LiteAssist is a very basic addon to replace the standard /assist macro.
It lets you set a unit (a player, pet or NPC) that the mod remembers. When you push the assist key, it causes you to attack the same thing as that unit. It changes your target (what you are attacking) to be the same as their target.
LiteAssist provides extra key bindings to learn who to assist and to assist them. You can (and must to use this addon) set them up via the WoW Keyboard Options menu.
LiteAssist really is light. There are no /commands and no fancy GUIs, just the 3 key bindings.
Configuring LiteAssist
After entering the World of Warcraft game, go to the Keyboard Settings menu, scroll down to the LiteAssist section and set the key bindings. Then just use the keys to activate the learn and assist functions. See below for more details.
Key Bindings
The three key bindings are:
- Learn unit to assist from your current target.
- Learn unit to assist from whatever your mouse is hovering over.
- Assist the previously learned unit (i.e., target its target).
You can find these under the 'LiteAssist' heading in the Keyboard Options
menu.
I use shift-F (learn target), ctrl-F (learn mouseover) and F (assist) for the three functions.
Notification Messages
When learning a new assist a message will pop up in the middle of the screen to inform you.
Clearing Assist
Learn assist with no unit targeted/mouseovered to clear the assist. The assist also starts out cleared before you first learn something.
When the assist is cleared, the assist key will assist your current target, exactly like WoW's default assist function. This makes it safe to override your regular assist key ('F').
Target Frame Indicator
When you are targeting the same unit as your assist, a small icon of a pair of crossed swords will be shown at the left of your target frame. This only works with the default Blizzard interface, not other unit frame addons like XPerl.
Advanced Macro Support
When you assist the learned target, LiteAssist is really running a macro with '/assist PlayerName' in it.
If you create a macro of your own named LiteAssistMacro AND include in it the text {LiteAssistUnit} (just like that, including the curly brackets),
LiteAssist will use that macro instead with the text {LiteAssistUnit} replaced with the name of the player you learned.
You can include {LiteAssistUnit} more than once and it will replace all the
occurrences.
Non-Keyboard Use
If you want to set up buttons on your action bar to trigger LiteAssist,
you need to do so by creating macros like these and then dragging them
onto your action bar.
To learn assist from target:
/click LiteAssistLearnTarget
To learn assist from mouseover:
/click LiteAssistLearnHover
To assist the learned unit:
/click LiteAssistDo
Limitations
Due to intentional limitations by Blizzard you can't change assist in combat. If you try to learn a new assist while in combat LiteAssist will remember what you tried to do and apply it when combat ends.
You can (obviously) still assist the learned unit while in combat.
Version 3.1.5 - 22-Jun-2009
- Fix bug where learning in combat didn't work if assist was cleared when entering combat.
Version 3.1.4 - 25-May-2009
- Fix broken update of DataBroker info when learning in combat.
Version 3.1.3 - 14-May-2009
- Fix a bug with queuing an assist clear in combat.
Version 3.1.2 - 25-Apr-2009
- Learning assist in combat will now queue until you leave combat.
- Added an icon for the LibDataBroker display.
- Fixed an inefficiency where it was rewriting the macro text every
time the party/raid roster changed even if the unit didn't.
Version 3.1.1 - 22-Apr-2009
- Fix (harmless) taint warning when UPDATE_BINDINGS event fires in combat.
Version 3.1 - 15-Apr-2009
- Updated TOC for WoW 3.1.0
- No other changes.
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)...
