I have no control over the order they were created... hence, my quest to find a UI mod th at does this.

[Nixi]

I hit the same roadblock. I had my team set up with [target=partyx] style macros thinking I could swap in and out my leader (warrior, pally) without a hitch and also put everyone in the same group while in bgs and raids. Nope, not happening. I'm also searching for a reliable way to do this. I can't transition from my 5 man group to a raid group without switching to [target=Nameofunit] macros which doesn't allow for [target=Nameofunittarget] style targeting.

How are the current BattleGround /Raid players out there targeting heals?

[Team Squishee]

Ah but as , I think, Xzin pointed out, the party order is sorted by reverse character creation order so it is irrelevant of the accept order, they will always sort according to the character's age.

I haven't tested this but Xzin and a few others have used this when creating characters to ensure they get their characters in the desired order.

Interesting.. I have my heal bars laid over the healthbars so i guess my confusion was less which char was party 1 and more to do with whether the corresponding hp bar was in the right place.

So out of interest what was the conclusion to this research - older chars get party1 or party4?

[zanthor]

Oh the beauty of it all...

I use RDX for my unit frames, I specifically use a window based off my raid groups heal assignments that I created, go fig right?

local macrofunc(unit)
	x = x + 1; -- Incriment our counter since this tells us which macro to edit.
	VFL.print(unit:GetName().." "..x); x = x + 1;	return 1; end
	newMacro = "/target "..unit:GetName().."\n/cast [modifier:alt]Flash of Light,[modifier:shift]Holy Light,[modifier:ctrl]Blessing of Protection,Flash of Light";
	EditMacro(GetMacroIndexByName("H"..x), "H"..x, 0, newMacro, 1, 1);
	if x > 5 then
	    return nil; -- returning nil causes this to stop.
	end
	return true;
end

x = 0; -- Reset to 0
RDX.ForeachInObject("Heal_Ass_UI:MyAssignmentSort", macrofunc)

Teh macro it's self is untested and needs polish, however this should let me accomplish some pretty nice things... all it depends on is having macro's pre-written for H1-H5

Ideally I'll find a way to hook the underlying set for updates and execute this when it updates (assuming we are out of combat)... that way as people join and leave it updates. Worst case I set this into a ui mod with a /updatemacro's command and hit that when I need to update.

[zanthor]

BTW: once this is done It isn't beyond believable to do the same thing with any unit frame, I don't know that it would be as easy because RDX has the functionality to explore it's base sets and sorts coded in already.

[Havelcek]

I tested the group inviting thing this weekend and sure enough, the order in which your group is aligned on the screen and in /party is always the inverse of creation date. So I basically created my characters e,d,c,b,a in that order and the group is aligned perfectly every time.

[Havelcek]

Trinity bars - create a bar for each party member, assign each bar a target , drag the spells out of your spellbook onto each bar, assign keybinds.

No macros required.

If you are running accounts across multiple PCs using keyclone, do you have to mimic the Trinity setup on every account? How do you trigger the actions across accounts without using hotlkeys?

[zanthor]

I tested the group inviting thing this weekend and sure enough, the order in which your group is aligned on the screen and in /party is always the inverse of creation date. So I basically created my characters e,d,c,b,a in that order and the group is aligned perfectly every time.

This is fine when you ONLY 5 box, however I like the ability to fill a 5 man wh en I want, and rotate in players when available, so I may be healing 3 non-boxed players... having the ability to dynamically do this in the order I want is priceless.