Any Way to Display Group Member Pet Health Bars?
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Posted on: 2009-07-14 19:18 in Player Questions
The only way is to target or mouseover the pet to see their current health.
You can kinda make a bind to target them though if it helps at all:
/bind KEY targetcustomnext friend alive notmypet notteammate
It's not perfect, but it might help a little. lol
Wow. You'd think by 2009 they could've added that to the UI. As if being a healer isn't already enough of a pain. I hope Aion is in better shape UI wise 
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Wow. You'd think by 2009 they could've added that to the UI. As if being a healer isn't already enough of a pain. I hope Aion is in better shape UI wise .
[/ QUOTE ] Pets are expendable, and since MM's have a support secondary, they are usually in charge of keeping their own pets safe in their own way. In most cases, their summon is recharged by the time a few start dying off anyway.
Personally, I would hate an addition like that because it could fill the whole screen at times. Sure, they could add a toggle to enable/disable the extended pet window i guess.
Even after playing several different support toons and wanting to be able to see their health at times as well, I've found it better to just focus on the team members and the enemy and forget the pets are even there.
YMMV
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Sadly no, CoX UI is a lot better then what AION currently has right now. Granted AION is still in beta and who knows what it may look like during the next beta event. Even worse you can't flip your mouse, its opposite CoXs setup and can't be changed.
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Sadly no, CoX UI is a lot better then what AION currently has right now. Granted AION is still in beta and who knows what it may look like during the next beta event. Even worse you can't flip your mouse, its opposite CoXs setup and can't be changed.
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Wow. You'd think by 2009 they could've added that to the UI. As if being a healer isn't already enough of a pain. I hope Aion is in better shape UI wise .
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If you're that focused on healing, you need to redefine your priorities. Healing is the worst form of support in this game.
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potential 42-50 pets out... you want that many hp bars displaying?
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It's kind of silly to argue against flexibility. If I want to see 62 health bars, I should be able to! I really don't, but sheesh, there's nothing wrong in certain circumstances to toss a heal to keep a player OR A PET up. After all, the game allows heals/forcefields/buffs to work on pets.
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It's kind of silly to argue against flexibility. If I want to see 62 health bars, I should be able to! I really don't, but sheesh, there's nothing wrong in certain circumstances to toss a heal to keep a player OR A PET up. After all, the game allows heals/forcefields/buffs to work on pets.
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Yeah, but is that all you want to see?
Seriously, though, you should be able to search through and find some good binds, or ask when you are playing or on the forums.
I think it is not a bad suggestion to allow a player to display the hp bars of selected pets in the pet window. Probably this should be done pet by pet such that the pet window won't end up with too many hp bars in a mastermind team.
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Actually, I've wanted this option since COV launched.
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Sadly no, CoX UI is a lot better then what AION currently has right now. Granted AION is still in beta and who knows what it may look like during the next beta event. Even worse you can't flip your mouse, its opposite CoXs setup and can't be changed.
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Indeed it can be changed, I remember the way CoX UI was when I started back in Oct 04'. I absolutely enjoy the advances in real numbers and optional power trays. Who knows what AION will like when it is released or even 5 years later.
But on the subject of viewing your team mates pets. I believe this should be made an option in the game. I personally would never turn it on myself. But as long as there is an option for off and on I don't see the harm.
Remember though some people are playing on 27" screens and some are only on 15" screens. Would be hell on some if it were forced on us w/o an option to shut off.
Sorry to necropost but has there been any change in this state of affairs?
No, no change.
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Umm, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, try this - /optionset showvillainbars 1. Mind you, that will also show the health bars of all combat NPCs as well, so it comes at a risk of informational overload.
Edit: Also, you can use /optionset showvillainname 1 to display names.
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i've been using showvillainname 1 and showvillainbars 1 for the better part of a year now. At this point it actually looks odd to me without it on. i did write up a bind a while back to toggle it on and off when i first started using those settings.
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Umm, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, try this - /optionset showvillainbars 1. Mind you, that will also show the health bars of all combat NPCs as well, so it comes at a risk of informational overload.
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*MMs each with 6 pets from their primary, possibly 1 from their secondary, up to 3 vet pets and various temp pets (Shivans, HVAS, Warwolf etc) then have them all in RV with all the zone pets as well or in a mish which gives pets and you could easily have over 100 sets of pet bars. - Now expand that to a full league!
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I know what you mean - I've been relying on it to target right mobs {or even to target mobs at all} way more than visual recognition. It's one of those things I can't remember playing without.
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i've been using showvillainname 1 and showvillainbars 1 for the better part of a year now. At this point it actually looks odd to me without it on. i did write up a bind a while back to toggle it on and off when i first started using those settings.
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I'd like to be able to see this...so I can toss a heal when needed. I only see a Pet Bar toggle that seems to only show my own pets (if I had any). Thanks.