An example of the warning displayed when an important buff is missing.
This is the GUI for the class-specific and class-generic options.
This is the GUI for the display options.
This is the GUI for the ProcWatcher sub-addon.
BuffWatcher
By Myrilandell of Lothar
BuffWatcher is an addon that will periodically check your buffs, and if you're missing an essential one, it'll put a warning up on the screen. Underlined buffs in this description will only be checked for if you have the talent. If you run into a problem or have a request, post it here or email me, and I'll look into it
ProcWatcher is a small part of BuffWatcher that, instead of watching for missing buffs, watches for active procs. The procs watched for are the kind that influence gameplay, such as "next ability is free" or "next ability is instant". Underlined procs will only be checked for if you don't have the talent for it. As I level up my alts, or change specs (and therefore glyphs) among my mains, I will be adding glyphed procs to the list.
If you find a buff or a proc missing from the watch list, and would like it added, please let me know about it. I'd be happy to add it
Classes and buffs supported:
All Classes: Food Buffs ("Well Fed"), and temporary weapon buffs, such as Windfury (Shaman), Poisons (Rogue), Sharpening Stones, and Weapon Oils, on a per-hand basis (optionable)
Death Knight: Horn of Winter (optionable) (combat-only!), Bone Shield (optionable) (combat-only!), Blood/Frost/Unholy Presence
Druid: Mark/Gift of the Wild, Thorns, Savage Roar (combat-only!)
Hunter: Aspect of the Beast/Cheetah/Dragonhawk/Hawk/Monkey/Pack/Viper/Wild, Trueshot Aura
Paladin: Auras, Blessings, Seals (optionable) (combat-only!), Sacred Shield (optionable), Divine Plea (optionable) (combat-only!), Holy Shield (optionable) (combat-only!), Righteous Fury, Judgements of the Pure (optionable) (combat-only!)
Doesn't count Blessing of Auchindoun, Blessing of D.E.H.T.A., or the three Zul'Drak Blessings as a Blessing.
Priest: Divine Spirit/Prayer of Spirit, Inner Fire (optionable), Power Word: Fortitude/Prayer of Fortitude, Shadow Protection/Prayer of Shadow Protection (optionable)
Rogue: Slice n Dice (optionable) (combat-only!), Hunger for Blood (optionable) (combat-only!)
Shaman: Earth/Lightning/Water Shield
Warlock: Demon Armor/Demon Skin/Fel Armor, Soul Link (only when pet is active!) (optionable), Glyph of Life Tap
Warrior: Battle/Commanding Shout (combat only!)
Catches your most-recently cast shout, so you'll only track your shout (useful if there's multiple warriors in your group)
ProcWatcher
Death Knight: Killing Machine, Acclimation, Freezing Fog (from Rime)
Druid: Nature's Grace, Owlkin Frenzy, Eclipse, Clearcasting (from Omen of Clarity), Predator's Swiftness (from Predatory Strikes)
Hunter: Quick Shots (from Improved Aspect of the Hawk), Rapid Killing, Lock and Load
Mage: Clearcasting (from Arcane Concentration), Missile Barrage, Hot Streak, Firestarter, Fingers of Frost, Fireball! (from Brain Freeze), Blazing Speed
Paladin: Infusion of Light, The Art of War, Redoubt
Priest: Borrowed Time, Surge of Light, Serendipity
Warlock: Eradication, Molten Core, Decimation, Backlash, Nether Protection, Empowered Imp, Backdraft, Shadow Trance (from Nightfall and/or from Glyph of Corruption), Life Tap (from Glyph of Life Tap)
Warrior: Taste for Blood, Sudden Death, Slam! (from Bloodsurge), Sword and Board
Features:
Special-case BattleGround checking options:
-1- Check buffs as normal (like outside a BG).
-2- Check buffs only if "Preparing" or "Spirit Healed".
-3- Do not check buffs while in a BG.
Will not check for missing buffs while you're in an inn or major city (resting), this is optionable
Checks if you have the talent for the skill (Righteous Fury, Divine Spirit, etc)
Uses an optionably-movable frame for the warning notification box
Added a panel in the Interface Options! No longer are you stuck using commands, now you can use the Interface panel GUI! Esc -> Interface -> Addons -> Buff Watcher
Known Bugs:
Sometimes the warning frame is moved offscreen. Noticible by BuffWatcher not warning you when it should (which isn't very noticible). Fix: Use the /bw set X-loc Y-loc command, or open the GUI and set the coordinates in there.
The text of the warning does not change when changing the fontsize. Fix: Reload the UI, either by relogging or by the /reloadui command.
The "movable" option in the GUI does not work. Fix:/bw movable then relog. That might work. Otherwise, using the /bw set X-loc Y-loc command is guaranteed to work, or open the GUI and set the coordinates in there (should work).
Applying temporary weapon buffs, such as Windfury (Shaman), Poisons (Rogue), Sharpening Stones, and Weapon Oils, does not trigger a buff check. Fix: Manually force a refresh, easily done by applying/losing/refreshing a buff.
