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New Grid Setup in Action

November 19th, 2009 3 comments

Well I turned off my DotTimer last night and used my new grid setup for the first time, and here’s the resulting screen. So yeah I am pretty happy with the end result, the larger and ‘bunched’ indicators presented the information I needed quickly and easily without needing to take my eyes off of my [...]

Some Grid Changes

November 17th, 2009 3 comments

Well I’ve been having problems sleeping so I thought I would use this extra time awake I have to play with Grid. I currently use DoTimer to keep a better track of my hots but I really want to get to the point that I only need grid for this. To that end I have [...]

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Addon Guide: DoT Timer

October 18th, 2009 No comments

After posting my last UI I was asked to provide details of my configuration, I thought that it would be easier if I just linked my configuration file. Go to your WTF\Account\accountname\SavedVariables folder and look for DoTimer.lua and replace it with the following file; DoTimer.lua

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Addon Review: Skada – Recount Alternative or Killer?

September 27th, 2009 No comments

Well I finally took the plunge and dropped Recount. Their were a couple of reasons why but Performance and Usage were the two that sunk the Recount Boat.

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Further Grid Configuration

September 2nd, 2009 No comments

Well I recently helped out a guildy with getting Grid setup and running and thought I would post a little more details of my current setup Obviously core component is Grid, which has been specifically designed to be extendable via addon modules so here is the list of my current addon modules for Grid Grid_QuickHealth [...]

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Addon Review: OPie

July 8th, 2009 5 comments

All in all the module is a great idea, well developed and I have deleted Autobar completely. It meets by requirements and has that wow-cool factor I like sometimes haha

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Battle of the Healing Frames

July 5th, 2009 3 comments

I don’t think I could count the number of times I’ve seen; “What’s better grid or healbot”, “is healbot crap” type posts on forums, so I thought I would write up a bit of a review of each. Now as you would know I have been using Grid since I have been healing but I [...]

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Updated User Interface

June 22nd, 2009 2 comments

Well it’s been a while since I posted my UI, so I thought I would take the time to write up some of the changes I’ve made and a quick overview of what I have built my ui the way I have. As you can see my objective for my ui is to create a [...]

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Addon Review: ForteXorcist

June 16th, 2009 4 comments

I really like the idea of this addon, I was previously looking for a way to show me which spells where available and not on cooldown; Wild Growth, Swiftmend etc. I found ForteXorcist over the weekend and the idea is great, the mod looks great and it does what it says it does http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7532-ForteXorcistForteWarlock.html I [...]

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Addons: Equipment Manager Enhancements

June 16th, 2009 2 comments

The new(ish) Blizzard Equipment Manager is fine, the reality though is it is missing some of the key features that other outfitters have/had. Although i’m a bit of an addon junky I do prefer to use standard features where possible. When outfitter announced they would not be developing (that may have changed again since but [...]

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