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How to create a group of icons for players' defensives

As a healer, it is very useful to know when your teammates have a defensive rolling, to de-prioritize them. In particular, it is very important to see if your tank has a rolling defensive (there are some peculiar cases here, hello Vengeance and Blood, but you can still see some things). Let's see how we easily create an indicator to display the defensives up on each player.

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Enter /grid2 in your chat

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Navigate to Statuses > Buffs and enter the name of the Buffs group you want to create, here I named it DefensiveCooldowns. Click Okay and Create.

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Navigate to the group you have created and enter the list of abilities you want to track. Here is my list of defensives:

Blessing of Sacrifice Ardent Defender Divine Protection Ancient Guardian Guardian of Ancient Kings Blessing of Spellwarding Shield Block Shield Wall Last Stand Survival Instincts Barkskin Frenzied Regeneration Vampiric Blood Dancing Rune Weapon Icebound Fortitude Anti-Magic Shell Pain Suppression Guardian Spirit Fortifying Brew Dampen Harm Metamorphosis Blur Diffuse Magic Life Cocoon Ironbark Alter Time Ice Block Feint Cloak of Shadows Astral Shift Divine Shield Shield of Vengeance Dispersion Fade Desperate Prayer Dark Pact Spell Reflection Die by the Sword Enraged Regeneration Frenzied Regeneration Barkskin Unending Resolve Demon Spikes Time Dilation

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Next, we will need an indicator that can display more than one of them at the same time. Navigate to Indicators and create a new icons indicator. I named it DefensivesIcons here. Select where you want to see this group of icons on the frames, here I picked LEFT. Click Okay and Create.

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Navigate to the indicator you have created and select the buffs group you built before. Now you will see the defensives on every player's frame! This will be very useful as you progress through higher keys.

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