Comments on: VuhDo is da bomb for healing

By: theSwede

theSwede — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:20:19 +0000

In the HealBot settings there is a button to reload UI. Click it and HealBot loads properly

By: Dave(redbowl-draka)

Dave(redbowl-draka) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:33:06 +0000

Matojo –

With Clique you can shut off target and player frames(with two clicks in the “frames” list, surprised you didn’t find it), and just leave raid/grid frames up. I never cast by clicking a target frame anyway, so it presents no problem, as the player is already listed in grid.

I’m not against VuhDo at all, I just feel you can get far more functunatility out of Grid+Clique, but you have to be willing to spend 20 minutes setting it up, and tweaking things here and there for a few weeks. Grid is most certainly not user friendly out of the box, but the amount of customization that is available is great, and makes it so any class can get a lot of information from Grid quickly. (I even use it for tanking/raid leading now). Clique out of the box is perfect. You open the spell window, click the Clique tabs, and click on the spells with the clicks you want(i.e. Shift left click nourish, and it’s set to shift left click), you do this with all the spells you want bound and you are done.

By: Lamy

Lamy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:09:23 +0000

Matojo: the mouse-click functionality of VuhDo only works on the VuhDo healing bars, so clicking on normal player/target/party bars will have normal behavior (target, leave group, etc). Also, with VuhDo you can bind any mouse button or keystroke to “target” or “menu” for similar functionality on the VuhDo bars too.

By: Rayvynn

Rayvynn — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:48:58 +0000

I’d never even heard of this one! I’m not a fan of Grid, and in all honesty, I’m getting sick of all the glitches I’ve been having with HealBot (along with it reacting negatively with other addons). VhuDo sounds perfect to replace my X-Perl raid frames AND healing addon in one! :) Thanks bear, err, I mean, tree!

By: Matojo

Matojo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:16:28 +0000

I used to use Clique + xPerl, got rather sick of having to unbind my clicks in order to leave a party or target somebody, and switched to mouseover macros. My response time is a little slower but I’m not constantly cursing at Clique.

With that said, does VuhDo have an “easy” way to shut it off for when you’re not in HealMode, that you’ve found? The arrangement of the windows kinda makes me wanna try this thang out (and get a decent gaming mouse).

By: Sah

Sah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:55:43 +0000

I’ve got to remember to check this one out if I get back into the game. I’ve been using grid + mouseover-macros for some time now and liking it, but checking out another raid UI never hurts, it might be better (and setting up grid sure takes its time). I tried healbot for the sake of it but I didn’t like any of the options for tracking HoTs (less of a drawback with the changes to LB in 3.1 though).
What I like with grid is the fact that it’s simply practical. It’s nothing fancy but it sure does what it’s supposed to, it does it good and it does it exactly the way you told it to do it (as soon as you figured out how to tell it what you wanted done :) ).

When it comes to healing I’ve become a huge fan of rejuv lately and if it isn’t up to the job I top off with a regrowth and then adding LB and nourish as needed. That was for 5-mans. When healing a tank in a raid I try to have all of rejuv, regrowth and LB up and running from the pull until the fight is over. That said I once ran a timed CoS and most of the time rejuv was doing almost enough to keep the tank up by itself I just had to cast a regrowth in some cases and that’s about it. That sure was an overgeared tank :)

By: Ruune

Ruune — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:29:13 +0000

“Not a big fan of mouseover tools, but I need something to streamline raid healing, as my normal “I’ll do the MT, y’all figure out that multiple target stuff” has to be getting old with the rest of the healing crew.”

Lol, Twice, you are a pally, after all.

By: Lamy

Lamy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:42:42 +0000

For the record (in response to some of the above comments), VuhDo will show incoming heals, debuffs, and it looks like overheal now too. So there are no shortcomings in those areas in comparison to Healbot or Grid. I think the most significant difference between VuhDo and Healbot now is the buff monitoring system – VuhDo spins that into a separate module so you don’t get to see buffs next to the healing bars.

Also, regarding screen real estate, the VuhDo healing bars are entirely customizable. They can be scaled, resized, retextured, and given class colors, among many other options. The above screenshots show the out-of-the-box configuration, but that can be changed significantly if one chooses. The sample screenshots on Curse.com show a pretty good variety of aesthetic options for the VuhDo healing bars.

Anyway, nice write-up and I’m happy to see another person enjoying the mod. I’ve been using VuhDo for awhile now on my priest and I love it. Iza, the developer of VuhDo, has put in tons of work recently to add many useful features and continually improve the mod. It’s fun to see it grow both in usefulness and popularity.

By: Dave(redbowl-draka)

Dave(redbowl-draka) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:27:52 +0000

I could only find on SS from one of the first times I used grid, unfortunately with no hots up. You can see a tree on the meter above me who I watched quite a bit for some learning.

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By: Dave(redbowl-draka)

Dave(redbowl-draka) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:18:12 +0000

It’s looks really nice, but you described the one problem I have with it, it’s screen real estate. I use grid and clique which gives me all the same features(with a lot more work to set up granted, on grids end), but takes up a lot less room. Either way I love it…I want from being 3rd-4th on meters with lots of overheals to consistently doing top heals by several percent in most fights, with no overhealing.

I started healing recently, I find that now with a decent amount of haste(~350), regrowth is a great spell to drop, as it hits big up front, and leaves a long(almost 30 second) Swiftmendable hot on the target. It also has the benefit of dropping a living seed on your target if you crit, assuming you specced for it. The only other difference in my healing from yours is I like to drop Lifeblooms before Rejuvs, because Lifeblooms tick every second rather than every 3, so you get a much more instant heal, on top of that, you have the option of letting it bloom for a heal and mana back if the person stops taking damage, and just needs a little more health. Even better letting a full lifebloom stack bloom on a tank, get 1500 mana back, and mine crits for around 15k with mostly naxx25 gear.

looking up I guess I could say tl;dr, check Nozes comment minus healbot, because grid does all that stuff too.