SurgeonGeneral
SurgeonGeneral is an addon designed to simplify healing assignments in a raid situation. It's easy to use interface allows you to give all your healers assignments and then report those assignments to /raid and/or the custom channel of your choosing. It supports multiple phases for complex fights.
Reporting is done in the following format:
Healing Assignments: Boss Name
Healer: Phase1 ~ Phase2 ~ Phase3 ...
CharName1: Assignment
CharName2: Assignment
CharName3: Assignment
...
CharName10: Assignment
Boss Name will only be displayed if there is an entry in this text field. Healer: Phase1 ~ Phase2 ... will only be displayed if the fight is set use more than 1 phase, and will use the phase names supplied by the user.
Slash Commands
- /sg
- Opens the configuration screen and allows you to enter in your player names/assignments
Button Controls
- Auto Fill
- Scans your raid for healers and populates the addon with their names. If a player it out of inspection range, you will be notified.
- Report to Raid
- Allows the reporting of assignments to /raid when the Report button it clicked.
- Report to Custom Channel
- Allows the reporting of assignments to a custom chat channel when the Report button is clicked. Enter your channel name in the box below.
- Raid Name
- Use this dropdown to select a raid instance.
- Boss Name
- Use this dropdown to select a specific boss within a raid instance.
- Copy/Paste/Save
- Copy will copy the current assignments, phase names, and phase enable checkboxes.
- Paste will paste the copied information into the boxes for the selected boss encounter. This information is not permanent, yet...
- Save will save the current assignments, phase names, and phase enable checkboxes permanently. ''Healer names are not saved as they would mostly vary too much to be worth saving.''
- Class Icons
- Class icons will be displayed to the left of a healer's name. These class icons will only show if the healer is in your party or raid group. You can click and drag the class icon to swap healer names or healer assignments (depending on your selection of Swap Behavior under Interface Options). Holding Shift while dragging will always swap healer names.
Support for Main Tanks
Starting with version 1.4 you may use substitutions for MainTank assignments configured in CTRaid/oRA2. To use these substitutions, enter %MT# in any of the assignment fields, where x is the Main Tank number. Example: %MT3 for Main Tank 3
You may also you the scroll wheel on your mouse while over any of the assignment fields to increment/decrement the Main Tank target. Example: Field contains %MT2, scroll up and %MT2 becomes %MT3, scroll down and it becomes %MT1.
Interface Options
- Verbose
- Displays extra information during certain actions, used mainly for debugging purposes.
- Condense
- Condenses the reporting of assignments so that two players with the same assignment will be shown on a single line in the format: <pre> CharName1, CharName2: Assignment </pre>
- Reset
- Resets the configuration window to be centered on the screen. Useful in case you dragged it off screen and can't see it anymore.
- Tooltip Scale (Added in 1.6.0)
- This slider adjusts the scale (size) of the tooltip provided when mousing over the LibDataBroker widget.
- Swap Sytle (Added in 1.6.5)
- Swap Names: When dragging class icons, healer names will be swapped, assignments will not change.
- Swap Assignments: When dragging class icons, healer names will not be adjusted. The healers' assignments will be swapped.
Minimap Support
Minimap icon/launcher support is not planned. However, keep reading.
LibDataBroker Support
There is support for a LibDataBroker object/launcher. You will need to use an addon such as Fortress to enable it.
- Left Click
- Opens/Closes the main configuration screen.
- Right Click
- Reports the current assignments to the designated raid/custom channel. This is very useful for spamming assignments mid-encounter.
Surgeon General Listen Client
(Added in 1.7.0) Surgeon General also supports a "listen client" that raid healers can install to view the most recent assignments in a tooltip with improved formatting. Assignments are broadcasted to all listen clients in the raid regardless of the report channel checkboxes. This addon is available for download here: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/surgeongeneral-listen-client.aspx
Version Numbering
As of WoW 4.0.x version numbering has been changed to correlate with World of Warcraft's game version.
Donations
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the end is missing "Firelands".
/thanks
http://darosso.w.interii.pl/SurgeonGeneral.lua
Just replace LUA file.
tytytyty!! So happy this is getting updated, and my raiders look forward to the LC :D
I pushed up a beta file which should work, but hasn't been tested as much I'd like.
While I agree that this is definite room for improvement in SG's interface, I'm really not in love with GTH's. For example, I don't like that you can only see assignments for one phase at a time. I'm not a huge fan of it's tooltip layout either.
One thing that I think makes SG unique compared to GTH is the ease of use for the actual healers. By downloading the listen client (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/surgeongeneral-listen-client.aspx) the healers can see the assignments throughout the encounter and not have to worry about them scrolling away in the chat window.
I guess the main fundamental difference between SG and GTH is that with GTH you create tasks and assign healers to them, with SG you have healers and assign them tasks. It's two different ways of skinning the same cat.
I appreciate your constructive feedback and hope you'll give SG a try.
Our raid would like to know if its possible to get a similar addon for dps.
Love the add on. Any way when you save, to also have it save the channel name that you broadcast to?
As always, report issues if you find them.
Thankyou
Anyway ... here it goes:
This addon is perfect for Healing assignemnts. We even use it as a required addon for our healers.
The only thing i can think of that might make it better is to add a RW telling that healing has been set up since we're not spamming healing in any channel (healers, RL and Officers are using the client). I know it can be easily macroed but ... let's face it ... it would make it loads easier to just add a checkbox with "Annouce healing is done" and if anyone wants to use it they can check it if not ...
Just an idea :)
I'm not really keen on adding something an obtrusive as a RW to let people know that assignments have been sent. I'd imagine that it's something that will get old real fast. However, what do I plan on doing (when RL work slows down a touch) is changing the icon on the Listen Client when new assignments come in so that healers, et al, know there's something new they need to see.
Do you really want to give the Warlocks another reason to complain? ;)
I forgot to say I love the addon and the listener client. Makes healing in our raid heaps easier without having to deal with the Warlocks (or whoever) making unhelpful comments. :)
I hope this is not silly but it would be nice to have the facility to assign pally beacons as well. Currently. I use slash in their target to do this but it is a bit confusing when I want a raid healer to keep an eye on a tank as well. I use slash for that also. (i.e. "Healer: Target/Beacon" as well as "Healer: Raid/SecondaryTarget"). The Pally healers usually know I mean a beacon rather than a secondary target but it is becoming a little more confusing now that I am using Pallies on raid with beacon on tanks more and more.