WakeSpams
About
WakeSpams is a simple addon used to announce your usage of important abilities, such as mitigation cooldowns, powerups or interrupts, to your raid, party or in whisper to specific players. Branched out from its bigger brother (a raid cooldown tracker I'm currently working on) and skinned to the bone, WakeSpams is lightweight and straight to the point. I am willing to listen to feature requests, but I will not be bloating the addon, so an in-game config for this addon is probably as far as it goes.
What I initially intended for WakeSpams was to just have announces for Death Knights (as I wrote this addon for the maintank in our guild) and Priests (my own class), however when players of other classes requested to have an addon like this, with other similar addons not fulfilling their needs, I broadened the scope and later uploaded it here on WowAce.
Features
- Announces your dispels and dispel resists.
- Announces your taunt misses (immune, resist, etc).
- Announces your interrupts.
- Announcement of your (and your pet's) important abilities:
- When you activate them
- Countdown to when they are about to fade (optional)
- When they fade (optional)
Interface Options
You can add, modify and delete announcement settings on a per spell through the in-game config. It supports anything that has a spell ID and shows up in the combat log (this includes trinkets and pet abilities, as long as it's the right spell ID).
- Output Options:
- Global and spell specific settings for where to direct announcements based each of the following situations: when solo, in a party, in a raid, in a battleground, in arena, in Wintergrasp or Tol Barad
- Global and spell specific settings for where to direct announcements based each of the following situations: when solo, in a party, in a raid, in a battleground, in arena, in Wintergrasp or Tol Barad
- Adding spells:
- WakeSpams can, when you add a new spell, detect the best settings for it automatically. This is currently very simple, but it will be expanded upon later.
- Manually setting up each spell is also possible.
@Alcotraz
I will be adding an option that will allow you to decide which channel to send announcements to. There will be a global option as well as an option for each spell.
I will update the description as soon as I commit and tag a release build.
@Zidomo
Adding spells through the in-game config is already on my todo list, but I hadn't thought about the possibility of the addon auto-detecting spells in the spellbook. I'll take your suggestion into consideration.
Suggestion: Apply a setting in the In-Game Config to Enable/Disable Announcement in BGs, Arenas etc. (Including WG).
Also, you'll probably want to update the "Important" section, since it has an In-Game Config now :P
One more thing that hopefully can be added to the new in-game config: your own spells.
For example, the Paladin list is missing Sacred Shield (among others). Easy enough for advanced mod users/testers to add themselves to SpellList.lua. But for others, no ability to add spells in the config means they will be missing out.
Best addon. Does what it says, nothing more nothing less.
@Tarlinras
I'm aware of the issue in r8. I was tidying up the code, but got carried away. You can just download r7 for now.
@Alcotraz
I'll look at interrupt fails, but it might have to wait until the addon has an in-game config where you'll be able to add it yourself.
As of now there's no ETA for the config, since I'm busy with other things.
Would love to see an update to this addon, as is it's nice, does what I need, but it has a memory leak somewhere. But good work so far.
Glad to see this reached WowAce....
Hoping to see that In-Game Config soon.
Any chance to add Interrupt Fails btw?