For people not using any addons

How do you even see who the enemy casts are targeting? Just say in a high m+ dungeon, 3 mobs are casting at the same time, you need to interrupt the cast that will result in a one shot (casts that arent targeting the tank). How the hell do you tell using the default Blizzard UI? or do you guys only do delves so it doesnt even matter.

I know you can see target of target in unitframe, but im burning down a big priority target and cant really switch my current target, also I arent gonna rotate through the 3 casters to see their frame because there simply isnt enough time.

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https://imgur.com/a/bUvlYoM

I have been saving interrupts for when I can actually see the spell name, and i know its a bad ability and we are low.

Its a pain. im not going after 3k like this.

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The point is seeing spell name is not enough, for example, when playing hunter, everyone has used their interrupts, and you are at 30% health. Some mob is casting shadow bolt, you cant tell whether it is casting the bolt at you so you can feign death using Blizzard UI.

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Say you have star target at the start of the dungeon

Mark caster star when walking up

Set focus. Watch cast bar of focus target

Interrupt when it goes off

It’s not that hard. Only time it would be would be in a few pulls where there are 4-6 casters in the group like Dawn

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Speaking only for myself, the extent of my content leads only into low level keys. I tend to live more in the range of heroic and LFR. We’re having to see the cast ahead of time is not a priority. However, according to the newest information about what they’re doing to combat it would appear that the cast themselves if you are targeted to them will show you what they are doing rather than showing everything all at one time. I’m hopeful that combat is adjusted in a way that it doesn’t have a harsh effect on levels above where I play. However, I’m confident that any gamer who is capable of doing +15. Mythic will also have minimal issue without the add-on as they spend time working through the new mythic dungeons.

they don’t.

and because they don’t, they don’t think it’s necessary for anybody else to be able to do so either.

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I set focus to Tank for easy MD casts.

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In the options, show target of target.

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I dont know you better figure that out before midnight

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That does not help if I am spreading my Barbed shots.

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Change it to [@player name]

We’re talking if you didn’t have addons but there’s a nice WA that auto detects the tank. Should totally snag that and enjoy for a few more months

It’s called smart misdirect and you just make a macro that looks like

#showtooltip [known:Interlope] Interlope; #showtooltip [noknown:Interlope] Misdirection
/click SmartMisdirect LeftButton 1
/click SmartMisdirect LeftButton 0

And win. No mouse over needed

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Easy, I go into the options, Turn on the settings to show me the in game name plates and watch for casters. Mouse over casting allows me to click on the nameplate and i press a button to cast my kick.

Easy.

Also, I look at the screen and what’s going on, not just my UI telling me how to play like you.

EDIT: to be fair, I use a Naga mouse and keybind everything to my thumb.

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Should be interrupting regardless

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I just don’t do group content since having a million addons has become the standard. I’d go back to healing if it didn’t seem to take as much training as actual medical school.

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Because I want to type in

/macro
look at player name
hope they dont have a wierd accent
go look up an accent guide
slowly type in it
mess up
get kicked for not responding because i was alt tabbed.

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I dont, i see a cast, i know its big i interrupt.

Blizz is going to make enemy cast more apparent so this isnt going to be an issue of hidden casts and random damage anymore.

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OMG thumb keybinds on the Naga are the best, that’s how I heal my GW2 squad. Heals on my thumb.

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If you see an enemy casting, select them and see who they are targeting.

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Target of target? And good CC?

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By the time I finish processing who they are targeting, how low they are, what ability it is, what abilities I have to stop/interupt it, its already off.

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