As a complete noob to WA this helped so much while not being an information overload. I hope you make more of these delving deeper and sharing more of your knowledge in this great format.
BRAVO!!!! You remind me of one professor I had in CompSci. Well mapped teachings and breaking them down to understandable, concise, succint and precise tutorials. I can now effectively use WA. Thank you!
Bro I was genuinely afraid of using Weakauras because it seemed to complicated but now that I've seen your video it actually feels like something I could spend time on so I don't have to use other add-ons. Nice guide you got here, very easy to comprehend😊
You have my gratitude, this guide is just what I needed. Total WoW noob, just cracking open addons, WeakAuras was super daunting but not so much after seeing this.
I really like the way you started from nothing and went through all the steps to build a working setup. I am using your ideas to set up my toon the way I want to play. It was great to have explanations for why you do something, not just the "click this button". I have also gotten very mad when the presenter fumbles and appears not to know what he is presenting.
This helped so much! I've benn wanting and struggled for years to make my own WA! This broke it down to a point where it's digestible and now easy to understand, thanks
Please more 🙏 first time viewer. Been having some minor issues with other people's class aura packs and with this alone I'm much more confident making one for myself.
This was amazingly helpful, very, VERY beginner-friendly and at the same time not boring/annoying if you have a general idea of how WA could/would work, but never actually looked at creating your own. Thank you!
Really powerful video. I dont intend on making my own from scratch as I just started playing the game, but I do enjoy the fact that now I can understand and modify presets that I may want to use to tailor them to my liking. Much appreciated
Another case of RUclips reading my mind and popping a video into my feed before I could even search for it. Good work and I hope to see more of these in the future.
Great tutorial. The quality of your audio, speech, pronunciations, instruction and attention to detail is very impressive. I especially like when you point and explain specific elements in the WeakAuras interface. I now don't feel so overwhelmed about WA! You have my like and subscribe and I look forward to checking out your other videos!
This video is super helpful. I've made some auras by myself but they were super rudimentary and chaotic. This will help me make them more functional, and I'll share it with my friends so they can learn how to use WA better too. By the way, great content, perfectly explained and with a really hooking cadence and rhythm. Hope more people finds out your channel :)
This is exactly what I came looking for. Simple explanation with a really good information. Suddenly I feel like my UI is going to be littered with WA's :) Have my sub as a thank-you.
this is probably the best guide to get started with WAs. I want to have seen this about 5 years ago. By now I'm pretty firm in building/changing WAs but when I started this would have been insanely good and probably have saved me some hours! Still using some premade ones as it is much faster changing them to my needs but it helps if you are missing some or if they are just too big.
Okay here’s what I’ll do, I’ll master the skill points of my prot pal first, get used to the spells and how they work together, and then I go back to this video. I’m a new player and on my first time tanking someone said I had no idea what tanking is and got kicked off. Anyway, thank you so much! Great video it was easy enough to understand the logic of how this add-on works! ❤
Even after a few months this is such a resourceful guide, all the WA for my class are outdated and when I have some time on the weekend will experiment with making my own, subbed!
This video is amazing! I personally like to make my own WA and set them up to fit my playstyle. Personally I already learned all this the hard way back when Shadowlands came out, but I sure wish this video was available back then. Keep up the good work :D
This video needs more views, more likes, and more comments. I know WA can be very intimidating upon first use. However, this video very easily gives some very important and helpful information, simplifying the task!
A great video on Weak Auras. I have watched other videos and been lost in the first 5 minutes. You really broke it down into understandable sections. You picked up a new subscriber today. Please keep up the series.
Thank you. You don’t know how much you just helped me out. This is an amazing into to WA and and a lot better than the typical “yea just upload this text” type of approach I’m used to seeing. I’m definitely going to pass it onto my friends.
