Grid and Clique

First let me say that I am not a huge Addon fan. I have a few but I consider myself a minimalist at heart. Currently I use FuBar, FuBar ClockFu, FuBar Battelground, FuBar Location, Fishing Buddy, Grid and Clique. These are the few Addons that I have been unable to do without or replace by some function of the default GUI.

The reasons for FuBar are obvious. I like to have a clock visible and locations are a must for any alt-o-holic. FuBar battlegrounds is also needed to time those towers in AV. Fishing Buddy is just for fun. I know I could macro the change of outfits but I don't like how macros swap gear. I prefer to let the Addon handle it. Now let me talk a bit about why Grid and Clique are so necessary, especially for a healer.

I have heard it all before "If you can't heal without mods then I wouldn't want you healing in my raid..." blah blah blah... Well, I am sorry but using the default interface just limits what you can do. If Blizzard didn't want you to be able to change how targets appear when they were out of range, they shouldn't have built the function into the GUI and made it available to Addons.

The main reason I use Grid is because I can see all the raid targets and know who I can and can't heal/decurse/dispell with 1 single click. I can tell if they are out of range. I can tell if they have a HoT on them. I can even tell if they have aggro. That just can't be done with the default GUI.

With the default UI raid window sure I can drag groups out. I can even drag classes out to be on my screen. But, I can't tell when they are out of range and I can't tell what buffs/dots they have (without targeting them). Grid allows me to do that very easily. It can even filter DoTs to show only the ones I need to worry about.

Clique allows me to assign up to 8 spells to each mouse button (left or right). At first you might want to disable all unit frames aside from the ones associated with Grid (under Clique's options). This way you can still target and right-click targets just like normal and mouse-overs only apply to the Grid.

Click
Alt-Click
Shift-Click
Cntrl-Click
Alt-Shift-Click
Alt-Cntrl-Click
Cntrl-Shift-Click
Cntrl-Alt-Shift-Click

This gives you an amazing array of options for single click mouse-over casting. You don't have to worry about targeting or even pressing a function key. This can also be done via macros but you have far fewer choices. I can leave my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse and heal, heal heal!

I try to make all my actual healing spells different variants of the left-click and utility spells all on the right-click. This way I can have renew, gheal, flash heal, PoM, penance/CoH, and binding heal all on my left-click and buffs, shield, dispell and cure disease on right-clicks.

Couple this ability with Grid's status display and it makes healing very easy and efficient. I am constantly on the top of the healing chart in any BG (unless I defend a tower or something).

Give it a shot. I guarantee you'll be hooked.

--Wil

Tankspot Grid Tutorial
Basic Grid Options
Shadow Weaving Grid Config
Configuring Grid - Youtube