Based on Buffwatch++, which has been maintained since wow vanilla 1.6.0
Buffwatch is a buff monitoring tool for all classes which lets you easily and clearly keep track of any buffs on yourself or your party/raid, and also allows you to quickly recast your buffs at the click of a button.
You choose which buffs you want to monitor and Buffwatch lets you know when they have run out, with clickable buttons to recast them.
Buffwatch can be used to :
- Keep an eye on buffs that you want to keep up during a dungeon/raid (eg. Paladin blessings, AI, Battle Shout, Flasks, Food)
- Making sure you keep your Aura in range of your party, or vice-versa
- Tracking other peoples buffs (eg Soulstones), perhaps as a Raid Leader
How to use :
- Make sure the buffs you want to monitor are on the relevant players
- Tick the checkbox next to each player which locks those buffs to the player (alternatively tick the checkbox at the top to lock them all)
- Hide the buffs you are not interested in, using the following methods :
- Alt-Right click to remove the selected buff
- Alt-Left click to remove all buffs apart from the selected one
Any players that are locked and have no monitored buffs can be hidden by toggling the Hide Unmonitored arrow in the top right
Buffs that have expired will turn red, clicking on them will recast the buff on the player (if you have the spell and are in range)
Buffs for players that are dead or offline will turn grey
Other features :
- Locked buff settings are saved between sessions or players joining/leaving your group
- Left click a player name to target that player
- Right click a player name to assist that player
- Right click the Buffwatch header for options/help
- Filter on buffs your player can cast or buffs you have cast
Type /buffwatch or /bfw in-game for further info.
Casting specific buff ranks are enabled for locales: enUS, enGB, deDE, esES, esMX, frFR, ptBR and ruRU
Other localizations will always cast max rank until they can be added (Message me if you would like to help with this)
Cooldown Spirals : Classic doesn't support reading buff durations on other players the same as retail, but Buffwatch does support LibClassicDurations. If you want to see cooldown spirals for other players you can install this addon library.
OmniCC Users : Direct control of OmniCC cooldown text for Buffwatch within the options panel was removed in retail v8.08 due to changes to the way OmniCC works since WoW 8.0. Cooldown text options in Buffwatch now only relate to Blizzard's own cooldown text functionality, if you have that enabled.
If you wish to affect the way OmniCC cooldown text appears within Buffwatch, or if you wish to hide them, you should now use OmniCC's group functionality
https://github.com/tullamods/OmniCC/wiki/What-are-Groups%3F
Follow the instructions in the link above, creating a group in the OmniCC options with whatever name you wish (e.g. Buffwatch), and in the rules panel add BuffwatchFrame
You can then affect the way the OmniCC cooldown text appears within Buffwatch using this groups display and text style/position options.
Is there any way to output a report? I've heard that some addons can save data and then send it to a file when you log or reload your UI.
Any way to bind the buff macro to the scroll up mouse wheel without removing it's existing bind to zoom out?
Great addon!
I'd like to have an option to save the settings / scale / position on a global profile for all characters.
This seems to work just fine in Burning Crusade Classic Beta. I just changed the toc and put in LibClassicDurations changing the toc file for that also. I'm only using it for solo play so far, no errors or problems at this time.
In reply to SunNova0:
Cool, thanks for the info. I'll make the toc change and upload a beta version for other users.
I don't have access to the beta so please let me know if you encounter any issues.
In reply to Pupp3h:
I will. I wish it could auto buff when solo, other than that it's working just fine, thanks!
In reply to SunNova0:
Okay I have added a beta version, but I don't have access to the beta to test it, so it is a bit of a blind update. However it is just a toc update plus an update to the spell rank table, which has changed significantly for TBC.
In reply to Pupp3h:
Thanks! I'll get it installed today and let you know. :)
In reply to SunNova0:
So far it's working just fine, I'm only using it for solo buffing. Thanks!
This is an excellent add-on, really nicely done.
I have just two wishes for it, unless I'm missing something.
On my druid, I'd like to run with the min size window in solo mode, but this basically shows me nothing. It would be great if I could set to min, and have it expand to max, only when a buff needs refreshing. As it is, the only indicator of needing a refresh is the red color. It would be so much more meaningful if the icons were only visible when expired.