awesome video.... Easy to listen to, watch and follow. Well done mate !! I thought the addon was too confusing for years... but you explained everything step by step
Very high quality tutorial. Great pacing! I see you haven't made videos here in a while. I hope you're out there making educational content for something else because you're very good at it! If you come back and make more WoW content, I would like to see a workflow for making raid or m+ mechanic weakauras. Basically how to become the sort of person who can go from "i wish i had a weakaura to track that" to actually making one
I am a player somewhere between beginner and advanced when it comes to Weakaura. Therefore I would be very interested in an Advanced Guide from you - I did like your way of explaining this beginner Guide very much and hope for more videos in this direction! Thank you :)
Thanks friend! I’m compiling a list of things for a more “advanced” guide on weakauras (without getting into custom LUA function stuff), and hoping to work on that sometime next month after DF launch settles down a bit and I can work on vids again more directly! 🎉
There are no wrong answers! From premade is honestly a better starting point, but for the sake of covering more information in one sitting the Icon seemed like a better use for educational purposes since you really gotta configure all of it (once, then copy)
Hey, thank you for this detailed video! What do you think, is it possible to make a WA for molten boulder at ruby? I would like to know it befor its happen. Similar to a public Wise Mari - Corrupted Geyser WA. Or is this „impossible/much complicater“ because of something I don‘t know? ✌🏻
You can absolutely do this! Site like `wago.io` can be used to search for the boss's spell you want to see and there are a lot of one-off trackers if you need them. For example, here is one I created for the "Static Cling" cast for the final boss of Vortex Pinnacle (dragonflight season 2) wago.io/-X1GFF3R4/1
Hey friend! happy to help here, I can answer both of them. To show the GCD, you'll want to go into your Trigger for the spell you're tracking with the "Cooldown/Charges/Count" method. Below the "spell" name field is a cog that says "Extra Options: None". Click on this cog and you'll get a hidden dropdown with the ability to toggle the "Show Global Cooldown" button to on, which will allow you to track the GCD. This will not do anything at first, since you will need to make one additional setting to show the GCD on the icon. Head back to the "Display" tab for the aura, and within the "Icon Settings" section you'll see a divider labeled "Swipe Overlay Settings" with an option to "enable swipe" beneath it. Enable the swipe. I highly recommend checking the box for "Hide Timer Text" which appears after you enable swipe, but now whenever you cast a spell the GCD will show on your spell icon just like it does on your action bars (woo hoo!) For detecting range, this is much easier and all we need to do is add a Condition. Head to the Conditions tab and add a new condition to look for the Charge/Cooldown/Count trigger (likely Trigger 1), and set the option in the "If" section to "Spell In Range" with a value of "False". Following this, set the "Then" section to whatever you would like. The way I see this commonly handled is akin to the Blizzard UI, so you can set the "Then" to "color" and change the color field which appears to be a darkish red. So all together it reads "If the spell is in range (false), change the icon color to be red-ish". Hope this helps! Let me know if you run into any hiccups
Great video and much appreciated. Really, a very accessible intro to weakauras. I am trying to make a weakaura to track flameshock on my target. Any tips? A second video could be on buffs and debuffs. Thanks again.
I just finished a script for a buff tracking video! I need to record it this weekend but it should be the next proper guide I release within the next week or so. In the meantime, you can get started by doing the following if you want a baseline to mess with: - Make and Icon/ProgressBar aura - Set trigger to watch for Aura -> Target -> Debuff -> Flame Shock -> Own Only -> Show: Always You can then set up some display text for what you want to know (%p is the duration of the debuff remaining) Conditions can be good to watch for things like Aura Found (Missing) or Duration Remaining >/
I don’t currently, but I can get my current one uploaded to Wago if you’d like. The one I actually use is a bit different than the one shown (I operate with my group located off to the right of my character instead of below, due to my vertical peripheral vision not being very good). That said, I can definitely make a centered version of it, or upload my offcenter one as well, later tonight and share it
Hey again! Here's what I've been using on the Dragonflight Beta + Shadowlands Season 4 content (raid/dungeons/etc): wago.io/q5h-bHdcn. I hope it helps!
As a heads up, there was a recent change to Arms which changed some of our priority (namely Fervor of Battle killed whirlwind usage in single target), so I’ll need to sit down and update the package to reflect that change soon.
I have another video on buff tracking here: ruclips.net/video/1F7KMl9ToCo/видео.html The difference would be how you set up the Triggers. In the video, I make an Ashen Catalyst self-buff tracker. You’ll want to change it: FROM: “Aura->Player->Buff” TO: “Aura->Target->Debuff” Should do exactly what you want 👌
Thank you for not speaking at a pace that leaves a viewer wondering if you'd rather be doing something else. So many of these "how to set up" videos the creator is talking so rapidly you have to wonder if they're expecting a pizza at any moment. Learned quite a bit, thank you.
Really great tutorial. I'm a programmer and I've always been scared of weak auras because it just looks like I have to learn to code to play wow. LOL. Also the way you presented the tutorial. I keep thinking are you always this calm in life? Like just take everything you do this slow and calm? I'm always like go go go, so it was nice to slow down but also kind of bothered me in some ways. Good tutorial.
Howdy! Thanks for the kind words 💙 I’m very go-go-go IRL as well (also someone who works in code). It takes a lot of effort to actively lower the barrier-to-entry and ensure I don’t make assumptions when it comes to who might be watching the videos, so I take things slowly and methodically :D
Great video weak auras is very interesting to me and i want to become proficient at. thank you very much any tutorials you make on weak auras i will watch
I haven’t written any myself, since it is usually written in LUA, a language that I’m not familiar with. That said, I have edited existing ones to repurpose them for things I need! It’s fun, but a little daunting simultaneously.
You'll want to find the WeakAura in the left-hand side of the `/wa` area, then either Delete the WeakAura, or you can go to the "Load" tab within the aura and check the box for "Never" which will cause it to "never load".
wow this was exactly what I was looking for for days... the only thing I really would like to know is, how to make the icon grey, if I dont have enough rage.. but maybe I will find this in your other videos? anyways, big thanks for the guide!
