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I'd like suggestions for a healer raid / BG interface

I use Healbot, works just fine for me. Insanely customizable. Can do all the stuff you mentioned.

I haven't used it in a while, but healbot often struggled with large raids where only small groups of people are in range at any given time. It simply wouldn't keep up with who was now in range who wasn't before, etc. I don't know how vuhdo handles it...

I actually found that turning on my SUF for BGs and having the bars fade out (a lot) when targets are out of range helped immensely. I'm still searching for a new raid frame... I may have to give vuhdo another shot, though....
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reply to pandora
VuhDo has a lot of sorting and grouping options. The default settings keep everything in groups. You can specify it to show the Role icons, have it auto-sort the tanks into their own group (add a new panel under the Move tab, and make sure the group is set to Main Tanks), have it auto-sort by HP to put the tanks in the front, etc.

You might already be aware of all this functionality, but if you're not, explore VuhDo. It might already do what you need.

Oh, it can also hide the default raid frames. All I have on the left of my screen is the slideout deal for raid markers, that is usually slide in so its like 10 pixels wide.

reply to Immer
I've never experienced any range issues on VuhDo.

reply to pandora
I am a Shammy healer and I use healbot exclusively. The perks are:

Bars fade as targets get out of range
You can shift+L/R click for shields and casts
You can filter out pets and demons
Can cast cleanse and have bars change color on curses/poisons/diseases
Have icons appear/disappear noting earth shield
Have bars highlight for primary aggro hog
have tanks/healers/DPS located at specific places in your bar line up

I have no clue if other addons have all of these features. All I can do is give you the rundown on healbot. I have used it successfully for the past 4 years. I have yet to have it bug out too much. I used to raid 25m heroics as well as 40m BGs. It worked quite well and was very user friendly. Please let meknow if I can tell you any more.

reply to pandora
You know if you go to options > scaling, you can change the bar sizes, right? You can also set it up to display differently depending if you're in a 5/10/25/40 man raid. Look on youtube for guides on how to do that.

Healbot is trash.
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reply to Immer
I used healbot for a long time on my priest, it is just very lacking. I swapped to Vuhdo and have been problem free ever since the day I swapped over. Most of the 'reasons' you claim grid/clique is 'great', you can do and customize in Vuhdo. Vuhdo can recognize macros, hence eliminating the reason to need Clique.

Vuhdo is patched almost instantly after a patch, and even after a patch Vuhdo is usually still operational to a point where you can raid and still be somewhat useful.
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there are no need for macros using Clique. There is no additional GUI which VuhDo does and requires extensive customization to get to user preference. It Clique doesn't break...evar. Also, to bind Clique keys....Open spellbook, bottom right Tab click "Configure Clique," navigate to spells in spellbook, click mouse keys for which you want said spells to cast, Done.
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I use clique.. and sometimes I do wish it could use macros. But that's what my left hand if for...so... yeah. VuhDo works with clique also (though not sure why you'd use it that way).

I'm trying to go minimalist... so I really just need all the information that the raid UI gives, plus the raid marker icon (silly blizz), and I need that information to be accurate to within a GCD. Is that so hard???

I may be stuck using either VuhDo or Grid+8... and that makes me sad.
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Immergruen (resto/kitty) on Nathrezim Server (US)
Guild leader for Pride and Ego
"You never truly know someone... until you fight them"

reply to pandora
for healbot:

1: get it up and running
2: patch comes out
3: healbot not working
4: LOAD OUT OF DATE ADDONS!
5: healbot works... enjoy

reply to pandora
I stand by my set-up

Raid Frames = X-Perl

You can customize these frames a lot.

Mouseover = Clique

It's all you need.