way to know if a spell doesnt land

[jeepdriver]

Is there anyway to know if a spell doesnt land on a target? any addons or anything like that? I run a Destro lock in my team, and if one of her spells ( I think its conflagarate?) doesnt land, her DPS rotation goes to crap. Any suggestions?

[Sajuuk]

Get the lock hit capped, perchance?

[coglistings]

Get the lock hit capped, perchance?

get hit capped. no offense, but what are you going to do if you did have a proc on your screen, ZOMG changing my +spell power enchanted weapon to my +hit / crit enchangted weapon, thank god I have a keybinding and macro set for this particular case :P

[jeepdriver]

LOL oh no Im not offended or anything, just thought there might be something out there for that....been catchin hell raisin it on 2 toons :/

[jeepdriver]

Well yea.....but until I do is there anything out there that will give me a heads up?

[coglistings]

I am willing to write a wow addon that plays richard simmons audio ingame endlessly if your toon isn't hit capped if you want.

[Mukade]

I modified the DBM-SpellTimers addon slightly to show the cooldowns on my warlock's Conflagrate and Chaos Bolt spells.

Theres a section of code that looks for SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS, SPELL_RESURRECT, SPELL_HEAL, SPELL_AURA_APPLIED, or SPELL_AURA_REFRESH in the combat log, to see when things happen and start extra timers.

I added another similar section within an elseif statement below, and added SPELL_MISSED and SPELL_DAMAGE, and limited the player name to that of my warlock. The first term to search is because it didn't show when spells missed, but the cooldowns were still activated when that happened, and the second search term because chaos bolt doesn't show as a sucessful spell cast in the combat log, so I had to go off it causing damage instead. With that section added to the code I could use the gui in game to add those two spells normally.

You could make a further modification to the code to show a different message on the cooldown bar when a spell misses.



Warlocks do tend to lose a ton of hit rating as they get closer to a 5k GS (mine was down to 10% until I got the 60 EoF for the +hit trinket)

[jimbobobb]

This seems like a play issue. Point for point, hit rating is more important than ANY OTHER STAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY HAVE until you are hit capped. If you are level 80, and not hit capped, and you have a single gem in your gear that is not plus 20 hit, you are doing it wrong. This is not like 'my opinion' or 'well that depends man....' - this is simply the way that the game works. Get hit capped.

[zenga]

You might want to check out this spell hit cap overview. For heroics you really don't need a lot of hit (bosses are 82). For raid bosses (83) however you need lots of that. However when there is a boomkin or shadow priest in the part you need 3% less. So with my shaman i'm not hit capped (17% is cap, i get 3% from elemental precision and 3% from boomkin or shadow priest, so i'm at 11%). For the occasions when there is none of them in the party i keep this trinket in my bags, available from triumph emblems.

[Dooz]

It's no wonder people give some of you guys shit . The answer is yes. It's called ForteXorcist. It will make a sound if your toon misses. It was made with Warlocks in mind, but works for all classes. I was a Necrosis user until I found this addon. It's got all the bell's and whistles, most of which I haven't explored. Will it help?... It's not meant for boxing. However it will broadcast spell misses ("resists") to your default chat. So there might be a way to configure it with Jamba so your main screen gets a tell. Will that happen quick enough to be effective?... I'm not so sure. Maybe?

Also the MikScrollingBattleText addon (MSBT) will flash misses. I'm not sure whether it will broadcast that to chat though. But you can make it big enough to catch your eye
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The one thing I do know is that there are a lot of talented people in this forum, maybe someone will figure out a way to make either one of these programs work :: points at Jeep::