Reasons why I prefer Healbot:
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Health deficit is horizontal and the
bar color changes in value from green to red depending on the health percentage.
**You can set health deficit as horizontal too, that's how I've got mine set up.
**I'm not to sure you can make it change colour, haven't seen an option for that myself.
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Renew/PW:S/PoM tiny icons show up on the bars when MY spell is on the person.
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http://www.wowace.com/addons/grid-status-hots/ ; Will track only your spells on the target aswell as changing the indicator colour. For example; My renew is bottom left corner, Green when it's got more than 6 seconds left, Yellow from 6-3 seconds left, and Red in the final 3 seconds. Bottom right corner is set up for PW:S with PW:S setup as yellow and weakened soul set up as grey. PoM shows a number indicator on the person it is on where the centre icon normally would be (I've only got specific raid debuffs showing here; ie Mark of the Fallen Champion)
- I can have the
bars faded and set it so that when a player reaches a certain health, say 80%, the bar will become more visible so it's easier to react.
**I'm at work at the moment so I can't have a fiddle with my settings but I do know you can set the border to light up when they're below a certain threshold.
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I can see incoming heals from other players, which I know Grid also does, but it tells me the amount of HP the player will have after the heal or how much the incoming heal is going to overheal assuming the player doesn't take any more damage.
**Newer versions of Grid have the 'expected health' bar thingy (lol :P) that is slightly faded aswell as setting the Center Text (1 or 2) to the actual amount of incoming heals.
Reasons why I want to like Grid:
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I can see if someone has a disease or magic on them, though it would take me some time to memorize the colors & position of the tiny squares.
**Wouldn't it be the same colours? Mine are set to the default at the moment (Blue=Magic, Purple=Curse, Green=Poison, Browny Orange=Disease). I have my priority setup as Magic > Disease > Abolish Disease > Poison > Curse. So I can see what I need to dispell (or am currently in the case of abolish) before I need to yell at others to do it.
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It has a more appealing overall look - Grid takes up less space than Healbot and the squares look organized. I can make the bars on Healbot smaller but it can just never look as nice as Grid.
**Grid looks great, really nice being able to change it so look sexier then before.
- It seems as though every healer swears by this mod so I really want to like it, but I'm having trouble with that.
**Have run Grid since I started healing on my Paladin at the start of BC and cannot live without it.