The mission of this WA is to achieve the following goal:
“Know what’s going on, without paying attention”
Therefore, this WA has the ability to track practically everything, and you can configure things you care to see. As things you care about are happening, accurate information will be displayed as an icon in a dynamic group.
I’ve taken great care to minimise how visually intrusive the WA is, while keeping the information-level high, and as accurate as it can be. I’ve taken similar steps to minimise how CPU intensive it is to run this WA.
The complete list of things we are tracking is extensive, and downloading the WA is the best way to see what it is offering. Currently we are tracking 273 different spells, effects and events.
The highlights being:
Tracking when certain cast starts and up until they’re cancelled or they land. Holy Word: Salvation, Mass dispel, Combat resses, etc.
Accurate information from all tracked channelled abilities, regardless of haste, cancels or deaths.
Displaying information about the effectiveness of dispels, purges and interrupts of various sorts. You will see how many effects were removed by Mass Dispel, Revival and Arcane Torrent. For the rest you can choose to see whether they failed or only what succeeded in dispelling, purging or interrupting.
Accurately tracking Shroud (even more than one), including early cancels.
Tracking deaths by role (configurable: healer, tank, dps), and accurately tracking death-like effects from these roles, like Spirit of Redemption, Cheat Death, Purgatory etc.
Tracking taunts and showing when taunts were wasted on immune units. With the ability to only track tank taunts, only not-tank taunts, or all of them. AoE taunts from Last Stand, Ox Statue and Challenging Shout, are also being tracked.
All tracked ability casts from pets (interrupts, taunts, hero…) will be displayed as coming from the pet’s owner.
Tracking all sorts of resurrections. Combat-resses (also from items), mass resses, single resses.
Accurately tracking externals, making sure they disappear if the target dies or the external’s effect is used up. Guardian Spirit, or Cocoon for instance.
Accurately tracking the duration on ground CC, like Vortex or Ring of Ice.
Tracking when immunities are used and when they time out or are cancelled early.
Proper tracking of relevant impactful healer and dps covenant effects, in respective configurable categories (as of 9.0.1).
Accurately tracking relevant effects from legendary items (as of 9.0.1). Including the party-wide defensive buffs, the self-res effect, etc.
In PvE there is the option to write a simple combat log of an encounter into a desired (private) chat channel. This will log the encounter the tracked ability references, with player names and encounter timestamps, for an easy to digest overview of what happened.
In PvP we also track enemy casts and clearly communicate when it’s not an allied cast.
Tracking major "I'm going to do a lot of damage now" CDs.
You can manually control the range at which you see events happening on the WA (if you don't care about what happens at the opposite end of an AV match).
Any suggestions, bugs or thoughts are always welcomed in the comment section
Melura