This addon makes 6 macros that auto-adjust to give you the best Potion, bandage, food, drink, or *NEW* Healthstone.
These choices are made based on your level and location (Supports Battle-ground only items).
GMHealth, GMMana:
These two macros will give you the best Health and Mana potions you have in your inventory.
- Due to the 'No combat decisions' rule in 2.0, Macros will only update when you are out of combat.
--Ctr-Click on these macros will open Alchemy (if you have this tradeskill).
--Alt-Click on them to force use the potion outside of combat.
GMBandage
This macro will use the best bandage you have. Left-clicking on the macro will cause it to work normaly, while alt-clicking will auto-bandage yourself.
- This macro also falls under the 'No combat decisions' rule.
--Ctrl-Click on this macro will open First Aid (if you have the tradeskill).
--Alt-Click will self-bandage (or alt-keypress if on action bar)
GMFood
This Macro will use the best food item you have that is has HP regen. Buff-foods (well fed) aren't included in the list because you may want maximize use of these the buffs. The order of the preference is set to:
Mage Food (All levels)
Event Food
Cooked Food
Vendor Bread
Vendor Cheese
Vendor Fruit
Vendor Fungus
Vendor Fish
Vendor Meat
Example:
If a mage comes by and gives you food, it will be on top of the list. If you have event food (Candy Corn, Harvest Boar, etc), it will be prefered over bought food. Cooked non-buff food is next, then separated into catagories based on what hunter pets like to eat (Most like Meat, so that's least likely to be eaten by you, Bread is eaten by the fewest).
Raw Foods (Raw Fish), is not supported. This is a way for hunters to keep some food for their pets with out worring abut Give Me Heath eatin' their pet-chow
--Ctrl-Click on this macro will open Cooking (if you have the tradeskill)
--Right-clicking will cast Conjure food (best rank), if you are a mage.
GMWater
This is very much like GMFood, but just deals with drinks. Order of preference is:
Mage Water (All levels)
Event water
Vendor Water
--Right-clicking will cast Conjure water (best rank), if you are a mage.
GMHStone
This selects the best healthstone you have your inventory. Warlocks can right-click to summon the best soulstone they can make.
/commands:
/gmh help - Will display instructions
/gmh update - will update all macros (can be used for preping)
/gmh update=health - will update GMHealth macro
/gmh update=mana - will update GMMana macro
/gmh update=bandage - will update GMBandage macro
/gmh update=food - will update GMFood macro
/gmh update=water - will update GMWater macro
/gmh update=stone - will update GMHStone macro
New Features
When holding down CTRL, you will now see the Icon for Cooking, First Aid, or Alchemy (If you have the abilities. If you do not have one or more, you will see a ? icon. That means nothing will happen if you ctrl-click on the icon)
You no longer need to worry about prepping. Macros are updated when you leave combat (as well as when inventory changes, or use any of the GMH macros)
TO DO LIST
/gmh save to let people save types of food (useful for hunters, and people who prefer eating looted food before their store-bought food (if looted is same level)). This feature is already partly encoded, but it DOES NOT work. Hopeful (or 2.2.?) will have it...
Added a few more items.
Added support for Coilfang specific potions.
Added Spanish localization for tradeskills and zones.
Fine tuned way macros respond to holding shift, ctrl and alt.
Icons should display properly now if you have Alchemy, Cooking and First Aid while holding ctrl. If you do not have these tradeskills, you will see the ? icon when ctrl is pressed.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...