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)
- Abolish Poison (disabled by default)
- Priests
- Renew
- Power Word: Shield
- Prayer of Mending (with remaining charges display)
- Abolish Disease (disabled by default)
- Shamans
- Riptide
- Healing Way (with stack display)
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.
1.5.3
- 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
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...