Juggy's Addons - Grid
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Juggynaut on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 15 Comments Tags: Addons, Addons, Raid, a tribute to addons, battleground, disease, dispel, grid, healing, poison
Juggynaut on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 15 Comments Tags: Addons, Addons, Raid, a tribute to addons, battleground, disease, dispel, grid, healing, poison 
This is the first of many features about addons I use in order to make Juggy the best shaman ever and Xenophontos a halfway decent warlock. Grid is an addon I used much more while I was resto and main healing, but it is still pretty useful even while I'm enhancement.An Ace addon, grid displays party and raid health bars in a compact form, and it gives loads of information using very little screen real estate. This means that at a glance, you can see how your raid is doing. By default, it displays each party member as a small square within a grid. I think that is where the name came from, but can we ever be sure?
One of the great included features of grid are the inverted health bars, meaning it fills up a dim box with color as the player loses health, making it easier to spot who needs healing in a large raid. There is also a built in range check that can automatically dim all player's boxes who are out of range. This feature is invaluable, since trying to heal players who are out of range can waste a lot of time. It's also a great feature for battlegrounds, allowing you to become top healer and help your side win. Lastly, my favorite feature of Grid is its use of the incoming heal module, which shows a visual estimate of any incoming heals on any target in the raid from anyone using Grid (or any other ace addon that has the incoming heal feature). If all of the healers use this addon, you can avoid a lot of overhealing. There are also border colors, center icon, and other corner icons that are configurable to show tons of different statuses of each player in the raid.
I do like to make a couple of tweaks to the defaults, though. I play on a relatively high resolution, and I find the default size of the squares too small. So, I scale it up in the options. As a shaman, I have two dispel options, poison and disease. The standard set up has all types of debuffs appear as a single mark in one corner of the player's box. I go in and change it so that magic debuffs and curses don't show up and poisons are in one corner while diseases are in another. That way I know which button to press or totem to drop in order to cure all of my party members. I also like to be able to see when Dorkins is going to run out of mana, so I've picked up GridManaBars. This takes a slice of the square and turns it into a mana bar. Imagine that! Most of the other options are fine for me on their default settings, but Grid is highly flexible, so play around and look at the documentation to find the settings that work best for you.
Reader Comments (15)
awsome, thanks for tip =)
this is great for my new healer I'm making, thanks for the info.
I've tried using GridManaBars in the past, but it's turned out to be a major resource hog -- at least on my system. I recommend playing with and without it to see if you notice a difference in framerate.
This addon combined with the addon "Clique" (cannot find a link on curse.com), makes healing very efficient, as you can bind heals to a key + mouseclick (for example I have Shift + Left Click as Greater Heal Rank 1), so I can mouseover the player in Grid, and Shift + Left Click to heal them :D
I would also recomend the program WoW Matrix to update your addons with. This program basically finds you Addons folder, scans if for all addons, and then compares that to its database and tell you if you need to update one.
http://www.wowmatrix.com/
I can't way to try this one out!
Thanks!
When I specced my Paladin for healing in battlegounds I had a look around and found a lot of people suggested this, and I found out why: it's simply perfect! I think I have set it up as the default, and I see immediately when people around me need heals. On my config, a full coloured bar is a healthy person and it becomes smaller (ie fills up with black) as health is lost. Also it gives a small text displaying how much health is lost (for example '1.2k') so I know exactly which heal to use. When I press my greater heal, it displays the amount that it will probably heal for (for example '+1.4k') and fills a part of the blacked out part with a half-black, half-class colour (eg pinkish gray for paladins). It also seems to take in account buffs like the that makes my next heal crit, so it's very reliable.
Furthermore it displays everything I can dispell right in the middle so I can see who around me I need do dispell.
Finally, for me it displays a little red dot in the upper right corner of a box when a player is in combat. When I see that red dot pop up, I know someone engaged in combat and I need to start healing him/her soon!
Personally I set it up with a macro which heals on mouseover (/cast [target=mouseover] Heal of Light, for example) because i didn't find clique that good. I just hover over a box, and press '1' or '2' to heal!
this mod is a lot likt Healbot which i use and think i would prefer as it does all u have mentioned, including the lickable casting mentioned on anothers comments. the only difference is the debuffing system in which u can set seperate colors instead of marking placement, and it also has a function to ignore irrelevant buffs also like str reduction on a priest for example lol.
I'd love to hear about any other Shaman-specific addons you use, especially those for enhancement. Also, I'd like to get those cool arc bars that Alex has on his rogue. What's it called? Thanks!
More incoming about my addons soon :) Alex's HUD is here http://sandbox.projectlore.com/blog/add-on-corner-part-1
Who doesn't luvs this add-on, I sure do!
yeah wow matrix is sweet
im looking for a warrior tank ui. joshua can you share yours plz?
I am a lvl 70 holy priest, and since I was in my late 50's I've been messing around with add ons to help better my healing. I wasn't too thrilled about Grid back then. Expecially when I hit 60 and started doing those raids back then.
But then suddenly out of all the heal helping add ons I found HealBot.
I'm a devoted fan. And all I have to say is. It's customizable so the player can make it how they want it. From the look of the bars, to the way they form on your screen, as wel as the typical where ever you want it. I'd say if anyhting. Check it sometime.
u know Nathan since 3.0.1 patch comes ,downranking has been changed.Now for example flash of light (Rank1) has the same mana cost with flash of light(Rank 4).
Healbot FTW!
I don't even need raid frames anymore.
It took my priest's healing game from noob to pwn in no time.