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.
Changelog
The full, detailed changelog can be found here.
Hello, Can we have Max icon Stack = 0 please? I don't need to see icon when cooldown = 0. If the skill is not in cooldown on the bar, I know I can use it
The documentation links on the description don't work, is there any guide somewhere to understand how to setup this?
I get that I need to add the spells, but that's about it, I'm not sure how to track a spell charge cooldown (like Fire Blast that has 3 charges, I want to see each charge CD on the timeline)
Thanks
In reply to FlepGG:
Yeah the guide is no longer available since Curseforge stopped hosting project pages. It was outdated anyway.
I had been looking into recreating the guides, but I'm in the middle of a complete rewrite of the addon, which will also see a major overhaul of the UI to make it more intuitive to use, so any guide made now would have to be replaced quickly.
For your specific use case, after adding a spell in the spells tab, go the the "Filter sets" section at the bottom, and add a new filter set. Give it any any name you want. Once this is done, you can add a filter to the filter set. You probably want the 'Spell charges' filter. Using that filter you can tell the addon to only show the spell on the timeline when you have at least a certain number of charges, at most a certain number, or when you have an exact number of charges.
Once you've added a spell and set up the filters you'd like, click on the 'Priority Lists' button in the left navigation menu. There, add your spell and filter set. This will tell the addon with which priority to render things on the timeline.
The currentUI is a bit unintuitive to use, but all set up follows this basic pattern. I'm in the middle of rebuilding the UI from the groud up to be more intuitive to use.
every time i add certain spells like fists of fury to my bar it constandly spams the spell id in personal chat as white number
that wasnt an issue before the update
In reply to Julmara_Wahnuki:
They forgot to disable a debug line. If you want to fix it quickly, just open Core.lua, go down to line 643 and add -- before that print() command
In reply to Evolutious:
I just uploaded version 3.0.15 which fixes this. It's currently under review by curseforge but should be available within the next 30 minutes or so.
I see there is an option for changing the scale, but is there no option for altering the height and width?
In reply to Tauur:
Currently the height and width are dictated by the Icon Size display setting. Due to how the addon is currently coded these icons must be sqaures to properly stack on top of eachother, hence there being only one slider to control the size of the icons.
This will change in the future with a rebuilt Watcher addon that should also accommodate the new editable UI better.
With the launch of 10.0.2, this addon is now totally broken for me. Maybe it is some other mod/library that needs to be updated, but posting in case it is an easy fix while waiting on the new release.
215x Watcher/Core.lua:655: attempt to call method 'SetSpellByID' (a nil value)
[string "@Watcher/Core.lua"]:655: in function `GetPowerCost'
[string "@Watcher/Filters.lua"]:325: in function <Watcher/Filters.lua:269>
[string "=(tail call)"]: ?
[string "@Watcher/Filters.lua"]:146: in function `EvaluateSpellFilter'
[string "@Watcher/Display.lua"]:612: in function `UpdateByFilterType'
[string "@Watcher/Filters.lua"]:207: in function `BucketTriggered'
[string "@Watcher/Filters.lua"]:192: in function `AddToBucket'
[string "@Watcher/Filters.lua"]:173: in function `?'
[string "@ElvUI_Libraries/Core/CallbackHandler-1.0-7/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:117: in function <...ies/Core/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:117>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@ElvUI_Libraries/Core/CallbackHandler-1.0-7/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:27: in function <...ies/Core/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:23>
[string "@ElvUI_Libraries/Core/CallbackHandler-1.0-7/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:62: in function `Fire'
[string "@ElvUI_Libraries/Core/Ace3/AceEvent-3.0-4/AceEvent-3.0.lua"]:120: in function <...UI_Libraries/Core/Ace3/AceEvent-3.0/AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
In reply to Evolutious:
That's correct as 10.0.2 comes with changes to some UI and tooltip scanning APIs, and addons now have to do this in a slightly different way. I already knew this was coming in and that the addon would break once 10.0.2 hit, but because I don't have access to the beta I couldn't test the addon and get this fixed before the prepatch hit.
