Juggy's Addons: Chronometer
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Juggynaut on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 9 Comments Tags: Addons, Addons, Warlock, a tribute to addons, banish, chronometer, crowd control, debuff, dots, fear, hots, timer
Juggynaut on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 9 Comments Tags: Addons, Addons, Warlock, a tribute to addons, banish, chronometer, crowd control, debuff, dots, fear, hots, timer 
In this week's episode, I had the chance to play my warlock alt, Xenophontos. I've been doing quite a lot of experimenting on him, and I've been switching between specs to check out each one. I enjoyed affliction at low levels due to the nearly nonexistent downtime, so I checked it out the other day (maybe you'll see that in a future episode). My DPS as affliction is highly dependent on keeping as many DoTs on enemies as much as possible. Something that really helped my DoT upkeep was a neat little addon called Chronometer.
Chronometer puts up a timer bar for each debuff you cast on your enemies. It is highly configurable, and can show debuffs on mobs other than the current target, or just those on the current target. The bar is a small bar, similar to a cast bar, in that it fills up or empties over the duration of each spell. The icon of the debuff can be shown, along with the name of the target, the name of the spell, and seconds left until the spell fades. This allows me to (theoretically) reapply DoTs immediately after they complete for maximum uptime and minimum wasted mana. As affliction, it can be tricky to juggle all those DoTs, so this makes it much easier to, at a glance, see what I should be ready to cast next.
Other than just DoTs, It's great for watching curses on multiple mobs as well as crowd control spells, like fear and banish. If I time things right, I can get a new banish on just moments after it runs out, keeping whatever crazy demon or elemental I have assigned to me from smacking a healer. I've also heard it's useful for keeping an eye on other spells, like HoTs, but I don't have any of those on my shaman, so I don't worry about it much.
Now, apparently Chronometer is outdated, so let me know if you guys have something that might be current!
Reader Comments (9)
DarkCandy (http://files.wowace.com/DarkCandy/ - just grab DarkCandy.zip) seems to do the same thing.
Havent tried it yet, just downloaded today to test, my lock is only 24 so havent really got any lock specific mods yet.
My druid uses HotCandy, and those kind of bar timers are lifesavers! (yay for holding lifeblooms up on 3-4 targets, and knowing when uv missed it because of lag ;) )
I was wondering if you guys could post screenies of your full UI's, and a list of any mods you use?
You don't get full pictures of the UI during the videos because it cuts off part of the bottom as well as the four cameras that are on the corners.
This is an awesome start, though. Can't wait to start using this!
*definitely a newbie to WoW*
You should look into Necrosis LDC. It has the cooldown timers as well as other Warlock specific functions, like shard management, and easy soulstone/healthstone creating.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/2213/
Nice Add on for Locks I'm sure it's more helpful with DPS meter and DoT!
For hunters i would say KHT and a Cooldown timer is good for Chain Trapping. Especially when your Kara group doesn't have enough CC and assign you a mob on the Moroes fight.
But Chronometer is an awesomeness addon :P
how can you get the Add on they use i can't fined the link that Dl for you
Dotimer is pretty awesome - it does all the same stuff as chronometer, but it's kept pretty current.
Forte Warlock is really handy as well - it handles cooldowns, timers, shards, summons, soulstones, and all kinds of other stuff. It's definitely worth a look.
i use necrosis on my lock - works well as a dot timer, but also has a soulshard counter and some other cool things like telling you if an enemy has fear protection or shadow trance procs etc
I was noticing that on the Project Lore Videos that you have a fading text that tells when cast or actions are ready to use. Also that when buffs and debuffs are starting or coming to an end.
What is this addon? I would like to see that kinda action happening on my screen while I am playing.
Thanks
Elasky