Great addon Thaeryn, could you add in support for protection paladins please?

It should factor in global cooldowns (according to code). Maybe you could specify in what situations it recommends what ability instead of what other ability?
It could even be that it doen't factor in haste for the spell-gcds (e.g. exo and conc).

@SwordSa1nt - It should take into account your actual global cooldown. I had previously just used a 1.5 second timer and it caused the predictions to jump around really badly as higher priority abilities came off of cooldown. As of right now, it simply pulls the global cooldown off of your Retribution Aura. If your GCD is hasted, that will show up as well.

@Gergon - Make sure you've updated to the newest version. If you're using an older version that didn't take into account the actual GCD, you could definitely be having a few of those problems. Also, abilities shouldn't pop in as soon as they are available again. You should get some warning as they are coming off of cooldown, at least 1.5 seconds I believe, so if it's blank, you have time to use anything else you may need. If a high priority ability comes off of cooldown, it will replace your current icon with that one, which can sometimes throw you off a little bit. If you hit the ability that was previously recommended, then you are doing it right. If you were doing something else (AoW heal, DP, Salv, SS) then you want to use the new ability that's now showing up. Basically, hit whatever button it shows, and if it happens to change, change the button you're hitting. The logic behind it matches what has been proven in the retribution thread already. You want to try to keep that GCD constantly spinning... don't wait for another ability.

Used this last night during our continuation on Mimiron. Invaluable tool. Let me keep an eye on my character instead of looking at bars waiting for abilities to come off cooldown.

I did notice that it would occasionally "go off", but like has been said above, I assumed that it just meant everything was on CD.

Being able to add in AoW or Sacred Shield as the lowest priority would be nice, but not totally necessary. I've just macro'd my Sacred Shield to spam whisper me when there's 10 seconds remaining... keeps it from every going down. Of course, when things get dicey and I spam the button to make sure it's up, then I get a ridiculous amount of whispers. Other than that, I've been very impressed with the mod so far.

I'm still very used to manually watching cooldown and handling clash resolution with a milisecond timer helping me out, but I decided to give this addon a tryout. Hillarious acronym, by the way.

To see the full range of the addon, I disabled my traditional bars (bartender) that had my spells on it and played with the addon. There were a few instances when all abilities were on cooldown and there was no "next cast" slot (as mentioned by the above poster). The other thing I played with was with timing priorities when they would refresh. For example, when an ability finished on its cooldown (say Hammer of Wrath at 1 sec until cooldown completion) and everything but Exorcism was on cooldown (2+ seconds), using Exorcism removed Hammer of Wrath from the "next cast" and "cast now" locations until another ability finished its CD.

This is absolutely an amazing addon for people starting off as a retadin or playing with it as their offspec. One of the most interesting features is how it considers GCD clash on cooldowns.

I know for a fact that if a higher dps ability is coming off cd .1 seconds from now, I'm going to wait for it. Especially if there's a huge DPS difference. The only time I would hit the ability that's already off cd asap would be if the two abilities were extremely close DPS.

FCFS doesn't always apply.

Just wanted to take the time to say thanks, I've been having a little bit of a rough time adopting to my new FCFS rotation, this thing has been amazing for me.

Updated.

Did some more work on the jumpiness of the suggestions. I think I've ironed it out pretty well now. Also, added a longer term suggestion when everything is on cooldown. If you use your last ability, and everything else is on cooldown, the icon will go blank only during the GCD to indicate that there are no abilities within the next GCD to recommend. It will then show the next ability to come off of cooldown as the suggestion.

I think I'm going to go ahead and add in both SS and DP as options 7 and 8 in the priority for those people that want it there. I haven't had a lot of time to work on it between work and raiding, but hopefully I can have that, plus a couple of other little things I want to do, sometime in the next week.

There still might be some small issues with the "next" priority icon, especially when all abilities are on cooldown. This is just because of the basic way it's coded (the same algorithm as the current priority - 1.5s for the GCD). I don't particularly watch that icon much, so if it does anything too strange, let me know.

Thanks again for the comments and suggestions.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

Something happened with the latest build...

Using the agreed upon FCFS priority (CS, HoW, Judgment, DS, Consecrate, Exo) I was having Hammer of Wrath pop up in the middle of my rotations no matter what the mob's heath was at. So if during a fight Judgement, DS, Consecrate or Exo were still on CD then it would show to use Hammer of Wrath until Crusader Strike was ready to be used.

It's really hard to explain what was happening. The disappearing of the UI seemed to be happening less than before, but this seemed to be taking it's place.

Had the same issue.

Thanks for looking into that rea123. I noticed that error after I had started adding in new priorities for DP and SS. I've also added a couple of other configuration options for showing the mod on viable targets, always while in combat, or only on boss targets.

I've ran into a couple of other bugs so I don't have the new version ready to go just yet, but I'll hopefully be releasing it later today or tomorrow with the HoW fix as well. Sorry about letting that one slip through.

EDIT:

Finished the update. Here are the changes/fixes:

- Added 2 more priority slots and support for Divine Plea and Sacred Shield.
- Added conditional options for mana to use Divine Plea and time left on Sacred Shield before refreshing.
- Removed "blank" spot in the rotation suggestion. Suggestions should now be very fluid with almost no jumpiness. The only jumps that I found occured when you were out of GCD (as another, higher priority, ability comes off of cooldown) or when you have been below the mana threshold for Consecrate and you rise above it, making Consecrate instantly available.
- Fixed calculations for Hammer of Wrath. It now does an additional check for target health before considering it for a long term suggestion.
- Added "Show On" option, allowing you to only show the addon on a "Viable Target" (the previous behavior), while "In Combat" (even if not targeting anything), and on "Bosses Only" (any mob with a skull instead of a level).
- Split the configuration screen into a main configuration page and a priority sub-page.
- Fixed usage at lower levels. Once you have Divine Storm, you should be able to use this addon, as long as you don't set a priority for a spell you don't know (Sacred Shield, Divine Plea).

A couple of things I haven't been able to test extensively are the "In Combat" option and using the addon while off-spec'd as Prot or Holy. If you run into any issues, please let me know (preferably via PM if just reporting an error message).

Thanks and enjoy.