coldbear

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Author of "Every Boss In The Game" (3.0.9), "100 Dead Death Knights", "Fun In Ulduar", "Guide: How To Feral DPS" videos:
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/pv.php?t=3&l=parl2001

 

Acearan

Very nice thread just wanted to add some useful tanking addons.

Outfitter - Addons - Curse: Auto equips gear for you with one click of a button or a macro. Very handy for people like me that go from bear to cat alot during raids.

TankPoints - Addons - Curse: Find tour self comparing two items and wondering which is better? Tank points adds a tool tip to your items. It grades each item by survivability avoidance and mitigation.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...kwarnings.aspx (Tank Warnings): Informs your party/raid when your growl misses, when you use your AoE taunt, survival Instincts, or even trinkets.

"Druids, they are so stupid they can tank better than warriors, out damage rogues, and nuke as well as mages. On top of that they can turn into a mutated seal."

 

Meranannon

Thank you for the link
but correct URL for DroodFocus Addon is
Drood Focus - Addons - Curse

 

Artemas

Very nice thread, thank you very much.

I would love you TO DEATH if by any chance you (or anyone) manage to find Minimap Blip enhancement Add-On for ferals/hunter PvP (track humanoid). Examples would be Personal Sentry and ICU, but I believe both of them no longer works since 3.0.2.

 

kalbear

Drood Focus is...problematic. There are a number of issues with it. For starters, it does not customize all that well. You cannot turn off killing blow animations which look vaguely idiotic. The numbers by the icons are not on the icons themselves like all other buffs do and there's no way to customize this. If you want to watch anything else, this is impossible as well; it's whatever they list, however they want it to.

The HUD is pretty much...not a HUD. It's very large, takes up too much graphical space and the font is unadjustable.

It's a shame, because it's this close to being good. It's just not good enough.

 

Mijae

I really liked using Drood Focus in BC. However, at the time I took the code and hacked out all the stupid stuff. When LK went live I looked for an update to do the same thing, but never found it. Maybe I'll try hacking it again.

Feral DruidStats spreadsheet
v3.2.0.0.xls - updated 8/4/2009

 

Yukizawa

I recently created this addon: Facemauler - Addons - Curse.

It takes a slightly different track than all of the other buff watchers out there. Rather than showing you the debuffs, it recommends a button to press to do max dps in the form of the Icon for the next spell. It is still a work in progress, based off of (and still containing a few references to) a similar mod for DKs named FaceSmasher by Falie (used with permission) . I'd be interested to see if anyone else finds it useful.

The formula could still use some tweaking, so let me know if you have any suggestions.

 

Beartotem

I found this one on WowInterface: Auracle (De)Buff Monitor : WoWInterface Downloads : Ace: Buffs

It's a buff and debuff monitor (obviously) that allow quite a bit of customisation, and I found it pretty easy to configure.

 

PrayForDeath

Nice post.

I personally use ClassTimer for general buff/debuff tracking. I have it setup to only show buffs/debuffs pertaining to my own class (barkskin, savage roar, demo roar, rip, etc.), and the bars are positioned in the middle of my screen above my portrait/target portrait. I still have the normal UI buffs at the top right.

I also use TellMeWhen, but for a different purpose than most other users I think. Mine doesn't light up when I cast a specific debuff or any of that. It does quite the opposite, displaying large icons for buffs/debuffs that are missing (only in combat of course). It makes keeping up the various cat buffs/debuffs very simple and easy (basically my dps goal becomes eliminating all the large TellMeWhen icons while following the guidelines in the Cat DPS thread; if none are showing then I know I'm playing it right). ClassTimer still shows me a bar for them, but this mod reminds me to refresh them when I zone out while dpsing or get tunnel-visioned/distracted by fight mechanics or w/e. I really can't DPS without it anymore. I currently have it set up to show if any of the following are missing: FFF, Rip, Rake, Tiger's Fury (shows when it's ready to be cast), SR, and mangle.

Of course, this mod is useless if all you do is practice on a target dummy, since your focus will be on your DPS and you can easily tell what's missing. You'll appreciate its value in real raid settings with lots of stuff going on around you where it becomes easy to lose track of your buffs/debuff while dancing on heigan, anticipating polarity shifts, looking for a spark, etc... Only thing I dislike is how it counts hunter pets' rake as your own, and has bear/cat mangles as separate debuffs.

I've tried all-in-one addons such as Drood Focus before, and while they're nice and can offer some pretty cool features, I felt they added too many unnecessary features for my UI.

 

Merendel

One add on I found useful was Hear Kitty, it adds sounds on CP generation. Each time you gain a CP it plays a different sound in a rising scale based on how many you now have letting you track CP audibly after a minute or two of getting used to it. I dont get to play kitty that often anymore (guild needed a strong healer) but I found cat much more interesting and easier to manage when I could keep an eye on the buffs/debuffs and not keep looking at the CP to know when to finish.

 

Nathariel

Event Horizon is not bad as a tool to help get rotations right. Fixed length Timer mod with marks for damage ticks.

EventHorizon : WoWInterface Downloads : Casting Bars and Cooldowns

 

Wickedgirl

double post by accident.

 

Wickedgirl

This is more a kind of cautious question, since my knowledge of the mechanics of how the addons actually work is limited. But the thing I had noticed is that after I respecced my druid to Moonkin for a few hours (on live servers), FaceMauler kept spamming me with errors, which would not stop until I disabled it. Now this was not a big issue of course, since why would I need it at all if I was playing Moonkin...

