Comments on: Food Before Flowers: Clique Part Deux

By: Loukno

Loukno — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:34:54 +0000

I don’t like doing the target of target thing because I do’nt like having a target — as heals you get a few benefits (and as restro the bug of not casting wild growth on mouseover if you have an enemy targeted is getting really old). An example of what I mean — on the new fire guy in VoA he’ll target you when he’s going to cast the fire bit — if you have nothing targeted, you’ll reciprocate the targeting and know to immediately move — you can move before the first tick ever lands.

How do I know which tank as aggro? The tiny indicator that grid gives you when someone has aggro. If they are swapping back and forth just heal the one with aggro.

Another thing I use clique and the grid aggro indicator for is with my paladin when I’m tanking, I’ll just clique on the raid member with aggro and it’ll cast the righteous defense and pull the mobs off that friendly to me. Great for those stray ony whelps.

By: Chmur

Chmur — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:44:26 +0000

A bit late maybe – but different way to beat the macro for ranks – just manualy delete the “(rank X)” from the binding. Did that on lvl 20 on my shammling, and still healing on lvl 80 with maxed spells.

By: Efn

Efn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:33:15 +0000

Clique absolutely works on the unit frame watching “focustarget”. At least, in my Pitbull3 setup it does, without any special configuration at all. The “max rank” thing is also remedied as has been mentioned. So aside from those problems, a great post for the uninitiated. Just use the latest version of any mod you take a look at next time. :P

As for spec differences, I simply use the [spec:N] conditional in any macros I use in Clique. A good portion of my setup is the same regardless of my spec, so I just use macro conditionals for the differences to make things simpler.

By: Lyssa

Lyssa — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:02:40 +0000

There is no way I could heal on my resto druid without clique. It makes healing ezmode.

By: Balthezor

Balthezor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:29:54 +0000

TOTEM!

By: Abedabun

Abedabun — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:41:46 +0000

Why did I not think of clicking on target-of-target before? Thanks :)

By: Cal

Cal — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:24:44 +0000

Something else not mentioned is that you can set a different set of bindings for each of your specs and Clique will switch to the correct set when you swap specs.

By: Taryble

Taryble — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:09:34 +0000

In fact, if the spell is significantly below level, it costs much more than the max rank. I believe you have to go down at least 4 ranks for this to be visible. I know in WotLK Beta, Rank 6 or 7 of Flash Heal cost nearly triple what Rank 11 does (the level 79 version).

By: mahoskye

mahoskye — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:47:31 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I actually have been using clique for a few years now and it has become one of my “essential” addons for healing. I have also found it useful for classes that issue a debuff or any effect that can be placed on a target; My current favorite is using Shift+L.Click a focus for polymorph.

@Karatheya No, it is pointless now to use lower level spells. I believe a lower level spell now uses the same mana as the high rank spell. I am pretty sure they switched the mana requirements to be on a percentile system as opposed to the fixed system they used before 3.0.2.

By: Karatheya

Karatheya — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:53:44 +0000

I believe the Clique spell rank bits have been taken out, at least in the version I’m using. There is no Max button (though I remember it well) and clicks on spells in my spellbook (even those that have ranks) just makes the non-ranked spell be associated with that button combo.

Now, if I turn on “show all spell ranks” in my spellbook, the clicks are bound to the exact rank I click on.

Are there any legitimate reasons to use lower-ranked spells anymore? Since the default is not to show all ranks, I assume this would only cause problems for people who used Clique pre-WotLK as opposed to those who re-set their UI sometime after patch 3.0.2