Its that Voodoo that You (un)Do.

Today's topic will be quick and simple.  It's about my addon i call voodoo, but the maker spells it Vuhdo.  but its pronounced the same.  in any case, its a "healing" addon +decurse. now i put healing in quotes because, although its marketed specifically as a healing addon, it does way more than that.

1. it works with mouseover macros as if you were pointing your mouse over the raid/party member's portrait.
2. it works with more than just healing spells.
3. it alerts you with dispellable debuffs (curses, magic, slows, snares, poison, etc) and with mouseover macros or clickcasting, you can decurse with ease.
4. it works like clique, where you can bind mousekeys to actions (rightclick=heal, leftclick=renew) when mouseover.
5. it works with your scrollwheel!!!!!!!!!!!
6. its highly customizable and works with your macros.
7. there's more.  i just cant think of it right now.


What it does is this, it gives you a bunch of health bars in any configuration you want.  but it works fine right out of the box.

Snapshot 1          Snapshot 2         Snapshot 3

Here are three screenshots i've taken on my paladin in a 5man group.



Let me explain the image above a little.  i was in a 5man group and decided to take snapshots of my Vuhdo health bars during one single fight. 

Snapshot 1:

The first health bar shows Meatdept and Zagak with a magic debuff.  The blue color tells me i can cast Purify.  I also have it so that any curses on my team will change their healthbars to purple.

You can also see in the first party frame snapshot is that Zagak (who's a rogue) grabbed aggro too early. I have it set so that i can see a red box around his healthbar plus red arrows around his name.  This lets me know instantly who has aggro.

Snapshot 2:
The middle snapshot shows Zagak at full health and Meatdept taking aggro back. not much to see here except that Zagak has his health back and things are as they should be, with the tank having aggro. Note that their healthbars are still blue.  In this case, i think they were slowed by some frost spell, but it could mean any kind of magic debuff, including polymorph, etc.

Snapshot 3:
I decide to purify the two suckers.  so i put my mouse pointer over their names and scrolled up on my mousewheel.  you dont see it happening, but that's exactly what i did.  and bam! their debuff is gone. you can see Zagak has taken damage but he does not have aggro.  this usually means a mob has some kind of AoE spell thats tearing up the melee.  but i let the healers deal with that.

As a paladin (DPS no less), i have Purify on MouseScrollWheel UP. I have Cleanse on MouseScrollWheel DOWN.  its that simple.  If you're used to Decursive addon, you can set the Purify/Cleans to Left and right mouse clicks if you want.  yep, that easy.

My other DPS/RET paladin commands are as such:
Left Click:  Flash of Light (especially useful when i have Art of War up)
Right Click:  Righteous Defense (yes i use this sometimes to save the healer.  better me dead than him/her... always.  though this does piss the tank off sometimes.)
Mouse Button 4: Hand of Freedom
Mouse Button 5: Hand of Salvation
Alt+Left Click: Targets the player.
Alt+Right Click: Hand of Protection (I use this often but usually never on the tank)

Although i can customize the mouseclicks with the shift key and control key, its already pretty complicated.  add to that the fact that i dont use my "Hand of" spells all that often, i may accidentally give someone hand of something they dont want.  and no one wants a hand of something bad.

So my Vuhdo, it does more than just help me with click-healing.  it helps me with decursing, dispelling, removing disease, taunt, casts my hands spells, casts some healing spells, and and and.... add to that some mouseover macros, and you have yourself an awesome healing tool.


Holy PVP. Yes i went ahead and made Devynity a holy PVP spec solely for BG's and WG (Battlegrounds and Wintergrasp).   And i made it so that Vuhdo can distinguish between Spec 1 (ret) and Spec 2 (holy). Awesome, aint it?

Now in doing this, i try to keep things pretty similar.  Meaning, my Purify is on mousescrollwheelup. and my Cleanse is on mousescrollwheeldown.

But i've changed my buttons a little.  I no longer need Righteous Defense, as it will not work on other players.  Instead, my Right Click is now Holy Light. The hands spells are the same. but i've added several mouseover macros to help assist in healing.

As a pvp paladin, i also expect myself to attack at times.  so some of my usual DPS spells are still there like Judgements, Hammer of Justice, Consecrate, Exorcism and Hammer of Wrath.

What i've added was a mouseover button for Holy Shield, Holy Shock and Beacon of Light.
The macro's looks like this:

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, help] [] Holy Shield

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, help] [@mouseover, harm] [] Holy Shock

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, help] [] Beacon of Light

Note that my Holy Shock macro has a condition for "harm" as well as "help".  this is because holy shock will do damage to enemies as well as heal friendlies. 
the empty brackets "[]" is coding for a failsafe feature.  it means, if all conditions arent met, then it tells computer to "just cast Holy Shock as you would normally do it if it wasnt in a macro."
This [] will also allow me to use holy shock on myself if i press ALT.  as well, it will cast holy shock on whoever i have targetted manually. 

So with those few macros, and Vuhdo, i am able to run out into the battlefield of WG and cause some holy hell, or holy healing, or whatevers, for a while.  Now i could have added holy shield and holy shock to my Vuhdo instead of making mouseover macros.  but i find that it would totally confuse me when i switch back to ret for those moments of Hand of Protection, or Hand of Freedoms.