Hey friend! Happy to help here. If you're using the "Charges/Cooldown/Count" Trigger for a spell (shown in the video) then luckily you're only one step away from tracking this. To adjust for rage, you'll add a new Condition with the following settings: IF: Trigger 1 -> "Insufficient Resources" --> True THEN: Desaturate --> Checked Alternatively, you can also set the THEN to be "Color" and use the box which appears to the right to be a color such as Blue (which is what the default UI uses to indicate low resources). Personally, I add a new Text on the element under Display, then set its display text to read "rage" and show that text conditionally if the "insufficient resources" trigger is true, but this part is entirely up to how you want the WeakAura to work for your brain! Good luck out there!
@@hrothmar oh wow thanks!! build a complete weak aura set for my monk with this guide and I am super happy how it turned out, thats the last thing that was missing
sry but may I ask you one more question? maybe it is too complicated to answer here, but I will try to explain, I wanna do an animated texture that starts after I used a spell. I get a buff every 10 secs, that one of my spells will be instant cast, so I want to start the animation after I used the spell/buff on me disapeared and lasts 10 secs, but it is a talent, so no cooldown on a spell or something like that, wanna do it with a square that fills clockwise and lasts 10 secs until it is full again ;) I know how to set up the texture etc, just cant figure out the trigger or condition that says "after buff xy disapeared start animated texture that lasts 10secs" xD if it is too complicated, thats fine too, just wanted to ask, because I cant find anything like that at the internet -.-
@@Nana-hh6qh under Triggers there should be an option to set a “hide” value to “timed” and then you enter the duration to 10 (default measures in seconds). It’s been a while since I’ve used it and I can’t find its exact location, but I know there’s an option to set hard seconds count timers. That said, if it’s ever effected by haste and/or blizz timers it can throw it off a little bit (such as the Soaks affix in fated raids for 10.0)
14:50 I do not see this spell activation overlay glow option being available to me. Is this due to some difference in how wa work in retail and classic?
Condition 2 is configured to watch Spell Activation Glow for the spell, so basically any time the spell would glow on your bars (ie: if a buff is affecting it), then Blizz glows the spell. This mirrors the glow and will also glow the aura. I have a more in-depth video on buff tracking and glows coming in the next appx. 1-2 weeks ✌️
Awesome guide to weak auras, I was hoping to find a way to move the icons from right to center as the cooldown comes to 0, do you have more WA videos where I can find that out?
Hey friend! I know people accomplish this with boss abilities (ie: repalcements for BigWigs/DBM), but I dont have direct experience with it. My best advice would be to download a Boss Ability Tracker and see if there's any sort of backwards-engineering to be done to swap it to watching your own spells instead, possssibly.
@@hrothmar Just found a way through settings in dinamic group, this helps a lot with priority rotations, let me know if you or anyone need the string for a retribution rotation
They're tracked as two different values. The cooldown (or "progress", which is %p) will begin counting the moment any charges begin their cooldown, while the charges will be a separate value stored as a number. To track charges, you'll use the Trigger # that you're using in the trigger tab. If you're tracking the charges in Trigger 2, then you'd use "%2.charges", for example. To track cooldown, you'd use the same method, reaching for "%2.p" if it's on Trigger 2, or just "%p" if it's on Trigger 1. You'd configure two different Text elements for each value, then set Conditions for when to show each.
Hi nice video and details guide to create a weakaura. Can you create a guide video for the tracking debuff war bar, the one you have? Im also a main war.
Hey friend! I do have a (shorter) video on how to trach Buffs (and indirectly: Debuffs) with WeakAuras, which you can find here: ruclips.net/video/1F7KMl9ToCo/видео.html If there are any specific questions you have, feel free to drop them on that video and I'll help where I can!
The names of everything should be the exact same, just slightly different visuals (but same locations and orders). Is there something specifically that you can’t find in the new UI (for my own knowledge)?
Hi, I need help with WA, I would like to have a glow around the cursor but only in combat, I've been trying to figure it out but can't. Can you help me please?
when it comes to cursor aruas, i'd highly recommend downloading a premade one from wago.io (example: wago.io/ZbjlsgMkp). Once you have it installed, go to the "Load" tab, and then click the "In Combat" checkbox so that it turns green (meaning "only load this aura when you are in combat")
It looks like the recent UI change may have altered this. Make the `Type` under Trigger 2 set to "Spell" and the subcategory "Spell Activation Overlay Glow".