Slider tooltips in the GUI do not refresh when changing the slider's value. Fix: Move the mouse off and back on to see the new value, or look to the right of the slider for the slider's value.
BuffWatcher sometimes cannot tell when a buff becomes low. This is more common in solo play where nothing is happening. Fix: None. Do something more often so BuffWatcher checks buffs more often.
Change Log - BuffWatcher
50
Added the Warlock Felhunter pet's Fel Intelligence buff as an alternate to Arcane Intellect.
PW - Fixed the Tidal Wave proc added last version.
49
Added a check for Paladin's Judgements of the Pure, combat-only, optional, requires at least one point in Judgements of the Pure in Holy.
Modified the "Low Time" warning to also check for temporary weapon enchants. The maximum time for a temporary weapon enchant is assumed to be 60 minutes, which works for Rogue poisons, Warlock spellstones, and sharpening stones. Shaman elemental weapons will unfortunately be warned of later than expected, as they have a 30 minute duration.
Modified BuffWatcher's logic so if you are in combat and resting, buff checking will be performed as though you were not resting. This will allow for test-dummy testing and city-defending-pvp without having to change the "Check while resting" option.
PW - Added a check for Shaman's Tidal Waves, optional, requires at least one point in Tidal Waves in Restoration.
PW - Added a check for Druid's Predator's Swiftness, optional, requires at least one point in Predatory Strikes.
PW - Added a check for Paladin's Reckoning, optional, requires at least one point in Reckoning.
48
Added a check for Death Knight Presences, which are lost when switching specs (much like a Paladin's Auras)
Changed the "Buff Low" warning to check the "count" of the buff. This will account for buffs like Shaman's Lightning Shield, which tends to wear off from running out of charges, which is much sooner than its 10-minute duration.
Fixed the bug "The text of the warning is distorted." Text now looks pretty at any size of font.
Originally posted by Maldazzar
great version, but a few questions:
since the text always behaves erratically for me, i prefer to only work off icons
would it be possible to add a cooldown spiral (possibly with omniCC support) to track the duration of the buff?
I'm not sure what you mean by "cooldown spiral", would you please elaborate?
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the cooldown text also doesnt seem to be updating properly
oh right, i actually forgot about that. The problem is that in solo play, you don't get enough events firing to do the checks often enough to enable a steady countdown. That doesn't happen in raids and it's not very noticible in small-group play. I'll be releasing a new version with better support of that soon. The fix i had for some reason bugged out on me a few times (never ever updating or updating but not refreshing the warning text) so i got rid of it and just sorta left the problem alone
EDIT: This is fixed in the version i'm currently working with
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and is there any way to make the procwatcher completely separate (in terms of icon size and positioning) from buffwatcher?
at the moment, no ... i tried having it completely seperate and for some reason it wouldn't work, so i gave up that attempt and just made them work off the same display location. I'll probably be adding that in a later version
great version, but a few questions:
since the text always behaves erratically for me, i prefer to only work off icons
would it be possible to add a cooldown spiral (possibly with omniCC support) to track the duration of the buff? the cooldown text also doesnt seem to be updating properly
and is there any way to make the procwatcher completely separate (in terms of icon size and positioning) from buffwatcher?
Originally posted by todd3835 This looks really cool! I'm an addon *WHORE*! I periodically clean my addons folder (at one point I had over 200 *addons*, not addons and modules, just addons!), but I'm constantly looking for those "must have" addons. I've been using Cork for this type of thing, but it's missing some stuff, most notably, Flasks! One thing that would be nice, is in one of the screen shots you show a "glyphs" section. I know with Warlocks, we have Glyph of Life Tap (Use: When you use Life Tap, you gain 20% of your Spirit as spell power for 20 sec.). I use this for Affliction spec (not used for Destruction, but no idea on Demo). Considering the amount of Spirit that lock gear has right now, I typically get 200+ SP when this is up, so for those with the glyph, this is essential to keep up (just as important, if not MORE important than dots!). So if this isn't something currently being checked (will be checking it out in a bit), it's certainly something that would be nice to have! Again, this looks awesome, and I'll be checking it out tonight!
-Todd
Yup, I can add that. Been asking for glyphs to monitor, haven't gotten any feedback till now :P
For this glyph ( http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45785 ), what is the buff called? Suppose you lifetap, i assume you then get a buff that gives 20% of spirit as +dmg. What is the name of that buff? I'm not sure if it's called "Glyph of Life Tap" (seems silly), but that's all i could find.
This looks really cool! I'm an addon *WHORE*! I periodically clean my addons folder (at one point I had over 200 *addons*, not addons and modules, just addons!), but I'm constantly looking for those "must have" addons. I've been using Cork for this type of thing, but it's missing some stuff, most notably, Flasks! One thing that would be nice, is in one of the screen shots you show a "glyphs" section. I know with Warlocks, we have Glyph of Life Tap (Use: When you use Life Tap, you gain 20% of your Spirit as spell power for 20 sec.). I use this for Affliction spec (not used for Destruction, but no idea on Demo). Considering the amount of Spirit that lock gear has right now, I typically get 200+ SP when this is up, so for those with the glyph, this is essential to keep up (just as important, if not MORE important than dots!). So if this isn't something currently being checked (will be checking it out in a bit), it's certainly something that would be nice to have! Again, this looks awesome, and I'll be checking it out tonight!
