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Thread: How do you feel about pass thru healing?
Starting to get kinda used to it..... been playing a while was VERY used to the old system....
But if im gonna be honest I hated it from day one.
Besides found old system a much better way of managing group health. IE choose who to heal and not just person under attack by one certain mob.
Marrow1 wrote:
What is pass thru healing? aka Assist healing.
When you have a mob targeted and that mob is attacking a fellow group member you will attempt to heal that group member if you use a heal such as Force Heal, B. Shot, etc. This is much like assist attacking where you target your group member and hit an attack special and you will attack the same target. However, this works in the reverse where you target the mob and attempt to heal it resulting in healing the mobs target.
Pros
1. You dont have to look at who you want to heal and can stay targeted on the mob but still heal a friendly.
Cons
a. Often you intend to heal yourself but wind up getting a "invalid target" type of error because the friendly is too far way.
b. Often heal a friendly even though you really wanted to heal yourself but with the auto target system (targets what ever is attacking you) it is difficult to get yourself targeted.
c. Often wish to heal a friendly that is targeted but wind up healing a different friendly or getting an error because just as you have your patient targeted a mob attacks you and auto targets you to them resulting in a error or a different friendly getting healed.
d. The work around many use is a macro such as "/forceheal self". The down side is one needs multiple commands so that you can still heal others as well as yourself.
e. Makes using enhancers (for non-Jedi) very difficult because there isn't a command that can be used.
What are your thoughts on this topic?
Pass through attacking is great, pass through healing is hella lame, thanks for taking a sec of your time to come here, doc....voice the concerns generated here in the correspondants forum please, if you would be so kind.
Marrow1 wrote:
What is pass thru healing? aka Assist healing.
When you have a mob targeted and that mob is attacking a fellow group member you will attempt to heal that group member if you use a heal such as Force Heal, B. Shot, etc. This is much like assist attacking where you target your group member and hit an attack special and you will attack the same target. However, this works in the reverse where you target the mob and attempt to heal it resulting in healing the mobs target.
What are your thoughts on this topic?
Not sure if anyone has suggested this...but here goes:
Add an option to the Combat Tab under Option to turn pass through Healing On/Off
Easy fix 
a good healer uses the group menu to select the person they want to heal, and when I want to heal myself I end up healing some other guy instead....
I mean it was a good idea and all but it has caused me more incaps than saves.
Honestly I don't like the feature.
Its very easy to see group members HAM bars and, to click on that member to target them for a heal/buff. Thats how I always do it. You can also see if they are even in range for the heal. No -invalid target-. Some times in a rough fight that one lost move can cost you.
Can be frustrating when you are trying to untarget or, target self during an intense fight. I also tried the "forceheal self" macro but as someone mentioned, you need an additional command in your toolbar to heal another target.
Just my opinion.