[Zereh]

EQ has never had the ability to display healthbars for an entire raid a la WoW; best we do here is for a group. I think the raid window you're referring to basically just gave the raid leader the ability to easily create groups and then to move members from one group to another quickly. It also had the raid chat channel and I think that's when we started to earn "Raid AAs" as well.

You can set up a key to cycle through the closest PCs and one to cycle through the NPCs. It doesn't work perfectly (it seems like it only grabs those folks directly in front of you) but it is handy.

/assist healing is where it's at unless you're in a rotation or assigned to keeping someone specific alive ...

I have made /target <name> for all of the tanks, 'chanters, pullers and whoever else needs to be watched and I swap them out as needed. I have a key with /assist only on it. I click through who needs to be watched and I bounce through the aggro list(s) using /assist, then mash heal keys accordingly.

/shrug It's not pretty, but it works.