FAQ
- How do I add more buffs/debuffs?
- Why doesn't Grid have power bars?
- Why doesn't Grid have a configuration mode?
- Why do incoming heals sometimes show the wrong amount?
- Why do incoming heals include HoT ticks?
Grid can track and show any buff or debuff, not just the pre-configured ones. To add another buff:
- Open the Grid options window (
/grid) - Click the "Status" tab
- Select "Auras" in the list on the left
- Click the box on the right labeled "Add new buff" or "Add new debuff"
- Type the name of the buff or debuff
- Press enter or click the "OK" button
Your newly added buff or debuff will now appear in the Auras list on the left. Click on it to configure its color, priority, and other options like any other status. It will also appear in the list of statuses to assign to any indicator.
The developers of Grid do not feel that power bars for your party/raid members are useful. In any situation where you might need to know about another player's low mana, you can use the "Low mana alert" status instead, which will only activate when a player's mana falls below the specified percent, and there are no situations where you need to know about another player's rage or energy.
Furthermore, as the game has evolved over the years, mana has become increasingly irrelevant. Mana-restoring abilities like Innervate and Mana Tide have been changed or removed from the game, and many classes/specs don't even use mana anymore.
If you really, absolutely think you cannot play without power bars for your group members, there's a plugin for that.
Grid is written using Blizzard's "secure group headers" system, which doesn't support showing frames whose units don't currently exist, so there's no real way to show all the frames for a 40-player raid group while you're standing solo at the mailbox in town. In order for Grid to offer a "configuration mode" with dummy frames, the addon would have to be essentially rewritten from the ground up in a completely different way. It would be a lot of work, and we don't think it's worth it.
You can do almost all of your configuration while solo (simply change your "Solo Layout" to anything other than "None" to see a frame for yourself) and make minor adjustments during downtime in your raid. If you really need to spend a lot of time setting things up with a full set of frames, join an Alterac Valley battle and sit in the spawn cave.
Incoming heal amounts come from the game client itself, and Grid has way to tell if they are missing or wrong. Feel free to report any missing or wrong amounts to Blizzard in the official WoW Bug Report forum.
The game client doesn’t distinguish between direct healing and periodic healing, so Grid has to make assumptions based on the healing amount in order to filter out HoT ticks. By default, healing for less than 10% of the unit’s total health is hidden.
You can change this setting by adjusting the “Minimum value” setting for the “Incoming Heals” status. If you’ve checked this setting, and still think you should be seeing some heals, it’s probably Blizzard’s fault; see the question above.