Can we make it invisible than making decolor or gray...the spell which is inactive got sufficient rage and cd but inactive want to make it invisible...only visible when we can use it
Sure can! Just change it from Desaturate to be “Alpha” as the property being changed and set the value to 0. Alpha is the “transparency” setting you’re looking for :)
Awesome vid! But could you or someone help me out... I play warlock, destru, and i need auras for rain of fire and chaos bolt... What should i have on the condition setting?... Cant figure it out:/ thanks 🙏
if you're looking for the empowered chaos bolt (ie: conflag/backdraft buffs, or maintaining Eradication) you'll want to add a Trigger which also watches the buff your character gains, then have it update the aura when the buff is found. I have a video on this here: ruclips.net/video/1F7KMl9ToCo/видео.html
I followed your steps on the glow portion, and it works while WA is active. But when I exit, the glow doesn’t act as it should, nor does it glow at all. What have I done wrong or what should I look into to correct it?
So while the /WA window is shown it will usually show the glow (this is not indicative of how it will perform in the real world, it's just illustrating that it has been added). If the glow is not working on the aura during actual combat, you'll want to ensure that the "Conditions" are correct in order to show it, as well as the action within that condition are set to display the glow. If the default state is to now show the glow (Display tab -> Glow 1 -> Show Glow (unchecked)), then the issue will be in the Condition tab's logic. Double check what triggers it is looking for, as well as any conditional logic within the trigger which may impact it.
@@hrothmar found the fix! So from your presentation, only thing I changed was in Trigger 2. Instead of action overlay glow, I chose, action usable. Conditions for trigger 2 are still as you demonstrated. Was so excited to see it work. Still wouldn’t have gotten started without ur video. Thank you
Do you ever record yourself reading a book out loud? Your voice is relaxing as heck lmao. And yes I appreciate the WA info. I managed to get 2k io without macro or WA but I feel like I need it to get farther
As a complete noob to WA this helped so much while not being an information overload. I hope you make more of these delving deeper and sharing more of your knowledge in this great format.
More than happy to help, friend! I'm happy to hear that this was beneficial :D
BRAVO!!!! You remind me of one professor I had in CompSci. Well mapped teachings and breaking them down to understandable, concise, succint and precise tutorials. I can now effectively use WA. Thank you!
Bro I was genuinely afraid of using Weakauras because it seemed to complicated but now that I've seen your video it actually feels like something I could spend time on so I don't have to use other add-ons. Nice guide you got here, very easy to comprehend😊
This is the best guide / explanation I have ever seen. For the first time ever, I understand WA enough to make some helpful weak auras
thank you for the kind words doc! Have a lovely week and good luck with the auras
@@hrothmar I was about to say the same thing. Instant subscription. I can see your channel growing. Great content, thanks 👍
subbed and liked. you've got a great voice and delivery for video. good luck to 100 subs and beyond
Thank you so much!
You have my gratitude, this guide is just what I needed. Total WoW noob, just cracking open addons, WeakAuras was super daunting but not so much after seeing this.
I really like the way you started from nothing and went through all the steps to build a working setup. I am using your ideas to set up my toon the way I want to play. It was great to have explanations for why you do something, not just the "click this button". I have also gotten very mad when the presenter fumbles and appears not to know what he is presenting.
I'm a weakauras veteran, but I still learned something from this video. Very nice.
can you make a few waek auras videos so i can watch or can you give a comment tip so i can goin the right direction
good video. best bit was when my mind was fried he says "not all spells will be this straightforward"
Also totally okay to stand on the shoulders of giants and download more complex ones off wago.io then piecemeal them into your own groups!
Hands Down the best WA guide i have seen. Do you have one to help with dot management?
I do! I cover DoT stuff in my buff tracking guide, you’ll just inverse it from “buffs” to “debuffs”
ruclips.net/video/FWa_eq11oDM/видео.html
Perfect tutorial. Would love to see more WoW addon tutorials from you.
Thank you for the kind words! Work has been wildly busy recently, but it's in the hopper!
Best guide ever. Not everyone has the ability to teach other people that has no clue about it at first. Thank you
Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m doing my best to make the guides I wish I had access to when I first started ✨
You really deserve more subscribers than you have. This content is super high quality, keep up the great work Hrothmar
Thank you so much! I am happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
This helped so much! I've benn wanting and struggled for years to make my own WA! This broke it down to a point where it's digestible and now easy to understand, thanks
Please more 🙏 first time viewer. Been having some minor issues with other people's class aura packs and with this alone I'm much more confident making one for myself.
This was amazingly helpful, very, VERY beginner-friendly and at the same time not boring/annoying if you have a general idea of how WA could/would work, but never actually looked at creating your own. Thank you!
after trying and trying to get the information you just showed me I think this is the ducks-guts in tutorials I loved it thank you
this is by far the best WeakAuras video I've come across. Thank you!
This is extremely helpful and easy to follow! Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words! Always happy to help out!
amazing. took so long for someone to do this for the noobs. most videos already over fill you with useless information or outdated info. thanks man
I kid you not, between me posting this last month and right now they already updated the UI for width/position of icons. It's a forever struggle
Really powerful video. I dont intend on making my own from scratch as I just started playing the game, but I do enjoy the fact that now I can understand and modify presets that I may want to use to tailor them to my liking. Much appreciated
thank you for the nice words!
