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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.

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