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