Custom Spell Timer?

[Vook]

Yep, looking for an add-on that will let me create custom timers for spellcasts. IE:

I cast Holy Word: Sanctuary (holy priest chakra aoe) and have an 18 second timer pop up. Haven't tried to use Forte for it yet, because Forte is being really buggy.

[Deleted]

FW is working very much fine for me. Make sure you're getting betas.

[Vook]

Yeah but...how do I make custom spell timers in Forte? It's so damn confusing =/

Even moreso, Holy Word: Sanctuary isn't a buff, so there's really no way of tracking its duration, which is why I need something that will start an 18 second timer as soon as the spellcast is complete.

[lawomous]

If you use Deadly Boss mods it's super easy. Just make this macro.

#showtooltip
/dbm timer 18 HW: Sanctuary
/cast Holy Word: Sanctuary

[Woogs]

Yeah but...how do I make custom spell timers in Forte? It's so damn confusing =/

Even moreso, Holy Word: Sanctuary isn't a buff, so there's really no way of tracking its duration, which is why I need something that will start an 18 second timer as soon as the spellcast is complete.

Holy Word: Sanctuary's cooldown will be hard to track accurately. Last time I checked out the events it fired, on the PTR, it only fired 'SPELL_CAST_START' and 'SPELL_PERIODIC_HEAL'. A unique event is not fired when the actual cooldown begins.

[Deleted]

Probably UNIT_SPELLCAST of some sort though.

[Woogs]

Probably UNIT_SPELLCAST of some sort though.

That's true since you're only tracking it for yourself, you could:

1) Listen for a 'UNIT_SPELLCAST_START' event and then get casting info using UnitCastingInfo() to make sure it is the spell you are looking for.
2) Listen for a 'UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED' event to make sure the cast went through. The cast did not go through if you only get a 'UNIT_SPELLCAST_STOP' event.
3) Start the timer.

[Deleted]

UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED passes the spell being cast.

[Woogs]

UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED passes the spell being cast.

Woops, I thought it only passed a unit ID. That makes it a lot easier; pretty much only one step.