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  • Created 7/16/2008 6:48:25 AM
  • Updated 6/29/2011 10:44:40 AM
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  • Newest File: 1.6.7
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About HotCandy

HotCandy is a Heal-over-Time tracker initialy designed for Druids, but has grown into a full HoT/Buff tracker for all healing classes.

HotCandy was designed to be very simple and easy to use, with only a handful of options to customize the style of the bars. However its core is powerful and supports all known set bonuses, talents and glyphs that increase the length of your HoTs.

HotCandy is driven solely by the CombatLog events which provide it with all information it needs to display accurate timers for the HoTs you cast on other players (or yourself, of course).

Supported Spells

  • Druids
    • Lifebloom (with stack display)
    • Rejuvenation
    • Regrowth
    • Wild Growth (disabled by default)
  • Priests
    • Renew
    • Power Word: Shield
    • Prayer of Mending (with remaining charges display)
    • Holy Word: Aspire and Serenity
  • Paladin
    • Beacon of Light
  • Shamans
    • Riptide
    • Ancestral Healing
    • Earthliving (disabled by default)
  • Hunter
    • Mend Pet

All supported spells can be enabled/disabled in the HotCandy configurarion, as you see fit.

You can access the HotCandy configuration through the Blizzard Interface AddOns Options, or with the /hotcandy slash command.

1.6.7
- Fix for 4.2 combatlog changes

1.6.5
- Fix for Priest changes in 4.1

1.6.4
- Fix for 4.1 combatlog changes

1.6.3
- Add new spells: Holy Word: Serenity/Aspire and Beacon of Light
- Fixed glyphs

1.6.2
- Updated the Spells for 4.0

1.6.1
- Fixed a bug with the bundled libraries

1.6.0
- Internal rewrite for easier maintenance
- Fixed the positioning logic to finally work in every case.
- Added Shaman Earthliving HoT.

1.5.3
- Added support for HoTs that scale on haste (Druid's with the Rapid Rejuvenation Glyph)
- Strip the Server Name of the Player Names in Cross-Server Instances and BGs

1.5.2
- Rejuvenation is now 15s on all ranks. (3.3 Content Patch)

1.5.1
- Updated for the 3.2.0 Content Patch
- Added support for Hunters Mend Pet spell.

1.5.0
- Full support for the 3.1.0 Content Patch!
- Added support for Healing Way, Wild Growth and Prayer of Mending

1.4.5
- Adjusted the length of Rejuvenation for Level 80 Druids to 15 seconds
- Fixed an error when HotCandy was run on an unsupported class

1.4.1
- Added support for Riptide and Glyph of Renew
- Updated LibBars-1.0 library to improve user experience
- Fixed stack detection of Lifebloom

1.4.0
- Full support for 3.0, including Talents and Glyphs
- New options to toggle the tracking of all supported spells
- Internal reworking

1.4.0-beta:
- First beta release for WoW 3.0
- Support for Nature's Splendor (Druid Talent)
- No Glyph support yet, to come in 1.4.0 Final

1.1.63309:
- added tracking of Lifebloom stacks
- added options to format the text on the bars
- removed 2 library deps and upgraded one library
- added Load on Demand support using AddonLoader

1.0.42857:
- relevant set bonuses will be detected automatically now
- support for texture choosing through SharedMediaLib
- option to change the width of the bars

Comments

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  • #82

    please please please update it!!! Lifebloom still doesn't work!! :(

  • #80
    Great addon, seems to work well. Thanks for your work.
  • #78
    Regarding the holy priest chakra renew refreshes.

    I thought I'd take a look at this myself, since I finally started working on my priest after a year or so.

    It's seeming like a bit of a blizzard problem (bug?). When you refresh a renew on an existing target by casting renew on them, the combat log reports a refresh event. Which can be trapped and the bar updated.

    When the renew is refreshed via chakra/heal. No such event takes place. The other weird thing is that normal renew is 12 secs. But the refreshed version is 15secs. Not sure if this is a bug (it says refresh, and refresh would be another 12 secs). If it's fixed, this would need changing. I did of course want to take the durection from the UnitAura. But, you would need to wait for the next tick to do this. Not sure it's worth it.

    So the changes I made were:

    1: Detect heal/GH/FH casts when chakra is up on player, and renew is up on target. If all these conditions are met, a renew bar refresh is made for 15 seconds on the target.

    2: The function to make bars itself has an extra argument added. If not supplied, the existing functionality is provided. If a value is supplied, the durection for the bar is taken from this argument (the argument is still processed for haste effects).


    Anyway, I've uploaded a replacement HotCandy.lua for the maintainer to consider if he wants to use the idea/implement his own method based on this (and any holy priests who don't mind messing with untested code, they can try it themselves). I've marked all my contributions, so it's easy to see what I did (You'll see it under Wrathmeil - Steamwheedle Cartel).

    It might not the perfect way to do it. But, it seems to do the job for me.

    http://nerfed.net/HotCandy.lua if you're interested anyway.
  • #79
    Updated the patched file to include "Holy Word: Serenity" (doh, found out the hard way).
  • #76
    I absolutely love this add-on and find it EXTREMELY helpful for Druid Healing.

    I just got back from about a 2 month break of WoW where since a patch as hit, and I'm not sure if that is the cause of my problem but, here's my issue:

    LIFEBLOOM (3) - When first applying lifebloom to any target HotCandy will track the duration and rest it for each stack until it reaches the 3rd stack. However, when refreshing the HoT of Lifebloom with either the direct cast or using Nourish/Healing Touch/Regrowth, HotCandy no longer resets the timer on Lifebloom or shows the number of stacks it has..it simply disappears.

    If this issue can be resolved it would help A LOT!!!
  • #77
    the last 6-7 posts before yours talks about this very problem. do a little reading, cognito2 posted a temporary fix that seems to work for most druids.
  • #75
    I am trying to work this with Illuminated Healing(holy paladin mastery). Adding the spell into the code allows me to see the initial shield from the first heal, but following heals only refresh the bar and not the amount of shield remaining. Would anyone know how to edit the spell_aura_refresh for it to update the shield remaining?
  • #70
    thank you cognito for the LUA file but it seems like its not working for me :/ still not refreshing after i reached 3 stacks of lifebloom :(
  • #71
    Try casting lifebloom then nourish on yourself when you first login to the game. That seems to trigger the refreshing for me and lifebloom will work fine after that. Do this every time you login or after reloading the UI.
  • #72
    did not help :/ but thank you anyway. does anyone know a similar addon? i want to start raid again but cant play without hotcandy
  • #73
    a friend of mine uses the power aura addon to track his lifebloom with text indicators. power auras will do more than what you are looking for, but you might find it useful foe keeping track of procs and cooldowns as well.
  • #65
    I have the problem with my resto druid, but it seems fixed with ur help guys.. Thank you, what im here for is for my Holy Priest.
    Heal" rotation and now it does'nt refresh my Renew =(
    Any thoughts?..
  • #74
    i have the exact same problem, Renew timers are not refreshed when Chakra: Sanctuary is active.
  • #59
    i have a bug since 4.2 :(
    everytime when i renovate "Lifebloom" on the tank, its not showing the uptime anymore. i have to let "Lifebloom" run out first and start stacking up to 3 over new until hotcandy pops up. please help
  • #63
    Here is a very crude fix I have added to mine to get lifebloom refreshes working. Added at line 325 in HotCandy.lua:
    http://pastebin.com/0u5qjqDQ
    So far it seems to work fine, but it will do odd things if you do not have the lifebloom refresh talent (i.e. in Feral spec). It will also only work on group or raid members.
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