Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Rylox » Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:49 pm

What on earth does this information even do for you.... it's a distraction at best.
Just use the info from SCT
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Undertanker » Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:32 pm

AWhen you dps do you want to see your hits?

When you tank do you want to see your dodges, parries, block amounts and resist amount, and damage taken and who is keeping you alive?

When you heal you want a visual representation of your abilities effectiveness without reading a chat. Keeps your eyes in the middle of tbe screen where they belong.


Dont ask dumb questions.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Armilus » Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:37 pm

Undertanker wrote:AWhen you dps do you want to see your hits?

When you tank do you want to see your dodges, parries, block amounts and resist amount, and damage taken and who is keeping you alive?

When you heal you want a visual representation of your abilities effectiveness without reading a chat. Keeps your eyes in the middle of tbe screen where they belong.


Dont ask dumb questions.


OP wants to see their healing numbers appear above the head of OTHER players, not their own. So really it's not as useful as SCT for just information.

I don't think it's really possible with vanilla. At best you would be able to get the numbers appear above any friendly player within 15-20 yards and the numbers will not scale with distance so it won't really look like the number is above their head. Just like using shift+v/ctrl+v to show friendly/enemy health bars.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Undertanker » Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:59 am

I know what they are asking. The message i put was for Rylox who commented with anything but helpful info. I would like this myself and will play around with xperl and a few other tools to see what I can come up with.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Rylox » Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:01 am

So you're telling me you don't know much the heal you're casting heals for?
Your eyes will be on your grid and not this random green text popup anyhow isn't that right by your own logic?
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Undertanker » Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:14 pm

For a 5 man, yes. And you shouldnt tunnel vision your grid, this is the reason the majority of players fail at situational awareness.

Dps stare at action bars, healers staring at grids, rogues energy watching, dps wars rage watching and get so focused they have no clue what is going on around them.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by stimz » Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:52 am

Rylox wrote:So you're telling me you don't know much the heal you're casting heals for?
Your eyes will be on your grid and not this random green text popup anyhow isn't that right by your own logic?


In PvP it helps determine heal debuff status and heal crits.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by dukeletoII » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:36 pm

Anyone find a way to do this? I also really miss this. Made healing feel more visceral.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by bdan » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:20 pm

Undertanker wrote:
Dps stare at action bars


I really hope they have keybinds and don't have to click things or look at their buttons.
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Re: Is there a way to showing healing floating combat text?

by Santana » Sun Oct 25, 2015 3:10 pm

bdan wrote:
Undertanker wrote:
Dps stare at action bars


I really hope they have keybinds and don't have to click things or look at their buttons.


He's probably referring to cooldowns, not clicking.
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