Incoming Heal indicator

[Mhalak]

A lot of Scholars seem very set on micromanaging their pets' heals, which in some ways defeats the purpose of having a pet. However, it's pretty understandable, because otherwise, it's difficult to avoid unintentionally healing the same player as your pet. Same applies with two healers in a group.

One way to help would be if the party bars indicated when a member was being healed. It could do so by showing the estimated amount of the heal on the health bar, in a different color.

Somewhat related, it would be nice if the party bars indicated when a player was out of range of heals. As a healer, it's difficult to be watching everybody's bars, AND staying out of green goop, AND paying attention to where everyone is at all at the same time. It would be very helpful for a player's bar to gray out somewhat when out of range.

Along the same lines, abilities do this on hotbars by having the mana cost numbers turn red when you're outside the ability's range. That's nice, but not enough. The entire icon should turn red or grey out or some other sufficiently noticeable visual cue.

Furthermore, if it's the icon for a macro, it should indicate out-of-range based on what the macro is targeting, not (necessarily) based on the player's current target. For instance, if I have a macro that's supposed to heal my mouseover target, and I'm currently mousing over a player in the party list who's out of range, then the icon for that macro should turn red as long as I'm mousing over that player.

Of course, that brings us to the issue of conditional macros. It would be SO much nicer if we had conditionals we could use in macros, instead of having to create macros that constantly spit out error messages. IF/THEN statements would let us have more effective mouseover macros, help/harm macros... a lot more options.

I miss all of these features from World of Warcraft... even though I don't miss WoW. So please add these features to a game I really DO want to play!