HealBot Continued   

is there any chance to continue this addon and make it with visual and functional improvements of the grid addon?
what i would like are the falowing:
1. visual improvement - the green buttons are really ugly, especially the names of the players wich are hardly visible.
make is customizable so that can chose the colors like in grid addon.
Also make a posibility to chose the colors or the ammount of color that has to be removed when showing how much i will heal my target.
This is one thing that made me chose healbot instead of clique + grid.
2. functionality.
- is it possible to be able to chose the position where i want to see the mana of the targets?
- also please make it possible when switching between single/ party/raid to chose the position of the bars, not only the size and layout.
- please add to the tooltip the information of the debuffs that a player that needs cleanse has. This means that i would like to see something like this on the tooltip:
1x [icon] This debuff does X action
3x [icon] This debuff does Y action
- please make the posibility to display the debuffs on the player bar, on the upper side of it, or with numbers on that debuff square to show how many debuffs of that kind it has, or to have the posibility to display de debuffs in the left/right side of the bar or even under the bar.
- also show the agrro gain dot like in grid.
- you can show the debuffs not necessary with debuff icon, but i would chose it to be with colored squares.
- also show a square or something around the player that is selected
- also show a square of some color on the players that are going to receive healing from other healers.
- make the text of the bars more customizable.

In other words, i want a combination of healbot functionality with grid visuals and functional improvements.
the things that i like most about healbot is that:
- the health that will a target have after heal is displayed.
- the cast distances are set by default correctly.
- the fact that health going down/up on damage/heal is made in steps, that attracts my attention much better.

I am also having the same issue with the target bar. Any help on this is appreciated.

Maintanks keep dissappearing in new version.

I have a mouse with 8 buttons. I would like to configure buttons 7 and 8 to healing spells. Is there any way I can do that?

For me the same.
Its very hard to heal when tank group dissapired.

after using /hb ri
tankrgoup appiar for 2 sec & dissapiar again.

sometimes tankgroup is ok but its for 10 min & after this dissapiar again.


p.s. tnx for addon! best!

edit: dissapired = tanks shown as usial players. Like somebody remove "main tanks" in heal tab.

seems the range tracking is a few ft off.
On brutallus yesterday, healbot would show me out of range of some people, but Grid will show that they are in range, and they were in fact in range (but barely) since i could heal them.
I was playing a shaman, using chain heal.

For those that reported they are losing MT assignments with the new version, I suspect your raids use oRA for MT assignments.

I take full blame for this bug as when I tested my enhancement for Blizzard UI MT assignments, I did not also test with oRA. Strife was kind enough to incorporate my enhancement into his latest release, thus the bug is my fault.

The simple fix is to change line number 1297 of the version 2.4.2.0 HealBot.lua as follows:

OLD:
if CT_RA_MainTanks then return end

NEW:
if CT_RA_MainTanks or oRA.maintanktable then return end

The end result of this change is that HealBot will ignore the Blizzard UI MT assignments if you are running CTRA or oRA.

This does not address the case in which the raid leader uses CTRA or oRA2 to assign MTs, but the HealBot user is not running either of those addons. In that case, the MT assignments would still be lost unless the HealBot user loads CTRA or oRA2.

My most sincere apologies to those of you who have experienced problems with the MT assignments.

yeah, we use ora

tnx for info

I'm more of a coding noob than I thought - I thought SOP was to edit these files with Notepad, but when I save my edits the file seems to lose linebreaks and likely other elements. I've tried saving with UTF-8 and other encoding options but I always get the same results. And I am making sure it's not appending a .txt to the end of the file. Any tips?

As a resto druid that recently hit 70 and about to start raiding, I have installed Healbot and am very impressed with it.

The only slight tweak I have made to my copy (and would suggest as a useful improvement for all, especially druids), is to add a visible countdown to HoTs as well as fading the icons. I find this helps with refreshing Lifebloom and knowing when to cast Swiftmend for maximum efficiency. An extra, druid specific, tweak is that the countdown on regrowth and rejuvenation shows green for the last 3 seconds if Swiftmend is available or red if it isn't.

I won't offer my code as a patch as it's really just a hack to get it to work for me and I'm sure the developers could do it better.

Thanks again for a great addon.

You got to be joking right? People have been asking for the features you hacked in for ages!!! And now you are telling us you won't provide the code you used for this so other people can use the timers to?

/shrugs his head in total confusion.....

first off excellent mod I love it on my druid and priest. But i recently made a shaman and was highly disappointed to note that it did not track my shaman buffs i.e. weapon enhancements or elemental shields. If this could be changed that would be awesome or someway to add your own trackers in to keep up with buffs you care about. thanks a million for the mod.

Strife, I think this is a simply superb addon, but I'd like to ask for a little modification that would be of huge value for healers of all stripes: profiles. As it stands, to combine a healing spell with other commands requires a macro. A collection of macros of this kind may all need to change at once: for example in a longer fight when different abilities or items need to be activated with each healing spellcast than needed to be usd in the preceding shorter fight or fights. But without profiles, the only way to switch all of the macros is one by one between fights, something that is not really a possibility in MH for example, and difficult in other situations. I would much rather be using Healbot right now but am using Grid and Clique for this reason. I'd be very very grateful for the change, and I bet others would as well :-)

thx Strife -- just a comment the MTs under oRA2 show up, but the members of my groupe do too -- lol example

I would see

My self first (ok no problem I clicked the box^^)

then in order MT1 (good)
Demo (euh in my group)
MT2
Druide (in my group)
MT3

the MT4 is in a totally different part of the interface.

As we have a often 5 MTs on Ora (occasionally 6, but rare), is there a limit to the number of tanks in the sort order??

In the past, I used to have all the tanks, then myself, folowed by a group order.

In anycase thanks for the fix (and the Hotfix Aenora can't think of everything all the time). Good work agin guys -- love oRA 2