Pyrenus wrote:
I understand what you're saying. I shouldn't have said Decursive specifically. For me it works well, but I don't use Grid or Healbot. (XPerl + Clique)
The more experience I get (less than some regulars here, I freely admit) - and especially as we get close to hardmodes - it becomes clearer to me why it's a constant theme in "serious" forum UI discussions to make people's interfaces simpler, to shrink the footprint or make more information available in the same space, to reduce the number of places to focus, to maximize the space where you can see what's actually happening in the raid. Never to increase the footprint, or add bells and whistles, or spread vital information around the screen, or present the same thing in two places (or, worse, in two different ways in two places).
Especially with a new player, or a player new to raiding, I wanted to emphasize that there will never be a better time to start this process. Decursive, in its day, filled a vital need (so I hear, I wasn't around at the time). Since then, raid frames have improved, and the allowable functions for addons have been tightened - so it adds value, yes, but it's not unique anymore. A raid frame can provide the same information, in a place you're already looking.
Everyone who's been doing a job for a while has accumulated some things that are quirky, and which work for them. The more streamlined you can force yourself to be when you start, it seems that the fewer of these quirks you'll accumulate.