Title says it all, i have been using this for a very long time and life would suck without it so i am curious if they are going to get rid of this addon or not. Anyone know?
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Its functionality will be trimmed down heavily, if it even works to begin with. Addon makers were already reporting overstepping well past their stated goals, and most of them couldn’t design anything more than visual plates for spells to sit it.
The target function for sure is gone at least for now. You’ll have to manually target players. It also won’t be able to tell you if they’ve got certain heals on them or anything of the sort. They seem to be going pretty nuclear in regards to healing addons specifically.
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That’s no bueno. I really only have enjoyed healing because of Healbot and how well the addon works to make healing fun in and of itself. Oh well, i can sit my healers until or unless i find something/someway to enjoy healing again.
Thanks for the information, i appreciate it.
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Blizzard is taking a big chance in the combat addon area when it comes to the healing UI, especially for raids. They’ve never addressed the need for twenty-five targets when you have twelve spells, and they rode the benefit of addons forever. If the changeover is too complicated and demanding, I worry about the healing folk who’ve been playing a certain way for a long time.
And it needs to be addressed by Blizzard now because we are freaking out with the small amount of news that they’ve given us. We are confused and not confident. We should be excited about Midnight and not filled with dread.
What is their solution? That is what I want to know. Guessing isn’t right, not one bit.
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Bingo.
That is precisely why the addon apocalypse is so needed. Blizzards hands will be forced to drastically improve the games UI, or drastically improve the way healers heal.
Teething pains are going to suck but it’s so much better for the longevity of the game. And I am sure Blizzard is working on Tanking / Healing addons behind the scenes, knowing how important those roles are while also being underplayed.
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Except mouseover macros are a baseline feature. So you might be able to still just hover over unit frame and mouseover heal
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Behind the scenes! What the H? Let’s see it and now.
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So basing everything on speculation rather than what has been confirmed in the alpha test so far.
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I wish I had this level of naive optimism in my life.
They’ve had 20 years and have done nothing - but I’m sure in the next 4 months that will all change.
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Might as well just take me out back now if this is going to be the case from here on out.
I’m not particularly interested in “painfully” healing so Blizzard can achieve their console goals. That’s just me though, some lowly healer who’s been around since 2004.
Who knows, maybe this’ll all feel GREAT in the end. I’m usually up for trying whatever they throw at us, but this one is extreme.
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Having not done the mouseover stuff, while they are pruning heals (let’s say from twelve spells down to eight), I’d have to have eight macros and click on the raid frames that are up and to the left of the UI? I’ve not done it, but it doesn’t seem “okay” for a twenty-five-man raid. How do I choose which macro, by putting them into the 1,2,3,4 on my keyboard? It sounds insane, I hope that I just don’t understand.
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people have also been throwing toddler tantrums about pre expansion changes over those 20 years in the same predictable loop
its almost like we have to wait for all the changes to happen over the next year or so before midnight launches instead of crying like immature boomers because change is always scary to the gutters of society
bite me, twice and forever
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I assume you have examples of big changes like this being later corrected? So far the track record is grim.
Nice name calling though lol? But it’s everyone else who’s toxic right.
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I mean, changing things is on one end of the spectrum. I’m pretty peachy about most addons being removed, and gameplay being modified.
And then we have throwing the entire game out the window as we know it, setting it on fire and saying “this is better for everyone!”.
Assign a heal to keybind 1.
Click or hover over raid frame.
Press 1.
Am I missing something?
I’ve healed my fair share of raid / m+
Always used default ui
Seemed pretty straight forward to me.
Granted I use keybinds for heals and click on frames.
I’m assuming people who healbot never had to use keybinds and are exclusively clickers?
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Hearing that Healium should go relatively untouched as it only shows health bars and debuffs. Debuffs are expected to not be visible anymore, but most people who do use it are using it to cast specific spells on a target.
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The part where you’ll be having to do this at lightning speed, while still chasing after tanks, dispelling like a crazy person, and having zero ability to track any of the abilities going out at the same because the functionality has been broken.
Yeah. We’re stressed with good reason.
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Removing Battlepets and giving players virtual doll houses. Thats the solution
to combat addon removal.
That was weak… sorry
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You’re being straight up disingenious. No pre-expansion drama comes close to what they are doing now. Addons have been a core part of the game since its inception and now they nuke it and were supposed to treat it the same way? begone with your garbage take.
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