but it doesn't look like it will be modded to work with WoW 2.0.
Basically it has hot keys. One assigns assist. The other assists that assignment. Oh, and if no assist is set, it will automaticly assume to assist my pet.
So, anyone know of an assist MOD that is functional 2.0 with the above features. I Saw Zassist, but it doesn't appear to have the auto pet assist features. I saw the thread here for SmartAssist.. but it at present is not 2.0 ready. I am not necessarily looking for an Ace mod, just posting here, as I respect the community's input.
zAssist isn't as working for 2.0.1 as I thought it was. I'd tested it . . . honestly, a bit over a month ago on beta, and it worked fine for me then, but I've been told it throws errors on the live servers now. I may have botched things on my distribution of it and zipped up older code. I'm going to try to give it a look this weekend.
I'm not sure if "automatically assisting your pet" would be allowable now . . . I think that falls into the category of "programmatically targeting" and if I'm not mistaken, that's one of the things that Blizzard wishes addons not to do now.
I did a bunch of research right after the patch and found that mods like AssistHelper needed too much work do deal with.
Basically, they removed AssistByName(). You can use AssistUnit() still, and it will accept a name, but then your addon is blocked. To make an assist addon now, you'd need to make a secure unit frame to assist off of.
I've resorted to using a set of macros bound to my former AssistHelper hotkeys. Set Assist edits the Assist macro. So far, it works fine. The only limitation is that it doesn't work in combat.
Zealot, the error zAssist is throwing is simply that AssistByName() is no longer a valid function.
What I do to manage assisting is simply use the new Blizzard "focus" paradigm. I just set shift+tab to "Set Focus" and tab by itself to a macro that contains "/assist focus". Seems to work fairly well but I do believe I'll come into some problems when I need to sheep things and then continue assisting.
Nargiddley has added the capabilities to MainAssist for Main (well, he labels it Custom) Assist and Secondary Assists to be defined. It also has keybindings for both targeting and assisting Custom and Secondary assists separately.
That essentially achieves the majority of what zAssist used to do, along with the other useful functionality of MainAssist, and still leaves your focus free for other uses.
I looked at LiteAssist, and my issue with it is that it uses the Focus frame for its assisting. I can achieve basically the same functionality with a couple of macros . . . I'm also not fond of having my Focus tied up for that, it precludes me doing things like specifying a specific Trainee in Gothik's room as my Focus and fearing it, then assisting someone else to help kill something and then re-fear my Focus easily with one macro keypress.
I looked at LiteAssist, and my issue with it is that it uses the Focus frame for its assisting. I can achieve basically the same functionality with a couple of macros . . . I'm also not fond of having my Focus tied up for that, it precludes me doing things like specifying a specific Trainee in Gothik's room as my Focus and fearing it, then assisting someone else to help kill something and then re-fear my Focus easily with one macro keypress.
LiteAssist is an update/rewrite of simpleassist, and you can choose to either set someone to assist (with a key-binding (when out of combat)), and then assist with another key-binding (this can of course be done in combat), or use the focus thing...
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but it doesn't look like it will be modded to work with WoW 2.0.
Basically it has hot keys. One assigns assist. The other assists that assignment. Oh, and if no assist is set, it will automaticly assume to assist my pet.
So, anyone know of an assist MOD that is functional 2.0 with the above features. I Saw Zassist, but it doesn't appear to have the auto pet assist features. I saw the thread here for SmartAssist.. but it at present is not 2.0 ready. I am not necessarily looking for an Ace mod, just posting here, as I respect the community's input.
I'm not sure if "automatically assisting your pet" would be allowable now . . . I think that falls into the category of "programmatically targeting" and if I'm not mistaken, that's one of the things that Blizzard wishes addons not to do now.
Basically, they removed AssistByName(). You can use AssistUnit() still, and it will accept a name, but then your addon is blocked. To make an assist addon now, you'd need to make a secure unit frame to assist off of.
I've resorted to using a set of macros bound to my former AssistHelper hotkeys. Set Assist edits the Assist macro. So far, it works fine. The only limitation is that it doesn't work in combat.
Zealot, the error zAssist is throwing is simply that AssistByName() is no longer a valid function.
That essentially achieves the majority of what zAssist used to do, along with the other useful functionality of MainAssist, and still leaves your focus free for other uses.
I looked at LiteAssist, and my issue with it is that it uses the Focus frame for its assisting. I can achieve basically the same functionality with a couple of macros . . . I'm also not fond of having my Focus tied up for that, it precludes me doing things like specifying a specific Trainee in Gothik's room as my Focus and fearing it, then assisting someone else to help kill something and then re-fear my Focus easily with one macro keypress.
LiteAssist is an update/rewrite of simpleassist, and you can choose to either set someone to assist (with a key-binding (when out of combat)), and then assist with another key-binding (this can of course be done in combat), or use the focus thing...