06-19-2008, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-19-2008, 06:57 PM by Mordekhuul.)
Someone at EJ has posted a fairly revolutionary addon that purports to update your raid frames faster than normal, by no longer simply waiting on the regular health update events to fire (it does use those, as a safety net, but also uses the combat log).
This mod looks very interesting, for tanks and healers in particular. It is still having kinks worked out, but if it works bug-free for you, it could make a somewhat dramatic difference in reaction time to damage hitting your raid.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/12837/
Instant Health Thread on EJ
In a nutshell, combat log messages tend to be received by your WoW client faster than events telling you that someone's health has been updated to a new value. This mod reads combat log messages and updates the health of raid members (and party members) based on that information, often resulting in much quicker information on someone losing health than you'd normally see on Grid, Healbot, or any other unit frames.
Essentially, it gives you more of a real-time feel for what is happening to the raid's health than you are used to, which can, as reported by many of the healers on EJ, be somewhat scary on high spike damage fights! However, more information coming to you faster can really only be a good thing.
Again, not 100% bug-free (doesn't work well with Blizzard's default target of target unit frame), but those kinks are being worked out pretty quickly, and if it DOES work bug-free for you, it should be quite cool.
This mod looks very interesting, for tanks and healers in particular. It is still having kinks worked out, but if it works bug-free for you, it could make a somewhat dramatic difference in reaction time to damage hitting your raid.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/12837/
Instant Health Thread on EJ
In a nutshell, combat log messages tend to be received by your WoW client faster than events telling you that someone's health has been updated to a new value. This mod reads combat log messages and updates the health of raid members (and party members) based on that information, often resulting in much quicker information on someone losing health than you'd normally see on Grid, Healbot, or any other unit frames.
Essentially, it gives you more of a real-time feel for what is happening to the raid's health than you are used to, which can, as reported by many of the healers on EJ, be somewhat scary on high spike damage fights! However, more information coming to you faster can really only be a good thing.
Again, not 100% bug-free (doesn't work well with Blizzard's default target of target unit frame), but those kinks are being worked out pretty quickly, and if it DOES work bug-free for you, it should be quite cool.
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