Goal: Gather information about spells that mobs (NPCs) cast.
Target Audience: Anyone who wants to know what abilities a mob uses. Mainly aimed at boss mod developers and raiders to gather data into an easily brows-able format.
To developers: This is an open project, feel free to contribute.
Features:
- Slash command to bring up the display window:
/ms
- Movable
- You can search the databse three ways:
- by Unit Name
- by Spell Name
- by Spell Id
Planned but not yet implemented features:
- display spell school
- track min time between two events
- track if an ability is deflect-able
FAQ and caveats:
When searching by spell name I get multiple different spells, why?
Multiple spells can have the same name, imagine a boss ability that has a cast and a debuff, that is two separate spellIds right there, but same spell name.
Some spells are missing icons.
That's life. When you have multiple spellIds for the same ability you are bound to have spells without icon. I don't foresee CRB go out their way to have icons for every spellId.
I saw a mob cast a spell but I can't find it in the database.
Currently tracking of spells with (or without) a cast is not supported since the unitObject does not supply a spellObject for the spell being casted only a name and that is not enough to generate a specific tooltip, there is no event for spells being casted either. Will add support for this as soon as possible *looks at CRB*.
There are multiple mobs with the same name.
We gather information based on which zone you are in. It'd be best to identify units based on a unique identifier, but that is not supported by the game, however it is expect to be implemented by release. At that point Mobspells will use unique unit identifiers too.
The spell I searched for is listed under a unit called "Unknown" but that is not the units name.
You are most likely to experience this if you are searching for buffs/debuffs. Right now it is not possible to tell who casted a buff/debuff on whom, so till that changes buffs/debuffs are listed under a general "Unknown" unit tag. Still better than not tracking them at all.
I type in what I want to search for but get no results.
Currently search does an exact match for your search phrase (capitalization does not matter), but for example searching for "big nuke spell" won't return any results if the actual spell is called "super big nuke spell", so you'll need to search for "super big nuke spell" aka exactly for what you want more info about. Of course if you have not seen the spell happen before it won't be in the database.
Lot of the spells have no description, why?
I guess because it is beta and CRB have not written description for a lot of the spells casted by non player units, or there are just no descriptions for some spells intentionally.