Has anyone here made or dissected a totally reliable Thaddius "arrows" mod? I'm looking for pseudocode for a function that identifies your charge after a Shift with enough reliability to use in practice.

What I've been using:

1) Trigger on "Now you feel pain."
2) Monitor debuffs until I find something called "Positive Charge" or "Negative Charge" with duration > 0:55.
3) After a set amount of time (I've been using 0.5 seconds), check debuff and report.

It usually works. But sometimes, it falls prey to the effect described here:
http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewtopic.php?id=8230 (post 9).

Even 1-2 errors in a night is enough for me to want to just scrap it. Before I do, I thought I'd ask what other people did, and how well it worked.

Any advice is appreciated.

Just make everyone do it without mods. Problem solved. -50 dkp to anyone failing to move :)

Like I said, barring an easy solution, what we're going to do.

Do you know whether you have anyone who has the "timer updates before icon" problem? If so, does it work fine for them?

because of the sometimes lag when polarity switches, an addon just doesn't seem like it can be consistent. When we were learning the encounter we used I believe RDX but after a few wipes of people saying the arrow was wrong, we told everyone to stop using it and just look at your debuff.

Well, we do have several people that die every single time, but i beleive this has nothing to do with this, same people had consistant movement difficulties in other enctounters.
Except those few all other deaths are attributed to not having mod or not turning it on. However i should note that we use Circular strat and somebody moving wrong isn't a catastrophic failure.

In my opinion it's not good to rely on an addon to that extent. It's so easy to just watch what buff you get and there really is no excuse to miss it (it's not like his cast animation is very subtle).

It's just like on C'Thun. Before killing him we had many people relying on a mod telling when the red beam was pointed in their direction and not bothering looking at the eye. Needless to say this caused a lot of pointless wipes.

With circular, if someone lags or whatnot, they don't move at all, and cause no damage to either camp.

We use an inhouse mod that hasn't had a failure since our server saw hardware upgrades. I believe it uses a 1 second lag from shift-cast to debuff check.

My guild uses amthaddius its kind of like bigwigs but better, it uses the 4 point system as well once you get it down its very easy. And thanks to the guys of aftermath for releasing your mod its very helpful.

http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...mthaddius.html

Right, but he said, "moving wrong," so I was just wondering.

And actually, since we'ce just started learning the fight, people are still pretty slow. Someone not oving at all generally causes trouble.