-Todd
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Added ProcWatcher functionality, starting with the initial 34 procs.
Fixed the GUI x/y-coordinate boxes so they initialize correctly, which might prevent the "sometimes it goes to la-la-land" bug.
Changed the Paladin's Sacred Shield check to be combat-only.
Changed the Paladin's Sacred Shield check to ignore the proc from the Sacred Shield buff, which is also called Sacred Shield.
Removed the Mage's Missile Barrage check from BuffWatcher, since it is actually a proc. It will now be monitored by ProcWatcher.
Removed the Shaman's Maelstrom Weapon check from BuffWatcher, since it is actually a proc. It will now be monitored by ProcWatcher.
PW - Reorganized the ProcWatcher GUI, should make for a more-clear interface.
PW - Added the Death Knight's Freezing Fog (from Rime) proc to the list of procs.
PW - Added the Paladin's Redoubt proc to the list of procs, since so many people wanted Holy Shield checkable, i might as well head-off any requests now :P
PW - Added the Warlock's Shadow Trance (from Nightfall) proc to the list of procs.
This version's pretty big, comes with a new sub-addon called ProcWatcher (enabled by default). It's mostly tested, let me know if there's any bugs i failed to notice. I couldn't test all classes or specs, but the ones i could, i did.
Ok so v41 is pretty well done, I can check most classes but not all specs, if anyone wants to help check ProcWatcher (in particular) on Balance Druids, Hunters, Mages, Holy Paladin, Holy Priest, Warlocks, and Fury Warriors in particular, I don't have access to any of those classes/specs
Also, i have PW able to take glyphs, but there's no way i'm going through all 341 to see which happen to proc something (unless i get really, really bored :P). So if you've got a glyph you want watched for its proc, let me know and i'll add it
Originally posted by pinedocook Hi, thanks for the very helpful addon.
I have an 'issue' that is more an annoyance than bug.
The notification 'Food buff missing' sometimes appears on a single line and sometimes the word 'missing' wraps to another line. It does this about half the time. No other warning has done this.
Thanks again.
Yeah that happens
Battle Shout does that too, i think. Not sure why that happens. It is annoying, but hey maybe you'll eat some food that much faster, eh? :P
I have an 'issue' that is more an annoyance than bug.
The notification 'Food buff missing' sometimes appears on a single line and sometimes the word 'missing' wraps to another line. It does this about half the time. No other warning has done this.
Changed the Paladin's Divine Plea buff check to combat-only.
Made BuffWatcher should now also check your talent spec after changing specs using the dual-spec feature. This isn't very well tested, but it should work. I'l be working on it more soon.
Added a check for Mage Missile Barrage ... another proc ... i think i might make a new addon for this
I'll be adding a new facet to BW, called "ProcWatcher". It would be its own addon but there already is an addon named "Proc Watcher" and the names are too similar (even though the other Proc Watcher addon is completely misnamed)
So!
Give me a list of the procs you'd like the new sort-of-addon to watch for. Currently i have: Death Knight: Killing Machine, Acclimation Druid: Nature's Grace, Owlkin Frenzy, Eclipse, Clearcasting Hunter: Quick Shots, Rapid Killing, Lock and Load, Mage: Clearcasting, Missile Barrage, Hot Streak, Firestarter, Fingers of Frost, Fireball! Paladin: Infusion of Light, The Art of War Priest: Borrowed Time, Surge of Light, Serendipity (1) (2) (3) Rogue: Remorseless Shaman: Clearcasting, Maelstrom Weapon (5) Warlock: Eradication, Molten Core, Decimation, Backlash, Nether Protection, Empowered Imp, Backdraft Warrior: Taste for Blood, Sudden Death, Slam!, Sword and Board
my girlfriend was just messing with her shaman, the Maelstrom check seems to not be working (it was working before i released it, no code changed)
The problem seems to be when changing specs, buffwatcher doesn't get updated that it should recheck for talents. So i'll fix that, shouldn't take too long
Originally posted by Gerudo Rivera FYI, the addon's entry in the Options menu seems to be a little messed up, too. It pops up its submenu beneath the addon listed beneath it, rather than itself. Here's a screenshot showing it:
that is ... very peculiar
This doesn't happen to me, nor my girlfriend, nor her brother ... none of us have the Buffet addon though. If Buffet is disabled, does BuffWatcher still have this problem? Or does it only happen with Buffet?
FYI, the addon's entry in the Options menu seems to be a little messed up, too. It pops up its submenu beneath the addon listed beneath it, rather than itself. Here's a screenshot showing it:
