Healbot is one of the major healing add-ons that people use. It is also the one that I choose to use. The standard setup is pretty boring and takes up a lot of screen room however and I was using that for a while because I didn't know how to customize the look. But as you can see in most of my videos, it no longer looks like every other healbot out there.

When re-designing your healbot you will want to be able to view it with the amount of squares that you would see in a raid, but you don't want to waste peoples time in a raid while you configure your healbot. To turn on fake bars click the Test bars off / on button in the general tab of healbot config screen. Right below the button are 4 scrub bars that will let you set how many squares will be added. in the top left you have the number of members that you have in the raid, I suggest that you set it to the size of the raid that you usually do. You can always make another pre made set up for a different size group. The other scrub bars let you choose how many tanks there are (you can make certain changes to player's bars who are set to main tank in the raid), players pets, mytargets.

Also in the general tab there is an option to hide the "options button" as you can see when in a 25 man my healbot comes very close to my skills, because of this if we have any more then 25 people in the raid (which we never should need so I don't bother changing it) then the top row of skills are unclick able. Also with the options button not hidden it would block off those skills too, so I choose to hide it. When its hidden, if you want to bring up the menu you can just type /healbot config.

Things that can be set to on click actions:

1. Any helpful spell can be set to cast.
2. Any helpful item can be set to use
3. Any macro can be set
4. As well as the following commands can be set:
• Target
• Assist
• Focus
• Menu
• Main Tank
• Main Assist
• Stop
• Tell Any Message (will whisper the person with whatever message you set)

Another awesome thing that you can do with healbot in this tab is set it to use one of your trinkets when you cast a spell. I try and keep my trinkets constantly rolling so I have every spell set to start both trinkets when clicked. Currently I am not using any trinkets that require activation, but back when I did use some it was very very useful.

At the bottom you can set up your Smartcast, this will only be activated when out of combat. For example whenever I am in combat my left click option is to use Rejuvenation. However when combat is over and there are some people dead in the raid, when I left click their name it will res them. Smartcast has 4 different options you can check for it to do, Resurrection, remove debuff, add buff, and heal the target. Smartcast will check and use in that order as well, so if the raid member has a debuff that needs to be taken off it will do that when you click instead of giving them mark of the wild. The only one that I don't suggest that you have selected is heal target, I used to have it pressed and it would annoy the hell out of me. Basically when everyone gets buffed up and they would need a quick top off I would click their name and expect a rejuv on them but I would start casting regrowth instead.

Editing this tab in tiny ways to fit my paladin also has benefited me. For instance I have Healbot configured to be useful for a tank, it shows agro, health, and diseases of my fellow raid members then instead of being set to cast different heals on them it casts Divine Intervention, Hand of Salvation, Hand of Freedom, Hand of Protection, Hand of Sacrifice, Lay on Hands, or Sacred Shield (I have decursive for Purify). As you can see it saves me a lot of time when I'm tanking as well.

This is by far the most complicated tab and basically where you will be able to customize the look of your healbot so that it works for you as well as looks awesome! At the top there is a drop down menu with several pre-made skins that came with healbot including one for Alterac Valley. Check these out and find one that fits what you want the closes then save it under a new name and we are ready to edit it for you.

At the very top where it says background, that is an option even though it doesn't look like one, if you click on it a window will pop up letting you set the color and the opacity of your healbots background in case you want it to look similar to grid.

Lock Position: Your going to want to make sure that this is always checked, often times I've been healing and accidentally dragged my healbot to another part of the screen. This will make it so that you can't move it (kind of like locking your action bars so that you don't drag skills out and lose them.

Anchor: this will allow you to set where you want the healbot to always begin and grow out from based on how many players are in your raid. Choosing where your anchor begins controls where your healbot will go and often has to be changed based on your UI.

Hide Party Frames: this will hide the default blizzard party frames, which can also be done in your Interface so I guess take your pick as to how to manage that. Since you already can see what is going on with everyone via your healbot the blizzard part frames are basically just cluttering up your monitor.

Disable out of range: this is especially useful during pvp. Everyone all over the battle grounds will be taken damage but you only want to see the ones that are in range for you to heal. Later on when your customizing you can choose what to do with these bars that are out of range and disabled, for example drop their opacity to 0 so you don't even see them unless you can do something about it.

Monitor Agro: I use this more when I'm playing my tank however while healing when you see someone grab agro you can hot them up quickly before their health stops dropping. You can choose how you want it to be displayed, I for one use the option to have >> [name] << appear on people who have agro.

Use fluid bars: this makes the player health changes move more smoothly, while this makes it look a lot nicer it also puts a hassle on your cpu and could create lag. If you ever have lag problems in raids I suggest you don't have this checked.

The healing bar check boxes will select who to give bars to, for example if you want to give bars to the hunters pets so that you can send heals their way as well, the following are what each check box stand for:

There are some situations in which the position of the bars on your healbot is very useful, for example when we were progressing on the lich king, there wasn't a alert for Necrotic Plague and obviously I didn't want to take too much time with my eyes off healbot. But I always new that if I got a raid Icon on my bar which was always the top left then I had to start running.

Also I like how it sets my group before everyone else's, this lets me keep a close eye on those who are in my party without really having to read everyone's name to find each person. If my group is in trouble I can easily tell and it would be a good time to pop Tranquility.

