WiseEclipse – DPS Increasing Addon
I was browing Google the other day for some reason, and happened upon another boomkin’s blog — Owlkin.org. From the looks of it, he recently launched it, so go show him some love 
. He’s into end-game raiding (currently working on Heroic Anub25), so it should definitely turn out nicely.
At any rate, it was on his blog that I stumbled upon an addon called WiseEclipse. Check it out on his blog, but I am going to go into a little bit of detail myself, after testing it last night. He also has mirror download on his blog — that’s where I downloaded the addon myself, so I hope he has the bandwith to handle all you guys’ downloads I’m going to try to explain as best I can — I was wary at first till I tested it out on the dummies last night:
The Scenario:
You are casting Starfire during a Lunar Eclipse. If there isn’t enough time for your spell to hit the target before your Starfire hits your target, the addon will cancel your Eclipse buff so that you have a chance to proc a Solar Eclipse. The same is true for Wrath & a Solar Eclipse.
Why Its Good:
Let’s you chain the opposite Eclipse than the Eclipse you just last had, sooner. Increases DPS, so why not use it?
Basic Testing:
Check out the ReadMe.txt. It explains a little on how it works. Typing /wiseeclipse will bring up a handful of options. While I was testing the addon, I activated the option for it to announce in chat when it actually was terminating an Eclipse early. Good stuff.
Download Mirror (courtesy of Owlkin.org):
http://www.owlkin.org/files/WiseEclipse1.1.3.rar
Conclusion:
Quite to very awesome, but don’t take my world of it — check it out yourself, play around with it, you be the judge.
Ballerkin
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I recently heard about this on TMR, where I went into how this would indeed be a nice addon (actually, the discussion was around a macro that did the same thing). It's *definitely* a DPS increase for the exact reason you mentioned — it allows you to chain Eclipses. It's nice enough already when, instantly, I finish a Starfire cast (during Eclipse), Eclipse fades, then the Starfire hits (and by hits, I mean crits), giving me an immediate Solar Eclipse. It's so full of win and awesome.
I don't think I could bring myself to use an addon to do this, but I may look into using the macro.
I actually don't like these types of addons. Those things should you do by yourself.
I'd call thischeating, because there is no player involved in cancelling the eclipse.
Cheating is a bit of a strong word for this i think, if it were cheating then i'm pretty sure it would be outlawed by Blizzard in next to no time but each to their own, i personally dont think this is anything more than an extra convenience to not having to macro a
I'm liking this and i'm going to try it in conjunction with Squawk and Awe and see what i get out of it.
Thanks for the heads up on this one, also added to the frontpage on my site.
Meh. If a macro can do it, I can't see it as being anywhere near cheating.
I've noticed myself rising on the DPS charts lately since I've been chaining Solar Eclipses immediately after my Lunar ones.
Mastarwe is right. This is a cheating addon. You can't do this in a macro because the addon makes a decision for you and acts on its own. It clearly violates blizzards addon policy. I am pretty sure blizzard will apply a fix soon that will break the functionality of this addon.
Try this macro:
/run local _,_,c,_,_,_,a = UnitBuff("player","Eclipse");local _,_,_,_,_,_,b = GetSpellInfo(48465);if a and not string.find(c,'Orange') then if a-GetTime() < b/1000 then CancelUnitBuff("player","Eclipse") end end;
[...] mind, this is the lesser of the two issues. I’ve seen a lot of people commenting on posts by Macbook/Ballerkin and Graylo about how they refuse to use this addon because it “does something automatically [...]
How do you put it in your interface folder or where do you put these files?!
Sorry stupid question.. I'm assuming that there is some other visual somethin other than what it shows in the chat area?!
Actually no, the only other visual is the fact that your buff no longer appears, i'm not sure what visual you actually want, since this runs almost transparantly in the background and you carry on with your normal rotation/priority system while it ensures that your receive maximum uptime from your eclipse buffs.____Anything visual would most likely be a waste of screen real estate.
What does this macro above do??
Pretty much exactly the same thing as the addon. Checks to see if the eclipse buff is active and how long it has left versus the amount of time it takes to cast the fastest spell (in this case that would be wrath) that can cause the buff to proc again.
The addon does a few more detailed calculations than that but thats the general idea,