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12-02-17, 07:57 AM   #1
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Exclamation oUF 7.0.11 details

The reason behind this patch is quite involved, so we're going to document what happened in detail for this one.

The 3rd boss of the new raid, Antoran High Command, has a mechanic that places players into a "Command Pod",
a vehicle present in the encounter. This vehicle is a bit different than most; as the player controls the vehicle, he
or she will take constant damage, which healers in the raid needs to respond to.

The issue with this mechanic was how vehicle units in raids worked previously, where if a player sat in a vehicle
(with a full UI), they would not show up in the raid frames as themselves, but rather the vehicle.
To allow others to heal the player inside the vehicle they need to see the player, not the vehicle.

The way the default UI handled this was by basically disabling vehicles from showing up in the raid frames
completely (through this change to CompactUnitFrame.lua), ignoring the fact that this change would prove to be
problematic for other encounters in the game (such as Eye of Eternity and Ulduar).

This change by Blizzard has been confirmed to be unintentional, and they will work on fixing it, but until that
happens (hopefully 7.3.5), we have to adapt and do the same. However, we're only applying this change to the
raid/party headers while the player is inside the raid, and providing the original (pre-7.3.2) functionality when not.

One last note, even though the displayed unit of the frame is indeed the player and not the vehicle, the frame
will not be clickable for targetting purposes, and the only way to heal the player would be through the use of
mouseover macros or supplementary addons such as Clique (which oUF fully supports).
This is out of our hands as we have no way of changing the targeting mechanics ourselves.

Thanks to everyone helping out with testing this issue.

References:
Issue #404 (PR)
Issue #402

Last edited by p3lim : 12-02-17 at 08:27 PM.
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