Introduction
Watcher helps you manage your rotation by consolidating and condensing information onto a simple to read display. It allows you to focus on things that are more important like boss mechanics, your situational awareness, or listening to your raid leader; instead of being bogged down in the act of performing your rotation.
With deep and powerful configuration options, Watcher allows you to see exactly the information about your rotation that you want to see. Properly configured and customized, Watcher is a mighty tool for both new players just learning their classes as well as players that have been raiding since classic.
A GIF of Watcher running on a 2H Frost Death Knight:
Watcher also includes:
- A dynamic event-driven architecture; unlike some other rotation helping addons, Watcher won't tank your framerate
- Masque support for skinning icons
- A large number of visibility options to control exactly when Watcher shows up
- And more!
Description
Through the use of a priority system as well as powerful filters for spells and abilities, Watcher displays your rotation in the familiar context of a timeline, with higher priority spells stacked on top of lower priority ones and upcoming abilities placed on the timeline according to when they will become useful. Abilities on the timeline are waiting for a wide variety of things: coming off of cooldown, waiting for resources, monitoring a DoT, etc.
Configuration
A slightly old full walkthrough of Watcher configuration is located here
Display settings documentation.
Spells can be configured to be cast based on a wide variety of filters whether that be the presence (or lack there of) of an aura on you or your target, your target's health percent, your mana/resource percent, whether a spell can be stolen or interrupted, whether you have a particular talent or glyph, among other options.
Found a bug or issue, or have a suggestion?
Please make bug or issue reports and suggestions on the project's official issue tracker.
Before you file a bug, please ensure you are running the latest Watcher version, 3.0.9.
Changelog
The full, detailed changelog can be found here.
I previously used SexyCooldowns and hoped to use this as a replacement, but I would prefer it to display all cooldowns and exclude some I'm not interested in as opposed to adding each ability for all specs for my 6 classes. Is this possible? Typically I would then just filter out abilities with a cooldown duration above say 10 minutes to only see the typical class ability cooldowns.
To add more detail, I'd also have a second bar for cooldowns no longer than 10 seconds ish to seperate regular rotation abilities and longer defensive/offensive CDs.
I have an issue with the "Seconddary Resource" filter.
It simply doesn't work. On rogue I have only "Anticipation" check-mark, any other options on any character permanently turn grey and unusable.
Btw great addon, nice work and everything outside this problem is amazingly done.
Hi,
I've got a bug, I play DH and Immolation aura and Iris focused beam aren"t shown on the timeline ? Any idea on what to do ? Thanks great Addon
Any way to add "Other spell CD" as a filter? For instance, as a holy paladin I don't want to cast crusader strike if holy shock has less than 2 second left on its CD. Even better if we could specify whether or not to take GCD into account. Thanks!
In reply to youngstunnahx:
Hey Youngstunnahx,
It's not currently possible to do this in Watcher 3.0.9. However i do have some good news, as i have already added this feature to the new Watcher 4 rewrite that's in development. :)
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this addon doesn't run when I install it. It's flagged as out of date, but I have enabled run out of date addons. I have no problems with other addons, and I've tried disabling all of them with Watcher enabled to see if there's a conflict, but it still won't show the cooldown bar. Is there some convoluted way you have to set this thing up?
Any way to get this working for classic?
Will this be fixed for 8.2 ?
Thanks
In reply to Vdera:
Hi Vdera,
do you have examples of things that are broken in 8.2? without bug reports that tell me what's wrong, i can't fix those issues. ;)
hello, i am having an issue with Dots, they aren't tracked when applied. here's one of my filter config for druid:
["auraType"] = "HARMFUL",
["playerIsCaster"] = true,
["auraName"] = "Rake",
["unit"] = "target",
["remainingTimeRelationship"] = "ABOVE",
["filterType"] = "auras",
["ifExists"] = false,
["remainingTime"] = 0,
["stackCount"] = 0,
["trackStacks"] = false,
["stackRelationship"] = "At Least",
["trackRemainingTime"] = true,
i should be able to see icon moving from left to right as the Dot falloff, but I don't see it until the Dot falloff. Can you help me.
