DOT Timer Help

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发布者 Acabar

May I recommend EventHorizon?

I used DoTimer for awhile, but then I ran across this beauty and it has since greatly tighten my rotation and increased my DPS. It works especially well for Affliction 'locks, but it has great functionality for almost all classes/specs that use some form of DoT/debuff.

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发布者 asakawa

i'd say check the sticky but it really is lacking in this very important area.

buttontimers**
necrosis
forte
event horizon
compact bars
dotimer

**i use buttontimers.

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发布者 asakawa

i haven't come across this problem.

...i just had a sneaky look at curse and the author has completely moved over to buttontimers now. i'll edit my list to take timerbuttons off, thanks for the heads up adni. i haven't seen problems yet but it seems likely that they'll creep in eventually.

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发布者 Acabar

Not sure if this would help, but I have been using Dominos(http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/dominos.aspx). It lets you configure how you want action bars set up and it also has a nice little added feature of being able to show what spells are currently casted on a mob. It highlights the outside of the box red and has countdown inside the highlighted spell. (the countdown is a shaded, so as the DOT ticks away the box slowly fills in a with shaded area, and goes back to a normal color when the dot is over or the mob is dead). granted not the most accurate way probably but its i like it being able to see the shaded countdown inside the spell that is casted that is highlighted red. The buff bars are on the default for my interface so I do have to keep looking to see if some stuff procs but other then that I like it. ( I have a Ge/Emberstorm and a Haunt/Ruin build and it works well i think for both).

I used to have this feature enabled on my Dominos (my button turned red when my target already had the debuff on this or something like that), but for the life of me I can't figure out where the option is. Would you happen to remember exactly how to toggle this on?

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发布者 ballagarba

Personally I've never seen timers with bars as a very good approach. First of all they all are relative to eachother, so two bars that has the same lenght might in fact differ with tens of seconds, or even minutes. That just doesn't cut it. And that problem aside, looking at a bar just doesn't tell me durations (i know most timers come with eta too, so what's the point in the bar in the first place?).

So to date i still haven't found a replacement for the yet to be updated for 3.1 addon called PolMonitor.
PolMonitor

It suffers from the same symptoms as other timers did on the 3.1 launch, with displaying other warlocks timers as well. But there's an easy fix in the comments.

Sure, it lacks some of the very cool future that EventHorizon has; like showing when to cast etc.
I wouldn't mind have such a feature in PolMonitor... But having fixed buttons with timers on just seem like the easiest atm.

The problem i found with EventHorizon is that you stared yourself blind on when to exact cast a spell for 100% uptime while neclicting spell priority. I'm thinking mostly of Haunt in this case. At a first glance at the timer it seems like you should be casting, say, UA for maximum uptime. But you should really be casting Haunt due to it's travel time and importance of uptime (which is not taken into account).

Anyone get what i'm saying? :)

Oh and the "must have" timer DoTimer i find just waaaaay to complex to tweak to my own needs. The author should really have hard a look at his impossible-to-grasp-options-menu.

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发布者 ballagarba

polmonitor seems to promote a very bad way to play a dot class. a good affliction player isn't simply playing whack-a-mole and hitting whatever button pops up and that addon doesn't appear to give enough information to make a more informed decision than that.

timer bars (provided by several addons) give a lot of information at a glance and often provide more information if it is required. most of the good ones DO actually give relative bar sizes AND absolute ones and if players can't prioritise haunt just because an addon suggests they cast something else has no business playing... erm, i was going to say affliction but actually they're playing the wrong game.

"anyone get what 'm saying?"
i really don't.

I wasn't suggesting PolMonitor for its function to be able to press its buttons, which i don't. I'm merely saying that i get way more information from an addon with fixed icon positions and text-only than other timers that shift place (not that EventHorizon does that).

Get me now? And you don't have to be a *!@#$% bag by suggesting i can't play affliction or even WoW for that matter just because i ain't using the same addons as you. Skip that arrogant part, please.

"Smaken är som baken", as we say in Sweden.
(Rough translation: taste is like the ass, divided)

发布者 Fingulfin

polmonitor looks OK... I use Dominos+Dominos Debuff, which essentially does the same thing. It times my DoTs.

发布者 asakawa

@ ballagarba
i never suggested anything about the way you play. you said that the bars that most people use lead people to play a certain way and i'm saying that anyone who does play in that way isn't a good player. it was just a counter argument to what you were suggesting, not an insult to you.

also, i reject your idea that bars don't give the information you want or that they move around. all good timer addons can be made to be static and provide good text based feedback. you're not comparing bars/text you're comparing good/bad addons.

i really don't care what addons you do or don't use i'm just reacting to your opinion of one playstyle and your dismissal of another and giving my opinions. take 'em or leave 'em.

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