Watcher

Last Updated: Apr 14, 2019 Game Version: 8.1.5

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Owner: mpstark

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, 3.0.7.

Changelog

The full, detailed changelog can be found here.

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replatinum
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Posted Apr 11, 2019
Anyone have any idea when this addon will be updated?

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Posted Apr 14, 2019
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.

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Posted Oct 1, 2018
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 end

Nope, just shows up as Metamorphosis.
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Posted Oct 3, 2018
In reply to elidion:

doesn't matter - check below.

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#1039 Posted Oct 3, 2018

In reply to elidion:

I figured out what's happening, Watcher.replacedSpellsCache evaluates true for Blade Dance and Chaos strike when metamorphosis is enabled which makes sense since it was a replaced spell right?. But line 605 in Display.lua won't run because those spells evaluate as true...makes sense, if the spell has been replaced and doesn't exist, why evaluate filters on it? But the problem is, there is no way to clear the icon now except by changing targets which will trigger Watcher.UpdateAll(). So what I did was cut out the line 606-611 icon code and put it at line 605 above the Watcher.replacedSpellsCache evaluation. and then at the end, did an elseif to see if there were replacedspells and if so then clear the icon.

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
end

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Posted Oct 16, 2018
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Hi Elidion,

Sorry for the late reaction, i was on vacation so hadn't checked for new issues here.

Thank you for pointing out this bug and even rooting out the cause of the issue. You've fixed it the same way i would have done, so i'll include it in 3.0.8 and you will receive proper credit.

Thank you once again for investigating and fixing the problem! :)

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Posted Aug 17, 2018
Thanks for resurrecting this mod. It really helps in getting the hang of a rotation.

A few wishes on filtering:

on pet: my Beast Master rotation depends on the Frenzy of my pet

on Focus target: for recasting crowd control when it's about to drop etc.

A minor whish for customization:

allow for a second watcher bar: I currently clone/rename Watcher for tracking my Multi-target rotation and use it 90 degrees rotated next to the single target rotation
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Posted Aug 18, 2018
In reply to Milmoor:

Hi Milmoor,

You can already track Frenzy with the aura filter. simply set the type to "buff" and unit to "pet". Same things with focus target, the aura filter already has an option for that built in. :)

As for your suggestion to allow multiple Watcher bars, this is a good suggestion that i'm definitely willing to implement. The current structure of Watcher's code isn't built to support multiple bars though, so it will take a bit to make this possible. Luckily i happen to be in the middle of a major code revision for the next major release, and as such there's no better time to implement this feature than now. I've added this to the milestone list for Watcher 3.1. :)

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Posted Aug 19, 2018
In reply to Jordy141:

Thanks, found them. Totally overlooked those.

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Posted Aug 5, 2018
I have messaged @Jordy141 but haven't heard back yet, and was wondering if anyone has information on how to transfer the information to another computer.

Something I can cut and paste into the other computer so I don't have to reenter everything. It would take hours and hours. I am sure all the info is saved someplace, but I don't know where.

Thanks.

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Posted Aug 8, 2018
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Hi @janene274,

First of all, sorry for the late response. I do intend to answer within 24 hours, but i've been busy enough the last few days that i didn't remember to check curseforge.

I've sent you a detailed anwer in PM. For anyone else that would like to know this info:

Watcher's settings are saved per character. They can be found in WoW\WTF\Account\<Account number>\<realm>\<character>\SavedVariables\Watcher.lua. Copy this file to another computer to transfer the information.

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Posted Aug 12, 2018
In reply to Jordy141:

Hi Jordy, thank you so much! I didn't see anything in my PMs, but this should work. Thank you so much. My son also just came back to the game yesterday, so I can share this with him also!

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Posted Aug 12, 2018
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No problem. :)

I am currently working on a new major release which will allow exporting and importing settings to and from text strings,as well as sending them directly to another player in the same party as you.

That feature might come in handy later, and make it easier when you want to copy settings to another computer or share them with your son. :)

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
Just uploaded the 3.0.5 update. Main feature is that the new PVP talents are now fully supported both to use as spell profile and to use in the talent filter.

Please note that due to the nature of how the PVP talent data is stored, if blizzard adds or removes a talent i need to manually update the addon to cover for it. So if the addon is lagging behind the latest changes, please file a bug report in the issue tracker to help remind me i need to get the PVP data sorted.

i've also added a bunch of extra commands for quality of life improvements and changed /watcher reset to ask for confirmation first now.

I suggest that you try /watcher changes as soon as you are running 3.0.5 to see the latest changes. :)

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
Edit: I now have access to the Curseforge project, the updated version has been uploaded there. You can now download Watcher for Battle for Azeroth through the Twitch Client or from the Project Files page.

Please make bug reports, issues, and suggestions on the official issue tracker found here:

https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/shotwatch/issues

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
In reply to Jordy141:

thank you so much!

here is what i tried and experienced (as fury warrior atm):

when i load spells into my priority list that cost no resource and aren't in any way conditional except for the cd, then everything works fine. However, when i try to implement a spell like Rampage (which costs 85 rage) than the timeline is starting to show wrong "ready" cooldowns and doesn't show the Rampage ability when i get to 85 rage.

As far as i remember that was the case with other versions where the condition "usable" was sufficient to make an ability show up, whenever i got the rage, aura or % on target hp. But i'm not 100% sure here.

I tried to make a Filter Set for the abilites that i mentioned like for Rampage Rage>=85, and for Execute one like Target Hp<=20%, still those abilites are not showing up correctly.

To clear that up, i'm getting no LUA errors at all, everything i experienced was just ability icons not showing up when they're ready to use.

Thanks again for putting work into this addon i love so much, maybe you can have a look into this too or maybe tell me what i'm doing wrong, that would be great!

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
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I haven't had a chance to try this yet but thank you so much! I've tried using weak auras but it just doesn't work for me. I'm hoping this fixes everything!

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
In reply to 2af7ih:

Thanks for mentioning this bug. 2af7ih. Turns out that the original author only designed this with Mana, Focus, and Energy in mind, and no other resources despite what the tooltip on the filter settings says.

I've now fixed this so that every resource in the game is supported. this includes things such as Rage, Holy power, Soul shards, Maelstrom, DK runes, etc.

I've updated the link on the original post so that it now points to the 3.0.2 release. download it from there! :)

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
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I'm having an issue where (when playing a balance druid) watcher isn't picking up on Lunar and Solar Empowerment. The filter I created is to show Lunar Strike or Solar Wrath when the matching Empowerment buff is present. Do you know of any way to fix this?

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
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In reply to replatinum:

I'm finding a few other issues as well. For example, when using shred in feral cat spec, I've set the filter to not use above 5 combo points. Shred is still displayed at 5 combo points. That and neither Ferocious Bite or Rip are showing.

Sorry if I sound demanding. Just wanted to give feedback.

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