I fail at GridFollow

You realize you aren't wearing any pants, right?

That said, I don't have a whole lot of Grid experience myself, I'll recommend the videos about setting up grid by Aliena, Tankspot's healing leader. She does a really good job at clearly explaining what's what, and you get the added bonus of boobies her voice over soothing background music (though the boobies still go for Aeth, I guess). I wouldn't at all be surprised if she can resolve your colouring problem. The tankspot site is currently down so I can't look up the movie for you =(.

Loud noises.

I'll heal something tomorrow on my priest and take a screenie.

She needs to go to that crazy discotek know as ICC any way.

Daddy needs more Primordial Saronite for some shoes and that ***** best earn her keep. ;p

It likely wont help but here is my current healer UI.

Recount is only there in heroics, it is hidden in a raid.

DBM bar style? The faded look matches. Just clashes since it is so close to Recount. Would be more of a fix how Recount looks.

The ones on the right side are there so I remember the keybinds. The left side bar should be hidden in combat, I have been meaning to fix it.

Fading the action bars is something I have been meaning to do and keep forgetting.

I like Grid there. Easier to use than at my feet since my bars are there.

I could go map top left and swing Grip to a horizontal config and shift my bars down an inch or so but I like Grid on the right. Makes it easy to check my target.

Could also swing map top left, put focus (which I don't use) about where the bars are while shifting bars down. But then I would have to rewrite a shart load of macros.



edit: also see through is win. as can see through the UI to stuff I shouldn't stand in.

Edited, Jan 25th 2010 6:42am by Horsemouth

Could be, I'll try and check it out. I definitely know Recount clashes like a gay guy in biker bar.

I don't use Grid, but would like to cast my vote in general favor of pants.

I'm a fan of transparency. Pitbull shows me 90% opacity on anyone in range AND in combat. Everyone else gets varying degrees of less. Right now my toolbars show 100% because I just got a new keypad and can't find a goddamned thing, but usually I keep them at 20%. The non-combat stuff like the menu and whatnot are always visible only by mouseover, as are my buff frames. I keep my minimap and chat visible all the time, although I have no idea why, now that I mention it.

Okay that is awesome.

I also use a ruler.

See through UI for the win?

Oh Oh Oh, more questions!

1) Can I change the master opacity* of grid? I need this, and so does Aeth. If there is no possibility, I'll set out to make my own raid frame addon and probably fail miserably.


Also, how can I make Grid show the tank's CD's? How can I make anything show them? I'm not even happy with how my own are displayed, but this is really interesting.


*or, in Aeth's case, make everything completely transparent apart from the borders/indicators.

Edited, Jan 25th 2010 8:14pm by Kalivha

^
What he said. I also need to find a way to display this kind of stuff on my interface, I guess...

Also;


Pally
-Righteous Fury
-Divine Protection
-Hand of Protection
-Holy Shield
-Divine Sacrifice

Death Knight
-Frost Presence
-Icebound Fortitude
-Anti-Magic Shell
-Vampiric Blood (Blood only)
-Lichborne (Frost only)
-Unbreakable Armor (Frost only)
-Anti-Magic Zone (Unholy only)
-Bone Shield (Unholy only) (I suggest you look it up before making a final decision here)

Druid
-Dire Bear Form (I suppose it goes a bit far to even mention this)
-Survival Instincts
-Barkskin
-Thorns
-Frenzied Regeneration

That would be a list of everything even remotely interesting to track on those 3 classes. Bold abilities are actual 'panic buttons', stuff with a cooldown of 1 minute or longer, and italic abilities are self-buffs that a tank should be keeping up whenever possible - some of these (like frost presence) might be dandy to keep an eye out for in PUGs.

Edited, Jan 25th 2010 11:14pm by Mozared

One other cd to keep track of is Forbearance, actually a debuff.

I have my bottom icon on Grid set to pop up all the major cooldowns listed above. I really don't pay attention to what they are, it is more knowing when they are up so I can prepare for when they fall off. Forbearance stays up for quite a while, so I have it priortized very low.

