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Old 11/25/10, 5:50 PM   #766
Nym the Resto
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Druid
 
Quel'dorei
keybound/click based ui

Throughout leveling, I loved healbot, and then later transitioned to Vuhdo. After joining a less casual (still not 'hardcore') raiding guild, I was prompted into making a change and swapped to Grid. I've gotten used to grid now, but as of late, I've noticed GridStatusLifebloom seems out of commission, as well as having other problems with error messages and such. I am considering swapping back to Vuhdo, but not only is that swapping my primary healing frames, but also swapping from keybound to click based again. I was wondering, out of other druids, who all has used both methods and their opinions of each?

Also, in a separate question, I've found that I like having a basic raid frame in addition to my healing one- to show myself, target, focus, etc. With a 15.5" laptop with limited capability in memory, being a few years old, I am constantly torn between pitbull and x-perl. I've been using pitbull and configuring it is a pain in my posterior, but is x-perl as useful for individual frames? I know that it has good party and raid based groupings, but not sure on individual, and was wondering if, like the previous question, could explain their preferences and why?

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Old 11/25/10, 7:47 PM   #767
Greentouch
Piston Honda
 
Tauren Druid
 
Kel'Thuzad
I use Shadowed unit frames myself so I don't know. Its extremely customizable, I really can't imagine any reason to switch. A lot of people in my guild complained around 4.0 about xpearl or pitbull, but SUF has performed for me through all the patches with no hiccups.

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Old 11/28/10, 2:10 PM   #768
molemole
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Druid
 
Stormrage (EU)
Anyone know what addon the cooldown timer is above the target frame is in Hamlet's UI please?

Really would like to try it out

Thanks

Physis

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Old 11/28/10, 11:53 PM   #769
Silentdeathz
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Tauren Druid
 
Ragnaros (EU)
Quick question here for Hamlet;

YouTube - Cataclysm Raid Test: Bastion of Twilight, Twin Dragons

Which addon is it you're using to track your lifebloom (bar) above ur raid frame?

Can said addon track other things such as your cyclones and what not, like natur enemy castbar used to in TBC?

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Old 11/29/10, 4:41 AM   #770
oopsminded
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Night Elf Druid
 
Neptulon (EU)
@Silentdeadthz - He's probably using HotCandy.

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Old 11/29/10, 12:18 PM   #771
grutak
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Tauren Druid
 
Zul'Jin
Originally Posted by Nym the Resto View Post
Throughout leveling, I loved healbot, and then later transitioned to Vuhdo. After joining a less casual (still not 'hardcore') raiding guild, I was prompted into making a change and swapped to Grid. I've gotten used to grid now, but as of late, I've noticed GridStatusLifebloom seems out of commission, as well as having other problems with error messages and such. I am considering swapping back to Vuhdo, but not only is that swapping my primary healing frames, but also swapping from keybound to click based again. I was wondering, out of other druids, who all has used both methods and their opinions of each?

Also, in a separate question, I've found that I like having a basic raid frame in addition to my healing one- to show myself, target, focus, etc. With a 15.5" laptop with limited capability in memory, being a few years old, I am constantly torn between pitbull and x-perl. I've been using pitbull and configuring it is a pain in my posterior, but is x-perl as useful for individual frames? I know that it has good party and raid based groupings, but not sure on individual, and was wondering if, like the previous question, could explain their preferences and why?
I haven't had any grid errors in weeks. There are two things you could try. If you use the Curse addon manager, you can try changing the release type of the addon from "release" to "beta", by right clicking on the specific addon you are having problems with. I know that worked for several addons after 4.0.1 came out, but I don't remember if GSLifebloom was one of them. Also, you might need to manually edit the Lua file. Do a search on the specific error and see if there is any recent chatter about it. Some times you can find a quick fix or copy/paste.

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Old 11/29/10, 11:40 PM   #772
Phaedrusxx
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Night Elf Druid
 
Turalyon
Originally Posted by molemole View Post
Anyone know what addon the cooldown timer is above the target frame is in Hamlet's UI please?

Really would like to try it out

Thanks

Physis
Originally Posted by Silentdeathz View Post
Quick question here for Hamlet;

YouTube - Cataclysm Raid Test: Bastion of Twilight, Twin Dragons

Which addon is it you're using to track your lifebloom (bar) above ur raid frame?

Can said addon track other things such as your cyclones and what not, like natur enemy castbar used to in TBC?
both are fortexorcist.

eta - there are a lot of warlock specific parts of that addon, but the cooldown timer and spell timer are fantastic for any class.

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Old 11/30/10, 12:08 AM   #773
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Mal'Ganis
In my videos, the all-in-one cooldown bar is SexyCooldown and the Lifebloom timer is HotCandy. Both are pretty common functionality though, with various mods that do similar things.

I'm actually shifting away from the cooldown bar and am thinking of getting rid of it whenever I next change things around (more to do with Moonkin than Resto, although I'm not sure it's all that great for Resto either). The Lifebloom bar I recommend for anyone, it makes a lot more sense now than tracking LB only in your raid frames--with only one up at once it's nice to see when to refresh without having to look at individual frames.


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Old 11/30/10, 5:54 AM   #774
molemole
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Druid
 
Stormrage (EU)
Thanks for the reply Hamlet!

I like the cooldown bar to tell me when ToL or innavate is ready. But I tried sexycooldown and it displays neither no matter what settings I enable. What do other people use the track the longer cooldowns?

Thanks

Last edited by molemole : 12/02/10 at 12:47 PM.

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Old 11/30/10, 8:32 AM   #775
kittey
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Druid
 
Madmortem (EU)
As far as i know, SexyCooldown isnt updated for cata. You may want to take a look at the user made version posted by Apoco link

As an alternative, you can use the cooldown module of ForteXorcist to do the same thing.

On a sidenote:
To track the internal cd of Nature's Grace with the ForteXorcist Cooldown Bar, you can simply add the following line to the Forte_Druid.lua:

CD:RegisterHiddenCooldown(nil,61346,60); -- Nature's Grace
-> fixed 60 sec, so its not accurate when in moonkin spec

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Old 12/02/10, 11:24 AM   #776
Daisil
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Pandaren Monk
 
Illidan


Version 1 of my UI. Using Version2 now which is slightly different (No black bar across the bottom, items like the Panel Datatexts (gold, sp, etc) are revamped. I'll update a SS later. Available on WoWI

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Old 12/03/10, 10:54 PM   #777
Greentouch
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Tauren Druid
 
Kel'Thuzad
Does anyone have a good recommendation for an addon to maximize Nature's Grace uptime? The challenge of course is its an internal cd. Some kind of timer and preferable power aura type pop up would be preferred.

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Old 12/06/10, 6:15 AM   #778
kittey
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Druid
 
Madmortem (EU)
Originally Posted by Greentouch View Post
Does anyone have a good recommendation for an addon to maximize Nature's Grace uptime? The challenge of course is its an internal cd. Some kind of timer and preferable power aura type pop up would be preferred.
You may want to check out NeedToKnow (link) - it's able to track all kinds of cooldowns and the author recently added the option to reset cooldowns based on the presence of another buff (eclipse resetting NG cd for example).

If you never play moonkin, static cooldown trackers like ForteXorcist (setup) or ICDBars do the job just fine
As for PowerAuras, you can vote for the Feature Request to track internal Cooldowns at http://powerauras.wikispaces.com/

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Old 12/06/10, 6:59 AM   #779
Nihlo
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Tauren Druid
 
Alleria (EU)
Or maybe use Koko SpellOverlays to tune up the blizz-effects.

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