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The ultimate combat addon
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Post by
regel
I have the following "combat" addons installed:
Necrosis
Omen
Quartz
DoTimer
These four together with WoW standard interface I have the ability to see:
* My own health, buff and debuff
* Target health, buff and debuffs and how much time is left.
* Cold downs.
* The threat against me.
* If the target have fear protection and if I can banish the target.
* Informs me when Nightfall proc and when my soul stone have expired.
* Informs me about the lag time so I am able to throw spells a little bit quicker.
I have a lot of useful information, but the problem is that the information is spread all over my Full HD LCD, which is not good in the middle of a fight. I want to focus my eyes on the fight in the middle of the LCD, but as it is today I have to look
* in the upper left corner for my health and the target health,
* at the bottom action bar for cold downs,
* at a window to the left for threat,
* yet another window to the left for how much time is left for target debuffs,
* the casting bar so I know when I can cast the next spell.
The ultimate addon would be a movable window with the following information:
* One background color when I am able to throw spells and another when some cold down is active and a third if I can not throw a spell because of some enemy spell.
* The first row would show my health in percent and in numbers.
* The second row would show target health in percent and in numbers.
* The third row showing indicators about the threat level, if target can be feared, the probability that the target will die by the current DOTS and maybe some more indicators.
* Maybe a fourth row with other configurable cold downs such as nets, bombs, trinkets and so on.
* A fifth row with a casting bar such as the Quarts one.
* The next following rows will be the target debuffs and the remaining time.
* Another nice feature would be that you could have several such windows which showed the previous targets and that you in an easy way could change target just by clicking another window or by a shortcut key. I find it hard today to update DOTS in a large crowd when you have DOTed several mobs.
Does such addon exist which I have described? The most annoying thing today is that I have to look at the bottom action bar to be able to find out if I can throw a new spell or activate my wand. Are their any existing addon which create a window/bar in middle of the screen with the spell/wand cold down?
Are their any more addons that you can recommend me to use?
Post by
wigg1es
So why can't you just take the addons you're using now and stack them in such a manner to achieve the same effect? They don't have to be anchored all around the edge of your screen. I play on a 23" widescreen (was playing on a 37" until recently), never had any problems (I play a warlock also).
I also think you might be overloading yourself with information. Target buffs and debuffs? Not that important for a warlock. All you need to maintain are your own DoTs and maybe Curse of Elements (but you should know before an encounter if you will need to use that or not), which DoTimer does just fine. Let DoTimer manage your Cooldowns as well.
Fear and Banish? I don't think you're going to want to be casting a lot of Fears in a raid. And if its PvP then you know all players can be Feared, as well as most non-elite mobs. Not really a necessary piece of information worthy of a constant presence on your screen. That probability business isn't really necessary either. Keep casting until the mob stops moving.
Your idea would result in a screen full of windows; information overload.
And for you last little bit, Quartz has a GCD bar, which I think is what you are asking for. Use that.
Post by
regel
Thank you for letting me know that windows is movable in WoW! Even if I move them the readability/"general view" would not be the same as one "tiny" window as I described, with the possibility in an easy way to change target which have DOTs. With debuffs I meant DOTs. I am still leveling and learning the game so personally I have had use of knowing if a target can be feared or banished. I have not seen Quartz GCD bar, but I will look into that this evening. Are their any addons with "movable window" which would display my health/mana and the target health?
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