Party Health Pie

Your whole 5-man party in one circle. A radial health, resource, pet, shield and incoming-heal meter for World of Warcraft: Classic Forever and retail Midnight.

An early release. Bars are a shape, and the shape can be a pie.

The retail build hasn’t been played on a live retail client yet, so treat it as a test release.

Install

1. Exit World of Warcraft.
2. Unzip the download. You get a folder called PartyHealthPie.
3. Move that folder into the AddOns folder for your version of the game: Classic Forever: C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_forever_\Interface\AddOns Retail: C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns On a Mac, the folder starts with /Applications/World of Warcraft/. If you installed the game somewhere else, look there.
4. Check the folder isn’t doubled. This file should exist: ...\AddOns\PartyHealthPie\PartyHealthPie.toc
5. Start the game. On the character select screen, click AddOns and make sure Party Health Pie is ticked.
6. Try it. Type /php demo in chat to see a sample party, and the same again to stop.

If it doesn’t show up

• Not in the AddOns list? Look for a doubled folder like AddOns\PartyHealthPie\PartyHealthPie\, and make sure the download matches the folder: the Classic Forever zip goes in _forever_, the retail zip in _retail_.
• Marked out of date? Tick Load out of date AddOns on the same screen.
• Updating? Exit the game, delete the old folder and install the new one. Your settings are kept.

How to read it

• Health fills the outer 3/5 of a wedge in class color and sinks toward the center as it drops.
• Resources fill the inner 2/5 and drain outward toward the health line.
• Pets take a full-height slice, 33% of their owner’s wedge.
• Shields are a blue band from the rim inward, sized by % of max health.
• Incoming heals are a pale green band starting where health ends.
• Low health (33% or below) turns the wedge deep red with a thick flashing outline.
• Dead is charcoal, disconnected is grey, and someone who left leaves a transparent wedge.
• Your target gets a yellow outline. Select a pet and only its slice lights up.

Healing with it

• Hover a wedge and press a heal key to cast on that player or pet. Hover a pet’s slice to heal the pet.
• Left-click a wedge to target them.
• On first login the addon turns on the game’s Mouseover Cast option so hovering works, and tells you in chat. You can change it under Options > Combat, or turn off Mouseover Healing in the addon’s settings.

Make it yours

• Drag it anywhere, and resize it from 90 to 420 pixels.
• Recolor every class, resource, class pet, low-health, shield, incoming-heal and target color.
• Pick a border: Steel, Iron, Silver, Gold or Brass.
• Set border and player color opacity separately.
• Turn pet wedges and resources on or off for each class.
• On retail, tick Secondary for a class to show its combo points, holy power, soul shards, chi, arcane charges, essence or runes in place of its main power.

Commands

Good to know

• WoW locks mouseover targets during combat. If the party changes mid-fight, wedges may shuffle by party position until combat ends, but each wedge always shows who a hover would hit.
• The circle can’t be dragged during combat, and size changes apply when combat ends.
• A low-health wedge stays red until the player recovers to 50%. When the game hides party health from addons, it follows the 33% line both ways instead.
• Instant heals have no cast, so they don’t show an incoming-heal band.
• On retail, the game may not report other players’ secondary resources. If a class with Secondary ticked shows an empty band, untick it.