Baower

I've been using Power Auras to monitor my Serpent Sting and it has worked great.

Now I'm trying to configure it to alert me when BA is off of cooldown since I don't like Tellmewhen. For some reason I get the aura up at seemingly random times and it often goes away when I hit the shift key. (I macro BA to a shift modifier) I configured it as an Action Available and tried a Spell Alert but no joy.

I'm also trying to qualify it to be active when in a raid and in combat so I have both of those selections active.

Any help from Hunters who have managed this?

 

Sympa

Hi there! Since I posted the revamped SympaUI for my hunter there has been a good deal of interest in my set up for event horizon. For this we are going to jump into the way back machine. 'In my day when we had to walk up hill both..' A long while back there was another hunter addon which attempted to deal with shot rotations in a similar way. I am forgetting the name at the moment but have a link to a previous UI iteration where I used it.



The failure of that addon and really where Eventhorizon succeeds is the way in which the addons display the same style of information. Eventhorizon has a built in 'tick' state if you will showing you when your next shot will be available in line with current casts.

Now for the actual meat of this post. The way eventhorizonworks, there is no setup menu and thus mostly no information in the WTF folder. Almost all of the setup except positioning is in the .lua files of the addon itself. I currently only have two configurations set up for it, one for surv and one for marks.



Action Shot:


If you want to add more spells or debuffs/cooldowns to track you will need to open the config.lua file within the hunter extension for the mod. Just copy the syntax already in use and you should be good to go.

I've included everything you'll need to see this as is in the screenshots. Package includes SharedMediaLib EventHorizon and the EventHorizon Hunter plugin. Enjoy!

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Whitemane

It's a bit more useful this way. It will show the Hunter's Mark for any hunter, not just your own.

Actually come to think about it this should do the same and look much cleaner.

 

Meluda

From the Comments on Power Auras on Wowinterface it seems this might be due to the spell not being on a Blizzard Bar, but e.g. on a Macaroon macrobar. A solution would be to put it on a Blizzard bar and subsequently hide it again. Hope this helps you.

 

Baower

At the time I was suspecting something of the sort so I moved a clean icon onto my primary action bar. Unfortunately it didn't seem to work. It might be because I still had the shift modifier macro on the bar as well.

*edit* not using a macrobar, just Bartender. I'll dig into that more tho, thanks.

sigh, gonna have to mess around some more. I'm not giving up shift-f to fire BA, I'm perilously close to hand cramping during raids as it is. Hunters: Leading cause of Carpal Tunnel since 3.09

Thanks for the reply.

 

Rawshark

Hey Baower,

I had a similar issue when I wanted to add BA. What I did was copy the SrS aura buff because I was happy with that one and then change the timer (and visual) so that it would run the entire time of the CD.

I know that the effect runs out before then but I know that if my Aura for SrS and BA leave me then I need to reapply. With the SrS, the Aura goes away 2 sec before the sting runs out so I reapply. With BA the Aura runs the full CD time even though the effect runs out earlier. (Can't reapply then anyways there is going to be downtime no matter what)

It makes it easy for me so that I know that if these two Auras are not around me all the time then it is time to reapply.

I hope this helps. As far as the modifier, I too have it with a shift and a key and it works fine for me.

Enthar

Edit
*Misquote - My response was in reference to your original question regarding the set up of BA to the Aura

 

Bobcat

Keep in mind that when PowerAuras does an Action Usable check, it looks at your actionbars. If a macro action button does any sort of tooltip changes (due to modifiers, etc), it can't be used to evaluate a single shot properly.

I think the best practice is to drag your shots (the ones you are going to check for an Action Usable aura) straight from the spellbook to an actionbar; hide this bar if need be.

Obviously, you'll still be firing your shots using your macros and wacky bindings, but tell Power Auras to check those true blue action buttons. My BA aura does an Action Usable check for "Black Arrow", and it works just fine this way. Same goes for Kill Shot, Explosive Shot, and Aimed Shot (but not Serpent Sting since its duration is greater than its cooldown).

UPDATE: If you have both the macro button and the original spell button on your bars, your macro can't have #showtooltip. It will probably confuse PowerAuras. Manually set the icon to Black Arrow's icon if that's a big deal.

 

Gadget

I just placed a five-button bartender4 bar right in the middle of the screen containing the main shots. That way I can have my eyes on the encounter and surroundings and still have cooldowns in sight. OmniCC for CDs on buttons in general.

 

Baower

Yup, problem fixed. I just pulled the shift modifier out of the macro, moved BA to a hidden bar and mapped shift-f to it. Now that I have powa working I don't need to see the button for the cooldown.

Thanks for the help Bobcat and everyone else who pitched in.

 

Gaj

I know there was some talk of modifying Shock and Awe and I just found this:

ShotAndAwe - Addons - Curse



I also saw this:

WoW AddOns - Watcher - CurseForge.com



Which potentially looks like it could be very nice.

