Addon idea: Countdown clock?

[topgear]

correction: Immolate is a 2sec cast not 3 as I said

[Khatovar]

Because with a castsequence you can create a macro that says {for example, because I don't play these classes}

/castsequence Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt

and stick it on key 2 for your shaman. Then

/castsequence Immolate, Conflagrate, Shadowflame, Chaos Bolt

and stick it on key 2 for your warlocks.

Now you only have one key to press and as long as you're pressing it, the macro will progress as soon as it's able. No need to worry about how long until you're done casting a spell, no need to worry about getting spells off in the right order, no worries about missing spells because of lag or being out of sync or because of varying cast times.

[topgear]

I see your point here.
I can add up the casting times + GCD's and get a rough figure of my reset values (then change these values every patch or talent that alters cast time, etc).
My player unitframe has a cast bar, but I cant see the cast bar from my alts.

Though by no means necessary a timer would be a useful tool.
(unless I can get an addon that shows me all 5 castbars)

[mikekim]

I see your point here.
I can add up the casting times + GCD's and get a rough figure of my reset values (then change these values every patch or talent that alters cast time, etc).
My player unitframe has a cast bar, but I cant see the cast bar from my alts.

Though by no means necessary a timer would be a useful tool.
(unless I can get an addon that shows me all 5 castbars)

as has been mentioned earlier, by Fenril.. if you are using ISBoxer then you can setup video feeds of the alts castbars and display them on your mains screen

[topgear]

I thought of a few problems I might have with castsequence:
1. my opening rotation would be fine, but my DoTs have varying lengths so I have to change what I cast as the fight goes on.
2. I couldnt use reset=target because I have to reapply my DoTs on bosses
3. I would have to estimate the reset time which is essentially the same problem I have now, I have to estimate the cast times

I am going to think more about this and thanks for the input

[topgear]

Ty but I use HotKeyNet I'm not familiar with ISBoxer.
But I must say that sounds very useful.

[Khatovar]

1. Reset=Xs is an idle timer, not a force reset condition. Reset=10 means the macro will not reset until it has reached the end of the sequence OR until you have not pressed the button for 10 seconds. Reset conditions are not used as active timers, therefor adding and estimating GCDs and cast times is irrelevant. Once you reach the end of the cast sequence, the macro will start from the beginning, there is no timing required. If your Shaman is through with his cast sequence and your Warlocks are only halfway through, the shaman will just start over while the warlocks keep working through their sequence until they reach the end and start over.

2. You can break up castsequences to do different things. For example, put all your DoTs in a cast sequence and put it on 1, then put your spammable damage spells in a sequence on 2. Spam through 1 to put up your DoTs then move to two and spam that until your DoTs are about to fall off. Or use a toggle or modifier key to swap between the two.

Or you can approximate the duration of the DoTs and just make a longer cast sequence to incorporate them into the main spam sequence, like Mercurio shows

/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence [@targettarget] reset=5
Soul Fire,Immolate,Corruption,Incinerate,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Life Tap,Soul Fire,Immolate,Incinerate,Corruption,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Incinerate
/cast [@targettarget] Firebolt
/cast [@targettarget] Chaos Bolt
/cast [@targettarget] Shadowburn
/use 13
/use 14

There's dozens of different macros listed in the stickies showing how to use castsequence to deal with spam damage, DoTs and even procs.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33870
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33080
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=32633
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=32456

And as a HKN user, you can duplicate ISBoxer's 2step macros with Toggles or using ingame Action Bar Swapping.

Also, many unit frame addons have the ability to show party cast bars. But, with proper macros, they become useful only to see that your slaves are casting, as with proper macros, you don't need to keep track of cast times and such once you have figured it out for the initial macro creation.

[topgear]

Thats very elaborate and ty for taking the time to post it.
I will try it.

[skeezy]

I use X-pearl frames on my main, dont think its exactly what you want, but it gets you close

[Akoko]

In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, the Hermes addon takes care of team/slave cooldowns most excellently. I even use it when single boxing to track other players in my raid's healing cooldowns.