Another case of RUclips reading my mind and popping a video into my feed before I could even search for it. Good work and I hope to see more of these in the future.
0:54 - 1:05 This is why I'm subscribed to you. Well said. A warm invitation to learn WoW.
Great tutorial. The quality of your audio, speech, pronunciations, instruction and attention to detail is very impressive. I especially like when you point and explain specific elements in the WeakAuras interface. I now don't feel so overwhelmed about WA! You have my like and subscribe and I look forward to checking out your other videos!
Thank you so much! It's encouraging to hear that this is helping people!
This video is super helpful. I've made some auras by myself but they were super rudimentary and chaotic. This will help me make them more functional, and I'll share it with my friends so they can learn how to use WA better too. By the way, great content, perfectly explained and with a really hooking cadence and rhythm. Hope more people finds out your channel :)
Thank you so much! This means the world 💙
This is exactly what I came looking for. Simple explanation with a really good information. Suddenly I feel like my UI is going to be littered with WA's :) Have my sub as a thank-you.
this is probably the best guide to get started with WAs. I want to have seen this about 5 years ago. By now I'm pretty firm in building/changing WAs but when I started this would have been insanely good and probably have saved me some hours!
Still using some premade ones as it is much faster changing them to my needs but it helps if you are missing some or if they are just too big.
Okay here’s what I’ll do, I’ll master the skill points of my prot pal first, get used to the spells and how they work together, and then I go back to this video. I’m a new player and on my first time tanking someone said I had no idea what tanking is and got kicked off. Anyway, thank you so much! Great video it was easy enough to understand the logic of how this add-on works! ❤
HUGE thumbs up on the video. You break it down and make it approachable, thank you🙏🏼
How is this video not more popular? Hands down best explanation of this add on! ❤
Even after a few months this is such a resourceful guide, all the WA for my class are outdated and when I have some time on the weekend will experiment with making my own, subbed!
This video is amazing! I personally like to make my own WA and set them up to fit my playstyle. Personally I already learned all this the hard way back when Shadowlands came out, but I sure wish this video was available back then. Keep up the good work :D
Incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!
As a self-taught tech...this is still helpful. Thanks OP!
OMG, your guide is so much better. I hate people rambling nonsence on their videos. Thankyou!
Excellent how-to video. Very easy to follow and great explanations!
Best WA guide I've seen over many years. Well done, thanks.
This video needs more views, more likes, and more comments. I know WA can be very intimidating upon first use. However, this video very easily gives some very important and helpful information, simplifying the task!
Very carefull and smooth Intro using WeakAuras. Excellent Intro!
Thank you so much!
So easy to follow and very informative. Thank you so much for your hard work!
I've never been able to understand WeakAuras till this video lol. Thanks!
A great video on Weak Auras. I have watched other videos and been lost in the first 5 minutes. You really broke it down into understandable sections. You picked up a new subscriber today. Please keep up the series.
Very thorough, yet simple to understand. Thank you!
Thank you. You don’t know how much you just helped me out. This is an amazing into to WA and and a lot better than the typical “yea just upload this text” type of approach I’m used to seeing. I’m definitely going to pass it onto my friends.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm happy that this hit home with you
Probably the clearest weakaura tutorial I've ever seen. Doesn't seem as scary now.
I knew a lot of this already, but this video helped clear up some gaps in my knowledge in a very succinct way. Thanks!
awesome video.... Easy to listen to, watch and follow. Well done mate !! I thought the addon was too confusing for years... but you explained everything step by step
Thanks for the kind words! I’m happy to hear it was helpful!
Amazing video. I finally understand the basics of WA.
Very high quality tutorial. Great pacing! I see you haven't made videos here in a while. I hope you're out there making educational content for something else because you're very good at it!
If you come back and make more WoW content, I would like to see a workflow for making raid or m+ mechanic weakauras. Basically how to become the sort of person who can go from "i wish i had a weakaura to track that" to actually making one
Ask and you will receive! I have been wanting to get back into making guides again and this is a lovely request. I'll follow up in a few days/weeks!
@@hrothmar I look forward to it!
@@grudley sorry for the delay, here’s that guide! ruclips.net/video/DamVKPZE5hU/видео.html
That was some professional stuff right there. Nice job.
Finally a video thats not just "heres how you import"
Saw you through the algorithm. Thanks for doing sich a nice Tutorial.
More than happy to, thanks for watching and I hope it helped!
I am a player somewhere between beginner and advanced when it comes to Weakaura. Therefore I would be very interested in an Advanced Guide from you - I did like your way of explaining this beginner Guide very much and hope for more videos in this direction! Thank you :)
Thanks friend! I’m compiling a list of things for a more “advanced” guide on weakauras (without getting into custom LUA function stuff), and hoping to work on that sometime next month after DF launch settles down a bit and I can work on vids again more directly! 🎉
This is a great tutorial. Well done. Thank you very much!
