Mavmins' Destruction Warlock

[Mavmins]

If you dont have PQI it shouldnt run at all. If you do and it is underperforming then you will need to tell me why that is so I can look at it as I've got pages of people saying it pulls really good numbers. If you are not activating Dark Soul, and haven't unticked 'Ember Save Chaos Bolt' in PQI then it wont fire off any chaos bolts, that might be a good place to start

[Captncrunch]

25 man Horridon, 260k dps, i518, top damage..I'd say the profile works great! As far as rain of fire locking up, that has only been operator error from my experience. If you are angled wrong with the camera and don't have the cursor flush with the ground, just like you would without pqr, it will lock up, its almost unavoidable. Either people need to learn to angle it right or take it off auto....but it will unlock once rof is cast.

[Axercis]

25 man Horridon, 260k dps, i518, top damage..I'd say the profile works great! As far as rain of fire locking up, that has only been operator error from my experience. If you are angled wrong with the camera and don't have the cursor flush with the ground, just like you would without pqr, it will lock up, its almost unavoidable. Either people need to learn to angle it right or take it off auto....but it will unlock once rof is cast.

Agreed on the ROF.

I find it to be particularly problematic on fights like H:Megaera when your raid positioning somewhat requires you to be near max range. Is there a boolean that will NOT freeze the rotation if you try to execute an RoF just out of range? A rangecheck that will allow the rotation to continue without RoF?

[billybuffalo]

It has been stated multiple times in this thread, just dont use auto rof and the profile is fine.

[Captncrunch]

Agreed on the ROF.

I find it to be particularly problematic on fights like H:Megaera when your raid positioning somewhat requires you to be near max range. Is there a boolean that will NOT freeze the rotation if you try to execute an RoF just out of range? A rangecheck that will allow the rotation to continue without RoF?

I actually hold down the left and right click when I swap heads and release them when my mouse is over the next head and it cast rof. So in a way I intentionally freeze the rotation.

[Mavmins]

All of the AOE abilities I've seen in other peoples profiles are cast in the same was as my ROF. I honestly don't know of another way to do it as you can't range check a space, but can range check against a target, but the mouse position might be well beyond the target. In 5.4 ember generation is getting buffed I think and ROF removed from the single target rotation which will solve the problem. The new version of PQR was meant to support dropping AOE on a target rather than a location but it never got released so I think this is the only way to implement it for now. As people have said if you have trouble with Auto ROF then use the manual cast on a key toggle.

Hopefully 5.3 will hit sometime soon, I will update the Destruction profile to make sure AOE still works, add a couple more tweaks and then there's little else I can do to it. I don't sim my profiles, I look at the rotations / priority and then tweak them until they 'feel' right and don't do anything silly, thats worked I think with this profile so I'll keep doing that.

Elemental Shaman is coming along nicely, I just have lots of functions to code up but Ive used Cpoworks profile as a basis to speed things up but I've rewritten everything the way I like to do it. If there is enough demand the I'll release it for people to test.

I don't know if I'll make any more profiles, I tend to only make them for classes I play and for classes that don't have the level of profile support I would make myself. There are plenty of them out there now so we'll see.

[Axercis]

I understand Mav, and wasn't trying to be critical. Billybuffalo is wrong in that manual RoF will hang the rotation if it's out of range if you're holding the key down (at least for me.) I find that when a Chaos Bolt is casting or whatever, I sometimes pre-press the RoF button so that it executes during the next ability queue. As Capn stated, this method can be used to intentionally pause the rotation.

It sounds like Blizz is taking RoF out of the single-target rotation anyway in 5.4.

I understand this is a limitation of PQR and not a profile problem. I was just hoping there was a way the RoF ability could be configured to not even try to cast if the reticle wasn't in range. It seems there isn't.

[billybuffalo]

I understand Mav, and wasn't trying to be critical. Billybuffalo is wrong in that manual RoF will hang the rotation if it's out of range if you're holding the key down (at least for me.) I find that when a Chaos Bolt is casting or whatever, I sometimes pre-press the RoF button so that it executes during the next ability queue. As Capn stated, this method can be used to intentionally pause the rotation.

It sounds like Blizz is taking RoF out of the single-target rotation anyway in 5.4.

I understand this is a limitation of PQR and not a profile problem. I was just hoping there was a way the RoF ability could be configured to not even try to cast if the reticle wasn't in range. It seems there isn't.

