editor’s note: Please put your hands together for the newest OutDPS writer, Shadowstreak! You might know of him as the artist for the Frostheim Goggles comic, over at WHU. If not, go check it out- it’s some funny stuff!
Shadowstreak will be writing about addons, since Faeghleis is taking a break from the game until Cataclysm.
Hello there OutDPS readers! Today we’ll be talking about OmniCC!
I decided to start with this because it’s a small, yet really useful mod. I’ll get to the staples of the mod world in further posts. Unlike what the name suggests, OmniCC has absolutely nothing to do with crowd controlling. I’m sure some of you out there might actually find that this mod alone will be able to increase your DPS! Not just for hunters, but any class that has an action bar.
The mod basically places a number over the individual spells and abilities in the action bar that will count down how long it will be until this ability or spell is ready to be used again. This replaces the need to stare long and hard at the swirly clock-like black shadow (or whatever you call it) that blizz currently has implemented for cooldown timers. So now, all you have to do to see if that ability is nearly ready is a quick glance over to see what the number is at rather then having to work out the position that the count-down clock (lets call it that) is at relative to the spell/abilities cool down. This even saves you having to mouse over the ability to see how long it has on cool down. This is particularly useful on abilities with cool downs that reach up to the 30 second and beyond mark. One very quick glance over and bang, you instantly know how long until that ability is ready to be used again.
This is a very small mod with a light memory footprint, and I find it to be one of those mods that is so incredibly intuitive and useful that I wonder why blizz doesn’t just build this in to the game.
Here is a screen shot of OmniCC in action:
You can change things like font, text size, and color around to your liking, but the mod more or less works right out of the box, no configuration necessary.
Basically, now you can glance at two shots on cooldown in your rotation, and instantly tell which is going to come off CD first.
Well, there you go folks- my first mod post! Unless Frostheim gets off his dwarven duff and gets me some comic scripts across for me to draw, I’ll keep writing these until Rip makes me stop. I need something to do on the internet ;)
Welcome to outdps! I’ve been using OmniCC since forever. It works great for me.
I LOVE OmniCC, it’s one of my must haves. If it breaks, I can’t play well until it’s fixed, I can’t play at all until it’s fixed, I hide in my closet and cry until it’s fixed (that’s a bit extreme but close).
A great companion addon is Inline Aura, which adds a second timer for DoTs etc. i.e. OmniCC lets me know that Black Arrow will be available to fire again in 15 seconds, Inline Aura lets me know that Black Arrow will be affecting the target for another 5 seconds. Two great tastes that taste great together!
Looking forward to the column, I’m an addon junkie and the more places I can get suggestions and ideas the better!
Darn you Sicadastra … I was just posting the same thing about Inline Aura :P
I love that mod as I prefer using a cast bar with Inline Aura/OmniCC that shows all my cooldowns as opposed to using Power Auras. I put the cast bar at eye level so I can see all my cooldowns/auras with with an easy glance. I think it is safe to say that when I discovered this mod my dps went up by 10% as it makes it a lot easier to prioritize my next shots.
You can find it at:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/inline-aura.aspx
OmniCC is awesome, def a must have.
OmniCC is awesome. It works in lots of places not just on actionbars. It’s lightweight and so intuitive you don’t even notice it’s there until it’s missing. Love it. Now I only need something to track my trinket procs, their internal cooldowns etc. Any suggestions?
Needtoknow.. shows the trinkets cooldowns and internal cooldowns. \m/
Needtoknow only tracks buffs and debuffs. So you CAN use it to track trinket procs by plugging in the buff it gives you. Unfortunately as far as I know though it doesn’t track the internal cooldowns. Unless theres some version I’m not aware of that was released :).
NeedToKnow does track internal cooldowns. There’s even a video tutorial for it.
This I did not know and this I am loving! I feel silly now :). What a great start to being the one who knows his stuff about his mods….:P
BTW, thanks for fixing my comment. I’m not sure why the blog system turned my link into an in-lined video. :)
No problem- I use a sub-par blog platform which I have very little control over, but in exchange it doesn’t ever go down :)