BeneCaster

If someone can give me a list of things wrong / broken I will attempt to fix it upon release of 3.3 when they add back in down ranking.

I need this list first before I attempt

I have been able to get the buttons to work fine for myself and a 5 man group, but not in raid, it gives me all kinds of lua error messages if I try to run it in raid. and this addon is hands down the best for my healer. Having the buttons right next to every party member and adjusting the size and what goes in the buttons for spells, makes all the difference for fast heals etc..

Hope that helps

anyone have a fixed or fan update maybe? i love this addon and i have tred a few others but nothing is liek benecaster. if someone out there has a fan up date can you post a link to were we can get it or drop me a mdg on here please

FYI for other Benecast/Bencaster fans. I found a new addon for healers that sort of works like this. It is called Healium. You can find it here. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/healium.aspx

Hopefully someone picks up where Phlay left off on this addon. If they don't I will try to maintain mine. I am not a great coder, but, hopefully I can make it work. If someone does pick it up a great feature would be an indicator of whether the spell is yours or another healers. As a druid I cast a HoT on someone and the icon goes dark meaning the spell is active. If any other druid casts a HoT the icon goes dark so I can't easily tell when my HoT is done.

add nourish :)

after one year i reopen my wow account and update all my addons... benecaster is not working...benecaster was the best casting helper addon!!

there isn't other addons like it i am sad:(

I can't get anything to work for Benecaster. I've loaded it for my priest, open the addons button - loaded out of date...but still no pictures, and no benecast button on the mini map. Is anyone else having this issue?

CPTAixel, Did priests get any new spells last patch ? Or were some taken out ?

Well, from doing my own testing, it seems the bug from playing priest is coming from the penance spell, and only on its self cast. If you open your spelllist, you will notice it is in there twice for whatever reason. I tried to check out he debug message it pops up with once you check off either spell, but it seems to be out of my league once it gets to that point

Seems I spoke too soon.

I appear to have fixed it on mine at least

Open CasterSpellList.lua

Under the [CASTER_STRINGS.CLASS_PRIEST .. "_Self"] heading, locate and delete the line that says CASTER_STRINGS.SPELL_PENANCE;

save file and reboot, see if that works for you

This has got to be the best healer addon ( I've tried them all) ..and no one is working on it? Dual spec keeps messing it up. I have a pally and priest (both dual specced) and as soon as you switch specs it stops working on them both. Come on you file gurus...someone fix it please!

I just started playing my mage again.
While i doubt i'll use Benecaster with the mage for buffs, really only the player frame for armors/cooldown stuff/etc.

I noticed that Icy Veins and summon water elemental are missing.

I'll go ahead and edit them in, like we had to do with Nourish and Cure toxins.

Can we make a list of all spells that are:
A: Not in game anymore. replaced/changed/deleted by blizzard.
and
B: New spells added in game not listed in benecaster.

I know there are some pally holy spells/talents also that are not in benecaster.
I would assume anything 3.0+ is not in either.

I'm trying to learn grid/clique for some things... but 5 man stuff is 99% of my playtime. benecaster works 100x better for my playstyle
trying to remember what modifier to hold down, is it left or right click... was it ALT+CRTL+LClick? or SHIFT+CRTL+RClick for that spell.... bah click the stupid benecaster button for it :P
I use a gaming keypad for my left hand with 40+ buttons keybound, My hands are nowhere near a normal KB while i play so grid/clique is like playing in another language.


Sad that Benecaster seams to be abandoned... But i can't let it die for me. As long as I can edit the files and get it to work, I Will!!

For pallies: Sacred Shield is missing.

Fix for Shammys.

I finally got sick of waiting and fixed this myself. Thanks to the post below for the help. Just applied to to my shammy.

So, first open up your CasterLocalization.lua file. Under the Cure/Ailment spell name section, make it look like this

--------------------
-- Cure/Ailment Spell Names
--------------------
CURE_DISEASE_1 = 'Cure Disease',
CURE_DISEASE_2 = 'Abolish Disease',
CURE_PURIFY_1 = 'Purify',
CURE_CLEANSE_1 = 'Cleanse',
CURE_CLEANSE_2 = 'Cleanse Spirit',
CURE_MAGIC_1 = 'Dispel Magic',
CURE_MAGIC_2 = 'Mass Dispel',
CURE_POISON_1 = 'Cure Poison',
CURE_POISON_2 = 'Abolish Poison',
CURE_CURSE_1 = 'Remove Curse',
CURE_CURSE_2 = 'Remove Curse',
CURE_TOXINS_1 = 'Cure Toxins'


Save the file ( making sure to preserve the orig file) and then open your CasterSpellList.lua file.

