My original Grid post has gotten a lot of hits and I hope it’s helped a lot of people. Now that Vuhdo is more popular I’ve decided to make a post on setting it up too. The switch by major raiders to Vuhdo happened a while ago, but a lot of people don’t want to part with the time they have put into customizing grid. I can honestly say, it’s worth it. Vuhdo has everything Grid has but more in a single addon. Yes, everything. It has everything HB has also. It can be set up the exact same way if you wish, but adds MANY things that resto druids can use and use well. The set up is much easier in general, and changing things per fight is a lot easier too.
The 1st thing I like more about Vuhdo is the hot timers. Instead of little dots on the sides that change colors, you can have bars. The bars are nicely spaced, colors chosen by you, so you can see exactly how much time you have left. While corner dots that change colors are fine, the bars are a lot easier to quickly look and judge, which is why more endgame druids use it. You can use the same exact set up as HB or Grid, but I’d suggest doing a raid with the bars and see how it works for you.
Rejuv: 
WG:
RG: 
LB: 
All hots together: 
You can change the overheal bar to not show, or show pretty much anywhere else you want it to be.
The basic options layout, where you size your buttons, bars, gaps, everything. You can make this look exactly like grid or HB too. Mine looks a lot like my grid, but a little different.
Where you choose your mouse clicks:
Choose the colors:
If you do want corner hots, like grid, this is where you do it. I did LB only so I could see the number of stacks and how many are left:
Hot bars: You can choose which hots you want and in what order, and where on your bar you want them:
I don’t personally use this, but it’s an easy buff bar to show when people need buffs and to easily do them. You can choose to show whos missing the buffs, how much time is left, pretty much anything you can think of.
And last, all the different bars. Lots of different options for this too. This is something very cool that differs from Grid. I haven’t used them yet since I don’t really have time to mess with it. But if you have a ton of time, it’s nice to look through and see what you’d need or like.
As you can see, it’s a LOT less explaining than Grid since it’s so much more self explanatory. Those are the main things I remember changing and messing with. If you do end up switching, esp as a resto druid, you wont regret it. People like to use the excuse “but I like my grid”. Well, that doesn’t really work here since it gives you every single thing grid does plus more, like said. My two favorites is SMable targets(shows everyone who can be SMd without tracking their hots), and cluster finder. It finds the best people to hit with WG by itself to get max heal output. In intense 25 fights, this is very useful.
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I agree soooo much! I was using healbot, then asked you for a grid guide, tried it, saw a comment about vuhdoo and switched immediately xD It was actually fun going through all the tabs and changing stuff around!
The only question I have is: There is a little red dot that appears when I’ve put a hot on someone in addition to all my hot icons and I’ve gone through my settings to try to figure out where it’s coming from but haven’t been able to xD it’s not a huge problem, just a waste of space ya know? any ideas?
That red dot means someone is able to be ‘swiftmended’. Took me ages to figure it out!
how can u get rid of it?
Yeah, I had the same problem. It’s a marker so that you know who can be SMd. It shows you so if you have another druid you can see if you can SM off one of their hots without actually having to track them.
On the pages with hot options make sure they all say your own. Not others checked. It may either be on hot icons or hot bars. See if that works and if not get back to me.
Nice guide.
Vuhdo’s options screens sure are nicer, but I like my Grid. On Grid, you can show numerical countdowns rather than coloured dots in the corners for your HoT counters, I find them very useful. Of course, it does requrie a seperate module.: Grid Indicator Corner Text
As long as I’m understanding the functionality you are talking about, vuhdoo can do that too. I prefer to have icons with numerical counters for my hots and so on my vuhdoo I have all my hots in different corners showing the amount of time they have left
and thank you! yes, it was the indicator for swiftmend, which I realized I don’t mind actually since it’s nice to know, now that I know what it’s actually for lol
Vuhdo does also, I just found the bars much easier to keep track of in intense 25 situations.
It took me a long time to switch, but when my world top 20 druid friends pounded down on me enough I decided to just get it over with and change. They were right though, I personal feel like it’s a worthwhile upgrade.
I kind of miss my grid though. Not really what it does or how it does it, just all the time I spent making it fit me perfectly. The hours I spent perfecting my grid, it took minutes to do with Vuhdo >_>
Thanks so much for guide!
One of the things that attracted me to Vuhdo was the “Cluster” feature that allows you to see the number of people who would benefit from you WG if you cast it on your mouse over target… Just a nice bonus to keep people topped off in raids :)
Can I ask about cast through please? In HealBot you can configure “Cast through” and that enables you to cast debuffs or offensive abilities at the target of the Healbot target (if that makes sense). This makes more sense with paladins and judgements (But I guess thats all gonna change soon anyway) but I just wondered if Vuhdo could do this too? (I’ve not spotted it but then I could just be being a doughnut!)
Thanks!
I’m actually not sure about that. I assume it does but have never really looked. I’ll look through it in a bit and see if I can find it. The best part about Vuhdo is if there is something missing you can just go on their forums and suggest it. They update a lot and base it off what their users want.
And cluster is amazing! That feature alone is enough to change from grid imo for druids, priests. and even shaman.
Thanks for the guide.
I’ve been using Vuhdo for a long time but have not found a way to resize all bars at once. For example, 100% is too large and I like to resize them all down to 75-80%. At the moment I resize them individually which takes ages and it seems there should be a way to do them all at once. Can anyone help?
thank you.
Panels>Sizing>Panel Scale should scale them all. Do you have grouped or loose checked?
hello i want to change the location of the big red dot (ready to be swiftmended) but i can’t figure out how to do it