Comments on: AddOn: Dispel Announcer for Raiding and PvP

By: Rick O

Rick O — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:22:15 +0000

While I agree wholeheartedly with a reduction in macro-generated raid-spam, I find this addon useful less for public spam and more for personal info. When I am PvPing, I’d like to see what my Mass Dispel just got rid of, but I don’t want to have to watch the endless scroll in the Combat Log to do so. This addon puts it right where I need to see it — set it to the error frame and forget about it.

By: Tankette

Tankette — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:43:47 +0000

OMG, this will help so much! I keep getting yelled at to dispell stuff in Kara. My first reaction is "what the heck are you talking about, I'm a tank!". Then I remember I'm on my priest. It takes several seconds just to find the icon for Dispell Magic because I never use it. WTH, I have to heal, shackle AND dispell stuff?! LOL. Tankettes last blog post..Ho Hum

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:40:57 +0000

When I meant raid, I meant raid warning. There’s no actual option to plug it into raid chat.

I mainly toggle it purely for arena.

By: Lakland

Lakland — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:57:37 +0000

I feel you have to defend your raid chat if you want it clean. We try to maintain a relatively business-like ventrilo but anything goes in raid chat on trash. However, announcements like this should be in an appropriate channel where it matters, if it should even be announced. I don’t feel that announcing your dispels in/during a raid is worth anything unless you are trying to gauge your healing corp’s reaction times- but it would be fantastic in an arena setting.

By: Zakesh

Zakesh — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:34:15 +0000

I see the use of it, but im against this kind of addons mostly because of the people that likes to put this kind of info in raidchat. It 10 times worse than any goldspammer.

By: Doppelganger

Doppelganger — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:06:58 +0000

Not gonna lie, this addon annoys the shit out of me in our 5′s and pvp matt

By: Shastarian

Shastarian — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:09:40 +0000

Interesting addon, thanks for sharing, Matt. I think I’ll be letting the guildies know about this one.
Can it also announce when a dispell is resisted, say, on the Karazhan R&J fight?

By: Rick O

Rick O — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:18:47 +0000

Weird synchronicity. I just installed this and started using it a few days ago. I didn't really want it for the Announce functionality inasmuch as letting me easily see what my Dispels had done without flipping over to the Combat Log. I am absolutely loving it so far. Rick Os last blog post..Exalted, two new areas, one long night