/target self drops HPs?
 

Whenever I do '/target <selfname>' my hps bounce to 50%, then back up. When I'm trying to macro a button to target self, heal, and retarget NPC, it's kind of frightening....

Is it a bug? A UI problem? Fixable? Just me?

I can confirm this isn't a UI only bug. Say I'm at 10hps, and I /target myself. My hps drop to 5. Let's then say that I get hit for 6 damage. I get knocked out, and then half a second later I'm back on my feet with 4 hps.

Is there a better way to macro the action "target me, heal me"?

Either way, wrong section of the forum.

I've asked a few people about this in game. It doesn't look like it's isolated to me and my client. Is it just that most people don't use /target to target themselves? Or do most people not have a good reason to target themselves wtih a macro?

Weird. I will look at it tomorrow, if I get a chance.

Haynar

Any update on this? It seems to be getting worse as I level. Right now, if I have 80% 228/427 hps. When I type '/target Driado' my hps drop to 12 for a full second, then bounce back up to 228.

This happens to me also when /targeting omni (damn you omniknight!)

For healing self on my cleric is just use tab, press my heal macro, then press tab again. I don't need to have a macro just to target myself and then heal. It seems inefficient (and lazy)

Isn't this a case of the client being wrong, but everything actually being fine? As in,your health was never actually 12, the client just thought so for a second. You were never in a risk of dying.

Also, is this related to, let's say you're fighting two mobs. One is as 100%, the other is at 50%. You're targeting the one at 50%. When you switch to the 100% one, the health will show at 50%, then animate up to 100%. When switching back to the 50% one, it'll animate down. It just immediately jump to the actual health. That's just how the client behaves.

Pretty sure the hp indicator is reading the health of what you were last targeting - that or some weird server to client lag.