$target(hp,max) v. $target(hp,pct)

[endymion]

Can anyone help me with this? has anyone noticed that if you try to use /g $target(hp,max) it only returns a percent value unless you're targeting yourself? is there any way to let my group know what my targets max HP is?

Here's my hotkey that Im trying to make it work on....

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/echo >>scanning $target(name,clean)
/echo >>$target(name,clean): LEVEL- $target(level) HP- $target(hp,max) CLASS- $target(class)
/g >>$target(name,clean): LEVEL- $target(level) HP- $target(hp,max) CLASS- $target(class)

Groups seem to like the level / class thing cos it lets them know if the creature is a caser and about what level it is....now if only i could get the HP thing to work.... any help would be much appreciated.

[wassup]

There isn't a way to get the actual HP of your target other than yourself.

[Gumby]

Run a DPS parser, even the DPS plugin for MQ.

Excepting when group members are using dots, you can get a fairly decent idea of the mob's total HP based upon the report output if you enable all the battle spam. It'll be off by some factor of the last hit (4k nuke killing a mob that only had 1k HP left for example), but trended across enough mobs in an exp grind, you can get a pretty good estimate.

Failing that I suppose you could track instant in time changes of the client's target screen with damage done but it'd require more effort than it's worth given near duplicate functionality has already been created.

You could also probably do a web search to find the mobs you're looking for; a lot of data used to be available on old world mobs for HP info, there are probably updates for the newer content as well.

G