RankSentinel
RankSentinel watches the combat log and detects when group members (and now their pets!) accidentally use a low-rank ability and sends them a private message so they can fix the issue. It's inspired by the legacy add-on RankWatch.
We built this tool to help your raid group make small improvements so they can avoid those 1%-wipe situations. In testing it detected so many guildies, friends, and PUGs who had just forgotten to update their action bars or macros after training. Everyone has at least one ability they forgot to update. Everyone.
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Legitimate low-rank Abilities have been excluded; including all heals, Frostbolt (Rank 1), Earth Shock (Rank 1), Blizzard (Rank 1), etc.
- Battlegrounds have also been excluded
- Ability data comes from Gogo's revised ability list, please leave a comment for any ability data changes you have in mind.
- A large focus has been on delivering the most optimized code possible, memory usage is significantly less than Questie, your favorite damage meter, or inventory management add-on.
- RankSentinel's GitHub issues and CurseForge comments are great locations to report any issues you find.
- RankSentinel is a spiritual successor to the now-defunct GogoWatch and SpellSnob add-ons.
Commands
Use /ranksentinel to get the latest commands.
/ranksentinel enable: toggles combat log parsing/ranksentinel whisper: toggles whispers to players/ranksentinel report [channel]: report session data [self, say, raid, guild]/ranksentinel count: prints current statistics/ranksentinel lead: sets yourself as lead/ranksentinel flavor: list available notification flavors/ranksentinel flavor [option]: set notification flavor to option/ranksentinel advanced: Advanced command-line options
Use /ranksentinel advanced to get additional commands.
/ranksentinel debug: toggles debug output for testing/ranksentinel clear: clears local ability caches/ranksentinel ignore: adds current target to addon ignore list, will not report rank errors/ranksentinel queue: prints queued notifications/ranksentinel queue clear: clears queued notifications/ranksentinel queue process: processes queued notifications/ranksentinel reset: resets profile to defaults/ranksentinel sync: broadcast announcement cache
Contributors
- Gogo - for continued addon collaboration and data curation
- Aevala and Fathom - ability data feedback
- Splendiferus - for continued testing and feedback
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/ranksentinel/files/3615718
errors when pet classes in group, issue here: https://github.com/valkyrnstudios/RankSentinel/issues/53
Its reporting that im using low rank of shadowbolt, with next rank at 60.
im using rank 9, rank 10 is trainable from AQ books at 60, but its on the trainer at 62.
Wowhead comments confirm book at 60, trained at 62.
https://tbc.wowhead.com/spell=25307/shadow-bolt#comments:id=2722336
Thanks for the report, updated on next release.
On my leveling characters it keeps reporting me as using low ranks with a message that points to spells learned 2 levels above my current level.
Example: I am a level 54 shaman, it tells me `you used a low rank of Chain Lightning, next rank available at 56'
What would make sense for leveling is to warn me when I can actually train that rank, ie I'm level 56 or higher and still using a lower rank.
4d96129-bcc alpha on BCC
In reply to MrFIXlT:
Looks like I inverted the logic, so was giving a 2-3 level penalty instead of buffer. bd3c8ae-bcc should fix it.
Need an option to disable in PvP.
People use all kinds of weird ranks in BGs
In reply to twitchcangofkthemselves:
Yup! PVP is permanently disabled for that very reason.
Drain soul rank 1 is pretty commonly used to obtain soul shards but is currently not whitelisted.
In reply to moonfirespamam:
Makes sense, excluded in the next release!
RankSentinel detected you just used a low rank of [Heroic Strike]. You might be missing training or using an outdated ability shortcut.
To a lvl 70 warrior that was using rank 10 , there is a rank 11 on wowhead. but its not in the game
Is it possible to show the rank they are using and tell what rank is available?
RankSentinel detected you just used rank 6(lvl 40) instead of rank 10(lvl 66) [Heroic Strike]. You might be missing training or using an outdated ability shortcut.
In reply to TheToet:
>To a lvl 70 warrior that was using rank 10 , there is a rank 11 on wowhead. but its not in the game
Thanks, I've excluded it locally and will be released soon.
>Is it possible to show the rank they are using and tell what rank is available
Sounds like a good idea, follow https://github.com/valkyrnstudios/RankSentinel/issues/19 for updates.
In reply to SabreValkyrn:
Had some more problems with a 65 mage using Frostbolt, Cone of Cold and Arcane Explosion
In reply to TheToet:
Those are all abilities with rank 1 excluded, that bug should be fixed in v1.0.7+, do you still have a problem on v1.0.9?
In reply to SabreValkyrn:
just got 1.1.0. ill let you know if come across more problems