Hello friends
Lately I’ve been focusing on mythic+ with my main and I need to pay attention to the interrupts.
I don’t like changing WoW’s interface, but I would like an addon that shows which mobs are casting and need to be stopped
I tested the Platter Nameplater but I find it a lot to move and configure and I didn’t like the changes in the bars.
I just need it to show the interrupt cast of targets that I’m not with the selection but that are on my side.
Thanks!
I just use Threat Plates, it has some other built in features and one of them is showing a casting bar under the name plate.
I echo what Caelin said above. I asked the very same question (as I had trouble noticing what needed to get interrupted) and someone suggested Threatplates.
Definitely easier to use, quicker to get set up for just that sort of thing. What’s great is that it also allows you to size the bars, so you can more easily tell (like when you’re on a small laptop screen like I have been) when things are interruptable.
Default nameplates will do this if you just turn them on. Do you know how cast bars work in WoW?
That’s not me being sarcastic either, I’m being serious. Cast bars have two textures, one which shows it can be interrupted, and one which doesn’t. But I didn’t wanna assume you knew or didn’t know.
I suppose since I’ve mentioned it though, I’ll just explain to be safe. Orange cast bars can be kicked. Silver cast bars which have a shield around them cannot. If you turn on default nameplates in the WoW UI, they should show you cast bars with the same textures which will provide you with the information you’re looking for. No addons required.
Deadly Boss Mods.
I’ve been using it for years.
Great addon I wish everyone had it.
I had the nameplates on but did not know about the cast bar color meanings. But the positioning of them were hard to read regardless, which ThreatPlates helps with greatly.
It was great that you pointed it out, though. Not obvious to me so likely not obvious to others as well.
Focus target maybe? You generally have a target you need to interrupt that isn’t your kill target. Or a mouseover macro.
If the UI isn’t sufficient enough, then Blizz would need to admit that and change it. Anecdotally I manage to interrupt just fine. Then again, I play a good number of games at a fairly high level.
I’m glad the information was helpful to someone then. It’s important to know that kind of thing, which the WoW UI doesn’t do a good job explaining.
Oddly enough, Exile’s Reach doesn’t even touch on anything cast bar or interrupt related, which in my opinion is a massive problem. But that’s just me.
It doesn’t touch on a lot of things. It should cover basic roles on the dungeon run, for example and so many other things.
Silver cast bars can be interrupted tho, just not kicked
Wago.io, the same place you find weakauras, has premade plater settings so you don’t have to try to configure it all yourself.
You’re being too broad.
An interrupt within WoW’s terms are kicks, which involves spell pushback. What you’re talking about is hard CC, or hard stopping.
You cannot kick / interrupt a paladin with divine favor up casting holy light. You can stop them by stunning them with something like Stormbolt. It’s also worth noting that while Silence on Shadow Priest functions as a kick in PVE content, it does not in PvP, and therefore, that difference is important. You can silence Divine Favor, you cannot kick / interrupt it though.
These terms and their importance are critical when understanding what something can and cannot do because of the aftermath. If you are “interrupted”, you were kicked and are suffering spell lock out, as within WoW, to be interrupted must have spell lockout as part of the equation.
Can i leave all bars of all mobs around showing what is being cast only with the default interface? I did not know that.
Sometimes my team says by voice to interrupt a certain mob and I get completely lost in knowing where he is.
I’m a relatively new player in endgame content despite knowing the game for a long time.
Not sure about the default UI but you can configure Threat Plates to show casting bars for all mobs around you. This way you can quickly target them or use a mouse over macro for interrupts.
I’d say you should revisit Plater. It’s the best and most flexible nameplate addon for WOW.
It can be intimidating but there are Plater profiles on WAGO that can get you into a good place to start. There are mods that recolor priority mobs in M+ and mods that change mob cast bars based on whether your interrupt is up or not just to name two.
To be honest, most of the time, there’s only a single mob that a) you want to interrupt, and b) CAN interrupt.
If there’s more than one of those, you can’t interrupt them both (the cooldown alone would prevent you), so those should be assigned in group so someone else can interrupt them, and you both don’t interrupt the same mob.
Once that’s settled, the game is simply knowing which mob is going to be the interrupt target. If you know this is advance (which you should), it’s straightforward to just focus the mob as you approach the pack and watch the stock nameplate. Then have a simple focus-interrupt macro/keybind to do the work.
It’s really quite difficult to pull a casting mob out of a crowd, especially within the cast time.
Clearly it’s a bit different with raids and bosses, though the concept is the same.
No reason for a stack of addons to manage this.
DBM has voice command set up for interrupts.
Love it but it doesn’t yell at you for EVERY interrupt. Usually just the large ones.
thanks for clearing that out !
An addon isn’t necessary. Just actually communicate with your fellow players on who goes first, second, so on. Surprising how well this simple fix works.