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Hunter Got Focus

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A quick overview to help a hunter decide between Steady(/Cobra) Shot and Arcane Shot
<p>The frame in action, also showing the Improved Steady Shot aura for Marksman. The frame itself is in the center.</p>

The frame in action, also showing the Improved Steady Shot aura for Marksman. The frame itself is in the center.

<p>The frame highlighted in red, including the Improved Steady Shot aura for Marksman.</p>

The frame highlighted in red, including the Improved Steady Shot aura for Marksman.

Description

This add-on is made for hunters to help them make a choice between choosing Arcane Shot and Steady Shot (or Cobra). It helps you float around the minimum focus you need as a hunter to shoot your main ability.

The trick with playing a hunter is that you need to know a couple of things at the same time to decide what ability you should play. This add-on is designed in a minimal way to tell you all things you need to know in a visual way:

  1. Shows how much energy you require to use your main ability
  2. Shows a cooldown bar of the above ability so you know exactly know when you can use it and make sure that by that time you have the required focus
  3. Shows an idication of how much focus you would loose choosing an Arcane Shot or how much you would win using a Steady Shot.
  4. All these indicators are updated the moment you would get more focus regen (through haste procs) or get a reduction in focus cost

It also features following features:

  1. Color coding: green, orange and red tell you what shot you can choose (in a next version this will be more intuitive according to the amount of cooldown you got left)
  2. Support two Information Bars (at the bottom of the frame, players can disable this in the menu)
    • BM: Information Bar 1 shows the cooldown on Bestial Wrath, Information Bar 2 counts towards Focus Fire (through the Frenzy Effect of your pet)
    • MM: Information Bar 1 shows the Improves Steady Shot uptime, Information Bar 2 counts towards the free Aimed Shot
    • Surv: Information Bar 1 shows the coolodwn on Black Arrow, Information Bar 2 shows the Explosive Shot debuff (to prevent clipping)
  3. Has a Serpent Sting uptime bar at the top of the frame
  4. For Beast Masters it adjusts the minimum focus required when going into Killing Streak and it updates the focus loss when aquiring The Beast Within
  5. Has a minimal config window to place the focus frame at your desired location (/hgf)

Possible trouble

  1. The add-on needs your current haste to make on the fly adjustments to the amount of focus you would win or loose, to do this the add-on compars your current ranged speed with your base ranged speed on your bow. The base ranged speed is found on the tooltip of your ranged weapon (afaik the only method of obtaining it). Although there has been plenty of testing, it could be that the add-on doesn't find this in rare cases. Also having an add-on that changes the data on your tooltips heavily can interfere with this proces. So watch out for this! In the rare case that the add-on doesn't find your base ranged speed it will use 2.80 as your ranged speed!

Todo

  1. Custom color coding and texture use
  2. Just found out that I missed out on the talent Termination in the Marksman tree. I'll add this effect in the formulas

Final Notes

This add-on has never been tested with Survival specc, I would be happy to hear if there are problems with Survival Hunters.

The code has extensive comments and if you wanna adjust the code please feel free to do it, this is my first add-on so there might be inconsistencies

If you find bugs for this add-on or have feature request please use the ticket tracker for this add-on provided by curse.

The Hunter Got Focus Team

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