Cairessa

Everyone who heals is familiar with grid and clique. And if you’re like me, you forget to turn it off for your other toons. And why would you? I mean grid makes excellent real estate savings with it’s compact size, and for a DPS class, it’s really configured enough right out of the box. And Clique is so lightweight and out of the way, you don’t even notice it. BUT…did you know even as a DPS character, you can make use of these combined addons?

As I’ve been playing my hunter, I keep forgetting to readd my misdirect macro. So, when I realized I needed to MD in an instance, I panicked. Then I realized…I had clique active. I also was using grid for my party frames. So what did I do? I opened up clique from my spellbook, I found my misdirect spell, and I assigned it to shift+left click. Now I can use that button combo on my focus (or just on the grid bars even) and cast MD without having to change from my hostile target, and I don’t need a focus at all if I don’t want to set one.

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But wait! That’s not all. I can do the same with Master’s Call! And hey! Why not with my Rogue’s Tricks of the Trade? And while I’m at it, I bet I can use it on my Pally for Righteous Defense! How many more uses are there? I bet every class can find at least ONE. And Grid isn’t the only healthbar mod Clique works with of course. It works with all of them as far as I know. I just prefer the tiny Grid boxes. Your mileage may vary.

Thought I’d add some of the things I’ve seen in response as I go.

Death Knight: Raise Ally (Thank you Stop)

Draenei: Gift of the Naaru (Thanks Nibuca. Also, Nib is the reason I use Grid on all my toons)

From Aurik via twitter: "I found it handy for misdirects – much better than setting up a macro and then for Battle Shout / HoW and my DK self heal stuff"

i can take a joke, even at my own expense. This blog post is proof of that. If you can’t laugh at yourself…who else can you laugh at.

I was soooo excited to hit 80!! I had a spirit beast, I had new gear, I had 2 epics. I was awesome! Today, I ran a normal DTK run, and Denali dinged 80 JUST as I got the achievement…how cool!

I then had to log to attend my daughter’s band concert. When I returned, I got a chance to run a heroic. Nexus, no problem. I even had quests there. Bonus!

Complete! I never died (go go Feign Death). I got some badges, I even trapped a mob. TWICE! Chain trapping! Ok, so it only need trapped twice but dammit it was a short chain. My dps wasn’t even bad considering I’m in the crafted blue (pvp oriented but not bad) set.

This was about mid run, didn’t catch recount in any other shots, I somehow closed it. But hey, not bad right?

Then…came the fail. It was 2am, I logged out to go to bed. All pleased with myself for not being a huntard. I go to a couple blogs, and the BRK forums to see if I can figure out how to get my pullshot back since my old “/cast arcane shot /stopcasting” no longer stopped auto attack, and neither did /stopattack. i see mention of Freezing Arrow. A level 80 skill.

That’s when it hit me.

There I was, with my 1200 buffed DPS…and…not a single level 80 skill or rank trained.

/facepalm
/blush
/cry

Situation has now been rectified. That 1200 number is now my unbuffed dps. Yeah It’s NOT raid quality (she’ll likely never enter a raid, that’s my druid’s thing), but dammit it’s not bad, and when I’m NOT lagging to death on the target dummy I’ll play with rotation to see how it changes.

If I ever recover from my epic fail!