This is an awesome video! Thank you for your help! I subbed and will send others here when they ask about WAs.
Great guide from scratch 😊. Usually made most by editting sample(premade). But now maybe i should try it from icon.
There are no wrong answers! From premade is honestly a better starting point, but for the sake of covering more information in one sitting the Icon seemed like a better use for educational purposes since you really gotta configure all of it (once, then copy)
Awesome guide ,this is exactly what i wanted to know
Hey, thank you for this detailed video! What do you think, is it possible to make a WA for molten boulder at ruby? I would like to know it befor its happen. Similar to a public Wise Mari - Corrupted Geyser WA.
Or is this „impossible/much complicater“ because of something I don‘t know?
✌🏻
You can absolutely do this! Site like `wago.io` can be used to search for the boss's spell you want to see and there are a lot of one-off trackers if you need them. For example, here is one I created for the "Static Cling" cast for the final boss of Vortex Pinnacle (dragonflight season 2) wago.io/-X1GFF3R4/1
Nice video. I wish you would have shown how to make weakauras reflect global cooldown though, and show when something is out of range.
Hey friend! happy to help here, I can answer both of them.
To show the GCD, you'll want to go into your Trigger for the spell you're tracking with the "Cooldown/Charges/Count" method. Below the "spell" name field is a cog that says "Extra Options: None". Click on this cog and you'll get a hidden dropdown with the ability to toggle the "Show Global Cooldown" button to on, which will allow you to track the GCD. This will not do anything at first, since you will need to make one additional setting to show the GCD on the icon. Head back to the "Display" tab for the aura, and within the "Icon Settings" section you'll see a divider labeled "Swipe Overlay Settings" with an option to "enable swipe" beneath it. Enable the swipe. I highly recommend checking the box for "Hide Timer Text" which appears after you enable swipe, but now whenever you cast a spell the GCD will show on your spell icon just like it does on your action bars (woo hoo!)
For detecting range, this is much easier and all we need to do is add a Condition. Head to the Conditions tab and add a new condition to look for the Charge/Cooldown/Count trigger (likely Trigger 1), and set the option in the "If" section to "Spell In Range" with a value of "False". Following this, set the "Then" section to whatever you would like. The way I see this commonly handled is akin to the Blizzard UI, so you can set the "Then" to "color" and change the color field which appears to be a darkish red. So all together it reads "If the spell is in range (false), change the icon color to be red-ish".
Hope this helps! Let me know if you run into any hiccups
very good guild as a long time player but 1st time /wa user very useful. keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! I'm happy to hear that this was able to help out, and I appreciate the encouraging words
Great video and much appreciated. Really, a very accessible intro to weakauras. I am trying to make a weakaura to track flameshock on my target. Any tips? A second video could be on buffs and debuffs. Thanks again.
I just finished a script for a buff tracking video! I need to record it this weekend but it should be the next proper guide I release within the next week or so.
In the meantime, you can get started by doing the following if you want a baseline to mess with:
- Make and Icon/ProgressBar aura
- Set trigger to watch for Aura -> Target -> Debuff -> Flame Shock -> Own Only -> Show: Always
You can then set up some display text for what you want to know (%p is the duration of the debuff remaining)
Conditions can be good to watch for things like Aura Found (Missing) or Duration Remaining >/
Just what I needed. Thank you.
More than happy to be of assistance here! Good luck out there!
one of the best vids i have seen well done and ty
thank you so much for the kind words
Excellent Explanation and Concise!!!
do you have these uploaded anywhere like wago etc? would love to download your warrior pack
I don’t currently, but I can get my current one uploaded to Wago if you’d like. The one I actually use is a bit different than the one shown (I operate with my group located off to the right of my character instead of below, due to my vertical peripheral vision not being very good). That said, I can definitely make a centered version of it, or upload my offcenter one as well, later tonight and share it
Hey again! Here's what I've been using on the Dragonflight Beta + Shadowlands Season 4 content (raid/dungeons/etc):
wago.io/q5h-bHdcn.
I hope it helps!
@@hrothmar thanks!
As a heads up, there was a recent change to Arms which changed some of our priority (namely Fervor of Battle killed whirlwind usage in single target), so I’ll need to sit down and update the package to reflect that change soon.
Perfect. Thank you.
As a hunter, I would love to see barb shot is on the target and how many stacks.
I have another video on buff tracking here:
ruclips.net/video/1F7KMl9ToCo/видео.html
The difference would be how you set up the Triggers. In the video, I make an Ashen Catalyst self-buff tracker. You’ll want to change it:
FROM: “Aura->Player->Buff”
TO: “Aura->Target->Debuff”
Should do exactly what you want 👌
Thank you for not speaking at a pace that leaves a viewer wondering if you'd rather be doing something else. So many of these "how to set up" videos the creator is talking so rapidly you have to wonder if they're expecting a pizza at any moment. Learned quite a bit, thank you.
