It does exactly what it says on the tin, it tells you when things happen, and can also output text and sounds. Each one has to be set up individually, typing in names etc, but is very customizable. So above you can see a fairly typical set of TellMeWhen's bars, as well as two icons. It seems to me that for the amount of work involved in setting up TMW, you might as well use Weak Auras.
This is not to my personal preference, simply because it makes the setup so much more work, but it may well suit yours. Raven sets everything up by default with all the bars, spells etc showing, and asks you to remove them, while TellMeWhen asks you to manually add in every single display you'd like to see. Now, I must confess, I am not a big fan of this addon.TellMeWhen offers an icon grid, as well as a bar display, with rather an opposite approach to Raven's. Raven is an amazing addon!Įvery time I write about these sorts of tracker addons, someone always brings up TellMeWhen. From that point forward, they're pretty much completely customizable, anything you can think you might like to change, you can. Doing literally just that will give you the displays you see above. If you can see the screenhot above, all you need to do is enable Raven, type /raven into the chat window to open the config, then check the box next to whatever you need, in this case a Buff Tracker, then click either Create as Bars for a bar display or Create as Icons for an icon display. All these groups are using the Raven default settings, so it's a really simple setup. With all of these, it is possible to blacklist buffs, so I could remove Molten Armor from all the lists, if I was confident enough that I'd remember to apply it every time. This is a buff bar group, and as you can see it gives you an icon, as well as the name of the buff, and its duration.
3, we're now looking at what I consider to be the most useful way Raven offers to display your buffs. I like the compactness of this display, but I do think that if you are not completely familiar with the look of your abilities' icons, you might struggle with this layout. As you can see, buffs which have a duration, in this case, Velocity, Pyroblast and Windsong (from left to right) have a timer beneath them to indicate how long they have remaining. Thanks to Raven's customization, it's very easily fixed, just increase the padding on the buffs until they're in an acceptable layout. Now, you'll have to forgive its slightly overlapping look, here, it's a result of how it interacts with the ElvUI Skins addon, which, for some reason, makes it pad weirdly. Next up, moving over to number 2, this is the default buff pane. I don't doubt there are other situations when you'd want to be rid of a buff in a hurry, but none spring to mind. This, frankly, is rather a niche item, although it could definitely be useful in certain settings, such as if you are being BoP'd by a paladin to remove a debuff, and need to hit a /cancelaura macro to get rid of it. Section 1 is what Raven calls the In-Combat tracker, which pops up when you have specific buffs on yourself, allowing you to cancel them with a right-click. You can see the three different trackers labelled 1, 2 and 3 to the right. As you can likely see, there are several different buff tracking elements visible. The debuff tracker is the section that stacks up to the right hand side, while the buff trackers sit over to the left of the mage. You can see it in action in the video in the header image, on my mage, and I'm showing off both the buff tracker and the debuff tracker. We're going to start with my current favorite tracker, outside Weak Auras, and that's Raven. There's almost always something to be keeping an eye on, and there are several addons out there to help you with it! We're also going to take a look at something a little different, for your delectation, and that's an addon to help you with stealing other people's buffs! While more class-specific, only really useful for classes with an offensive dispel, it's definitely handy to have in mind. As we mentioned before, but it bears repeating, tracking your buffs is rather important for effective DPS, and for maximising your efficiency as just about every class. Last time on Addon Spotlight, we took a look at the use of powerful addon Weak Auras to track buffs on yourself, and as promised, we're back with a few other recommendations for you to have a look at.
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