With the release of WoW 4.0, RankWatch is now unneeded and obsolete. Thank you to Blizzard for eliminating spell ranks and improving the user experience for seeing what spells are available to train and when.
RankWatch will monitor the spells cast by you and other members of your party or raid and warn them if they are using a downranked spell. It will also tell you what new spells you can train each time you gain a level. While downranked spells were formerly used to save mana, this use is no longer supported, and while it is occasionally intended, the use of downranked spells is generally a mistake. Sometimes this happens when people forget to train at level 80, sometimes it happens when they spend talent points to obtain a spell which is not a base skill for the class (for example, a Death Knight's Frost Strike our Scourge Strike) but fail to train the ranks for the newly talented spell. In my experience, the most common cause is training while dual specced. For example, if you level up as a feral druid, you will train new ranks of Rejuvenation etc, but the new ranks will not appear on your bars when you change to the Resto spec. There are a few special cases - for example, Life Tap is not reported, since Life Tap is often used by warlocks to proc the Glyph and stack trinkets. See the ReadMe.txt file for a complete list. Occasionally (Anub'arak in ToC for example) healers may down rank to control the amount of healing, I suggest you simply disable the addon for this fight. If you know of other valid uses of downranked spells, please let me know. You can turn off the auto-whisper, ignore downranks from certain players, get a report of all the downranked spells seen, and of course, disable the addon completely. See the readme for details, or type /rankwatch for help.
RankWatch will monitor the spells cast by you and other members of your party or raid and warn them if they are using a downranked spell. It will also tell you what new spells you can train each time you gain a level. While downranked spells were formerly used to save mana, this use is no longer supported, and while it is occasionally intended, the use of downranked spells is generally a mistake. Sometimes this happens when people forget to train at level 80, sometimes it happens when they spend talent points to obtain a spell which is not a base skill for the class (for example, a Death Knight's Frost Strike our Scourge Strike) but fail to train the ranks for the newly talented spell. In my experience, the most common cause is training while dual specced. For example, if you level up as a feral druid, you will train new ranks of Rejuvenation etc, but the new ranks will not appear on your bars when you change to the Resto spec. There are a few special cases - for example, Life Tap is not reported, since Life Tap is often used by warlocks to proc the Glyph and stack trinkets. See the ReadMe.txt file for a complete list. Occasionally (Anub'arak in ToC for example) healers may down rank to control the amount of healing, I suggest you simply disable the addon for this fight. If you know of other valid uses of downranked spells, please let me know. You can turn off the auto-whisper, ignore downranks from certain players, get a report of all the downranked spells seen, and of course, disable the addon completely. See the readme for details, or type /rankwatch for help.
GogoWarch is now live for Classic TBC!
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/gogowatch
... because I didn't want to live without RankWatch! (=
Thank you so much for this awesome addon!
Farewell RankWatch.
I´m sure in futur are new addons urgent. ;o)
It's good to see Blizzard als makes good choices in the end, but in the meantime it was good to have your mod in place to help all the random people I encountered in random heroics to see how they simply could improve their play.
This addon made so many players cast with their max-rang-skills :)
So long and thanks for all the fish!
This was my FAVORITE addon for randoms - even if it pissed some people off ;)