Slower speeds help with retention, plus there is always a Speed button for folks who want it faster!
Really great tutorial. I'm a programmer and I've always been scared of weak auras because it just looks like I have to learn to code to play wow. LOL. Also the way you presented the tutorial. I keep thinking are you always this calm in life? Like just take everything you do this slow and calm? I'm always like go go go, so it was nice to slow down but also kind of bothered me in some ways. Good tutorial.
Howdy! Thanks for the kind words 💙 I’m very go-go-go IRL as well (also someone who works in code). It takes a lot of effort to actively lower the barrier-to-entry and ensure I don’t make assumptions when it comes to who might be watching the videos, so I take things slowly and methodically :D
Great video weak auras is very interesting to me and i want to become proficient at. thank you very much any tutorials you make on weak auras i will watch
Solid video. Do you do much with writing your own functions?
I haven’t written any myself, since it is usually written in LUA, a language that I’m not familiar with. That said, I have edited existing ones to repurpose them for things I need! It’s fun, but a little daunting simultaneously.
How to disable the interrupts box and my party member's spell cooldowns when in a party? Please answer someone
You'll want to find the WeakAura in the left-hand side of the `/wa` area, then either Delete the WeakAura, or you can go to the "Load" tab within the aura and check the box for "Never" which will cause it to "never load".
Thanks for this clear explanation!
Super helpful guide. Thank You!
wow this was exactly what I was looking for for days... the only thing I really would like to know is, how to make the icon grey, if I dont have enough rage.. but maybe I will find this in your other videos? anyways, big thanks for the guide!
Hey friend!
Happy to help here. If you're using the "Charges/Cooldown/Count" Trigger for a spell (shown in the video) then luckily you're only one step away from tracking this.
To adjust for rage, you'll add a new Condition with the following settings:
IF: Trigger 1 -> "Insufficient Resources" --> True
THEN: Desaturate --> Checked
Alternatively, you can also set the THEN to be "Color" and use the box which appears to the right to be a color such as Blue (which is what the default UI uses to indicate low resources). Personally, I add a new Text on the element under Display, then set its display text to read "rage" and show that text conditionally if the "insufficient resources" trigger is true, but this part is entirely up to how you want the WeakAura to work for your brain!
Good luck out there!
@@hrothmar oh wow thanks!! build a complete weak aura set for my monk with this guide and I am super happy how it turned out, thats the last thing that was missing
sry but may I ask you one more question? maybe it is too complicated to answer here, but I will try to explain, I wanna do an animated texture that starts after I used a spell. I get a buff every 10 secs, that one of my spells will be instant cast, so I want to start the animation after I used the spell/buff on me disapeared and lasts 10 secs, but it is a talent, so no cooldown on a spell or something like that, wanna do it with a square that fills clockwise and lasts 10 secs until it is full again ;) I know how to set up the texture etc, just cant figure out the trigger or condition that says "after buff xy disapeared start animated texture that lasts 10secs" xD if it is too complicated, thats fine too, just wanted to ask, because I cant find anything like that at the internet -.-
@@Nana-hh6qh under Triggers there should be an option to set a “hide” value to “timed” and then you enter the duration to 10 (default measures in seconds). It’s been a while since I’ve used it and I can’t find its exact location, but I know there’s an option to set hard seconds count timers.
That said, if it’s ever effected by haste and/or blizz timers it can throw it off a little bit (such as the Soaks affix in fated raids for 10.0)
14:50 I do not see this spell activation overlay glow option being available to me. Is this due to some difference in how wa work in retail and classic?
Potentially, this guide is solely for Retail and I cannot promise any information here is fully translatable for the Classic version.
Nice job!! I learn a lot with your video
It brings me so much joy to hear this helped you :D
What was the point of adding the glow? Are we supposed to condition it to something like a buff?
Condition 2 is configured to watch Spell Activation Glow for the spell, so basically any time the spell would glow on your bars (ie: if a buff is affecting it), then Blizz glows the spell. This mirrors the glow and will also glow the aura.
I have a more in-depth video on buff tracking and glows coming in the next appx. 1-2 weeks ✌️
Awesome guide to weak auras, I was hoping to find a way to move the icons from right to center as the cooldown comes to 0, do you have more WA videos where I can find that out?
Hey friend! I know people accomplish this with boss abilities (ie: repalcements for BigWigs/DBM), but I dont have direct experience with it.
My best advice would be to download a Boss Ability Tracker and see if there's any sort of backwards-engineering to be done to swap it to watching your own spells instead, possssibly.
@@hrothmar Just found a way through settings in dinamic group, this helps a lot with priority rotations, let me know if you or anyone need the string for a retribution rotation
Great Help. Thank you. How do I get the cooldowns to play a sound when the cooldown is over?