But - the situation became a little bit more worrying on the PTR, where I tried out a dual build of Cat/Moonkin, and was still getting errors every time i changed to moonkin. With full awareness that the addon will probably need to be updated to accommodate the 3.1 changes, I was wondering if you are taking into account that some ferals will be either moonkin or resto dual specc after 3.1? The error starts showing only when a potentially hostile target is targeted, and it stops when you target a friendly one. My intuitive (but not educated!) guess tells me that Mangle is the issue here (since in Bear form it is showing Mangle as a suggestion, but it is not producing errors), and if it is, would it be possible to fix it somehow, so dual specced druids do not have to disable it? And thank you for working on the addon, it is quite helpful.

[e] I am using the "j" version, if it is of any pertinence.

 

Yukizawa

You are probably right about mangle being the issue, berserk also possibly. I need to update it to check for talented abilities so it doesn't go nuts when you arn't feral. I'll look into it once the PTR gets more stable and I can more easily test that kind of update.

 

• Falk

I'd like to give a prop-up to Event Horizon. The way the data is displayed shows at-a-glance more useful information, like how close together SR and Rip will expire, vs Rake and Mangle duration lengths, vs when TF and Berserk will come back up, all against each other in a linear timeline fashion. Maybe it's just because I come from a rhythm game background but this addon was a lot more useful than generic cooldown counters/alerts which comprise the majority of other addons.

It does take a bit of LUA tweaking to customize to your liking (for example I have mine show only in cat form, with clearcasting followed by the two finishers, then everything else) but it's really, really worth it.

 

Fringe_Worthy

Ya. The problem seems to be it's trying to get details on Tiger's Fury, and the current call is returning nulls for expected duration. The addon is not properly suppressing itself when it should. I did notice it doing nasty performance hits on my DK. (Though, that's because it's fighting with Bugsack storing away those thousands of errors) I hadn't checked cat/moonkin or the like. Now I guess Face-Smasher's approach isn't quite enough since while you're always a DK, you're not always a cat?

I think another issue I noticed is that it's doing something like:
if bear-mangle is active on foe.
. mangle duration = dur
if cat-mangle is active on on foe.
. mangle duration = dur

You'd think you'd want to use max(bear-mangle dur, cat-mangle-dur). Or take the greatest of bear mangle with (warrior?) trauma as an external bleed source. Of course, I was looking for that sort of thing since I've had bear/warrior/manglespec/my-shred-cat in my raids.

I'm pretty sure this is from the most recent Curses.com version (assuming it's not been updated today/last night)

 

Yukizawa

Your right about the suppressing itself, I'm not doing it right. I haven't had a chance to fix that yet. As for the mangle duration stuff, it actually works fine as as, or it should in theory. Mangle - Bear, Mangle - Cat, and Trauma are all mutually exclusive. If one goes up, the other drops. That way, as long as one of them has a duration, it's the only one that matters.

 

Meranannon

Well well,it's true.
At start, i made this addon for me and i don't care about customization.
But the latest version provides more thing. Please take a look. thanks.

 

RareBeast

Another useful feature for FaceMauler would be a check to see if the character loaded is a druid. My alts still have the facemauler frame visible which is a bit of a nuisance. Of course I could only load the mod for that one particular toon, but then everytime you make use of the un/load all button you have to set it all up again.

Other than that, I am enjoying using the add-on and it is certainly allowing me to get in extra FB's that I would probably have missed without the mod.

 

Yukizawa

I believe I have fixed the errors when not on a druid / not in cat form in the latest release (0.9k). I think it's about ready to call 1.0 and then start tuning the algorithm it uses. Let me know if it doesn't work for you, it worked for my hunter.

 

manapaws

Speaking of addons, does anyone use a Pitbull tag to identify when a boss is bleeding (ie has rip, rake, hunterpetrake, rend, rupture, etc) for the purposes of Rend and Tear talent?

Or (probably more useful) one that shows if mob contains cat mangle or bear mangle or trauma?

 

PrayForDeath

I remember seeing the author of BadKitty post somewhere in these forums, but I can't remember where exactly. If you're reading this thread, I have one request.

I love the addon, and it's helped me alot with DPS, but it's taking up a huge space on my screen. I play on a 1920x1200 res, and my skill bars are relatively small, but I can't seem to find a way to resize BadKitty's spell icons frame (the one with the icons that disappear once you use a skill, not the CD bars frame.) I also tried editing the addon files, but I'm not expert with addons and couldn't add the functionality.

I'd really appreciate it if you could let us resize the frames.

 

jminhas

Anyone have any suggestions for addons which help for feral tanking?
I currently use nothing, other then the essentials (DBM and Omen),
feel like I could be a better tank if I used SOMETHING.

 

Observer

Is there an add-on that does, in some form, what RAWR does? I had an add-on in TBC that would add information to each item's tooltip indicating cat DPS, bear DPS, and bear mitigation. I'm sure many of the calculations were dumbed-down, but it was still fairly accurate and enabled me to tell at a glance whether an item would be significantly better than what I had, about the same, or significantly worse.

But I haven't found anything like that for WotLK, and it's a pain to open RAWR every time I see a new item (especially when leveling up).

*edit* I assume TankPoints does something like that and am installing it now.... is there anything for DPS in feral forms?

 

tifereth

Sounds like you want something like "Rating Buster". It doesn't convert stats into pure DPS values (which would be situational and misleading anyway), neither does it take your whole gear into account. It compares the statistics on your current item and the one you mouse over and tells you how much ratings are worth to you and if it is a boost or downgrade in a particular stat. This should suffice for a quick analysis of wether an item is worth rolling/bidding/'whatever it is you do in your raids' for.