Thank you. and great addon.
In reply to x3mpinoy99:
I found DOTs to be tricky, what I do is create 2 filter sets,
One checks if the aura exists and I track remaining time when below 0
The other just tracks if the aura does not exist. Then on your priority list you put both. That way you have one to cover you if the debuff falls off, and one that shows while the DOT is ticking, neither shows when the other does.
In reply to elidion:
sweet that. works. Thank you so much.
Anyone have any idea when this addon will be updated?
In reply to replatinum:
Hey Replatinum,
sorry for the long wait. I've been away from WoW for a while and as such haven't been maintaining this addon.
I'll make sure to update the addon to 8.1.5 now. I'll implement the suggestion you sent through DM as 3.0.9 or 3.1.
Hey Jordy, I just wanted to pass on an issue I came across last night.
Anyway last night for my Havoc Demon Hunter we have Metamorphosis spellID 191427 which triggers the buff/aura Metamorphosis spellID 162264.
If you check out the latter version, you can see that it converts your Chaos Strike to Annihilation, and coverts your Blade Dance to Death Sweep. Well the first part of the problem is in watcher, when those conversions happen while in Metamorphosis, Chaos Strike and Blade Dance both still show up on watcher even though it shouldn't be "usable". Those abilities don't even appear on the bar anymore but whatever, let's just make some rules to prevent blade dance and chaos strike from appearing if the metamorphosis buff is present. Well that was the first problem, now this brings me to the 2nd problem. For whatever reason Watcher just couldn't detect my Metamorphosis. I typed up a script to check my buffs in case it's called something different...
/script for i=1,40 do local name, _, _, _, _, _,_, _, _, spellId, _, _, _, _, _, _, _ = UnitBuff("Player", i) if spellId ~= Nil then print(name..": "..spellId) end endNope, just shows up as Metamorphosis.
In reply to elidion:
In reply to elidion:
New for loop looks like this...it seems to work perfect for me and didn't break anything as far as I can tell on different classes. Of course this is your addon if you can find a better way to deal with this then great...just thought I would pass along my findings.
for priorityNum, spellCondition in ipairs(priorityList.spellConditions) do local icon = nil; if (self.SpellConditionCache[priorityNum]) then icon = self.SpellConditionCache[priorityNum]; else icon = self:GetNextAvailableIcon(); end if (not Watcher.replacedSpellsCache[spellCondition.spellId] and self:CheckForFilterType(spellCondition.filterSetId, filterType)) then local filterEndTime, results = self:EvaluateSpellFilter(spellCondition.spellId, spellCondition.filterSetId, filterType); if (not self.filterTypeEvaluateCache[priorityNum]) then self.filterTypeEvaluateCache[priorityNum] = {}; end self.filterTypeEvaluateCache[priorityNum][filterType] = results[filterType]; local cachedEndTime = 0; for filterId, filter in pairs(self.db.char.filterSets[spellCondition.filterSetId].filters) do if (not self.filterTypeEvaluateCache[priorityNum][filter.filterType] or not self.filterTypeEvaluateCache[priorityNum][filter.filterType][filterId]) then cachedEndTime = nil; break; end cachedEndTime = math.max(cachedEndTime, self.filterTypeEvaluateCache[priorityNum][filter.filterType][filterId]); end self:UpdateIcon(icon, spellCondition.spellId, priorityNum, cachedEndTime); elseif (Watcher.replacedSpellsCache[spellCondition.spellId]) then self:ClearIcon(icon); end endIn reply to elidion:
Thanks for resurrecting this mod. It really helps in getting the hang of a rotation.
A few wishes on filtering:
A minor whish for customization:
In reply to Milmoor: