my macro for MI is similar to the one above (using DBM and thus showing how the custom timer is created)

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Mirror Image
/dbm timer 30 Mirror Images

i used the stopcasting because it happened that maintank died/lost threat while i was casting and this way you can interrupt it.

before i used the custom bar i had this

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Mirror Image
in 27 /w Duloth Mirror Images Fading

which was annyoing because it mess the autoreply chat feature... but did his job.

CloneTimer tracks just Mirror Image. It's featured in all my videos if you want to see what it can look like: YouTube - SojikSucks's Channel

I wrote a small addon called LivingBombTracker that you guys might find usefull as well. Its goal is to make it easier to apply Living Bomb via a mouseover makro. It shows a small box next to your cursor, that shows the remaining duration of Living Bomb on your mouseover-target, as seen in this screenshot:



The left box is shown, if your target is affected by your Living Bomb (7.4 seconds remaining), the right box is shown, if you do not have LB on that target. This box is only shown when the unit is an enemy, not Level 1 (to avoid critters) and not dead and you are in combat.

The Addon uses 0.04% of my CPU-Time whenever the box is shown and 0.00% when it is hidden. It checks, whether you are a mage and have skilled LB (Dual Spec works). If you do not meet those requirements the addon will do nothing.

If you are not using the English Client, you have to adjust the LBString in the first line of the file "core.lua" accordingly to your clients language.
If you want to adjust the offset of the box relativ to your cursor position you have to change the variables xoff and yoff in line 4 and 5. A reload is required.

You can download LivingBombTracker here LivingBombTracker : WoWInterface Downloads : Mage


EDIT: fixed an issue, which prevented the Addon to load correctly

Hi folks.

Rather daunting posting on EJ forums after spending the past couple of years reading. So, thanks for all the help and first post.

I've read some players preferences regarding the tracking of HS so thought I'd throw in some support for ForteXorcist which I've recently used to replace DoTimer. I found I couldn't get DoTimer to track multiple HS's without your current targets HS bar fading out. I believe I've read somewhere in these forums where a player has managed to do that so congratz there.

Being at work I don't have access to any screenshots so I'll give you a video link instead to a Faction Champions kill. Best one I could think of to demonstrate it. Excuse the running around, I tend to look like a headless chicken until I'm used to the kill

YouTube - Argent Coliseum: Faction Champions (High Definition) (incl. Commentary)

Any chance you know what bar texture your Forte is using? I'd like to be able to use that texture with scorchio.

Thanks for sharing! I used it in a raid tonight and it works fine. It definitely makes the mouseover macro more manageable in large clumps of enemies than waving it around randomly hoping an LB will stick.

I did a little research, and the holy grail solution we're looking for - a nice list of clickable/mouseoverable frames of all enemies aggroed or nearby - isn't possible at the moment for the same reason why you can't click a scorchio or dotimer bar to target that specific enemy.

hey, im having a problem with your adon, i changed to my russian language the living bomb, but when i mouseover targets with living bomb it still shows like -/-
Can you suggest something please? I would appreciate that

After many long years of limiting myself to a small, old screen, I finally got a new one, and redid my UI with some space to spare. Been sort of a UI-geek for quite some time, but with the added luxury of more screen-space and more memory, I threw away a few old companions and some old principles, and went for something new - at least for me. Time to share:



Addons used (most of them at least):

- Grid (+Clique)
- Pitbull4
- MSBT
- DBM, ora, Recount, Omen, all the raiding stuff...
- Quartz
- Macaroon (+ButtonFacade)
- TitanBar
- CowTip
- Chatter

- kgPanels - It's quite a dilletantic use of a great addon, buts its just down there to seperate the information on the lower end of the screen a bit

- Finally, the "trias" of bar-addons:
1. Elkanos Buff Bars - displaying the buffs top right, normal debuffs. Also, tracks (lower left side from the target-frame) combat-specific buffs I don't always need to see, like trinket-proccs, wether I'm in range of auras and totems.
2. Scorchio2 - on top of the target frame, centerscreen, tracking everything really needed for combat
3. CooldownWatch - small, easy to configure addon, tracking all the cooldowns you want it to track (and nothing else). Lower right from the target frame, set up to look like the EBB-bars opposite from it


And two additions: Questhelper is enabled in that screenshot, so take away roughly 25MB from the memory usage displayed on Titan. Also, PowerAuras is not set up properly yet, but I will enable it again to add extra tracking for the important things (HS and LB mainly).


I've been a bit more generous in this UI with "wasting" space (big buff-bars for example) then usual, but it should still provide a high ammount of overview, whilst not spreading the most important information all over the screen.

I uploaded LivingBombtracker to Wowinterface.com and made some changes.

- You no longer have to set the name for LB according to your clients language. It should now also work with a russian client.
- A range check is now implemented. When you are oor the border will turn red.
- Slash-commands are now available. Type '/lbt' or '/livingbombtracker' for options.


Download LBT here: LivingBombTracker : WoWInterface Downloads : Mage

Alot of thanks for it, now it works properly!

My Ui then,


I have so many addons , I would have 2 A4 paper list then ,
So ask if you are interested in some of them.

I know I'm nit-picking but:

accomplishes the same thing in fewer characters.

Overall pretty basic. Haven't really been able to do anything very exotic on my mage yet so I'm sure it'll change eventually. As of right now, thats it.

Addons: http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...ddons_Sep1.jpg

Does anyone know of an addon that displays all the hostile targets health bars in one window, something simliar to a raid frames but for all the hostile targets within a certain range? This would make applying lb much easier and you could see all the debuffs and times on them.

I don't think that is possible.

Displaying the information for how much health everything in combat with you has is not hard at all, just takes some guess work based on combat logs. Making them clickable to target or to cast at, that would be hard.

One could make a series of raid target frames sort of decursive style that were white when no bomb was present, orange with a counter when one was, and that could work. But it would only allow you to bomb things that were currently being targeted by someone in your raid.

Could be kind of fun to play LB Whackamole with that though looking for the white square.

I think gladius used to be able to do this in battlegrounds

You are correct it was X-perl providing that feature

Magic Targets 2 - Addons - Curse

You have the life bar of all hostile mobs engaged in combat with crowd control status, raid symbol, number of people targeting them and the list of player on mouseover. Note that this list is non clickable to select your target as the Api prevented this a long time ago. But back to the original question, no you can't use it to apply LB.

Regarding the problem of monitoring multiple target LB, I took advantage of pitbull4-aurabar.
This bar is just enabled within my MainTanks-target frames. This gives a nice indicator for me.
My MT-Targets are located to the right of my target, the grey bar shows LB.



This UI is all abount centered information. As you can see, every information needed within a fight sitz right beneeth my toon. My castbar is actually missing on the screenshot, just the GCD-bar of quartz is active at the moment, the castbar lies obove the GCD bar between player and target.
Short-time buffs like "Praxis" (Tier 8 2 pieces, german client) or my trinkets are shown above the player frame, "my" debuffs (LB; imp. crit-buffs) are shown above the target, procs like HS or MBam are shown above the casting bar.
There are some dogtags indicating wheather I'm missing buffs (within the player frame, the red P indicated i have no pot or flasc active), the target frame showes if there are dps-enhancing debuffs like slow, Earth & Moon etc.
Focus frame (not active atm, used for sheeping) is played beneath the target's target, including a bar for showing the remaining time of polymorph. THe vehicle frame is placed beneath the player.
The secont focus lies upon talking, therefore there are 2 chatwindows an of course wim to keep up communication.
Third thing: buff monitoring. Therefor I prefer Pitbull4 and dropped grid, because Grid's corner indicators are not capable of showing missing buffs using an or-expressing (missing arcane brilliance or missing dalaran brilliance).
After all I'm still not perfectly satisfies with the Maintank-area, but I had no better idea for the placement of this very group.
Last Point: keepin' it clean and simple.
Though the UI seems to offer a big bunch of information, there's a lot of free space to have a good look around. While While out of combat, player, target, the black-blue box and MT-group are faded. There are no bars shown either.

Last note: the raidframes are replaxed by Partymember/Target/Pet within a 5 man group. There's another layout for raidframes to use in 10-man-raids.

Just for the record: uses Addons
Pitbull4
Pitbull4-Aurabar
Elkano's Buffbars
MSBT
Quartz
Bartender
Aperture
Fubar
WIM
MaThreat (omen just for multitarget)
Chinchilla
AutoBar
kgpanels

and several others

Sorry for my bad English, it's been years since i had t write english texts.

Qaurtz is a very well known cast bar addon.
this addon - Quartz LatencyMF2 : WoWInterface Downloads : Priest - is adds quartz module for shadowpriests which helps them figure out when they can click their next spell to follow a mind flay.
This is extra useful when the mind flay suffers pushback since should you keep on channeling after the second tick of damage it will never reach its full duration and do the last tick (wasted time).
I was thinking this could also be adapted for arcane missiles.

Might be useful for some arcane mages out there.

The goal was to get as far away from the standard, and give as much information as possible.
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Buttonfacade
ForteXorcist
Scorchio2
AzCastbar
STUF
SBF
Bartender4
XRS
Grid
Chatter

Does this clash with any other tooltip mods, such as cowtip? I'm having some major trouble getting it to work. It shows up in my addon list but /lbt and /livingbombtracker don't work ingame. I am fire specced with living bomb!

Edit: I tried disabling all my addons that handle the cursor and such and still no luck.