Since I've seen a lot of rogue-related theorycraft around here, I figured I'd plug my new mod (found at: http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=2521 ).

The concept is that, in a normal raid scenario, your have to repeatedly look back and forth between the fight at hand and your SnD buff timer so that you don't refresh slice and dice too early, which wastes combo points and energy, or possibly having it run out for a few seconds not running at all.

So, I wanted to move the buff timer. Instead, after one thing leading to another, it led me to write a channeling bar, so to speak, that shows the time left on slice and dice. This way you can internalize the Slice and Dice info using just your peripheral vision, while maintaining focus on the rest of the fight. Below is a screenshot of it "in action", where the blue bar is counting down (the "1" in the middle is how many combo points I currently have on the target - this text can be toggled to show the number of seconds left on Slice and Dice).

So, if Wodin or any other rogue would be interested, I hope you'll take a minute to download it and check it out. Please put any feature requests and/or bug reports on the wow-forum thread here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...e&T=1089129&P=1

Thanks in advance for any comments/questions,
Discopfeand

Very cool, thanks Wodin. Also, for quick reference since I'm not sure it was obvious on the mod page ( i just edited the page so for future visitors they are there), here are the commands:


/discodice and /ddice are interchangeable.
/ddice show shows the bar and lets you move it.
/ddice hide returns the bar to its hidden state until you next use Slice and Dice.
/ddice display [combo/timer] toggles between the bar text being combo points or seconds left.
(actually, on this one, you choose 'combo' or {anything else} if it doesn't see 'combo',
it's going to display the time remaining)
/ddice talent [0/1/2/3] [i]registers you as having that many points in improved Slice and Dice.
example: '/ddice talent 2' would tell it that you have 2 out of 3 points in improved SnD.
/ddice scale [put number from 0.5 to 3 here] scales the size of the bar on your screen.
/ddice status tells the current status of DiscoDice
/ddice on turns on the mod (default)
/ddice off now why would you ever want to do this...? :)

Minor bug report: reapplying when your buff hasn't expired doesn't always reset the timer. I had one instance where the blue bar vanished but I had 10s left on my SnD buff.

alright, thanks much, i'll have to figure out why that would happen. I haven't seen that yet, but i'm sure there's a corner case somewhere I didn't think about which would have made the behavior you saw possible.

oh, nm, i just got in game and found it.

Example:
you do a 5 pt SnD (with 3/3 talent), you get 27 seconds on it.

you cast a 1 point SnD 10 seconds later.

the bar refreshes to 10, even though your actual buff doesn't get overwritten by the smaller value. So, the bar will dissappear in 10 seconds, but slice and dice will go another 7 seconds beyond that because of the initial 5 point SnD's time encompassing those.

So, i'll have to modify the code for that scenario. thanks so much!

This is beautiful. Downloading. Thank you Disco.

Alright, new version is up. The bug that Wodin found is fixed (Wodin credited in patch notes). Thanks to those who have given it a spin!

http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=2521

I've had something similar to this set up using THFlextimers, and an annoyingly long macro (i also use flextimers for a rupture timer, although the only time i really use rupture is ony phase 2...), and it makes life so much easier than constantly watching the timer on the buff icon. But having it as a complete dedicated mod is definitely more convenient.

Thanks for your effort!

Thank you for this! :laugh:

I had this idea a few days ago as well, and I ended up modifying AceTimer a bit to make it work. Keeping track of my Ruptures and Kicks was an added bonus.

I used this on our raid today, pretty nice :).