Comments on: The Great Grid Project Results!

By: Benni

Benni — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:03:37 +0000

I’m using Grid and and it works pretty well for me. I would say that one of the biggest cons for me is when i have to move a lot when healing and is doing the raid healing.. Anyway I made this very ugly tutorial/guide on how to set up Grid and it can hopefully help out new users to get started: http://www.aocwiki.dk/tutorials/GridTutorial.html

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:21:08 +0000

Hi Eagle =)

I don’t think anyone is arguing that Grid is better than healbot or vice versa. Keeva’s post from her Grid/Healbot project actually says some really great things about healbot =)

I’ve not tried healbot so I don’t think that I’m qualified to make an assesment of it, I have only used Grid (x-perl prior to that), and Grid was a definate improvement over the x-perl/HoT Candy set up that I had before.

By: Eaglehsadow

Eaglehsadow — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:49:20 +0000

btw, check out this screenshot to see the proof that I see the HoT timers on each party member’s frame on healbot frames
http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp74/Eaglshadow/WoWScrnShot_061309_035104.jpg

By: Eaglehsadow

Eaglehsadow — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:46:31 +0000

What’s up with people saying that grid+clicke is better than healbot in a way that you can see the HoT timers on each party member’s frame. I see the HoT timers on each party member’s frame on healbot frames – maybe you just need to set it up correctly.

Also to the ones using grid only as raid frames used to select (Target) party memebers when they need to – healbot has that same funcionality, just keybind whatever mouse combination you want to a spell “target”. I myself use shift+middle click to target people on healbot if i have to.

By: Omegamoo

Omegamoo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:10:36 +0000

Definately consider the switch, Vuhdu can also be used with the squares as you like them and assigned in the corners. You would lose no functionality over a grid/clique setup but would gain the benifit of one update instead of two or more if you use the grid addons.

By: paeyty

paeyty — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:05:37 +0000

i have to say that healbot is way easier for me then Grid it was just to confusing to set up whereas heal bot is very simple and it also displays your hots on the characters health bar, it doesn’t take up much space it allows me to use a 5 button mouse settings along with the ctrl and alt button that allows more spells settings to the mouse buttons meaning i can cast whatever spell including abolish poison and GOTW buffs as often as i need to. Basically if you want something that is clear and easy to use I would recommend Healbot definitely.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:34:21 +0000

@Petal – I am glad to hear that! Let me know if you have any questions, and I will see if I can help you out! If not, I will at the very least get you directed in the right direction =)

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:32:37 +0000

Hi Omegamoo!

While grid doesn’t use hot bars, it does acutally use a timer/counter that very accruately counts down the time left on each hot. I have each HoT’s counter color coded so that I can tell which is which, as well as each one assigned to a specific corner in my frames. I really find this extremely effective.

I also pair grid with a mod called Clique (which I used long before grid), which assigns all of my actions to selected mouse key combinations.

I am very happy with grid right now, but I may check out Vuhdu when I have some free time as several people have commented on it =)

By: Omegamoo

Omegamoo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:21:58 +0000

Forgot to say, all you cons you listed are solved by Vuhdu.

By: Omegamoo

Omegamoo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:19:18 +0000

As a tree myself, I can vouch for the uberness of Vuhdu. This mod IS grid done right. I can easily setup a grid like interface with hot icons or squares and add raid icons etc. But the thing grid was lacking is what Vuhdu provides… Hot bars for each of my hots in the color I choose. Another great feature is the ability to assign a plethora of click/scroll actions to the frames ( I use right click as swiftmend, etc). Like grid, it’ll take some time to setup, but unlike grid the setup ui is very friendly and understandable.