Raid frames for Healers

[Adelaide3]

I played as a Scholar during Twintania era and shrunk my party frame and moved it closer. It was functional at a very basic level and I only used it to <mouseover> everyone besides my two tanks becuase the tanks got their own special macros for Lustrate, Physick and Adloquium. The entire time though, I never stopped thinking how stupid it was that there still wasn't raid frames in the game because it's simply one of the most important healer UI elements in any mmorpg.

This is something i've wanted in this game ever since the remake happened and I wanted and still want to play a healer again but I just can't bring myself to do it without raid frames.

For the unannounced tank swaps you can just move your target bar down a bit and see who's being attacked but it would be nice indeed if this functionality was added to the focus target bar too as not every healer uses <mo> so that's very good feedback.

[Adelaide3]

It's been a year since I posted this thread and we still aren't even allowed to use the Alliance frames for 8 person content.

GG Yoshida.

[Ilyrian]

A world of yes to this. I've just about got used to it for 4-8 man content but Alliance raids are still needlessly awkward.

[IanFrench]

I don't think it is a problem. Because you could <mo> and heal on party list even without click on them. The only difference is that it is slight longer than the one that WOW has. But given to the GCD is 2.5 seconds which you have more than enough time to play it upside down several times, so it is not a problem at all.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

While I understand the issue, I figure the UI design team is a bit in awe of how to implement it properly. What we need to keep in mind is that HP, MP, TP, status effects and job icon need to be clearly visible and available in UI sizes from 60 to 200 %.

Alliance frames only displaying HP, job and main aggro is a design choice resulting from being unable to use abilities like refresh, tactician, goad, manashift, shirk etc on other alliance members.

Meanwhile I wonder why the parameters ( hp mp tp ) are still not splittable like how they did with status effects and target ui.

[ForctyusGold]

i think its just pc player problem, maybe but for someone, my problem is with controller to res anyone from other alliance, it would be better to be able to point player even if i am in battle stance because with touchpad on ps4 ... lol .. but it willl be nice these list with more wide desing

[Sylvain]

I don't even understand why this hasn't been adressed yet, we get QoL improvement every patch, and I'm grateful for that but very often they include stuff I didn't even know were an issue.

However this is something that has been requested since what? ARR?

[Kabooa]

GRID will forever be my favorite style of raid frame.

Simple, to the point, customization for priority information.

Within a single box you can quickly tell (with some settings)

A) Health. The box fills according to health percent.
B) Incoming heal. (I set this in a corner)
C) Has a HoT on them (I set this in another corner)
D) Afflicted with a debuff. (In a corner for generic cases, BIG ICON on the box for important stuff)
E) Has agro (Red box in the corner)
F) Mp levels. (Frame around the box, color changes based on MP thresh holds)

It made keeping track of the status of 25 people real damn easy. Granted, you don't really need that in an 8 man, but I still miss the simplicity, especially as it took up so little real estate on the screen.