Corner and Side Indicators
This is the meat and potatoes of Grid. The standard Grid mod offers 4 corner indicators; there is an additional grid add-on that gives you indicators in the middle of each side for a total of 8 separate, completely configurable indicators.
Under the grid menu you will find a list of indicators (see above picture), Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Top Right, Top Left, and if you have the additional side indicator mod you will also have Right Side, Left Side, Top Side, Bottom Side. When you highlight these options in the Grid menu a long list of statuses will appear, including things like Agro, Incoming Heal, Various Spells and Debuffs, etc. This is where you will set your different corner and side indicators. As an example, this is what I currently have mine set to:
Top Left: Agro, PW: Shield
Top Side: My Target
Top Right: My Renew, Missing Shadow Protection Buff
Right Side: Healing Trance
Right Bottom: Low Mana
Bottom Side: Missing PW: Fort Buff, Prayer of Mending
Bottom Left: Incoming Heal
Left Side: Clearcasting, Unstable Affliction
So at any given time I can see who has agro, who has PW: Shield on them, where my and other Priests Prayer of Mending spell is, who is less than 25% mana, if someone has UA on them, who has incoming heals (only shows other healers incoming heals if they have grid), who is missing buffs, when my Healing Trance procs from my Eye of Gruul trinket, when clearcasting procs…..you get the idea. There is also a "border" indicator that will color the border of a Grid box, I dont use it because I find it hard to see, but its an additional indicator you can use if you need it. All in all you have 8 corner/side indicators, 2 center text options, and a border indicator for a total of 11. I'll talk about the 12th indicator in the next section.
Now, there is a separate section of the Grid menu that will allow you to make individual adjustments for each buff, debuff, status, etc. You can change the color of the icon, and set a priority from 1-99. For example, I set the priority of Agro to 99 and PW: Shield to 98. Since both of those are set to my Top Right indicator spot by having agro at a higher priority it will always override the PW:Shield. You get the idea?
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Center Icon Debuff Indicator
One of my favorite things about Grid is the center icon. Again, this is as customizable as the rest of grid, I have it set to show only magic and disease debuffs since those are the only two I can remove. When a character gets an effect I can either dispel or cure the actual debuff icon shows up in the center of that toons Grid box. You can adjust the size of the icon to be proportionate as well so it doesn’t take up too much space. Anytime a raid/party member gets an icon in the middle of their Grid box I instantly know they need a dispel/abolish disease. In some fights you’ll know even sooner if you’re really paying attention. Maiden for example, right before she does her Holy Fire the toon she targets gets the agro indicator icon so as soon as I see anyone but the tank with the Top Left Agro indicator I know the Holy Fire is coming, as soon as it hits, the Holy Fire icon shows up in the middle of the box, but I’ve already got them targeted and am dispelling early since I saw the agro indicator….hope that makes sense.
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Creating New Debuffs/Buffs
One of the great things about Grid is you can create as many additional buffs/debuffs as you need. The addon comes with a lot of the basic ones, but you’ll want to add quite a few others depending on what your role/class is and what content you are doing. At the bottom of the buff list in the section of the menu where you set your priorities/color/etc, you will see “Add new Buff/Debuff,” and when you mouse over it an empty text box will come up. In the empty box type exactly what the status is you want to create an indicator for. You can create one called “Garrote” if you want to see who Moroes buts a bleed on, you can create one for a trinket (Healing Trance is one I did for my Eye of Gruul Trinket), or any other boss buff/debuff/status changing effect you wish. So as you do new and different content you’ll constantly be adding new status indicators and setting priorities so you can stay on top of the encounter.
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