Holy Raid Frames, Watson!!Follow

Grid + Clique = profit. Don't use raid frames, use grid. Its small, takes up relatively very little screen space, you can easily switch between raid members and it provides a wealth of data about debuffs, mana, health, and other things depending on how you set it up.

Pitbull is ridiculously customizeable. It doesn't sound like you've explored it very much. You'll need to spend a few hours with it, but you can tweak its raid frames to function similarly to Grid, and to be nearly as small (actually smaller, but you lose the ability to see what's actually going on with the party/raid member. I don't have a screenshot with raid frames handy, but my entire set of raid frames pops up in the left half of the space to the right of my ability buttons in this screenshot. Each raid frame is basically a tinier version of the party frames you see in that screencap.

Is Grid easier to set up for the same ease-of-use? Probably, but I'm masochistic and Pitbull is fun. ;-)

DEcursive 2.0 is available as an Ace addon. Works very nice.

I use healbot.

Not saying I am a major cog in the machine, but I heal (I believe in my humble opinion) as well or better than more geared pallies in the same raid.

One thing I would like to do is be able to target people and sort them a little easier, which healbot lacks (nameclick targeting / sorting). From this post it looks like grid + clique is where it's at. I'll check it out.

Don't undervalue healbot. It took at least a week to get the setting changes fluid to match the party size / event. Someone that tries it for a couple hours didn't spend enough time.

i used pitbull for a while, but i kept getting weird glitches where my whole player frame had the skin of the gift of the wild icon, or sometimes would turn all green. annoyed the hell out of me, then i got the watered down version ag_unitframes.