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svirve
grid is very lightweight pure awesomejuice if you ask me.
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Proky
I am trying to organize my UI.I got all "must" addons for a holy paladin (Pallypower, classtimers, DBM, recount etc.) but I have to arrange my action bars and raid frames.Every healer must have the screen clear to heal well in a raid.I am looking for a handy addon packet to maximize my performance. I also need something with style and not so "heavy".I would appreciate it, if you could link some screenshots of your UI in raids and solo.Or to list some addons that would help me.You can also call any other healing specialized addon.
must addon recount? recount is useless :)
and for healing you have two options: grid+clique or healbot i recommend healbot, but for first time you must setup it, but after it, its peace of cake with it, someone preffer grid+clique i preffer healbot
try both and choose one which suits you more
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Wizerd
I am trying to organize my UI.I got all "must" addons for a holy paladin (Pallypower, classtimers, DBM, recount etc.) but I have to arrange my action bars and raid frames.Every healer must have the screen clear to heal well in a raid.I am looking for a handy addon packet to maximize my performance. I also need something with style and not so "heavy".I would appreciate it, if you could link some screenshots of your UI in raids and solo.Or to list some addons that would help me.You can also call any other healing specialized addon.
must addon recount? recount is useless :)
and for healing you have two options: grid+clique or healbot i recommend healbot, but for first time you must setup it, but after it, its peace of cake with it, someone preffer grid+clique i preffer healbot
try both and choose one which suits you more
This is mostly true. There is a third option if you like using the keyboard for actions and the mouse simply for movement+targeting, and that's mouseover macros. It uses the same idea as Grid+Clique, the difference being instead of clicking when your mouse gets to the right target, you hit a key.
It gives you more options in terms of what to use on the target without having to hold a modifier key.
Grid can also be replaced with any of the unit frames out there such as Pitbull, Xperl, if you like having actual information of your choosing present on the screen without it being little colored boxes that you have to decode. Clique should work with any of these as well.
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Wizerd
nobody ever mentions visualheal
look it up people. spread the word!
visualheal puts another bar just beneath your cast bar, and overlays onto health bars, and shows exactly how much of the targets health will be healed, other peoples incoming heals and the time until the heal hits.
This is an option with Pitbull, which is why I mentioned raid frames other than Grid. Grid also shows that there is a heal incoming on the player as far as I know (but not how much).
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pezz
Bartender is a nice one for sorting out your action bars. It gives a bit more room for looking at what's actually going on in a raid instead of at your spells.
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Wizerd
Grid also shows that there is a heal incoming on the player as far as I know (but not how much).
I've never tried visualheal though (never even heard of it). Are there any benefits relative to other raid frames? I would try it if it offered something I didn't already have. However, if it doesn't give anything extra, I'd rather not go through the trouble of setting up an entirely new raid frame addon if I can avoid it (i.e. the same reason I haven't swapped over to Pitbull).
As far as I know, VisualHeal just gives incoming heal amounts an approximate graphic. Pitbull (and I guess Grid and the others) use its library to get the same result. It doesn't add anything that the current raid frames don't have, I don't think.
I didn't know Grid showed incoming heal amounts. I still find it too small though. I do quick math in my head with the full numbers to figure out how much I need to heal properly (whether reactive or proactive+canceling if no damage taken). Having the entire "22312/41105" in front of me gives me a better idea of what to cast than a small square with a name and a bar half filled.
I think Grid's concept is awesome, I just can't get my head around not having all the info in front of me. Heh.
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Wizerd
Every time a cool video comes out like the recent Algalon one, I get inspired to try Grid again but can never set it up to my liking. Maybe I'll get it working this time. <_< I just tend to latch onto the information overload from Pitbull, despite it possibly getting in the way.
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Wizerd
Ive actually found that grid gives me more information, more pertinent information, more convenient, and more flexible to suit the needs you may have as a holy pally.
Things like being able to configure grid to see non-standard debuffs like napalm shells on Mimiron and you can set it to flag in any way you like..... its just Gods gift to healers in WoW.
For what its worth there are a lot of tutorial vids on how to set it up, as well as articles, go google it and you'll get all the help you need.
I know how to set it up, that's not the problem (for the most part anyway). It's more about finding my personal taste with the way I set it up.
I do have one question though; you mention non-standard debuffs, can you do the same with buffs? What I mean is can you set specific buffs to show up as those little dots in one of the corners? My reason for this is mainly Sacred Shield and Beacon of Light, but it would also be nice to have mini indicators of the Blessings without using the cruddy clunkiness that is PallyPower (someone really has to redo that Addon's UI completely).\
Edit: Alright, I went out of my way to find more info about Grid. Do all of you just use PallyPower anyway, or do you have something you do with Grid to track Pally buffs? The missing buffs thing won't work since you buff different things depending on the situation. :(
Edit2: More questions now that I'm trying to set it up again! As default, it came with a darker class color as filled health, and the lighter class color as the deficit. I'd like to use the lighter class color as the current health, a black or close-to-black color as the HP deficit, and the darker class color as the actual deficit amount, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of coloring options in this config. :/ Not even something as simple as a background opacity (and I don't mean the grid background frame).
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Wizerd
I checked every nook and cranny for the coloring stuff.
I ended up settling on getting the third text line thing and just using the first (top) and third (middle), with the mana bar along the bottom, and I used a different bar texture so the text over the filled part of the bar vs the black part of the bar was still readable.
Whoever decided that the text color and the (inverted) HP class color should be the *same* color, I wonder about. There's no option to darken the text (without it being black - like I want Shaman's names to be darker blue, Paladin's names to be a darker pink, etc). Anyway, I appear to have *coloring* down, now to work out the rest and see if I like it, again.
Thanks for the help. ;) Maybe I'll be a grid advocate after all.
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