I think Pitbull has a way of "shining" a frame depending on if it has an aura. I know you can add debuffs for dispelling to cause this, probably can add tanks cds there to give you a general alert when they hit their panic buttons, maybe give it an alternative "shine"?

Alright, now that I finally got my PC back I can share some screenshots of my UI (which is still somewhat WIP as I fix the final details, mind you).

This is what it looks like in 'standby' mode, when nothing is going on. The chatwindow disappears entirely if nothing is being said.

This is what my interface currently looks like in 10-man raids (pic's literally still hot). Let me explain what you see.
First is the additional portrait that came up; that and the health/resource bars above it represent my target. The range check in the middle, buffs left and right of the portraits and naming of the target is all IceHUD. If a target of target exists, it pops up in a small green bar just below the naming of the target (the part that says "Bruhahe 80 Tauren Druid <In Meus Pardus>").

The little bubble below those red letters is my ProMtracker, which keeps track of the amount of charges I have left on Prayer of Mending, along with it's current target.

The red glow you see all around pops up when my current target is afflicted by Weakened Soul if I'm in disc spec, which allows me to easily keep track of who can be shielded and who can't. The red letters show the remaining duration of the debuff on the target. The little white hippocratus staff shows me the cooldown on Prayer of Mending, and it disappears if ProM is off cooldown. In a similar fashion, a white cross appears to the left of where the staff is located which shows me the cooldown on Penance (or CoH, if I'm holy). All of this is PowerAuras.

The actual raid interface is all Pitbull4. I did actually end up removing the portraits the bars used to have this very raid, as I felt more comfortable without them. These frames (which I like to call 'cards' myself) only show my buffs which allows me to easily keep track of who I have renewed, graced, or what-have-you. The cards highlight when there's a buff I can dispel (blue highlight for magic, greenish for diseases), and stuff like "party leader", "loot master" and "PvP enabled" all appear on some spot near the sides of the card . Ready check checkmarks or crosses appear all across the middle of the cards allowing me to easily see who has pressed what without having to return to the party menu.

The larger card on top ('Kyunar') is my focus card; in my previous UI I used to have the group of MTs along with their target's target up there, so I could effectively keep track of all of them and in the same go keep track of who the boss was targeting, allowing me to do preventive shielding better in case someone got aggro or simply to better keep track of taunt rotations. I might change this back as I'd probably prefer the old setup over just the focus card I have right now, but I'll need to do a 25-man raid to test that out.

This last pic shows you what my setup would be as holy in addition to showing how I track my cooldowns.
The cross and staff I had as disc are now yellow and the cross tracks Circle of Healing instead of Penance. The glow you see over my character indicates I have a Surge of Light proc, and the big Serendipity icon helps me keep track of Serendipity; this icon starts of tiny and transparant at one stack, grows and becomes more thorough with two stacks and ends up like the way you see it there when I have three stacks. Additionally, the 'cards' at the bottom track my longer cooldowns for me, while another row with shorter (less important) cooldowns like Holy Fire and Mind Blast is situated in between that row and ProMtracker.

I've hidden all my bars, but have an accessible bar on the right side of the screen that appears on mouseover and holds potions, healthstones, and other in combat stuff. A small bar below that holds spells I couldn't hotkey (Mind Vision, Ressurection, Pantsroll), and my bagbar is hidden in similar fashion on the left - just below the minimenu that allows me to keep track of FPS and addon memory used (which is unlike you might assume, surprisingly low; 22 mb in standby mode and 34 in busy raids - and up to 14 of that is Recount).


Which effectively leaves me wanting the two things I've mentioned earlier in that other thread about UI's;
-A way to track debuffs like Marrowgar's Bone Spike on raid members, preferably with a highlight.
-A way to track tank cooldowns more effectively. I'd like to see some kind of effect on the main tank frames if they put up Shield Wall or Divine Protection.