 

Boomshalock

With the change to sniper training, has anyone thought up or come across an addon that monitors the buff and maybe just displays a "Stop" 6 seconds before it fades?

My biggest gripe is the buff counts down from 15 seconds to seconds 9 before it refreshes instead if counting down once you begin to move again.

 

gokudbzss5

I have found myself looking mainly at my action bars instead of the boss, where most of my CD addons are located (power auras, shot and awe, etc), because of me not being able to correctly anticipate the GCD. I was wondering if anyone knows an addon that places a timer on the GCD (or how to configure an add on to do this).

 

erelenne

as a new-to-raiding player, i am finding the information given in these posts invaluable...thank you so much!

 

• Nagisamuro

Quartz has a GCD spark line thing. Works well.

 

Iru

AzCastBar does as well, although it may be in an addon pack, for those who are no longer fans of Quartz

It also has a swing timer if you're trying to autoshot while running from certain bosses.

 

awrr

Not really the fix you were looking for, but I just set up a new buff group in Elkano's BB that whitelists Sniper Training (and excludes everything else).

I've reduced the size/transparency and placed the bar right by my player unitframe. My uptime has been pretty easy to maintain using that.

Example:


If you're using EBB already, that method may work as a quick fix until you find an addon with the specific functionality you're looking for.

 

Boomshalock

That works perfect. Thanks!

 

dvorjak

Are there any addons that merge the recount and omen windows?

 

KnThrak

Not directly, but there exist threat modules both for Recount and for Skada (another damage meter).

SQUEAK.
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Iru

Skada will auto-toggle between DPS & Threat display: threat in combat & DPS out. Given that you don't care about Threat except in combat and that all threat meters use the WoW API these days, I find the combination perfectly workable. You can also have multiple skada windows open at the say time if you really want both all the time.

 

arlen

Recount also auto-toggles between DPS and Threat when you have the threat module installed.

 

Sanicek

Just rebuilt my UI and thought I would share some thoughts on matters discussed here.

Regarding the sniper training tracking - I am using Class Timer and you can easily add custom buff/debuff tracking in there, for example I added Sniper training, Lock and Load, Hyperspeed Acceleration (engi haste gloves), Reflection of Torment (Mirror of Truth proc buff) and Misdirection, its a great way to easily track your specific auras.

Event Horizon is simply an amazing addon, if you want to track any other spells that are currently not in there, just add it to the config.lua, follow the pattern and enter the spell ID of your desired spell. Easiest way to get one is go to wowhead, search for your spell and copy the ID from the url, it matches the game one, for example Concussive Shot (just as an example) is www.wowhead.com/?spell=5116.

Regarding global CD and threat watching (among many other very usefull options) I can suggest IceHUD, which has these as very configurable modules, if you do not like huds, you can even play with the settings and enable just few modules and move them around and shape, so you have just a bar for what you want.

Misdirection - I found the easiest way to do this is simply use Clique (I am using that plenty for my healing chars, for hunter the MD is probably the only useful thing), choose a mouse button (or with modifier combination) and you can MD by just clicking the unit frame of the tank with what you selected (I'm using middle). You MD without ever loosing your target or any other fuss, I found this to be the most comfortable solution by far.

 

Iru

I love IceHUD but hate that it's Ace 2.0 based when everything else has moved to Ace 3.0. If UnderHood supported curved bars it would be almost perfect - having to set each item separately, e.g. setting the font on each text item, is still annoying.

 

Korghal

An addon which I think deserves more attention is OPie. The basic idea of OPie is to cause a "ring" to appear on a certain key click. When this ring appears, you can drag the mouse in different direction, and each direction causes a spell to trigger. If you of you played Battlefield 2, it works just as the com radio. It's a bit hard to explain in text, but there is a video at the authors website that should explain everything.

Basically, what I think is so great with OPie, is that I can have all my aspects on one button, all tracking on one button etc. Before I installed OPie I had to either dedicate loads of keybinds to these rather similair spells, or key-click then (which I don't do).

The biggest disadvantage with OPie (when playing a hunter) is to change aspects while kiting. When I kite, I always use the mouse to point out my direction. This I cannot do should I require to change an aspect while running.

Anyways, I hope that some of you find it as helpful as I have.

OPie Home

When I re-read my posts is sounds almost like a marketing-ad, but it's not. I just use it and like it alot.

 

Aieda

Hey everyone,

I have grown really fond of this addon and so thought I would share it with you all:
World of Warcraft Addons by Bangerz - BangAutoAmmo

I'm a cheap person and so I use my shiny expensive engineering bullets on bosses only, and the cheaper bullets on trash. What this addon does is switch your ammo for you automatically so you never have to worry about having used the wrong ammo at the wrong time. Since that used to be a problem for me in the past - having used either expensive bullets on trash or cheap ones on bosses. Enjoy your new carefree raiding life!