Focus has come in handy during the Valithria Dreamwalker encounter, set her as your focus and poof there she is on your healbot. But be aware that if you go in one of her portals it takes you two a whole different area and Dreamwalker will no longer show up right on your healbot, even when you come out of the portal.

This shows you what the players health will be like after the heals that are either on him or being cast on him (including the heals from other raiders). To be honest I don't look at it much if someone's health is down I just give them some HoTs and move on.

This will, as you probably guessed, notify people as you cast a spell. I do not suggest that you announce every single skill that you use as that would get pretty annoying. However I do announce in raid chat when I am using Revive and also when I use Rebirth mainly so that we don't burn more then one battle res on one person.

Headers will show you where each group is the pets where you are where the tanks are everything. However I don't use them because it takes up extra space. Who cares which group their in if they need heals then they need heals, that's just me though.

This is where the real customization of healbot comes in, designing how the bars look. Starting at the top left there is the texture scrub bar, this will set what the background texture looks like, not the color just the texture. next to that one will show your # of columns that you want to have. Since there is no Rows scrub bar this will be how you decide the shape of your healbot. Height controls the height of each bar as well as width will control the width of each bar. This way you can make all the squares really small, really big, or whatever you want to do to fit your healing style. Row and Col spacers will set the distance between each of your bars so that they don't all just blend together.

Next we are getting into all the different opacity's this is very useful for telling if someone is in range for you to heal. The first opacity is for enabled bars. A bar is enabled whenever their health drops below the alert level (From the healing sub-tab), when they get agro, when they need a debuff removed, or when they need a buff. The incoming heals is pretty self explanatory, however it is directly related to the enabled opacity, the bar must be enabled before it can have incoming heals. The next is the out of range opacity which helps make bars that meet the requirements of enabled opacity still not show if they are out of your range and there isn't anything you can do about it anyway's. Disabled opacity is the opposite of enabled opacity obviously.

Agro bar size is something I don't pay attention to much as a healer since there is nothing I can do about it until they get agro, and at that point it will show up as >> [name] <<. On my tanks setup of healbot however I have it set to a bigger size so that I can cast Hand of Salvation on them if it gets up too high.

Next is Mana bar size which I'm sure you can guess what that does, I choose not to show this either since there would be nothing I can do about it if they get low. Ok I guess I could use Innervate on them however I generally save it for myself.

Last choice is the color by bar which will color each bar depending on their class. I find this to be distracting and just not look as good as when its all one solid color. There are some fun ways to make this look good and if you like the look go for it, I just didn't think it would work well with me, especially since I record most of my fights I don't want all the colors to distract from the fight.

If you don't use the color bars by class feature but would still like to see the different classes by color on your healbot you could check the change text by color option in this tab.

You can also choose whether to show their amount of health on the bar or not, if you do there are 3 different options of how to show it:

1. As health
• Shows how much health the target has left
2. As delta
• Shows how much health the target is missing
3. As Percentage
• Shows a percentage of either how much health they have left or how much health they are missing

Below all of that there are scrub bars that determine where in the text will be in the bar, what the font style will be and how big the font style will be. Below all of that there are 3 different bars that represent the bars when they are enabled, disabled, and when they have a debuff, if you click on the bars it lets you edit the text color and opacity.

This lets you choose which Icons you would like to show on the bars and where you would like to put them. As healers you should probably know about all the hots and debuff's that are on each target so I would suggest that you check all of them. It also gives an option to show the raid icons on the bars, which can also come in handy.

This tab is probably one that you don't pay attention to much since decursive addon works very well at helping you manage curses and poisons. This tab can be a HUGE help however if you learn how to add certain debuff's to it. For example during the deathbringer saurfang encounter nothing shows up on your bars when a raid member gets Mark of the Fallen Champion. However it would be very helpful to see it highlighted on my bar, so to add the debuff to the list of ones shown on healbot you can simply follow these instructions :

• Start by visiting Start by visiting MMO-Champion.com
• Click on the "Item database" button on the left side with the other links.
• You can search for all skills here similar to on wowhead however wowhead does not have the information you will need
• Some useful debuff's that you might want are:
• Mark of the Fallen Champion
• Bone Spike Graveyard (especially helpful in Heroic Mode)
• Vile Gas
• Unbound Plague
• And Many others
• Once you have the Skill you want to add pulled up you copy the skill id # as shown below.
• For example the Mark of the Fallen Champion id # is 72446.

• Then you enter the number into the new debuff tex box on healbot in the game.
• You press Save and poof your done

Other then that I don't use healbot at all to remove curses and abolish diseases because decursive does that all for me. You can once again change the color and opacity of the bars by clicking on them.

Ever had a trouble remembering to give out Mark of the Wild? well with this you can have your entire healbot a different color for people who don't have the buff and that pretty much helps you remember almost all the time to give it out.

Another cool option in this tab is that it lets you choose if you want to give out a certain buff to the entire raid or just to certain people. For example you can set it to show when the people set to tanks don't have Thorns.

At the bottom of this tab there are 2 scrub bars, they will decide when to change the color of the bar back to showing that the member doesn't have the buff any more based on the duration of the buff. "Short buffs" are classified as anything below 1 hour and "Long Buffs" are any buffs that either are an hour long or longer.

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