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VuhDo

Started by Daemus, Tue, 2009-06-30 : 10:38

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Daemus

Any healers using this mod?  I've never heard of it before until I stumbled across the plusheal.com forums a few days ago and they had a sticky on it.  Looks like it's gaining in popularity. 
I usually run with Grid/Clique, but this interests me.  Looks like it could take some time to config it correctly, but it seems like it could even be better then Grid or Healbot.  It's a little overwhelming to see 40 screen shots on the options/layouts  :o

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/vuhdo.aspx

A little snippet of what this bad boy can do:

What VuhDo Can Do

   1. Display all relevant informations about your raid members
          * Life,
          * Mana, other types of power
          * Debuffs
          * Range
          * Incoming Heal
          * Aggro
          * Threat
          * HoTs
          * Charmed status
          * PvP status
          * Tooltips (for race, class, level and current location)
          * Player Tags (such as afk, disconnected, dead)
   2. Casting
          * You can heal, decurse, target, assist or focus raid memers with just one click
          * You can bind any usable item and any macro to mouse clicks
          * You can assign up to 40 mouse click combinations to cast on raid members
          * You can assign up to 16 mouse wheel click combinations to cast on raid members
          * You can assign up to 16 keys to cast when mouse over
          * You can automatically fire your trinkets and instant casts whenever cooldown is over
          * You can automatically resurrect and decurse players out of combat
   3. Set up the raid
          * manage main tanks (CTRA/ORA compatible) and personally selected players.
          * Setup who is raid lead, assistant and master looter
          * Check who is one of the above
   4. Buffing
          * You can easily keep track of all of your buffs
          * You can rebuff automatically chosing the most suitable spell and target
          * You can smart buff your raid automatically selecting missing buffs
   5. Special Features:
          * Up to 10 independent raid member panels
          * Completely free arrangement of raid members:
            You can move any group to any position in any panel:
            You can select to see your groups by class, group number role or any combination.
            Easy group arrangement via Drag and Drop.
            You can additionally setup to display Pets, Vehicles, Main Tanks, private Tanks.
   6. A panel setup wizard lets you setup most common settings with a few clicks
          * You can store different skins and arrangements of panels separately
   7. Supported standards / Compatibility:
          * CTRA/oRA: Main Tank setup / resurrection monitor
          * libHealComm: Incoming heals from other healers
          * libSharedMedia: Fonts, Statusbar textures

flambe

No... but I am going to try it out on Aarrgh now.

Tessekai

Let me know what you think. I'm usually not a fan of overly-complicated mods, but if it's good I might check it out.

Dave

This looks interesting. It reminds me of Discord Unit Frames from pre-BC, and how every single aspect of that mod was customizable. Took hours to setup and I imagine that this might as well.

I think the only complicated aspect would be initial setup, but the distinct advantage of this one over Grid or Healbot is going to be that everything is tuned to your own personal flavor. If you're patient enough to take the time to set it up exactly how you like it, you'll perform better in the end.
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Daemus

#4
So I started configuring this last night, and Wow! There is quite a feature set (someone did a ~22 page walkthrough on the vuhdo wiki).  Some say it's still easier to configure then Grid (for me about the same)...I spent a few hours setting it up and I can see it has some promising benefits.  It will still need some tweaking, but I should be able to replace quite a few addons with this one.

I was using  Grid, Clique, Decursive, POM Tracker, and SmartBuff and I'm essentially replacing all of that with Vuhdo.

It already comes built-in with all the debuffs for Naxx/Ulduar bosses, but you can still add in custom debuffs to the list as well.  (ie - I added in Abolish Disease so that it will appear over a persons name so I can tell that someone else in the raid has already cast it and I don't need to).  

I like the idea of how you can have the HoTs show up as little icons (much like Healbot), where with Grid you just use small coloured squares.  I believe VuhDo does support squares as well, but I think it's cool to see a little renew icon with a timer on it (Same with PoM stacks, etc..).  You can show other peoples HoTs as well (all stacked on one icon showing the most recent HoT applied).  I have done much with it yet and I'm looking forward to testing it out.

Buff watcher is kind of neat too.  I have it setup to monitor my Fortitude, Spirit, and Shadow resist buffs.  I have the threshold value set to "3", meaning that if two people die in the raid and are ressurected, clicking the indicator will use my single buff for those two people.  If three or more people arrive without the buff, clicking it will use the group/raid buff.   I realize that this may not work well for Paladins, but I can see the benefit for Priests, Druids, Mages  who have 30minute single buffs.

I'll let you know how it goes after I get a chance to raid heal with it!