Comments on: My Interface http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2007/09/19/my-interface-plus-a-another/ Practical advice for World of Warcraft healers and leaders Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:13:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Masato http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2007/09/19/my-interface-plus-a-another/comment-page-1/#comment-3802 Masato Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:14:54 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2007/09/19/my-interface-plus-a-another/#comment-3802 Nice stuff. However, could use a little tweaking. Omen >> KTM Omen is backwards compatible with KTM, so you'll get the feed from other raid members and they will see yours even if using different threat meters. Biggest difference between the two though, is that you can separate the mob aggro (assuming the mobs have different names). Take trash pulls for example. KTM is USELESS against larger trash packs. With omen, you can switch between the aggro on each mob in the pull so you never have to guess if you're going to pull off the tank. It's not perfect, but it's a vast improvement over KTM. Get Grid. It is amazingly customizable. Basically what it is, is a grid with everyone in the raid. You can have it show HP deficiency, mana pool, buffs, debuffs, timers, all sorts of stuff. When I heal (tree-druid) I have mine set to show the lifebloom timer, and the color changes for every stack on the player. This makes it infinitely easier to keep a rolling stack on 2-3 tanks while spot healing the raid. I used to watch Natur but with tons of buffs/debuffs going on the numbers get lost. I also have an icon flash up on the player's box if they get poisoned/cursed for ease of curing, and also an indicator if a heal is incoming from someone. What I like about it best, is that all of my heals are macros to cast on mouseover. So with grid I can heal multiple targets as fast as the GCD is up without having to click a thing. There are many other ways to customize grid to your own liking, but once it's set, chances are you'll love it (it will also replace your ctraid bars on the left, and pretty much render your party icons useless too). Also amazing for PvP healing; never having to untarget an opponent that you've root/cyclone on, to heal your teammates. Probably a ton more I've missed, but you get the basics. Nice stuff.
However, could use a little tweaking.
Omen >> KTM
Omen is backwards compatible with KTM, so you’ll get the feed from other raid members and they will see yours even if using different threat meters. Biggest difference between the two though, is that you can separate the mob aggro (assuming the mobs have different names). Take trash pulls for example. KTM is USELESS against larger trash packs. With omen, you can switch between the aggro on each mob in the pull so you never have to guess if you’re going to pull off the tank. It’s not perfect, but it’s a vast improvement over KTM.

Get Grid. It is amazingly customizable. Basically what it is, is a grid with everyone in the raid. You can have it show HP deficiency, mana pool, buffs, debuffs, timers, all sorts of stuff. When I heal (tree-druid) I have mine set to show the lifebloom timer, and the color changes for every stack on the player. This makes it infinitely easier to keep a rolling stack on 2-3 tanks while spot healing the raid. I used to watch Natur but with tons of buffs/debuffs going on the numbers get lost. I also have an icon flash up on the player’s box if they get poisoned/cursed for ease of curing, and also an indicator if a heal is incoming from someone. What I like about it best, is that all of my heals are macros to cast on mouseover. So with grid I can heal multiple targets as fast as the GCD is up without having to click a thing.

There are many other ways to customize grid to your own liking, but once it’s set, chances are you’ll love it (it will also replace your ctraid bars on the left, and pretty much render your party icons useless too). Also amazing for PvP healing; never having to untarget an opponent that you’ve root/cyclone on, to heal your teammates. Probably a ton more I’ve missed, but you get the basics.

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