Do a search in the file for the word SHAMAN. Search till you find the string called Shaman_FriendlyTarget. Edit it to this

["Shaman_FriendlyTarget"] = {
CASTER_STRINGS.HEAL_LESSER_HEALING_WAVE;
CASTER_STRINGS.HEAL_HEALING_WAVE;
CASTER_STRINGS.HEAL_CHAIN_HEAL;
CASTER_STRINGS.HEAL_RIPTIDE;
CASTER_STRINGS.CURE_CLEANSE_2;
CASTER_STRINGS.CURE_TOXINS_1;
CASTER_STRINGS.BUFF_WATER_BREATHING;
CASTER_STRINGS.BUFF_WATER_WALKING;
CASTER_STRINGS.BUFF_EARTH_SHIELD;
CASTER_STRINGS.RES_ANCESTRAL_SPIRIT;
CASTER_STRINGS.SKILL_GIFTOFTHENAARU;
};

Save, again keeping the orig file formatting.

Last, like reccomended below, delete your Benecaster.lua file. Reboot wow, and should work.

Enjoy

Make sure "CURE_TOXINS_1 = 'Cure Toxins' " has a comma at the end, making it "CURE_TOXINS_1 = 'Cure Toxins',"

Stupid curse wont let me edit

Ok , one bug I found with this fix is the button for cure toxins is always lit up, so you have no idea when you are supposto use it. You need to edit another file to fix this, its called CasterBar.lua

Ok, you need to make 3 additions in this file

1 - First, do a search in the file for the word "CURE". The first place it should bring you is to the line with something like


if( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Cure Disease' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Abolish Disease' ) ) or


etc etc. You need to edit this area to look something like this




if( CasterVars[optionname]) then
linRange = Caster_CheckRange(value);
if ( not linRange ) then
icon:SetVertexColor(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
end
end
end

local lHasRemovableDebuff = Caster_CheckHasDebuff( value );
if( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Cure Disease' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Abolish Disease' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Cure Poison' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Abolish Poison' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Purify' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Cure Toxins' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Cleanse' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Remove Lesser Curse' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Remove Curse' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Mass Dispel' ) ) or
( string.match(value.Spell.MaxSpellName, 'Dispel Magic' ) )


2 - search for "CURE" again. If you didnt close your find window you should only need to click the "FIND NEXT" button twice. That should bring you to the line with something close to

if (string.match(debuffType,"Poison")) then
if string.match(lSpellName,"Cure Poison") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Abolish Poison") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Purify")



etc etc. Again, edit it to look like this




if (string.match(debuffType,"Poison")) then
if string.match(lSpellName,"Cure Poison") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Abolish Poison") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Purify") or string.match(lSpellName,"Cure Toxins") or string.match(lSpellName,"Cleanse") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Cleanse Spirit") then
lpoison_db = 1;
end
end


3- Lastly, search for "CURE" again ( should have to click twice or so using find next if you have it up) till you hit the line with


if (string.match(debuffType,"Disease")) then
if string.match(lSpellName,"Cure Disease") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Abolish Disease") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Purify")


etc etc, then edit it to


if (string.match(debuffType,"Disease")) then
if string.match(lSpellName,"Cure Disease") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Abolish Disease") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Purify") or string.match(lSpellName,"Cure Toxins") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Cleanse") or
string.match(lSpellName,"Cleanse Spirit") then
ldisease_db = 1;
end
end


Save the file. Should be good to go now. I just tested it with a duel on a rogue and worked fine

Can you tell us when this will be updated to 3.2?

Love the addon, can't play my priest without it.

I can not get this to work with pitbull 4

The option screen shows and I enable the spells I want, but the bar will not appear on the screen, If I turn off Pitbull, then it will work.

I have tried to set it to attach to pitbull, but it will now show up that way either.

This is the best instance addon ever for casters, I would love to use it with pitbull though, is there a fix for this, that I am missing?

I hope this gets updated soon, because the makers of Benecast don't seem to be working to hard on it.

I got it to work with Pitbull4.

the problem is pitbull4 changed the Names of the frames, again.
you have to edit the snapto lua to the new pitbull frames.

my problem now... all my casters work just fine in 3.2
except shaman. I get the line 411 error. i used to get it with the lock, but just turned benecaster off on the lock cause i really didn't need it there anyway.

I'll try and figure out the problem with the shaman. but i normally use X-perl and there's no problems. But x-perl broke today... pitbull4 still works.