This was a simple mod at conception aimed at making a healer's job easier (gods know healers need all the help they can get). Since then it has become a great tool for any class.

What It Does:

This mod provides you with 8 highly configurable action bars of 20 buttons each. Each bar is assigned to a specific target: one for you, one for each party member, one for friendly targets, one for hostile targets, one that targets the member of the party with the lowest health. A bar doesn't display if its target is unavailable (i.e., self bar always displays, a party bar only displays if you're grouped with at least 1 other person, etc.). Clicking a button on one of the bars will use its action on the person to whom the bar is assigned then immediately switch you back to your previous target. You can also set a spell on a bar to assist the bar's target before casting, in which case it won't return you to your previous target.

Additionally, you can set spells to cast when you hold down a combination of ctrl, alt, and shift and click on a unit frame. It works just the same as pressing the button so all your options for that spell are applied. This currently works with the default unit frames, Discord Unit Frames, MiniGroup, Nurfed Unit Frames, Nymbia's Perl Unit Frames, and WatchDog.

The click-casting feature also works with CT_RaidAssist.

Group Buttons now has bars for pets and raid members. Only the buttons 1 through 5 will show up on this bars but the rest can still be used for click-casting.

The Features:

* Does not use any of your action button slots. This mod creates its own action buttons.
* Easy to use GUI for setting up your bars.
* Drag each bar to where you want it by unlocking the bars.
* Many display options to customize bar/button appearance: resize individual bars, transparency, change the layout of the buttons, attach the bars to unit frame so they move along with it, show the bar when you mouseover the unit frame, and more.
* Define when you want buttons to be shown and they'll remain hidden until conditions meet those you specified: target needs a buff, target needs a cure, show only in combat, etc.
* Set spells to assist a bar's target before being cast
* Set a spell to auto-update to its highest rank on training
* Set a spell to prevent you from rebuffing a target
* Set a buff to automatically cast the highest rank of the buff the target can receive
* Set a heal to scale down to a lower rank that matches your target's lost health better
* Set a heal spell to automatically cancel its casting if the target's health passes a threshold you define.
* Set a damage spell to scale down to the minimum rank necessary to kill a mob
* Options to announce you're casting spell and announce if the spell was interrupted or failed. Options to configure the text you use on such announcements
* Target the bar target's pet on shift-click, spells set to assist will assist that pet
* Force overhealing or overkill when holding Ctrl and clicking a button.
* The Lowest Health bar can optionally be set to include pets and/or raid members.
* Buffs and cures on the Lowest Health bar will apply that buff or cure to the first person it finds who needs it.
* Raid and Pet settings can be used to setup click-casting for those units but do not add button bars yet.
* The function /script GB_CureAny() can be used in a macro to choose the appropriate cure to use on someone who's debuffed.

Many thanks to IDispatch and Nicorg for thier French translations!

Many thanks to Boergen for his German translations!

* Note for unit frame click-casting support * The mod has to draw an invisible button over the unit frame for this feature to work. In most cases, you won't notice it's there. You can see the clickboxes as translucent gray boxes over the unit frames when you open the options window. There are some mods where it will cover the buff/debuff icons. All you have to do is go to Group Buttons's Misc Options and adjust the size of the clickbox until it no longer covers them. Also, if you want to drag a unit frame, it's best, usually necessary, to open Group Buttons's options and click Hide Clickboxes first.

** A complete rundown of all the options can be found in the readme.html file **

** Checkout my new site - http://www.discordmods.com - for the latest version, tips & tricks, and a forum for this mod and others **

Patch notes for Group Buttons v4.98
Questions? Comments? Bug reports? Please visit http://www.discordmods.com for direct access to this mod's author.

v4.98
* Updated the .toc version number.
* Fixed tooltip scanning for buff names, etc. broken by patch 1.10.
* Possibly fixed the long-standing problem of bars not being initialized properly until you open and close the options window.
* Fixed GB's data tooltip being displayed.
* Fixed the cooldown display being slightly too small. Try unchecking the option in misc options to modify it by UI scale if the size is still off.
* Fixed the rank scaling for Divine Spirit.
* Added Prayer of Spirit to the buffs list. Needs localization for non-English clients.
* Holy Nova will now be excluded from being chosen by Prevent Overhealing.
* Divine Spirit and Prayer of Spirit will now correctly detect if the unit is buffed by either.
* Shadow Protection and Prayer of Shadow Protection will now correctly detect if the unit is buffed by either.
* 10th rank of Renew is now counted for rank scaling.
* Adjusted handling of the data tooltip in order to fix a number of things.
* Stopped raid bars from updating if they're hidden and raid members change. Should help with raid lag issues for those who don't use the raid bars. May cause issues, let me know.
* Exorcism will now consider Demons to be valid targets.
* Added a Healing Bonus editbox to Misc Options. Type in your total +healing and press enter to have the bonus applied to all GB's data for your healing spells. It uses the (casting time/3.5) * bonus formula to determine how much to add to each spell.
* Lower Rank When Mana's Low will no longer change your spellcast while Spirit of Redemption is active. Needs translations for German clients.
* Fixed Prevent Overhealing choosing Resurrection occassionally. Needs localization if other languages have that problem.
* Fixed a GB_Initialization.lua error for clients that use a , instead of . for decimal points.
* Holy Wrath will now consider Demons to be valid targets.
* Fixed Exorcism not considering undead to be valid targets.
* The target bars will no longer try to return you to your last target fixing issues with random friendly NPCs of the same name getting targeted.
* Removed the code for cancelling a spell that failed to cast, getting it off your cursor. It no longer seems to be necessary. You can now use targeted AE spells from GB's bars.
* Raid members will now be checked by default when they're added to the raid. Players you've unchecked in order to hide thier bars will remain unchecked when the raid changes. No need to constantly dive into the options window anymore.
* French localization update courtesy of Sturmy.
* German localization update courtesy of Meldas.
* Prevent Overhealing will now choose the lowest mana cost spell that will heal your target to full. So your overhealing percent may be a little higher now but you'll be spending less mana.
* Added support for Perl Classic Unit Frames.
* Heavily optimized tooltip parsing for checking buffs/debuffs.
* Any other random crap I coded in the period between beta g and beta h but didn't make a note of.
* Added an option to Misc Options to automatically cancel Shadowform or an animal form when casting a heal and only heals. (You can tell I respecced shadow to do some pvping can't you?)
* Added the Greater Blessings to the area effect buffs list.
* Fixed GB getting stuck considering you in combat if you zone while in combat.
* Added options in Misc Options to limit the Area Heal Threshold and Lowest Health Bar to only check units within follow distance (around 28 yards).
* Added support for character-specific macros.
* The new ranks of Blessing of Wisdom and Might should now be used by buff scaling.

Beta Available: 1.6.3 Beta


this beta now!