We have different definitions of hang the profile.

If u r holding the manual rof button while mouse is out of range, of course it is gonna stop doing anything. However, it doesnt stop the profile it just sits there and continues to try and cast rof. Which is what it should be doing. If you were not using the profile and tried to cast rof out of range what happens? It does the same thing. It just does it once instead of trying over and over.

Best thing to do in this case is either dont use rof at all, or move your mouse in range.o.O

[Mavmins]

I need some help with my shammy profile so rep to whoever can do it ! I need a list of spells to auto interrupt using wind shear, and also a list of things to purge for all MOP raids
Whoever puts it together for me gets to test the profile before its released

[Sivers]

Good afternoon,

Great profile, but I'm running into an error whenever Backdraft isn't active. Basically, when I use all my Backdraft procs and there is nothing else to do, the profile will sit still and not cast anything. I'm using the latest PQRI, everything else works fine except when I don't have Backdraft lol. This is the error that pops up:

Message: [string "local Backdraft,_,_,BDStacks = UnitBuffID("..."]:33: attempt to compare nil with number
Time: 05/15/13 16:52:31
Count: 62
Stack: [C]: ?
[string "local Backdraft,_,_,BDStacks = UnitBuffID("..."]:33: in function `?'
[string "if PQR_Addon_Loaded == nil then..."]:765: in function `PQR_NextAbility'
[string "if PQR_Addon_Loaded == nil then..."]:534: in function `PQR_ExecuteRotation'
[string "if PQR_Addon_Loaded == nil then..."]:287: in function <[string "if PQR_Addon_Loaded == nil then..."]:214>

Locals:

thanks for any help!

[Mavmins]

are you sure you're using the latest version of the profile ? I've never had that error before, and I dont think anyone else has.
I'll have a look into it though

[Sivers]

are you sure you're using the latest version of the profile ? I've never had that error before, and I dont think anyone else has.
I'll have a look into it though

yes, I am using 1.55. if you need any other info/logs let me know.

[Nerder]

I need some help with my shammy profile so rep to whoever can do it ! I need a list of spells to auto interrupt using wind shear, and also a list of things to purge for all MOP raids
Whoever puts it together for me gets to test the profile before its released

For your buff to purge why not just do a check if its able to be purged and for the interrupt... i.e.:

for i = 1, 40 do
    if select(9, UnitBuff("target", i)) == 1 then
        CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(370), "target")
    end
end

if select(9, UnitCastingInfo("target")) == false
 or select(8, UnitChannelInfo("target")) == false then
    CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(57994), "target")
end

the 9th check of UnitBuff is

canStealOrPurge

and the 9th check for Casting and 8th for Channel is

notInterruptible

[Mavmins]

thats Nerder thats some handy code.
The problem is I only want to interrupt or purge REALLY important stuff, otherwise im losing a GCD casting it and only certain spells absolutley have to be interrupted or buffs purged. So I may as well check the specific spell casts.

@Sivers - I can't reproduce that error. Which options have you got enabled in PQInterface ?

[Nerder]

thats Nerder thats some handy code.
The problem is I only want to interrupt or purge REALLY important stuff, otherwise im losing a GCD casting it and only certain spells absolutley have to be interrupted or buffs purged. So I may as well check the specific spell casts.

@Sivers - I can't reproduce that error. Which options have you got enabled in PQInterface ?

if IsInRaid() then
    person = "raid"
elseif IsInGroup() then
    person = "party"
end

for i = 1, 4 do
local bossUnit = "boss"..i
    if UnitExists(bossUnit) then
        for m = 1, GetNumGroupMembers() do
            for d = 1, 40 do
                    if select(9, UnitDebuff(person..m, d)) == 1 then
                    PQR_CustomTarget = person..m
                        CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(370), PQR_CustomTarget)
                    end

                if select(9, UnitBuff("target", d)) == 1 then
                    CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(370), "target")
                elseif select(9, UnitBuff(bossUnit, d)) == 1 then
                    CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(370), bossUnit)
                end
            end
        end

        if ( select(9, UnitCastingInfo("target")) == false
         or select(8, UnitChannelInfo("target")) == false ) then
            CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(57994), "target")
        elseif ( select(9, UnitCastingInfo(bossUnit)) == false
         or select(8, UnitChannelInfo(bossUnit)) == false ) then
            CastSpellByName(GetSpellInfo(57994), bossUnit)
        end
    end
end