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Hi,
does anybody know a good buff-addon which show hots (with duration) on the actual player in a good way (seperarted form all the other buffs like fort. and so on...) ? Any suggestions?
I'm asking, because I try to use my druid as a healer and therefor need something which can show me simply, whats Hots (and how long) are on my tank.
You can use Pitbull unit frames, it will let you easily see your HoTs on targets, or get HealBot and it should show your hots on players, not sure if it shows duration also.
I use Dot Timer. It's very helpful. It sorts the HOT by duration so for me the hot with the least amount of time remaining is at the bottom so I can see which needs to be refreshed. You may have to play with the setup a bit at first. I installed it and went into a BG without properly setting up the config and I got a whole mess of buffs and heals from both raid, party and enemies on screen. it was a mess. But after spending a couple minutes it's perfect now.
If you're using a druid healer and want to keep track of Hots, my friend who raid heals with his druid in our guild swears by Lifebloomer.
The problem i have is mainly, that nearly all addons show the duration of the hots on the druid who is healing, what would be ok for normal play, but what i realy need is that the duration is shown on my Pally who has recieved the hots. Currently I'm using Power Aura as a solution, but maybe there is something simpler...
Use pitbull or any other unit frames, move your buff bar somwhere very easy to see, make it larger if need be, you will be able to see the HoTs on yourself and the duration.
I was going to suggest Power Aura, before seeing your next post.
Pitbull would probably be a good solution, because on your paladins UI, you can filter your party frames to show druid buffs and their durations. BUT it is not any simpler that Power Aura...
Well with dot timer I see my party's buffs and hots. I never have to look at my healer. So if my druid puts a hot on one of my dps I can see it and it's duration.
Edit: I see this information on my main. Which is normally my pally or DK. Also like everyone is saying Pitbull is also good for this. You can change the size of the buffs and hots that you receive. to make them bigger or smaller (as needed) and even highlight buffs and hots that aren't your own.
Like on my toons. My pitbull is set to highlight my buffs with a green border. and make them smaller than any buffs or hots that aren't my own casting. So if anyone else casts a hot on me it is larger than my icons for my buffs.
I'll add my voice to the Pitbull chorus. It can be configured to show just about whatever you want, in whatever format you want, including not showing buffs that you don't care about.
Personally, I use SmartBuff's warnings to remind me about buffs like MotW, Thorns, etc. and leave pitbull to just show me the important stuff like debuffs and hots. ;)
Elkano's BuffBars is addon you want! You can create new buff group and set filters to show only those spells you want.
Since I have all druid team, i setup 1 buff group showing only HoT's that are on me. Really helpful!
For my resto druid i use grid, grid mana bars, grid hot status, grid corner text and just played about with it. now i have my lb stacks in top left of grid and all other ticks in corners, made my raid healing much more efficient. Still doesnt stop me spamming buttons when someones almost dead though :D
I have to chime in here as I have been searching for this as well.
I Think what the OP wants / wanted was an addon that would sho the HOT buff on you and its cooldown. SO if your playing a pally and boxing a priest you can effectively see when to hot or use prayer of mending again very easily.
The problem with Elkanos Buff bar s that it will remove the entire buff frame and if you only wanna see hots its too much info right there were u need it to constantly monitor. If there is a way to split up buffs for like fort or auras or long term buffs.. like put them in another location that would be perfect but havnt figured that out or if EBB can do that. Have not checked inot Pitbull but will try that.
What I have found is Naturs Cast bar.. which will effectively do what you want..
It will keep the default blizzard frame and will add spells that you can watch. Can even set it up with a lil sound file to play when said buff is gone... very handy. Will also show your "Focus" targets buffs and some other information.
Sorry for brining back a later post but did a search and was lookin for an addon as well and this is what i found.. hope it helps some others.
With Dot Timer, while on the Tank, you can see a HoT cast on one of your DPS by your Healer.
It takes up a bit of screen real estate, but you can configure the size of the bars (scale, height, width) and go with bar length or numerical timer.
There's a lot of configuration options there now.
It took me a while to get what I wanted, but I'm very happy with it.