Heya,
I was wondering if there was an add on or weakaura that displays a pop up after you swap specs, to also remind you to change gear sets?
You need a reminder after casting the spec change for 5 seconds? I am struggling to understand this need.
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Yes because I’m a forgetful person
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You could setup a weakaura to display what gearset you currently have equipped but unless you hard code an item to a spell comparison would be hard to auto flag your wearing the wrong stuff.
You can drag the set from the equipment manager to an actionbar so you can click it to equip. The slots save by spec so put the corresponding set on each.
There used to be macros to change gear and spec all at once, but I haven’t seen if they added the right code to classic yet.
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You could definitely set up a weak aura to do this. You would want two separate weak auras, one for each spec to remind you when you’re not wearing the correct gear. In each aura:
You will need two triggers, and both of their conditions must be met to activate the weak aura. One that will check for a specific talent that you have in the spec (Type: Player/Unit Info > Talent Known), and then one that will check which gear set you’re wearing.
Now the tricky part would be choosing a way to assign your gearset to the spec. Your second trigger could be based on whether you’re wearing a specific piece of gear that you only wear in the given spec (Trigger Type: Item > Item Equipped). That would be the least convenient because you would have to edit the weak aura every time you got a new piece of gear for that item slot. The other way you could do it is to have the second trigger check your character’s stats (Trigger Type: Player/Unit Info > Character Stats). So if you’re tracking between healing and DPS specs, maybe your second trigger is based on how much hit rating you have, or perhaps spirit. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like you can track resilience by default (I’ve just submitted a ticket about this), which would probably be the easiest way to do it if you’re switching betwen PvE and PvP specs.
There are many ways you could set up a weak aura to do what you want, but in any case, you need to track which spec you’re in and also trigger the weak aura if you don’t have the expected gear/stats for that spec.
I probably should’ve asked what your specs are before I explained all of this. 
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I swear people will make weakauras to remind them to wipe their butts soon.
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I personally don’t love how comprehensive addons and UIs have become, but I definitely enjoy configuring addons and UI elements to suit my tastes. Especially in cases like this, where forgetfulness can cause annoying problems that can be avoided easily with a weak aura.
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That was really helpful, thank you!!
Unfortunately, even if the idea of a WA to remind me to swap gear is silly or unnecessary for some, I am really forgetful. I just healed a 25m OS last night with my shadow gear in disc spec so really appreciate your help - will definitely have a play around 
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Very happy to help! And yeah, I totally get it. I struggle with ADHD and there’s an extremely long list of things that I will always forget to do or think about even though they’re basic issues for most people. So I relate to your problem in a very deep way.
By the way, my issue submission to WeakAuras’ github was actually answered, and the latest patch did in fact add the ability to track resilience! I see you mentioned that in your case, you’re switching between PvE specs, but still, good information if you ever need to make this exact same weak aura for PvP specs on the future!
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