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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

double post by accident.

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.

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.