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Unit frames without health bars? Yes, it's possible. See yourself:
They use half the size of PerfectRaid, and can be positioned horizontally or vertically. With Squishy installed, you'll also see the aggro/healing indicators.
So, the color of their name represents their current life? Interesting... Probably not the best for a healer who likes to know exactly what's going on, but it might be very handy if you're just trying to see raid/class status at a glance.
Would it be possible to make the top bar change with the average health of the class? ^_^
Oh, and when you say that the red dots are for units who have aggro; are you determining that by checking targets or by incoming damage?
Yeah, I agree. Really nice for non-healers, who just need a general overview of the fight and who has aggro. But for my Priest, I think I'll stick with PRaid.
to make it usable for healers, why don't you add an option to display the current health or current health deficit in place of the characters' names? it doesn't really matter imo who it is, if he needs healing he should get it amirite ;D
edit: not only that, but with only 4 character width per column, they would become even smaller using that option.
Oh, and when you say that the red dots are for units who have aggro; are you determining that by checking targets or by incoming damage?
I check all targets. See Squishy for details.
Arcueid:
to make it usable for healers, why don't you add an option to display the current health or current health deficit in place of the characters' names?
Well, I do think names are important. And you can get used to colors. A tank that is shown yellow probably has taken 3000-4000 damage, depending on his gear. I know I then will cast a Greater Heal Rank3. And if he's nearly dead, I might cast a quick FlashHeal instead.
You want tiny? drop the names completely, go for just health bars. Make said bars squareish and arrange in a grid or bar. Think of it, a FuBar sized bar that is your entire raid :)
Problem is it'd be so small it might be too easy to misstarget
Yeah, I guess it just doesn't make sense for me to be thinking about how much health somebody must have lost and changing pace with each different class I choose to heal. I'm just saying I'm not going to use it as it is currently designed on my Priest, and I don't seem to be the only one. If you're making the unit frames for yourself, then I agree, there's no need to change the functionality. I just think that if you expect others to use it you need to be more mindful of the features they (think) they need.
You want tiny? drop the names completely, go for just health bars. Make said bars squareish and arrange in a grid or bar. Think of it, a FuBar sized bar that is your entire raid :)
Problem is it'd be so small it might be too easy to misstarget
Bah! Represent each person with 4 pixels square for health values and make it into a rectangle.
The numbers are the unit's current health deficit...
So Druid1 is missing 1200 health and is getting a heal. Druid2 has aggro and is only missing 100 health. Druid3 also has aggro, is getting healed, and is missing 3700 health. Druid4 is dead. You can tell by the color of the name/number the general percentage of health that's been lost, the number itself gives you a decent idea what rank of heal to use, and it has the same lovely aggro/healing blips.
Maybe I'm missing the humor here. I think it's a great idea as well, and just because someone creates an addon one personally has no use for, or doesn't find in ones taste, there's no reason to be an asshat about it.
Looks good, so what if a healer can't use it, there's a lot of other raid addons developed for your purposes. Use them.
I never said I didn't like the idea, I was just throwing out my own stupid ideas. I think the "dot" one should be called PanicButton... click it and it unequips your items and casts FD.
They use half the size of PerfectRaid, and can be positioned horizontally or vertically. With Squishy installed, you'll also see the aggro/healing indicators.
Would it be possible to make the top bar change with the average health of the class? ^_^
Oh, and when you say that the red dots are for units who have aggro; are you determining that by checking targets or by incoming damage?
edit: not only that, but with only 4 character width per column, they would become even smaller using that option.
I check all targets. See Squishy for details.
Arcueid:
Well, I do think names are important. And you can get used to colors. A tank that is shown yellow probably has taken 3000-4000 damage, depending on his gear. I know I then will cast a Greater Heal Rank3. And if he's nearly dead, I might cast a quick FlashHeal instead.
Problem is it'd be so small it might be too easy to misstarget
Bah! Represent each person with 4 pixels square for health values and make it into a rectangle.
Hrm... that might be really pretty to watch...
The numbers are the unit's current health deficit...
So Druid1 is missing 1200 health and is getting a heal. Druid2 has aggro and is only missing 100 health. Druid3 also has aggro, is getting healed, and is missing 3700 health. Druid4 is dead. You can tell by the color of the name/number the general percentage of health that's been lost, the number itself gives you a decent idea what rank of heal to use, and it has the same lovely aggro/healing blips.
Looks good, so what if a healer can't use it, there's a lot of other raid addons developed for your purposes. Use them.
I never said I didn't like the idea, I was just throwing out my own stupid ideas. I think the "dot" one should be called PanicButton... click it and it unequips your items and casts FD.
Huzzah!
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