wtb addon that display cast time on non active spells

[zenga]

Might be a weird title, but what I'm basically looking for is an addon that displays the actual casttime of my spells. Not so much of a boxing question though.

Currently I have a non clickable actionbar with bartender setup, where I have my main shaman spells listed (fs, lvb, cl, lb, em, trinket, bl, blood fury) and omni cc displays the cooldown. I have quartz that displays the active cast time of a spell. However my haste changes during fights due to certain procs, thus casting times of spells tend to differ. So some visual display/overview that indicates the cast time of a spell (regardless if i'm actually casting the spell or not).

Something like:

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6914/hasteexample.jpg

That obviously changes the cast times based on haste.

Have been browsing and trying several of the cast bars & cooldown addons, but none seems to offer this feature.

Appreciate if anyone could put me in the right direction.

cheers

[Feehza]

/script local _, _, _, _, _, _, castTime = GetSpellInfo("Lava Burst"); print("LB: "..castTime);
Its only a cast time output for chatwindow, if it should work, there could exist such an addon.

[Sam DeathWalker]

http://spicytunas.com/2008/04/ui-quartz/

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/quartz.aspx

It even changes your cast time according to your spell haste. And that is just the basics

[zenga]

http://spicytunas.com/2008/04/ui-quartz/

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/quartz.aspx

It even changes your cast time according to your spell haste. And that is just the basics

Well thanks for reply, but as i said in my post i currently use cast to see my active cast (i.e. the spell that is being casted on a target) as well as to see my targets cast bar. But that is not what i'm looking for. What i want is some display / overview that gives me the cast time of non active spells.

A simple example: assume that my normal cast time for:

spell A is 6 seconds with a 15 second cooldown
spell B is 8 seconds with no cooldown
spell C is 4 seconds with 15 seconds cooldown

A & B are main main spells. But at a certain moment spell A's cooldown is 4 seconds; since spell B takes 8 seconds to cast i want to fill that gap with spell C (whereas i wouldn't cast spell C in any other situation). But since I can get huge amounts of haste the standard cast times change during a fight due to procs. Therefore also the decision making if you want to use a filler spell or not.

Thus i want to have something visual that displays the cast time of spell A, B & C at any give time, regardless if its on cooldown or not, and regardless if it's being cast or not.

[zenga]

/script local _, _, _, _, _, _, castTime = GetSpellInfo("Lava Burst"); print("LB: "..castTime);
Its only a cast time output for chatwindow, if it should work, there could exist such an addon.

That is a nice solution till i find what i want. Added it to my click macro and it spams them in my chat window. Which ain't the best way to go obviously :D

great tip thanks

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya thats what I figured you wanted, I thought from the discription quartz does that, but maybe not:
Seems a good thing to have thats why I am spending time looking for it.


Ok MAYBE this:

http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/frame-maker/files/15-1-10-beta/


Version 1.10 (beta) - 2010/05/03


Users can now rename frames in the options
The options frame now (usually) remembers the last tab used
New data type to monitor: casting time - this monitors the cast time of spells and channeled spells and can be used to set up cast bars, etc

[zenga]

Thats a pretty awesome addon sam. Thanks for the tip. I played a bit with it and could easily reproduce a couple of the cooldown bars i currently use (from dbm spell timers i.e.), but was not able to see any predefined 'casting time' data type. Need to dig a bit deeper into that, and there is even an ability to add random ula code. So this looks like the tool to get it working.

But man what a brilliant addon. At first sight i can throw away half of my addons and display the things i want in a much simplified way.

[Maxion]

I know Dr. Damage can show the actual cast time etc of all your spells based on your current buffs, stats and target debuffs on your spells tooltips. This changes on the fly with procs etc.
Should be possible for an addon to use that data to show bars like you want.