Does anyone, by chance, know how to use the GridAlert triggers? I know some of the things Grid can do, LIKE, I have boxes on the sides and corners in different colors for my different HoTs, but I can't make it put text anywhere on any Grid boxes or markers (other than the partial player's name). I also have it set up to show me missing Buffs and mana bars.

On Grid Alert (I think), there is a menu for triggers, but when you select any of the options under triggers, it provides you with an empty field and I have no idea what to type in there. I don't even really know what it does; I think that's the text thing (LB count, for example) but I'm not positive.

There are some other parts of the menu that I am just boggled as to what they do exactly, heh. Is there like a Grid Instruction Manual of some kind floating around that I just wasn't able to find in these forums?

wow, i didn't even know you could keep the names in while they have health deficit.

Theres an option to enable centre text 2, which is the 2nd line shown on his grid setup. You can also invert bar colors to make it even more obvious who's missing hp at a quick glance.

My current grid layout on my priest.



Using Grid, Grid Mana Bars and Grid My Hots.

I really think you're trying to do too much with your grid for your needs.

The incoming heal button only takes into account people using grid or sraidframes, which probably wont be every single healer in your raid, so as a non healer unless you're enforcing grid/sraid as a required mod, that indicator wont be much use.

Things that you'll actively use as a raidleader would be any encounter specific debuffs - things like insidious whisper on leo, static charge on vashj, even melted armor for al'ar would be handy to use as a maintank. You'll have to add these debuffs in manually, but you can go as simple as the rend on moroes, or amplify damage on prince, which depending on the intelligence of your raidgroup can be a very useful thing.

Colour coded debuffs on a corner icon sounds good in theory, but you really shouldnt be reminding people who can cure to cure.

I'd definitely reccomend you getting the manabar addon and missingbuffs (think it's called GridStatusMissingBuffs), and setting a centre icon to show when you're out of combat. I personally found that I missed out on seeing xraidstatus missing buffs because it was an addon that i'd scaled down and tucked out of the way, and no matter what peramaters I set for my multiple mana status bars, there was just never specific enough information when you really need it.

Personally I have the following basic setup for Grid...

Top Center Text: Name
Bottom Center Text: Health deficit, as well as dead/offline/etc
Center Icon: Curable Debuffs (Unstable Affliction configured as a highest priority to display here so I know not to dispel when it's up)
Top Left Corner: Aggro
Top Right Corner: Color coded debuffs (Just for generic information whether it's a poison or whatnot so I know who else can potentially remove it; curses I've set as highest priority for this because I can't remove those myself and it's still interesting to know about them being up)
Bottom Left Corner: Incoming healing indicator. Works well for us since most of the healers use Grid. I've also enabled the option which disables it showing for your own heals.
Bottom Right Corner: Encounter-specific non-curable debuffs. This also includes a few debuffs used by trash mobs, but it's mostly for boss encounters. Examples of debuffs included in this would be Static Charge, Water Tomb, Leo's Whirlwind debuff, etc.

This way it displays pretty much all information you could possibly need from your raid frames.

I have a question about the Encounter-Specific-Debuffs.

Yesterday I tried setting up "Icebolt" for the Rage Winterchill fight to show as center icon but it didn't work. Thought this could help the healers a little bit. Well, he went down nevertheless but we are still experiencing the odd Icebolt-Casualilty.

Is it not possible to show those One-Boss-Only debuffs as a center icon? Has Grid all Icons in its own data-files or does it load them dynamically from the WoW-archives? Or did I just make some mistake in setting this debuff up?

I didn't try it with other bosses but will do it in the next ID's.

You need to make sure that the ability is spelt correctly (and capitalised correctly, in this case 'Icebolt' is correct) as well as having it turned on in the right frame option (center icon). Then make sure that it's set up as a debuff, not as a buff, and is set to a relatively high priority (for something like that setting it to 99 is probably the best thing to do). It should just take the debuff icon from the debuff affecting them, rather than taking it from a file. I know people in the guild that have both Water Tomb and Watery Grave set up for Hydross and SSC, as well as Deadly Poison for Council, so it definitely works on "non-standard" debuffs/buffs.

Here is the list of custom debuffs for grid that I use beyond the standard ones provided in the Grid package. My guild is only on Kael'thas (3 of the phase 3 bosses down as of Monday night, stupid Mannoroth hardware upgrades), so it won't be as comprehensive as I'm sure some people's lists will be (the mention of "Deadly Poison" on the Illidari Council above). They are shaman skewed, since I can break sleeps/fears with tremors, but some of the additional ones may be useful as well.

To add a debuff to grid for watching, click on "Status -> Auras -> Add New Debuff". The debuffs are case sensitive, so you must remember to capitalize them properly. Then just place a check next to the debuff in the Center Icon listing to have it displayed. This can be done in combat as well, as long as it is spelled properly.



Anesthetic - Sleep from engineers in Mech (Tremor Totem removes it)
Bellowing Roar - Fear from mobs like Nef, Nightbane, and Sanguinar
Charmed - Demons in karazhan
Domination - Annoying mind control debuff in TK - good for druids to cyclone those crazy fury warriors who like to shred clothies during mind control
Entangle - many things but specifically the phase 1 & 3 AOE root that Lady Vashj does
Fear - self-explanatory
Howl of Terror - warlock fear (for pvp)
Insidious Whisper - Debuff received during Leotheras that spawns adds
Intimidating Roar - Fear from HKM
Intimidating Shout - Standard warrior fear
Melt Armor - Al'ar's debuff on the MTs
Mind Control - Self-explanatory
Remote Toy - Debuff from Engineer Kael'thas Advisor
Panic - Fear debuff from Striders on Vashj
Psychic Scream - standard priest fear
Saw Blade - Annoying debuff from demons in Void Reaver's room and from the Mech sub-bosses.
Sleep - self-explanatory
Static Charge - Debuff from Lady Vashj in phase 1 and 3
Vile Sludge - Nature Phase debuff during Hydross nature phase
Water Tomb - Ice Phase debuff during Hydross water phase
Watery Grave - Name of the teleport debuff given during the Morogrim fight
Whirlwind - Debuff people receive during Leotheras that ticks for 2k a tick or so if some idiot gets whirlwinded

While we're at the Council. Do you know what the debuff is called from that holy fire that is being thrown around? Didn't seem to be able to figure that one out for Grid.

Edit: nvm I found it

/bump?