Sat May 17, 2014 2:57 pm by Ualaa
I found having a player made UI, which included identical positioning of each window to be a big help.
I went with the AYA-Cotf UI.
It has basic information, such as most any other UI, but in the lower right corner it has a grid of buttons which can all have in-game macros assigned to them.
I set up a Repeater Region over the grid, so when I move the mouse into that area it automatically broadcasts to the other windows.
There is a macro for mounting, if you're not mounted.
There are macros for 'big heal', 'medium heal' and 'fast heal', for each of my six guys along with the two pets... so 24 macros for healing.
On the Druid's screen (my healer) those 24 macros are essentially... target character... cast slot # (which is the relevant heal).
On everyone else those are dummy macros, which do nothing but are still named appropriately, so I can see which button will heal whom.
So far the setup is fairly basic.
I have a multi-step macro for the invites.
So I press the key twelve times or so, in succession.
Once invites, the next press accepts the invite on that window, the next invites the next character, and then that character accepts the invite.
I found Alge's Guide for assist/follow from any window to be very useful for an initial setup.
Beyond that the posts by Firescue17 had a lot of things that I liked (the invitation of the team, for example).
My team is:
Druid (Heals/Gates/Evac)
Bard (Pulls/Melodies/Overhaste)
Enchanter (Buffs/Crowd Control/Slows)
Wizard (DPS/Gates/Evac)
Mage x2 (Pet Tank, Pet Off-Tank, DPS, Call of the Hero)
If you have fewer than six in the party, you can use Mercenaries to bring you up to six.
If you have six in the party, you can run with one group most of the time... but split the party into two groups (of three each) and then have three Mercs (per group) for a total of 12.
I'm on the test realm.
/testcopy to get there...
Everyone is 'Gold' subscription there, without paying anything.
And you get all expansions.
Gear is relatively cheap mostly (on the AH), because people will usually copy stuff and charge a lot initially (to get some funds on the server), and then continue to copy but at much lower prices to benefit others on the server.
There were several people who would daily copy tradeable raid drop items, and give them away in Plane of Knowledge.
