I’ve been busy lately and not as much into theorycraft projects as usual. But a lot of people have asked me during this first week of Hellfire Citadel whether I was going to reprise my Blackrock Foundry Weakaura project for the new zone. Since this is something I wanted to do anyway to help my own raid group, I figured I’d try to get a basic version ready for people who were interested. Note that a lot of these are untested; I’ve only seen about half the fights so far, so give me any feedback on how it works.
Once again, I got Dayani from Healiocentric to go over all these fights and mechanics with me, as she put a huge amount of work into learning them on the beta for the purpose of writing her guides. If you want any explanation of the encounters/mechanics listed here, I recommend you take a look at those.
For I’m just going to include the WeakAura downloads and the list of abilities I used. See the BRF post for more explanation of the setup if you need.
WeakAura Downloads
Addon: WeakAuras 2
Awareness Auras (debuff alert and standing-in-fire alert), v 0.9: WA String
Interrupt Bars (target/focus castbar showing important spells), v 0.9: WA String
So far, includes Heroic difficulty mechanics only. These include all the bosses already, but I haven’t gotten to test the later ones, so please report anything odd on those ones especially.
Last time around, there was a bug, I think on the WA side, where the icon displayed wouldn’t always match up to the current debuff (I have the display set to “Automatic Icon”). I worked around it by breaking a lot of debuffs into separate auras and setting the icon manually, but that was a pain and made the package a lot bigger. So far I haven’t done that here; let me know if you see anything wrong (or are a WA expert who might know how to address this).
Ability Lists
Big debuff alert:
- Howling Axe
- Artillery
- Fel Rage
- Shadow of Death
- Hunger for Life
- Touch of Doom
- Fel Chakram
- Fel Beam Fixate
- Phantasmal Fel Bomb
- Phantasmal Corruption
- Volatile Fel Orb
- Gift of the Man’ari
- Ghastly Fixation
- Font of Corruption (included for now, might be too long)
- Edict of Comdemnation
- Befouled
- Latent Energy
- Seed of Destruction
- Fel Surge
- Void Surge
- Chains of Fel
- Mark of Doom
- Doomfire Fixate
- Shackled Torment
- Wrought Chaos
- Focused Chaos
- Devour Life
- Void Star Fixate
- Shared Fate (179908 only)
- Heart Seeker (188929 only)
- Mark of the Necromancer (only while Reap is casting — needs testing)
- Digest (only when duration <5s)
- Shattered Defenses (included for now, might be too long)
Standing in Fire alert w/sound:
Triggered by debuff presence:
- Reap
- Fel Fury
- Doom Well
- Blood Splatter
- Fel Flames
- Fel Fire
- Felblaze Residue
- Despoiled Ground
- Gazing Shadows
- Nether Tear
- Blood of Mannoroth
- Fuel Streak
- Fiery Pool
- Foul Pool
- Shadowy Pool
Triggered by damage event (displays for 2s):
- Shadow Globule
- Fiery Globule
- Foul Globule
- [Fel Blade] (not included for now)
- Phantasmal Nova
- Fel Crystal (181653 only)
- Fel Hellfire
Triggered by debuff application (displays for 2s) (currently only first stack):
- Immolation
- Felsinged
- Wasting Void
- Doomfire
Interruptible Spells:
- Rending Howl
- Repair
- Felfire Volley
- Bellowing Shout
- Fel Blaze
- Fel Conduit
- Fel Chain Lightning
- Exert Dominance
- Shadow Bolt Volley
- Shadow Word: Agony
- Harbinger’s Mending
- Fel Orb
- Fel Blast
- Flames of Argus
(Will try to add wowhead links when I have time)
Healer Debuff List
These are not part of the WeakAuras, but are a suggested list of debuffs for healers to highlight on their raid frames, to show targets who need quick healing:
- Unstable Orb (consider showing only 2 stacks or higher)
- Fel Rage
- Heart Seeker
- Phantasmal Wounds
- Overwhelming Power
- Befouled
- Ablaze

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