Two new-to-me add-ons...Follow

I keep forgetting I can use SBF to keep track of (de)buffs on *other* targets as well. One thing I have really disliked about Pitbull from the moment I got it is the way it handles buffs. When someone gets bone spiked I want their icon to emit a huge neon-light glow saying "BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ME OH GOD THE AGONY PLEASE HEAL ME". Pitbull provides me with... nothing at all on this front, making me a lot less useful during encounters like Marrowgar where I have to wait for DBM to tell me who has been spiked and then need to manually find their frame amongst 25 of them. I wonder if SBF can somehow fix this problem for me...

I use a combination of OmniCC (Cooldowns on actionbars) and Satrina Buff Frames.

What I do with SBF is to Define one button frames for things like Vampiric Embrace, Devouring Plaque, SW: Pain, ect. I then place each indicator directly above the actionbar button that casts the corresponding spell. It makes it super easy to see the time left or stacks on a spell. I don't have to look one place to see the spell expiring, then another to recast it. Also in SBF, I have my debuffs Large and more promanently positioned.

Regarding Power Auras. I use it for a couple things. I simple "COH" on screen tells me my Circle of Healing is ready. Giant Circles of pulsating Blue or Red doom tell me I'm positive or negative (yea Naxx), and on my mage, a giant "Danger" across the width of the screen tells me my target is doing a spell reflect.

I really enjoy playing with addons. Here's a cool item. Most people know that TomTom is a nice coordinate addon. When I quit using Carbonite, I started using TomTom for the waypoint arrows. But the cool thing is another addon called TomTomPing. You can choose an option to always point on target. My Vuhdo automatically targets anyone I click. Hmmm, click an out of range person needing a heal, and I get an arrow showing the direction to run. Also get a directional arrow to the tank or that pesky player you need to rez. It's pretty cool.

Other favorites of mine.
Profession leveling - Ackis Recipe List. Know all recipes you are missing and where to get them.
IronChef - Auto chef's hat equipper
Mr. Plow - Bag Sorter
Reagent Counter - Auto-buy Reagents
WrongButtonGoAway - Admit it, you've released when you should have used your Soulstone!!

Edited, Feb 6th 2010 8:54am by dadanox

I believe you can set the highlights to do a specific color for a specified debuff as well, but you're right, configuring it is not intuitive. Always a problem with Pitbull, IMO. But I don't like using highlights for special things like that anyway - the problem is, they overlap. So Pitbull is already giving me a red highlight if there's a disease and a blue highlight for dispellable magic, if I have a yellow highlight for Moz's Super Special Debuff of Doom, it covers the other two, or one of the other two covers it. I prefer to set bars in their own special places to light up the frame in whatever color I want, so I can make sure they don't cover one another up.

Since I haven't seen this posted on alla before I'll add it to this thread. Most of our guild has started using this now and its great. Its called SnowfallKeypress and basically, what it does is make your spells react to a keydown event instead of a keypress event. This means that your spells will fire when your keyboard button is pressed down as opposed to when the button is pressed and then released. It might not sound much but it does make a difference, especially in classes with lots of instant cast abilities

Mothra wins. I dunno what the prize is, but that is awesome.



There is a section on the Icons tab in SBF that lets you move the buttons closer together. Elkano's is nice-looking but for me that hide on mouseover thing SBF does is key. I'm obsessed with having as little static stuff on my screen as possible. I think it comes from years of playing on a 15 inch laptop with huge healing frames taking up the whole screen and what do you mean I was standing in fire I didn't see any fire?

For cooldowns, I like bars better too looks-wise (tidy!) but I also have never found one that's quite right. I want the kind of flexibility Cooldown Buttons gives me to define where I want different cooldowns to show up rather than have them all in one fat unreadable blob. So yeah, if anyone has suggestions I'd be interested too. Cooldowns are one thing I've never found the perfect addon to manage.



I didn't think it took long to set up at all. At least it lets you click and drag stuff around instead of that stupid x-y coordinate crap some add-ons try to pull. (Dear PowerAuras: I know the others love you, but you aren't fooling me. I know you suck.)


Edit: Did y'all check out Mothra's link? The nice man who wrote that add-on also tells you how to make Clique work to do the same thing!

Edited, Jan 8th 2010 8:27am by teacake

Tellmewhen Does this as well.

It does more than just cooldowns, but for cooldowns you can set it to either pop up when the spell becomes available, or to pop up when the spell becomes unavailable and displays the timer of the cooldown.

NeedtoKNow is another good one I use in conjuction with TMW, however it only keeps tracks of buffs and debuffs.

Yeah it shows a countdown now, I use it for my mind blast when I go shadow. I use need to know to keep track of my devouring plague, sw:p, and vampiric touch as shadow, and my serendipity and surge of light procs as holy.

IIRC he does heal. On his shaman. But I already installed SnowFallKeyPress and fully expect to be uber now.

I found it - wasn't on the Icons tab, though. I'm happy now.

As well as setting up SBF to my liking, I scaled down most of my UI a lot more and got a bit more stuff to further improve it today, and I'm quite happy. I bet I'll find more to change tomorrow.

A guildie of mine is always asking about stuff, he's been asking Aeth half the time (my fault) but since Aeth hasn't been online in 2 days (I think), and his journal wasn't enough, I had to explain stuff I don't know about and learned a lot lately. It was fun.



Also, coordinate positioning is awesome for making stuff perfectly symmetrical. I wish Recount and Omen had it.

Hi guys.

Try this addon. It beeps at you when you are standing in the bad stuff, and may get you out of it a second or two sooner. Seriously, you will thank me.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gtfo.aspx

Just sayin, try it anyway. We healers tend to get tunnel vision. I've had the alarm go off when I had no idea I was supposed to move. If nothing else, it can shave a few seconds off your response time. If you don't like if after a couple days, take it off.

Edited, Jan 11th 2010 8:54am by dadanox

On the Ick fight in PoS where the guy throws green **** toward you, the audible alarm actually goes off before it hits the ground where you are standing, and in HoR, some of the stuff on the ground isn't the easiest to see. In any event, It's an addon I really like.

Edited, Jan 11th 2010 11:05pm by dadanox

That is awesome.

Dominos probably would give me a timer if I asked for it, now that you mention it. But then I'd have to make separate toolbars for the things that I want in special places and the perfect symmetry of my Dominos toolbars would be destroyed and then a black hole opens up in the universe and swallows a unicorn.