Healers can't see who is in a vehicle in Wintergrasp

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I was googling this but couldn’t find an answer. Because I’m lazy here is - more or less - a copy/paste from an old US forum thread that perfectly describes the problem:

"So I have noticed that in the default raid frames, the vehicle health of the player driving it shows as their health in the raid frames with no indicator that they are in a vehicle. This makes it very frustrating to heal the raid when you see a low hp, go to heal them, and it fails because they are in a vehicle.

This is REALLY frustrating. Especially in Wintergrasp where there can be 12 demos around you. Some players can end up dying because you focused heals on a player in a demo without knowing it.

Is there something in settings that I’m missing? Or a simple workaround that is good for default raid frames? Maybe a weakaura? (But not a frame addon)."

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There is something like a small grey circle on their health bar when they are in a vehicle when you’re using default raid frames.

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Thank you for the reply, Fistus.

I haven’t noticed that. In epic BGs most of the time I have my eyes glued to my raid frame rather than on a player’s health bar on their nameplate (which is what I assume that you mean as I’m pretty sure there’s nothing on their raid frame).

I’ll check it out. Thanks again.

In the meantime, if anyone knows a way to get some kind of ‘player is in a vehicle’ icon onto a default raid frame, let me know. Cheers.

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I dont see any reason why cant heal someone in vehicle. IRL u can heal someone with medic in tank :joy:

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No, the brown circle is on the raid frame next to the player name.

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Really? Wow, OK. I’ll definitely have to take another closer look next time.

I wonder if I’m just missing it even though it’s right there in front of me, or whether I have something in my settings that’s preventing me from seeing it?

Fascinating.

Thanks for the reply!

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I’ll have a look tomorrow when I am online and screenshot it (if I get a Wintergrasp/IoC in the morning).

I tried Googling the issue and only found this on the US forums:

”I think if you have the default raid frames set to use class color, then people in vehicles will turn “pet” green.”

I can’t confirm this though - I play with the default green frames, so will check this tomorrow also.

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Thank you, this might be relevant.

I’ll let you know when I find out (may be a day or two until I get the chance to spam some epic BGs).

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I tried it in an Isle of Conquest right now and it doesn’t work (your class color stays the same).

Here are the promised screenshots - the icon actually changes your class role icon (dps/heal/tank) into a brown-grey circle. It isn’t very easy to spot the difference in the heat of the fight, and Im not sure there is a solution other than through a raid frame addon. :frowning:

https://imgur.com/dFCDpGb

and without class colors:

https://i.imgur.com/6L8N5CN.png

For some reason I am unable to post the screenshots directly even though I had Trust level 3 and posted pictures about three weeks ago…

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Thank you very much for going to the trouble of posting those screenpics.

The character class icons and the vehicle icons are almost the same, aren’t they? However, now that I know to what to look for, I think that tiny difference might just be enough to work with.

Looking forward to checking it out in my next Wintergrasp or Isle of Conquest.

Thanks again.

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Otherwise you can try using the Grid2 addon for healing. Not sure if its standard already like it, but I have it so the bars of ppl in vehicles are a different color (green, see pic below) and their names turn into the vehicle names. You can’t miss it.

https://ibb.co/xKPZZs34

(u can adjust the sizes of the bars, and pretty much everything else in Grid to ur liking)

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I like your hat.

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So, I finally got into a Wintergrasp and it’s exactly as you said: great because I now have a way to tell who is in a vehicle but bad because it’s very difficult to see in the heat of battle. The icon is so small and its design is very poor because it’s not easily distinguishable from the dps icon.

Easy fix for Blizzard though; just change that icon to solid black or something.

I’m not going to be getting a raid frame addon any time soon so I’ll just have to make do with how it is for now. At least things are better than before I posted here, so thanks to everyone that answered :heart:

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