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Oreyn

[HELP]Looking for a specific way to track my bleed DoTs

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Hello r/wowui,

I play a bear tank and am looking for the most optimal way of tracking bleeds I apply to my targets.

Boring explanation stuff (skip if you know about bears already): Bears have 2 bleeds to track from 2 abilities. Lacerate, a single target attack that stacks a bleed up to 3 times and Thrash, an AoE ability that applies a bleed to every target hit. Thrash is easy to work with, but 3 Lacerate stacks on a single target can be consumed to apply a defensive buff called Pulverize and keeping track of all of your Lacerate stacks for all targets for this can take effort.

How I do things now:Anyways, I've been tracking my bleeds fairly actively. I Thrash if my current target doesn't have it and keep track of this with my target's unit frame. I then weave in Lacerate stacks on each target as I can, consuming 3 stacks on a target to try and keep my defensive buff up. I track this on my current target with their unit frame, and over several targets generally through a combination of TidyPlates and my memory (generally thinking after about 10 seconds to re-apply it). Tidyplates shows an icon for lacerate, the number of stacks, and the time left over each unit health bar... but I feel like I have to focus too hard on those small numbers. I also use TellMeWhen to track a lot of things, but I am unsure if it can do something like what I am looking for below.

What I am looking for: I want to find a method of displaying my Lacerate stacks per target with a timer left on each bleed in some sort of list that pops up on my screen somewhere (sort of like how DBM shows upcoming boss abilities). While my method is okay, I feel as though I could possibly keep track of the bleeds in a more optimal way and free up more focus for making calls for my raid group. My question is, does a method like this exist?

Thanks in advance.

Posted Jun 10, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

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iamthedogman•

Have you tried something like Elipsis (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/ellipsis) or ForteXorcist (http://www.aleaaddons.ru/p/fortexorcist.html). Should do the trick.

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OreynOP•

I actually found elllipsis about an hour ago and put it on my list to try, but I haven't seen the second one you listed. Will be trying them both, thanks.

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Joib•

you can achieve this with weak auras by custom coding the lua. you need to change the way a dot is displayed (not player or target).

an easy alternative would be using name plates like the built in elvUI or as a stand alone a skin of tidyplates. this way you can display debuffs on the nameplates which you should use as a tank anyway.

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IMind•

I highly recommend using elvui nameplates. You can set a whitelist/blacklist filter to remove any debuffs you don't want to track to prevent clutter as well.

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