Clipguard
- By
Stop clipping your HoTs and DoTs: buttons turn red with a countdown until it's worth recasting.
Ever recast Rejuvenation, Corruption or Rip while the old one still had seconds left? That's a clip: the new cast overwrites the remaining time, and you throw away ticks along with the mana or energy you spent. Clipguard shows you when a recast is actually worth it.
What it does
- While your HoT, DoT or bleed on the target still has time left, the matching action button turns red and/or greyed out with a countdown.
- When it's worth recasting, the button goes back to normal and glows green.
- If you recast too early anyway, you get an on-screen warning such as "Clipped Rejuvenation – 4.2s wasted", with an optional sound.
/cg statsshows how many times you clipped this session and how many seconds you wasted.
Features
- Works with every rank of each spell
- Track any other spell with
/cg add <spellID> - Per-spell settings: on/off, threshold in seconds, sound on/off
- Overlay style (greyed out, red tint, or both), plus toggles for the countdown, glow, warning text and sound
- Movable warning text
- HoTs follow your friendly target, or yourself if you have no friendly target. An optional mode follows your mouseover target, for mouseover-macro healers
- Options panel in the standard game Settings menu
- Settings saved per character, with an account-wide default for new characters
- Lightweight, with no external libraries
- Action bars: Blizzard default bars. Bartender4, Dominos and ElvUI are also supported (feedback welcome)
Default spells
| Class | Spells |
|---|---|
| Druid | Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, Moonfire, Insect Swarm, Rip, Rake, Lacerate, Regrowth (off) |
| Priest | Renew, Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, Holy Fire (off) |
| Warlock | Corruption, Bane of Agony, Siphon Life, Bane of Doom, Immolate (off) |
| Warrior | Rend |
| Rogue | Rupture, Garrote |
| Hunter | Serpent Sting, Viper Sting (off) |
| Shaman | Riptide, Flame Shock (off) |
Slash commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/cg or /clipguard |
Open options |
/cg stats |
Session clips and wasted seconds |
/cg resetstats |
Reset stats |
/cg add <spellID> [helpful\|harmful] |
Track a custom spell |
/cg remove <spellID> |
Remove a custom spell |
/cg unlock / /cg lock |
Move or lock the warning text |
/cg test |
Show a test warning |
/cg diag |
Troubleshooting info |
/cg debug |
Trace what the addon sees (for bug reports) |
Good to know
- Safe: Clipguard never touches your action buttons. It only draws on top of them. No addon can block, cancel or delay a spell, so Clipguard warns you and leaves the decision to you.
- In combat: WoW Forever hides exact aura timers from addons during combat. The red overlay, countdown, glow and warning text still work. The clip sound and stats counter only count refreshes the addon can measure, which is mostly out of combat.
Bug reports
Found a problem? Leave a comment with your /cg diag output and a short description of what happened.
Clipguard Team
