
This add-on is designed to help players improve DPS, currently it goes about this in 3 ways.
Cast Time Improvement
If you look at why people are lagging behind on worldoflogs, it is usually because their not using all time available to DPS. Waiting for the cast bar to finish before starting another cast can be 1 second your not DPSing. Ensuring chain-casting is a bigger upgrade to dps than a higher Tier of gear - think of it as having a permanent free Heroism. Spells can be queued by clicking the next spell early, which will leave 0 gap between casts.
This add-on monitors the time between finishing one cast and starting another, providing this feedback to the user so that they can reduce this lost dps time. It's aim is to help improve this ABC - always be casting. It currently rates the gap as follows, with a summary at the end of combat.
- 0-49 millisecond gap - Green for Good!
- 50-19*9 millisecond gap - Blue for Okayish.
- 200> millisecond - Red for improvement needed
If you see red, try to queue up your spells quicker.
Timing between casts is on the client, so it's currently a best-effort-guestimate, the code will try to take into account lag to even things out.
Cast Bar Improvement
This is a follow on from 'Cast Time' improvement. The above can inform the player that they need to queue up a cast quicker. This improvement makes the Cast Bar complete quicker (based on the above feedback) to encourage clicking/keypressing earlier. Only works with the Standard Blizzard Cast Bar at the moment.
Cast Rotation Tips
The 'DPSTime' frame gives a visual hint of what the next spell to queue up should be. This is currently working for the following classes:
Mage - Fire and Arcane
Warlock - Destruction
Priest - Shadow
Shaman - Elemental, Enhancement
Druid - Moonkin
Warrior - Protection
Some of these are still being polished, any suggestions for improvements - please send me an email to tiptonshadowsong@googlemail.com
These hints are based on priorities, as described below.
Fire Mage
- Scorch - If scorch is about to drop off. Does not suggest this if 'Improved Shadow Bolt' is on the target.
- Living Bomb - Keep the LB debuff up on the target
- Fireball - The Fb mage 'filler' spell
- Pyroblast - If 'Hot Streak' comes up
Arcane Mage
- Arcane Blast
- Arcane Missiles when Missile Barrage is up and we're at (or about to hit) 4 AB stacks.
Destruction Warlock
- Keep Life Tap debuff up on player
- Put 'Curse of Elements' if no Ebon Plague or Earth and Moon on the target
- otherwise 'Curse of Doom' if the target isn't likely to die < 1 min
- Keep the Immolate debuff up on target
- Chaos Bolt when not on cooldown
- Conflagrate when not on cooldown and Immolate debuff is up
- Incinerate filler spell
Shadow Priest
- Keep Vampire Touch up on the target
- Keep Devouring Plague up on the target
- Mind Blast when off cooldown
- Shadow Word:pain when 5 stacks of Shadow Weaving on the target
- Mind Flay filler spell
Elemental Shaman
- Keep water shield up on the player
- Keep Flame Shock up on the target
- Lava Burst when off cooldown and Flame Shock is up
- Lighning Bolt filler spell
Enhancement Shaman
- Keep Lightning shield up on the player (if no other Shaman shield is up)
- Earth Shock when off cooldown
- Lava Lash when off cooldown
- Lighning Bolt when Maelstrom weapon is at 5 stacks
- No filler spell
Protection Warrior
- Shield Slam whenever it is not on cooldown
- Revenge whenever it is up
- Devastate up to 5 stacks
- Concussion Blow whenever it is not on cooldown
- Shockwave whenever it is not on cooldown
- Keep Demoralizing Shout debuff up on target
- Keep Thunder Clap debuff up on target
- Devastate filler spell
Fury Warrior
- Slam when Slam! procs
- Bloodthirst when off cooldown
- Whirlwind when off cooldown
- Heroic Strike when Rage >= 30
- No filler spell
Moonkin Druid
- Keep Faerie Fire debuff up on target
- Keep Insect Swarm debuff up on target
- Keep Moonfire debuff up on target
- Starfire when player has Eclipse buff
- Wrath when player has Orange Eclipse buff
- Wrath filler spell
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r24 | tipton | 2009-12-14 22:16:52 +0000 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 1 line
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Tagging as DPSTime v1.5.1 Stable r23
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r23 | tipton | 2009-12-14 22:13:37 +0000 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 1 line
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Changed default icon to Auto Attack, so it appears for more players.
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r21 | tipton | 2009-12-08 18:10:18 +0000 (Tue, 08 Dec 2009) | 1 line
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Updated for 3.3, tested on the PTR.
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r18 | tipton | 2009-11-30 23:39:48 +0000 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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Working on Localization
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r16 | tipton | 2009-11-30 21:59:25 +0000 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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Made the ACE3 dependency Optional
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r14 | tipton | 2009-11-30 21:17:21 +0000 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) | 2 lines
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Fixed Moonkin DPS Bug
Added Ace3 as a dependency
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r12 | tipton | 2009-11-30 19:03:10 +0000 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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Changed version of DPSTime to v1.4 ready for Release.
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Added Moonkin and Enhancement Shaman DPStips.
Update the LUA code to make it more OO.
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r9 | tipton | 2009-11-23 22:19:05 +0000 (Mon, 23 Nov 2009) | 2 lines
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M /trunk/core.lua
M /trunk/embeds.xml
Improved the configuration of the DPSTime frame. It can now be Resized, made translucent and click-through.
Improved flexibility where the DPSTime gap text goes.
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r8 | tipton | 2009-11-22 00:22:50 +0000 (Sun, 22 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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Removed - not needed
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r7 | tipton | 2009-11-22 00:21:22 +0000 (Sun, 22 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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Moved down a directory, no need to have subdirectory DPSTime in the trunk.
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r4 | tipton | 2009-11-21 22:29:09 +0000 (Sat, 21 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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r3 | tipton | 2009-11-21 21:36:28 +0000 (Sat, 21 Nov 2009) | 2 lines
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Improved how many spells it takes to start combat
Also added a > 5 sec ignore for long non-cast periods.
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A /trunk/DPSTime/Libs/AceComm-3.0/ChatThrottleLib.lua
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A /trunk/DPSTime/Libs/AceGUI-3.0/widgets/AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua
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A /trunk/DPSTime/Libs/AceGUI-3.0/widgets/AceGUIWidget-InteractiveLabel.lua
A /trunk/DPSTime/Libs/AceGUI-3.0/widgets/AceGUIWidget-Keybinding.lua
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Table of Contents
- 1 Installation Guide
- 2 Translations
- 3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date mods)
- 4 Mac Support
- 5 Directory Structure
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Windows
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods. - Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My mods" folder.
- The "My mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...