That would be under the Conditions tab. You can set something up so that “If Cooldown False, Play Sound”
Very helpful. Liked and subbed. Thanks.
Thank you so much! I hope the new expansion treats you well
Just curious how to add cool down numbers when a spell has multiple charges
They're tracked as two different values. The cooldown (or "progress", which is %p) will begin counting the moment any charges begin their cooldown, while the charges will be a separate value stored as a number.
To track charges, you'll use the Trigger # that you're using in the trigger tab. If you're tracking the charges in Trigger 2, then you'd use "%2.charges", for example.
To track cooldown, you'd use the same method, reaching for "%2.p" if it's on Trigger 2, or just "%p" if it's on Trigger 1.
You'd configure two different Text elements for each value, then set Conditions for when to show each.
@@hrothmar thanks for replying to my question- your video was great Ty!
@@Licensed1 of course! More than happy to help, good luck out there!
Thank you! This helps a lot!
More than happy to help here, good luck out there!
Great video. Thank you.
Hi nice video and details guide to create a weakaura. Can you create a guide video for the tracking debuff war bar, the one you have? Im also a main war.
Hey friend! I do have a (shorter) video on how to trach Buffs (and indirectly: Debuffs) with WeakAuras, which you can find here:
ruclips.net/video/1F7KMl9ToCo/видео.html
If there are any specific questions you have, feel free to drop them on that video and I'll help where I can!
can you please make an updated version of this because my weak aura is a bit different from what im watching right now tho it helps
The names of everything should be the exact same, just slightly different visuals (but same locations and orders). Is there something specifically that you can’t find in the new UI (for my own knowledge)?
Hi, I need help with WA, I would like to have a glow around the cursor but only in combat, I've been trying to figure it out but can't. Can you help me please?
when it comes to cursor aruas, i'd highly recommend downloading a premade one from wago.io (example: wago.io/ZbjlsgMkp). Once you have it installed, go to the "Load" tab, and then click the "In Combat" checkbox so that it turns green (meaning "only load this aura when you are in combat")
@@hrothmar thank youuu so much!
Spell Activation overlay glow is not in my dropdown menu. in trigger 2
It looks like the recent UI change may have altered this. Make the `Type` under Trigger 2 set to "Spell" and the subcategory "Spell Activation Overlay Glow".
Glorious
Great vid, thanks :)
hey mate, great video... can you please make one for disc priest and BM hunter... tnnx
I know neither of these specs, but this should give the building blocks to get started with them!
Can we make it invisible than making decolor or gray...the spell which is inactive got sufficient rage and cd but inactive want to make it invisible...only visible when we can use it
Sure can! Just change it from Desaturate to be “Alpha” as the property being changed and set the value to 0. Alpha is the “transparency” setting you’re looking for :)
Good Job! Great video! When is part two for Weak aura :) ??
Happy to make one, but what would you want it to cover 👀
Awesome vid! But could you or someone help me out... I play warlock, destru, and i need auras for rain of fire and chaos bolt... What should i have on the condition setting?... Cant figure it out:/ thanks 🙏
if you're looking for the empowered chaos bolt (ie: conflag/backdraft buffs, or maintaining Eradication) you'll want to add a Trigger which also watches the buff your character gains, then have it update the aura when the buff is found.
I have a video on this here:
ruclips.net/video/1F7KMl9ToCo/видео.html
@@hrothmar thanks alot 🙏
Well done.
Thank you so much!!!
I followed your steps on the glow portion, and it works while WA is active. But when I exit, the glow doesn’t act as it should, nor does it glow at all.
What have I done wrong or what should I look into to correct it?
So while the /WA window is shown it will usually show the glow (this is not indicative of how it will perform in the real world, it's just illustrating that it has been added). If the glow is not working on the aura during actual combat, you'll want to ensure that the "Conditions" are correct in order to show it, as well as the action within that condition are set to display the glow. If the default state is to now show the glow (Display tab -> Glow 1 -> Show Glow (unchecked)), then the issue will be in the Condition tab's logic. Double check what triggers it is looking for, as well as any conditional logic within the trigger which may impact it.
worse case, you can always upload your aura to `wago.io` and I can take a look for you and link a fixed one back, just lmk!
@@hrothmar ok. I appreciate the feedback I will look into it when I have time. Thank you
@@hrothmar found the fix!
So from your presentation, only thing I changed was in Trigger 2.
Instead of action overlay glow, I chose, action usable.
Conditions for trigger 2 are still as you demonstrated. Was so excited to see it work. Still wouldn’t have gotten started without ur video. Thank you
very good !!!! thanks a lot
good job ! Thank you.
Do you ever record yourself reading a book out loud? Your voice is relaxing as heck lmao. And yes I appreciate the WA info. I managed to get 2k io without macro or WA but I feel like I need it to get farther
Thanks for the kind words! i've done book readings before as community events in the past, it was a fun time!