So a priest, another priest and 3 warlocks walk in

[vor_lord]

I'm hoping that the announced features for the upcoming 1.5 patch will encourage the mod makers to integrate better pet information into the display. I'd love to see the pets status displayed in a small bar below the relevant party member, similar to how your pet/minion currently appears below the player frame.

I'm predominantly concentrating on the party frame when I'm playing my priest, and its distracting to have to hunt around to find out the pet's health.

I'll definitely look into the pet nameplate thing. It would have been very useful yesterday.

Chris
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I rely completely on the nameplate for healing pets. I've not been able to find a mod that is worth installing for pet health (none of them update properly, although it seems the concept behind CT_Raidassist could be used to do pet health -- maybe it does and the pet owner probably needs it installed, hmmmm).

The biggest annoyance is that in order to see the nameplates, you must be relatively close to the battle. That's ok, but when the hunter or warlock is behind you or near you , pets in passive mode zip back to their owner very quickly when their target dies, and it sure seems like it's always in the midst of me trying to click the little healthbar to pop a renew or something. A voidwalker is less trouble as he is pretty slow.

That said without the nameplates healing multiple pets would be nigh impossible. With a single pet you can keep it targeted the whole time (in combination with a mod), but with two it's the nameplates all the way.

I am looking forward to the 1.5 patch interface improvements a lot. CT_Raidassist is a godsend for healers in a raid group, but is always glitchy (at least for me, I'm new to raiding) and takes some squirreling around for every group (who's reporting for whom etc). 1.5 promises pet and raid group health update events and that should solve both problems.

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Now if they'd just put into the default interface pet bars/raid bars we wouldn't have to mess with mods for that at all.
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