WowAce

Hey again,

I saw this addon sneak into the field (Harreks Advanced Raid Frames) that allows coloring health bars based on the presence of an aura.. I thought I heard this functionality was coming back into the game- and so excited to see a working addon.

No clue how he is doing it, but would love to see this feature be built into GRID2; game changer for many roles, especially healers.

Best,

Disc

Auras cannot be detected, it is only guessing riptide, atonement and echo spells, and can fail.

The addon  is using some heuristic and assuming things that could  be false, for example:

-The addon assumes that the healer is playing perfectly, and he is not going to forget to refresh the buffs in time.

-In the shaman case If a player has only two buffs, it assumes that they are riptide and eartshield, or if the player has only one buff it assumes is earth shield.

Im not planing to add this kind of non-sense.

And even in the current grid2 version you can configure similar behaviour, for example for a shaman you can create a group of buffs to display only player buffs, and link the buff to the health-bar color.  And imagine when the color changes that is the riptide applied: this probably willl be right 70% of the time ;)

Thanks for the reply--

Was a bit confused myself when reading into how this addon functions.. but at the same time I thought I heard of some API changes for aura tracking were going to be re-introduced. But doesn't look like this is it..

Have you heard of this where upcoming patches will allow aura tracking? Hopeful we get this functionality back in for coloring bars for auras.

Best,

No,  specific spell tracking is not allowed, and blizzard is applying patches every few days to fix workarounds/hacks people is finding to bypass the restriction.

Blizzard  whitelisted like 15 spells/auras that are not restricted, but most are players self buffs or non-combat bufs, not useful for healers:

ID=344179, Name=Maelstrom Weapon
ID=369968, Name=Racing
ID=377234, Name=Thrill of the Skies
ID=388367, Name=Ohn'ahra's Gusts
ID=395296, Name=Ebon Might
ID=404464, Name=Flight Style: Skyriding
ID=404468, Name=Flight Style: Steady
ID=418590, Name=Static Charge
ID=1217607, Name=Void Metamorphosis
ID=1225789, Name=Void Metamorphosis
ID=1227702, Name=Collapsing Star
ID=1283888, Name=[DNT] Aura Never Secret Test Spell
ID=124255, Name=Stagger