OutOfHealz: Survivability Assistant

OutOfHealz: Survivability Assistant

OutOfHealz is a lightweight combat survivability assistant designed to help players recognize dangerous situations before they become preventable deaths.

Originally created as a healer-range warning addon, OutOfHealz now combines positioning awareness, low-health detection, and actionable consumable reminders.

The goal is simple:

Warning → Recommendation → Guidance

OutOfHealz is not intended to replace encounter addons, rotation helpers, or player decision-making. It focuses specifically on survivability information that can help you react before things go wrong.

Features

Healer Range Awareness

While in combat, OutOfHealz checks whether a healer is detected within range and provides escalating visual warnings when you move too far away.

Warnings progress from:

• OUT OF HEAL RANGE
• STILL OUT OF HEAL RANGE
• IF YOU DIE, IT'S YOUR FAULT

Optional sound alerts provide additional feedback.

Low Health Warning

OutOfHealz includes a configurable low-health warning.

You can:

• Enable or disable it independently
• Select a threshold between 10% and 75%
• Use it alongside healer-range warnings
• Restrict warnings to party and raid instances

Health Potion Reminder

When you fall below your configured health threshold, OutOfHealz can recommend an available Health Potion.

The reminder:

• Detects supported Health Potions in your inventory
• Checks availability and cooldown state
• Displays the actual item icon
• Provides an item tooltip
• Supports secure click-to-use functionality during combat

Healthstone Reminder

OutOfHealz can also recommend an available Healthstone.

Supported resources include:

• Healthstone
• Demonic Healthstone

Demonic Healthstones are prioritized when available.

Healthstone availability and cooldown state are tracked independently from Health Potions, allowing either or both resources to appear when appropriate.

Consumable Reminder Cluster

Health Potion and Healthstone reminders are displayed together as a movable survivability cluster.

The cluster:

• Maintains consistent spacing across UI scales
• Can be repositioned
• Saves its position
• Supports reset and unlock controls
• Allows Potion and Healthstone recommendations to operate independently

Configuration

OutOfHealz integrates directly with Blizzard's AddOns Settings interface.

Current settings include:

• Sound Alerts
• Instance Only
• PvP setting
• Low Health Warning
• Low Health Threshold
• Health Potion Reminder
• Healthstone Reminder
• Warning Scale

PvP-specific behavior remains under development.

Commands

Use /ooh or /outofhealz.

Common commands include:

• /ooh config
• /ooh unlock
• /ooh lock
• /ooh reset

Current Development

Future development is focused on turning survivability warnings into increasingly useful recommendations.

Planned areas include:

• Resource-aware survivability recommendations
• Defensive cooldown reminders
• Smarter warning escalation and prioritization
• Class and specialization-aware behavior
• Role-aware recommendations
• Improved configuration preview and positioning
• WoW Edit Mode integration research
• Additional healer-positioning guidance where permitted by the WoW API

Known Notes

OutOfHealz uses secure action buttons so Health Potions and Healthstones can be clicked during combat.

Due to WoW combat-lockdown and secret-health restrictions, consumable click regions cannot be dynamically enabled or disabled based on health while combat is active. Position the consumable reminder cluster somewhere that does not interfere with important UI elements or world interaction.

Regular Healthstone functionality has been validated in live gameplay, including combat use, cooldown behavior, independent triggering, and inventory depletion.

Demonic Healthstone support is implemented but has not yet received the same level of live testing.

Feedback

Bug reports, feature suggestions, and feedback are always welcome.

Credits

Created by QueerSquid.

Special thanks to Treesnake-Dalaran for helping provide Healthstones for development and testing.

Built for PvE players who occasionally forget healers exist until it is already too late.