WeakAuras announce when someone cycloning or shiping you?

[izt11451]

So is it even possible? Maybe i should use someting like " "COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED" and message == "SPELL_CAST_START" " but I'm not familiar with LUA.

[Deleted]

This is not possible, or at least not 100% of the time.
The event SPELL_CAST_START does not have a target parameter (probably for this exact purpose), so you can detect that someone begins to cast cyclone/poly in a gigantic radius, but without a unitid like bossX you can't keep track of the unit that started the cast and what he is casting it on. Only SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS has a target parameter, but by then it's obviously too late
In a battleground you could try to look for the unit by going through raidXfocus and raidXtarget and whatnot, but it'll never be guaranteed to find the unit and properly alert you.

[ComputerNerd]

@Hamsda pretty much hit the nail on the head there.
We could previously have addons which would tell you who the target of a spell was, particularly useful if you could get that alert about yourself or a healer in PvP.

[Deleted]

As I haven't done pvp in 7 years or something like that: do enemies in arena have unitids similar to boss enemies? There is a frame for them in the default UI at least, right? So one could maybe do it in arena...

[Deleted]

yeah in arena your enemies have ids -> arena1-5

i remember there was an addon for that back when i was more into pvp
http://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/spell-alerter

but i think it does not work anymore :<

[ComputerNerd]

Yeah I think I used that same addon myself, and that functionality was broken intentionally most likely due to such addons.
Being aware of a certain cast is one thing, knowing exactly who it is aimed at is another.

[Ketho]

With the new nameplates it might be possible to see if any of the nameplate unitids are targeting someone when SPELL_CAST_START is casted

If say, an addon tracks SPELL_CAST_START then it iterates over the nameplates until the same unitguid is found and it can see who is being targeted
(provided nameplates are enabled/shown and it's not being cast on mouseover/macro'd instead of nameplate7target)

[Tercio]

With the new nameplates it might be possible to see if any of the nameplate unitids are targeting someone when SPELL_CAST_START is casted

If say, an addon tracks SPELL_CAST_START then it iterates over the nameplates until the same unitguid is found and it can see who is being targeted
(provided nameplates are enabled/shown and it's not being cast on mouseover/macro'd instead of nameplate7target)

Yet can't be reliable, the person maybe is casting on @Focus target.