I will move on to Clique as used with Grid shortly, but I wanted to comment on its individual setup, and its interaction with Healium. This is why it's usually referred to in tandem with an addon such as Grid, which purely provides a set of unit frames. I'd noticed a button in the Healium configuration menu when setting it up that indicated it worked with Clique, so that seemed the next logical step in my addon research.Ĭlique, unlike VuhDo or Healbot, is a click-to-heal addon without a standard set of unit frames. In summary, then, I felt Healium was a good idea, but that the unit frames let it down, and that it took up far too much screen space.
I did find a skin for Healium, but it hasn't been updated in some time, so proceed with caution. Also, and this is purely a personal complaint, they're rather small, and styled rather like the standard UI. I couldn't get Healium to show me any of this. I like to see the number of stacks of my Earth Shield on a player, or the duration of the Weakened Soul debuff, or, if they're debuffed, the type of debuff. While Healium does show mana, incoming healing, raid roles, ready checks and the like, it didn't seem keen on providing much information about debuffs, or any buff applied by using the unit frame as a targeting frame, rather than applied via the buttons. I've grown accustomed to Healbot and, more recently, VuhDo, giving me quite a lot of information on the raid frames, rather like the standard Blizzard ones do. My biggest issue with it was the unit frames themselves. Easy as pie!īut there are downsides to Healium.
All it takes is to click the icon, and it's cast on its adjacent party member. But, for me at least, it seems that I struggle to remember the multi-modifier combinations I use for big cooldowns like Pain Suppression or Void Shift, so having those sitting next to the party frames was a boon. My method for click-to-heal addons is to set up the same type of heal on the same combination, so Riptide and Renew are both ALT+ right click, Power Word: Shield and Earth Shield are both CTRL+ left click, and so on. For players with several healers, particularly, this could be a real boon.
As Healium's creators say on the addon page, it is designed so that players don't have to memorize several modifier plus click combinations. That being said, it definitely has its plus sides. I tested this out with a party in dungeons, and felt it was a fairly large piece of screen real estate to be dedicated to heals, I can only imagine what it would be like if a player accidentally left it on and zoned into Alterac Valley! Any spell or macro with a friendly target ability can be put in there. There's a mixture of standard-issue heals and cooldowns in there, which makes for quite a lot of buttons on every player. You can see the initial result of this in the header image, from my priest. It's also possible to set each button in the Healium options screen. Next, you can drag and drop spells from your spellbook straight onto those buttons. Setup is extremely simple, all you do is go into the interface menu then into Addons, then Healium, and move the slider to indicate how many buttons you want Healium to display. Instead, Healium sets up a row of buttons next to each party member, on which the healer can put various spells. Healium, on the other hand, as can be seen in the header image, doesn't perform quite like this. A left-click on a frame fires one heal at that player, while an ALT+ left click fires a different one. VuhDo, Healbot, and Grid+Clique are all click-to-heal addons, that is to say, they take a set of either their own frames or a third-party set of frames, and set up mouseover macros on them.
Healium takes quite a different approach to the other addons I've reviewed so far in this set of Addon Spotlights. I began with Healium, for no other reason than because that was the first one I decided to switch on, but as it happens that worked out pretty well for the testing as, when I wandered into the settings, I discovered it could work with Clique. Those three addons are Healium, Clique and Grid. As I promised back in that column, I've gone away to test two more raid healing addons, or party healing addons, as you prefer.Īctually, I tested three of them, to be precise, but one probably couldn't stand alone as a healing addon, and is more a raid frame replacement. There was a great and lengthy tussle between the two, and no clear victor was named, although VuhDo snatched a narrow lead. Two weeks back, I looked into two fine contenders for raid healing addons, namely Healbot and VuhDo.