WordPress has a tool that shows me what words did people use to get to my blog and a few times I was seeing “grid+holy priest” or “settings+grid+priest”. We all know that healers needs raid frames to be effective. At the moment there are a lot of options and everyone will use at the end what they feel comfortable with.
A long period of time I was a Healbot user and I am not ashamed to admit it, but it wasn’t in the time when Healbot was deciding for you. Anyway, after I joined Barbarians, an end game raiding guild, Healbot wasn’t enough for my needs so slowly I start using Grid. I was trying it a few times before but because I didn’t know how to set it properly I just went on the easy side saying that “i don’t like it”.
When I decided that my reason was silly and I need to see what can Grid really do, I ended loving it.
So, let’s start with what I use:
- grid
- grid-status-raid-debuff
- grid-indicator-side-icons
- grid-indicator-corner-icons
- grid-status-raid-icons
- grid-status-hots
The menu for Grid at the start is pretty easy (type /grid config to bring up the menu)
- Frame
- Layout
- Status
- Debugging
- Profile
Start with making a profile: Grid -> Profile -> Other (and here type your grid profile). Press enter.
Go to Layout and first select a Layout for Solo. Like this you will be able to see how your settings will look like. I set it here by group of 25, but doesn’t really matter as long you didn’t select None.
Now you should be able to see your frame. Go to Layout -> Scale (down the right window) and scale your frame. It will still look like a square, but don’t be scared, we can still sort it out 
Go to Frame -> Advanced and select the Hight and the Width of frame, Font size, Texture. 
I guess now your grid frame should look like you want.
Now, colors… (ALL THE SETTING WILL BE SO YOU WON”T USE CLASS COLORS FOR FRAMES) Grid -> Status -> Healt. Under that you will find Healt Deficit. Be sure you have it Enable, and uncheck Use class color. For Unit health i have selected a color slightly darker (NOTE: i heard you can’t select fall back color to be … blue for example, but mine are like this for a reason: to notice me when some one has disease, magic debuff) 
If you want a fall back color different, and not white, at unit health select one that will have a small tent for the one you like (Ex: white pink, white blue). My color tool is: Color Tools
Now, take in account I don’t use a different fall back color so my settings for Disease and Magic debuff will consider this.
Me GRID settings
All the settings will be done in: Grid -> Frame
- Border : Debuff type: Disease and Debuff type: Magic
- Healt Bar Color: Death Warning, Debuff type: Disease and Debuff type: Magic, Off line warning, Unit Healt
- Healing Bar: Incoming heals
- Center Text: Unit Name, Feign Death Warning, Off line warning, Death warning
- Center Text 2 (you need to enable this in: Frame -> Advanced ->Enable Center Text 2 Indicator (you will find it on the right window with setting at the top)): Death warning, Debuff: Ghost, Health Deficit, Incoming Heals, Off line warning
- Center Icon: Debuff type: Disease and Debuff type: Magic, Raid Debuff, Ready Check
- Icons (sides) :
- Left Icon -> Raid Target Icon Player
- Right Icon: Buff: Prayer of Mending (you need to add it to grid: Status -> Auras -> In the space for Add new Buff type the name and press enter. After this you will find it where all the other buffs, debuffs, settings are)
- Icons (corners):
- Top left corner Icon (right): Buff: Power Word: Shield and Debuff: Weakened Soul (ideea here is to show me that I can’t cast a new shield after the one that i casted finished his effect from absorbing or just by running off). Also you need to add it if you can’t find it.
- Bottom right corner Icon (Left): Buff: Renew
- Bottom right corner Icon (right): here i have added manually to grid a few cd’s that I like to know when are used on a certain target. Ex: Pain Suppression, Guardian Spirit, Divine shield, Icebound Fortitude etc
- Bottom Left Corner: Incoming Heals
- Corner Text Top Right: Hot count (Here I like to know when people have a hot running. It will count my renew also)
- Frame Alpha: Death warning, More then 10, 100, 30, 40 yards away (here… i think is wrong, but it’s working for me) and Off line warnings
- Top side: Disease and Debuff type: Magic
- Bottom Side: Aggro alert
This is how my settings looks like.
Also, if you want to modify the scale of the middle icon go to Frame -> Advanced (the settings are on the right window). For the other icons you need to go under Advanced. Just look at the picture.
I hope this will answer to a lot of questions. Feel free to correct me if something is wrong. At the end your grid will look like this:
Happy healing!
Hey Bati, I play a holy priest to and I love this guide. Ty so much!
Really great guide. Very detailed. I’m not a Grid user myself but I can see some others finding this beneficial.
Hai Bati,
thx for that great guide.
Also using your UI which is just lovely. I only got one problem: I can’t get those mana bars in grid to work. Rage, Energy all show up but not mana. I used Grid Mana Bars in my own UI and it worked just fine and as I am playing a resto shaman knowing when my fellow party members need my mana tide is quite some thing. Maybe you got an idea.
Thx again for the great UI and I hope it will stay update.^^
Hey Alannah,
Since I am at work now I can’t really give an answer but when I get home I will install Grid Mana Bars and see if is working or not, and, if it doesn’t I will check what it can be done. Ty for pointing this.
@Alannah
I just got Grid Mana Bars and it works for me. I really don’t know what can cause your problem. I only download it and enable. Nothing else. I also read this:
Note: GridManaBars has to hack itself somewhat into Grid in a way not supported by Grid. Most times this works well but it can cause trouble (especially after an update of Grid). So if you encounter any Problems with Grid and you have this addon installed try disabling GridManaBars before you create a ticket for Grid itself. If the problem disappears when you disable GridManaBars you can create a ticket for this addon instead for Grid itself. The authors of Grid have enough tickets to handle they don’t need to handle tickets caused by this addon too. (from wowace.com)
I am really sorry I can’t help you more than this. Honestly, I didn’t do anything else.
The Grid I started with was the one Poptise had at some point and it had included mana bars, but i just don’t really need them, so i have drop it. But that was like 3-4 months ago.
Hey Bati,
well thanks for trying anyway.
Tried pretty much everything so far and thought maybe your Grid got some setup that doesn’t allow me to use mana bars properly – thats why I asked here. But I will just keep on trying or mabye even switch to the version Poptise is using.
Have a nice time and thx again,
Ala
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Sweet guide. I’ve added it to my Grid resources list.
Gobble gobble.
Hey there and Ty.
And… happy holidays!
Just downloaded addon. Can someone help me and tell me how to get rid of the letter on top of my head? says “bags:61/104″ and I think the location and coordinates under that.
That is not GRID for sure. Try /sldt then go to bags and uncheck it.
Hi, thanks for writing this guide. I was used to xperl and the way it monitors health. Now I have reconfigured Grid so that it’s display matches my old style.