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tracking cast on multiple bosses/nameplate shows twice

nukhub opened this issue ยท 6 comments

commented

Describe the bug

made a very simple aura to track a cast on boss, the problem is that it shows twice.
aura is in a dynamic group (from my dungeon weakauras that i made)

Do you have an error log of what happened?

no error

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to Theatre of Pain
  2. Start 1st boss, wait for cast

Screenshots
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/218084462523711489/808345557118615592/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/218084462523711489/808347900164833280/unknown.png
discussion : https://discord.com/channels/172440238717665280/218084462523711489/808344257822982165

Did you try having WeakAuras as the only enabled addon and everything else (especially something like ElvUI) disabled?
no

Which version of WeakAuras are you using?
Version: 3.1.9

Are you on World of Warcraft Classic or Retail?

  • Classic
  • Retail

Was it working in a previous version? If yes, which was the last good one?
i dont think so

Additional Info

  • it doesnt happen if i track the cast on my focus, so i has something to do with tracking on multiple bosses (i have this bug on some other auras that track nameplates too)
  • i'm 100% sure i only have one aura tracking this
  • i think it only happens with cast that can be interrupted

and i remade it from scratch and uploaded on wago so you can reproduce it :
https://wago.io/YV6wCKa4H

commented

Chance is really high that you have a duplicate aura somewhere or misconfigured the aura. Logs-wise I can't find a reason for this
You should upload your WeakAuras.lua file after confirming that you're still having the issue.

It's located in WTF\Account<Account #>\SavedVariables\WeakAuras.lua

edit: From the looks of it you were most likely tracking both Boss units and nameplate units for the same cast, which results in 2 WA being shown. Simply delete one trigger

commented

You have two auras, and two auras show up?

What exactly is the bug? Can you make a screenshot of the actual display and explain why that is not matching your expectations?

commented

i have two auras for two very different things that never happen at the same time, please click the link of my screenshots above.

the bug is that the 1st aura track a cast on the boss, and it shows twice (screenshot from my first post : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/218084462523711489/808347900164833280/unknown.png)

and i believe it's because of some weird interaction with the time remaining in the 2nd aura trigger (the one that tracks a cast on a nameplate later in the dungeon)

commented

Is that screenshot with just https://wago.io/PPabfJcaI installed? No other aura?

commented

can confirm the bug

example:
aura 1 - status cast - nameplate - spellID that can trigger
aura 2 - status cast - boss - spellID that can't possibly trigger - remaining time <= 1.7

result: aura 1 triggers, then aura 2 triggers when the remaining time of <=1.7 kicks in and it inherits the icon from aura 1

additional info

  • bug goes at least as far back as 3.1 wa version
  • bug doesn't seem to occur if unitIDs among auras are matching (only tested with nameplate, boss)
  • bug seems unitID specific. e.g tracking "target" as unitID in aura 1 won't cause the bug. aura 1 = nameplate, aura 2 = target will cause the bug however.
  • bug is tied to remaining time option being checking in aura 2+
  • bug is tied to aura 1 triggering. otherwise nothing happens
commented

so i have done some testing :
deleted my weakauras.lua, started the game and imported this aura : https://wago.io/PPabfJcaI
its a dynamic group with two auras in it :

and the bug happens on the boss, the aura shows twice.
in the second aura, there is a time remaining <= 1.7 sec, if i remove it, the bug doesnt happen anymore