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[POLL] Adding Companions To Ops/Party Frames

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[POLL] Adding Companions To Ops/Party Frames

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Ocmer_
01.28.2012 , 01:36 PM | #31
Quote: Originally Posted by NasherUK View Post
This is pointless. Companions are not meant for operations and flashpoints, you bring players instead. Even if they were used, if I was a healer I wouldn't want companions cluttering my raid frames. Pets are a waste of resources trying to keep alive, especially when they are to dumb to avoid AOEs.
Well at least bring it in for 2+ and 4 HC quests...
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Ngamok
01.28.2012 , 01:37 PM | #32
I would love it if the companions would show up in the UI.
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Ngamok
01.28.2012 , 01:41 PM | #33
Quote: Originally Posted by dogmeat_one View Post
No one is using companions in Ops/Flashpoints, at least in situations where they might need healing. What is the point of this?
I use them to do 4 man Heroic missions with my friend. If we out level a heroic quest we go and decide to do it, rather than find 2 others, we duo it with our tank / dps / healer companions. One of us usually has a heal available to heal our tank pets.

Thanks for not seeing this since you just want to brush it under the rug.
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Ngamok
01.28.2012 , 01:42 PM | #34
Quote: Originally Posted by NasherUK View Post
This is pointless. Companions are not meant for operations and flashpoints, you bring players instead. Even if they were used, if I was a healer I wouldn't want companions cluttering my raid frames. Pets are a waste of resources trying to keep alive, especially when they are to dumb to avoid AOEs.
LOL at you.
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dogmeat_one
01.28.2012 , 01:47 PM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by Ngamok View Post
I use them to do 4 man Heroic missions with my friend. If we out level a heroic quest we go and decide to do it, rather than find 2 others, we duo it with our tank / dps / healer companions. One of us usually has a heal available to heal our tank pets.

Thanks for not seeing this since you just want to brush it under the rug.
Ever heard of FOCUS FRAME?

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palimeno
01.28.2012 , 01:50 PM | #36
Definitely would make my job as a healer easier when doing FP/Heroics with companions. At least the option to have them shown.
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vsRawhide
01.28.2012 , 01:57 PM | #37
Quote: Originally Posted by NasherUK View Post
This is pointless. Companions are not meant for operations and flashpoints, you bring players instead. Even if they were used, if I was a healer I wouldn't want companions cluttering my raid frames. Pets are a waste of resources trying to keep alive, especially when they are to dumb to avoid AOEs.
Obvious quote of the day "IF i was a healer...."

well IF you were a healer, you would probably see the need for this feature.....

and since dogmeat_one at least asked, let me try to explain the why:

Reason 1) UI Zones (main reason):
Healers have to watch peoples life, in ADDTION to the battle. we can't just sit in the corner all safe, and just heal people so others can do their jobs. We need to move out of fire, help fight at times, anything we can AND keep everyone alive. This become REALLY hard when we constantly look from the center of screen (action zone) to left of screen (Peoples health) back and forth. Some healers even get tunnel vision, watching one or the other too much so can't see the danger in the other zone.
"My monitor is small, I don't see why you can't see both easy." well, My monitor is not the same as your Monitor... in fact, I'm a widescreen gamer with a 5040x1050 resolution (3 22" widescreen monitors wide), so my party frames are WAY over to the left. I require the Operaions Frames so I can move them back towards the center of my screen so I can see what's going on.


Reason 2) User Preference:
I love it when people that don't dont need something immediatly declairs it worthless, especially when soo many others are trying to explain why they do want it. This whole "I play like this so you shouldn't have a problem with it" attitude is rediculously obsurde. Maybe I like to watch TV while playing games, so I start arguing that we don't need voice, music, or sound in the game at all... or mabye I'm blind, why should we need graphix?.. The point is, EVERYONE is different, we enjoy different little parts, and it would be nice if different features were tweakable to fit our individual needs.


I'm not saying this is a game breaker, i'm playing the game, I'm making due with it as is so far. But I DO want this feature, so I'm speaking up for it. If there are other features that are more important, BY ALL MEANS make them priority, and fix them first, but please keep this in mind and eventually get around to fixing it please.

What I dont understand, is if you dont need the feature, WHY does one feel compelled to denounce it completely. Do you think it will ruin your game? If you think it would, then yes speak up, that you dont want it, and why, or that you want the feature to keep it off if you dont want it. But please enough with the pointless "I dont need it so dont do it" comments......

and in closing, I appologize for the rant.

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Caelrie
01.28.2012 , 01:57 PM | #38
Quote: Originally Posted by Bazouk View Post
here's the only problem. companions don't move out of aoe because they are mostly retarded. and since BW decided companions must take the full brunt of aoe effects unlike in any other mmo, i'm not healing your companion. no need for it to be in the frames.
So don't heal it. That's not a reason to leave them out of the frames. It can be OPTIONAL.

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Ngamok
01.28.2012 , 02:10 PM | #39
Quote: Originally Posted by dogmeat_one View Post
Ever heard of FOCUS FRAME?
Oh, so a companion UI wouldn't be good since I have to use the focus frame instead? Does that handle both companions? If the focus frame can do two companions, let me know. LOL at you too.
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Caelrie
01.28.2012 , 03:17 PM | #40
Quote: Originally Posted by vsRawhide View Post
as always we need more people that dont benifit from a feature to tell everyone that DOES benifit from it, how it's not needed....

thank you for your ignorance.
It's unreal how selfish the SWTOR players can be sometimes, isn't it? If they don't want to use a feature, nobody should be allowed to have it...

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