Another part to consider about raiding addons is they fall into three catergories

Planning Addons - Addons which help with planning out your strategy on the first few times you come to a boss
Status Addons - Addons which provide information during the actual boss fight
Reporting Addons - Addons which provide you information on how things went after the attempt (/combatlog with WWS included)

Just a rough sketch, before I take off from work, of what I would like to possibly see in a healing display (with stacking HoTs in mind)..

There is a mod that kind of does this, in a limited way. It is called Healing Estimator and it shows your target's current health, and their expected health after your current heal spell lands.

There are limitations to the current implementation:
- It only works on your current target
- It only works when you are casting a direct heal
- It only shows the predicted effect of your heals

... but it may be a starting point. I think something like this would be great for a raid as a whole. Renew is mathematically a very efficient spell, but in practice it gets terrible returns because three people will cast Renew on someone and then someone else will heal the person directly.

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

Healing Estimator isn't the only one -

HealersAssist plus a few plug-ins (and eCastingBar) create a great way to do this. My casting bar shows the HP deficit of the person, the expected heal size, and turns the bar red if it's going to be an overheal.


You can macro Renew such that it will not cast if Renew is already up. (But I have not found out a way to do this with any click-casting mods.)



One of the things I'd really like to see in BC would be to have the game notify you when your own HOTs and DOTs fade. A simple addition of
"Your Renew faded from Joe."
"Your Shadow Word: Pain faded from Uglymob."
would be nice. Slouken would have to add this, though.



Right now, I might be able to see that Joe just went from 5 renews to 4, but I don't know if mine was the one that just faded.

If the HoT mod does get developed, it would be nice to see bandages treated as a HoT.

One thing I would like to see is possibly a reversal of Debuff Filter, where a raid leader can have a list of expected debuffs on the mob (and changable configurations for each boss or trash fight of course). Then, when an expected debuff is not up, they'll be able to respond to its abscence quickly. Expanding that to the raid/tanks for buffs would also be awesome. It's just with the number of buffs/debuffs that will be available in a raiding enviroment, for raid leader purposes it'll often be more important to know what's missing rather than what's on the mob or party members.

On a PvP/raiding note, it would also be useful for party/raid members to know what long cooldown abilities are available. I know CTRaid already does this with Combat Rezes, but adding on things like Shield Wall, Blood Lust, Shaman Elementals, Jewelcrafting Necklaces etc would be very useful.

There already is a debuff filter, works very well.
http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...ff-filter.html

He said the reverse of Debuff Filter ;)

Ah yes. That would be pretty easy to modify dfilter, too, except maybe for the stacking ones.

Interisting seeing the lethon one. I never really understood it goes around in a circle like that, thought it was just 20 seconds on one side then 20 seconds on the other side.

As to player positioning i woul be vary wary about fiddling too much with that. A way to coordinate group positions between eachother would be nice. Heck blizzard should really allow raid positions to show on minimap and zone maps for instances. But the 'programs' i have seen to show real time positioning of objects in a 2d minimap like style are guarannteed to be eula violating. They even recommend only running it on a seperate machine so its risky to say the least.

Cryect the tank facing is interisting as most tanks face their target so you can imply a targets positioning from the reverse of a tanks facing if you the mob has aggro on said tank. That gives interisting applications to conal aoes. And the lethon mod could be modified to show compass direction of shadow whirl rather than relative to mob.

Apart from that the only legit method i would consider using is range based triangulation, though that would get cpu intensive very quickly. Simple version would be:

a ---- tank- mob ---- b

Things to communicate would be range to 2 other targets and direction facing. If we assume people always face the enemy a faces east b faces west. If a is > 10 yards from tank and b is > 10 yards from tank we can assume a and b are 20 yards together at closest. Gets error prone though.

There are some blizzard targeting functions which can be changed with cvars though to reduce angle, so if you really wanted to could modify the ini file to check whether friendly targets are in an x degree arc. Not certain if cycling in that way requires a keypress or not. Range can also be adjusted.

Those are third party programs that get the info straight from packets which is all in violation of the EULA. The stuff I'm doing can only be done for players and with an associated communication lag since each player only knows their coordinates relative to a certain point and no one else till it they communicate.

Potentially but makes several more assumptions than I like.

LUA Functions will no longer be able to target in combat so that won't be possible but yes I had considered it by constructing a BSP based on is a target in front of a player or not to determine a target position then figured if I did something like that it just ensure Blizzard nerfs stuff faster.