Also I would really appreciate if you could add /cancelform to the beginning of the cast (or have an option for it), so that I can refresh my buffs with one click as a druid in cat/bear form. I use /cancelform all the time in my macros to pop into caster form and cast a spell with a single click. As it is now, I can only click your icons to buff in caster form, which I am never in.
Thanks
In reply to BadBadBandit:
For the first point this was kind of how Buffwatch originally worked in Vanilla. Unfortunately with the blizzard api changes that were made way back in 2008 to prevent automation, you could no longer hide or show action buttons while in combat. One of the main reasons for Buffwatch existing was to be able for people to rebuff mid fight easily, and so the addon had to be changed so that the buffs you locked in were always visible, and were just highlighted red when expired. You can hide everything with the minimise feature while out of combat, but there is no way for them to be made visible while in combat or vice-versa.
With regards to adding precast macros to actions buttons I can see that this would be a useful feature for you to have, but at a minimum it would require a major rework to add it in a generic way that would be useful to all, and there are other features I have wanted to add for a long time around buff templates that would probably want to go in first. Also having had another look at how the secure action buttons work I don't think it's possible for them to have multiple actions (such as call a macro and then do the spell action) on a single button, so they would likely need to be changed to purely be macros doing both the cancelform and casting the spell which would probably cause problems for the whole addon. I'll be honest though, I am not currently subscribed so the only work I have been doing is fixing issues rather than new features, so any new stuff could be a way off.
In reply to Pupp3h:
I see. Too bad, because there's a Weak Aura that hides the icons til needed, but it isn't very reliable.
What about my druid buff Omen of Clarity? It doesn't seem to get tracked. Or am I doing something wrong?
In reply to BadBadBandit:
Yeah, a weak aura is just an icon being shown. You can hide and show icons while in combat, but they cant be action buttons that you can click on to do stuff.
For Omen of Clarity, any buff that appears in your normal buff list should be picked up. Check the options you have set such as 'Show only castable buffs' as Omen of Clarity may not count as a castable buff since it's triggered from a talent. Alternatively, if you want to keep that checked then also select 'Show all buffs for this player' and then it should show it. If it's neither of those things, let me know.
In reply to Pupp3h:
I can't get Omen of Clarity to show up in the BuffWatch frame. I unchecked my name (alternately unchecked BW also) added my buffs, but it never shows up. Am I doing something incorrectly?
In reply to BadBadBandit:
Did you see if it was the addon settings I mentioned in the previous reply?
In reply to BadBadBandit:
I presume you got this working now, but I just jumped on the PTR (Currently TBC prepatch) and Omen of Clarity tracked with the default Buffwatch options. If you select 'Show only castable buffs' it will not show unless you already have it locked with the checkbox or you also check 'Show all buffs for this player'.
I got this addon to track consumes used by other players of my class, so I remove players of other classes (lock them, then stop watching any of their buffs). This shrinks the window to a manageable size. However as soon as I use a greater wizard oil on my weapon, the window size resets as though I'm tracking the whole raid again while still only showing those I want to watch. This lasts until the oil expires or the weapon is swapped out. Any fix for this issue?
On a side note, one of the big draws for me was tracking temporary weapon enchants used by others, however it doesn't seem to do this unless I'm missing something.
In reply to sirrus86x:
I'll try and take a look at the window size thing later on today, I don't play a lot of classic though, I have a level 14 or so Mage for testing with so hopefully I can grab a couple of friends I know that play classic to help and group up with and replicate the issue with Minor Wizard Oil.
With regards to temp enchants, unfortunately they are only tracked for your player, not for other group members. It was a while ago now that I added them in so can't remember the particular issues around it, but tracking weapon enchants was something I had never done with the retail Buffwatch++ in vanilla since there was no easy way to track them. Blizz added in the API function https://wow.gamepedia.com/API_GetWeaponEnchantInfo which is what I use to track in Buffwatch Classic but this only works for the players own temporary enchants.
In reply to Pupp3h:
I see, that would explain why there aren't other addons that track weapon enchants. Still the rest of the addon is worth using for what I need.
If you are able to test the window sizing issue let me know, I can get pics of it too if that helps.
In reply to sirrus86x:
Managed to get some time from a friend to help with testing this, have fixed it and uploaded a new version. Thanks for reporting it :)