*** Healing Group Sucks Continued ***
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* Update on the famous Healing Group Sucks Addon
* Due to disappearing of the original Author i made some Updates to make it work
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Healing Groups Suck is a GUI for creating, broadcasting, and saving healing groups during raids.
To use, join a raid group (it won't detect healers in a 5-man party), open the main window by either clicking on the HGS button or typing '/hgs open', and click the Refresh button to populate the list on the left with the current healers in the raid.
Enter the channel name you want to broadcast to in the channel box and hit enter. This can be 'say', 'yell', 'party', 'raid', channel names, or channel numbers. You'll see the text update with something like 'sending to Party'.
When you click on healer names in the list on the left, they'll be added to the active group, which has it's name displayed in the top left. To change the active group either click on the big red group name buttons, or enter a custom group name in the text box and save it by pressing enter. The group name will update. You can click on the healers in the groups to remove them from that group, and you can click on the Clear button to clear all healers from the current set. The number of currently assigned and total healers is under the active group name in the upper left.
You can also use the 'I'm Lazy' button to evenly distribute the unallocated healers to all groups with custom names. For example you can now easily enter the names of 3 tanks, click the 'I'm Lazy' button, and post groups. You can set group names back to default by hitting enter in an empty text box.
You can use the text box at the bottom to save a name for each set (which will also be broadcast) and the arrows to switch between them. You can save 30 different sets which should probably be way more than anybody will ever use.
Click Broadcast or type '/hgs broadcast'. Only groups with assigned healers will be sent.
People can also whisper you with 'hgs' or 'HGS' and you will reply to them with their healing assignment. It will use the current HGS Set on the to look up assignments.
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*** History ****
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* Version 1.7
* 1. Paladins and Shamans both added for Horde
* 2. Update for sexuality within chars / male female separation from last patch
* 3. Some Bugfixes and Refactoring
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* Version 1.8
* 1. Bugfix for for first time users
* Init now works correctly
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* Version 1.9
* 1. TOC and Version update.. nothing changed
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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)...