I'll look into pushing out a hotfix as soon as possible, which hopefully will be today but I cannot garantuee that I can get a fix out in time as I also have other addons to update.
In reply to Jordy141:
Thank you! I went in and just added a return to top of the function Watcher:GetPowerCost(spellId) which got my stuff working for now while I wait for your release. looking forward to it!
In reply to Evolutious:
I've rewritten the GetPowerCost function to work with the new Dragonflight APIs and did a bunch of other fixes as well. version 3.0.13 is now available which makes the addon usable in Dragonflight.
if there are any lingering issues please let me know asap so I can get those fixed as well.
In reply to Jordy141:
I loaded up the latest and everything looks good! Thanks!
One question though; is there any way to add a checkbox to zoom icons 30% to make them look square and match the appearance for ElvUI? i do this myself by adding the following line in the Display.lua file but figured since you are updating the mod if you can just toss that in, it would keep me from having to manually add it every time there is an update ;)
Line to zoom icons 30%
no worries if not.
In reply to Evolutious:
And done. I've added a new option in Watcher's display settings, under a new category "Style", named "Sqaure borderless icons". When enabled it effectively replicates this effect. This option is available from Watcher 3.0.14 onwards.
When updating from Watcher 3.0.13 or earlier to Watcher 3.0.14 or later, and when Watcher is ran for the very first time on a character, the addon will check if ElvUI is present and if so, show a popup after loading in to ask ElvUI users for their preference. This makes it very easy for you to apply the setting after updating, and ensures everyone using ElvUI is alerted that this option is now available. :)
Final note: with some tweaking to get as accurate of a replica of the spell icons as what ElvUI has, i landed on slightly different texture coordinates than your snippet: 0.075, 0.925, 0.075, 0.925.
In reply to Jordy141:
Thanks for adding that in so quickly! However, it looks like you left a debug enabled as my chat window is being spammed with spell IDs ;)
The debug line is in Core.lua on line 643
Is there a way to stop tracking an ability that comes off CD? I'm seeking only to view specific abilities that are still on cooldown.
In reply to Aurleis:
I'm in the middle of a rewrite of Watcher for Dragonflight, which I sadly don't think will be ready on launch, but it will allow you to disable tracking cooldown.
the 3.3.5 Version won't work for WOTLK Classic, it just dont shows up the bar.
The rest of the addon seems to work normally.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Watcher\Core.lua:507: attempt to call method 'SetBackdrop' (a nil value)
Time: Sun Sep 11 07:42:02 2022
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Watcher\Core.lua:507: attempt to call method 'SetBackdrop' (a nil value)
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Watcher\Core.lua"]:507: in function `CreatePriorityFrame'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Watcher\Core.lua"]:321: in function `?'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\AtlasLootClassic\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:119: in function <...sic\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Interface\AddOns\AtlasLootClassic\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:29: in function <...sic\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25>
[string "@Interface\AddOns\AtlasLootClassic\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua"]:64: in function `Fire'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Attune\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua"]:120: in function <...ace\AddOns\Attune\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals: <none>
In reply to LeoNERDo9:
This is because wrath classic is not 3.3.5, but 3.4, and wrath classic runs on modern server architecture with the same modern addon APIs as Shadowlands.
It's not just the bar that isn't working either. Wrath classic works with new addon code for detecting resource availability, buffs ans debuffs on targets, remaining time for dot and hot effects, etc. Even the way addon authors detect the spells that have been learned, their rank, and what talents have been learned is completely different now than it was in 3.3.5. Making a version for WotLK Classic will require a rewrite of most of the addon code and extensive testing that the new Wrath classic code behaves correctly for each playable class and race.
Making a version for Wrath classic is on my to do list, but I'm prioritising Watcher for Dragonflight right now. a Watcher for Wrath Classic might come eventually but with the amount of work involved this might not be ready before December 2022 or sometime in 2023.
In reply to Jordy141:
No need. I've already done a working version. Based on 2.15 Gellian