Grid - Raid Unit Frames

For this week’s addon of the week, the very first addon of the week and newest feature to ZugGaming, I wanted to take a step away from the arena scene. Now, I’ll be first to admit I’m not the hardcore PvE raider I once was pre-BC, though I still enjoy the occasional 10 and 25 man.

If you’ve raided at all, then you know what a pain finding a good unit frame addon can be, and believe me I’ve looked! Though I think grid just might be the saving grace for all of us.

Unlike other unit frame addons, grid is extremely compact, so compact it takes up only about 1/4th as much screen space as my previous raid frames did. Better than that, it provides me with even more information!

To the right is how grid looks out of the box. This type of raid frame design was so revolutionary when I first saw it I was kind of turned off. Beyond that, it looked confusing at first.

Though with a little customization I was able to get the ideal working design for my shaman to effectively heal during 25 man raids.

Basically the addon creates a small box for each player in your raid, various details within and around each box are associated with the criteria you’ve set. For example, you can see a red line around some of the boxes in my screen shot. These are targets which are out of my healing range.

Each box has 7 subdivisions, left upper corner, right upper corner, left lower corner, left lower corner, center icon, center text, and border. Various colors and icons are assigned to each area to represent data: health, aggro, incoming heals, debuffs, range, death, and numerous others.

The module comes setup pretty nice by default, though you might want to change some of the color scheme, size, background color, and other settings to better work for your needs.

All in all it’s just a great addon. It’s an effective tool to use whether you are raid healer, a tank, or just a DPS, and I highly recommend it.

Get the newest version of grid for patch 2.4 below!