[Request] Weapon Swing Bar

zeuseason · May 2014

I'd like to request an addon for anyone capable of such a task and if it were possible. In beta, some addons offered a weapon swing bar to indicate how long you hold your weapon swing/fire for to determine light & heavy attacks.

This has gone away and I was wondering if it were possible with the current API. I can't see how this would be game breaking, especially with bow players as bow's don't auto-fire like weapon swings/staffs do.

This type of addon could have some nice features with graphical representation as well.

zgrssd · May 2014

I found nothing obvious among the Combat and Castbar mods of ESOUI
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/cat112.html
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/cat25.html
but did not look through every entry either.

As far as I can tell there is no event to use and every Combat API function is not allowed for addons.

I would love some way to autofire the bow (maybe only when not in stealth or when detected). It requires an unusual amount of focus to use right now (aside from fast firing light attacks).

If you jsut want to work on your timing, any combat log would do (I use FTC).

Karius_Imalthar · May 2014

Is a heavy attack the same amount of time for all weapons or maybe just different for different weapon types? Maybe an add-on could just determine the weapon type, make a "cast bar" appear (after about .5 seconds so it doesn't flash up on light attacks), then fill to max the longer the left mouse button is held.

zgrssd · May 2014

Karius_Imalthar wrote: »

Is a heavy attack the same amount of time for all weapons or maybe just different for different weapon types? Maybe an add-on could just determine the weapon type, make a "cast bar" appear (after about .5 seconds so it doesn't flash up on light attacks), then fill to max the longer the left mouse button is held.

There are several buffs for attack speed (Nightblade Haste, Medium Armor, Destro Staff final passive), but it would be possible to guess it same way FTC and other Bufftrackers do it for buffs. If there was an event for it.
The thing is I found no Event that is triggered when you start charging. There are only ones for hits and kills.
While addons cannot use the Combat Functions maybe they could overwrite it to provide thier own Event System? Can't really test it right now.

Edit: Nope. No acces to Combat functions at all and there are no events to register the start of a chargeup. The best you can do is get a damage log to improove your "release aim".