CastOptions (Mugendai, Lalla)

[Nephyrin]

Short Description: Provides enchanced casting options such as auto self casting.

Wiki Page: http://www.wowwiki.com/CastOptions

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[easyrider]

I just installed the Cosmos interface.
I have a Paladin and would like to use some of the auto heal features.

Where in the Cosmos interface is the section that is used to setup and configure the Cast Options settings ?

Thanks,

Dale

[Nephyrin]

I just installed the Cosmos interface.
I have a Paladin and would like to use some of the auto heal features.

Where in the Cosmos interface is the section that is used to setup and configure the Cast Options settings ?

Thanks,

DaleSimply press the "Blue C" on your minimap and select Khaos, then scroll down to CastOptions. If it is not shown, you may need to turn up the complexity setting of Khaos, located up top.

[easyrider]

What section of the Cosmos configuration is it located in?
It is not on the main page with the icons.
Is there a place that I can enable disable features and hotkeys for this feature?

I am a Paladin, does the Cosmos macro automatically know what my class is and heals accordingly ?

How do I enable this option during battle ?

Is it possible to make a combination "stun , Holy Light" "invulverability, Holy Light Heal" Or "invulnerability, bandage, Holy Light" combination ?

I have not been able to find any detailed documentation on how to use Cosmos or make macros, it looks like a great piece of software, I would like to use it.

Thanks,

Dale

[easyrider]

I had to reboot my machine and the settings came up for Casting Options.

However.... the autocasting does not work even with Casting Options enabled. I thought the function was designed to auto heal the weaker member of the party including self healing ? It does not do that. I have to manually right click on a healing spell for anything to happen, but that is what I have to do normalling.

I also though the Blessing option in Cosmos was designed to replace the blessing automatically when the timer counts down. This is not happening either, I have to manually redo the blessings.

Is there something I am missing for the setup to auto bless and auto heal?
That is the whole reason I installed Cosmos.

thanks for you help,

Dale

[KarlKFI]

There is no auto-casting. Every cast requires hardware interaction.

[Bhaerau]

The advantage is (among many others) that you don't ahve to target a partymember. Just click the healing spell and it'll be cast on the one needing it the most.

[ftkxde]

hi...

would you add the following to "CastData.lua" please:

["12643:0:0"] = {b=1;}; --Dense Weightstone
["12404:0:0"] = {s=1;}; --Dense Sharpening Stone

and if possible integrate

["18262:0:0"] = {s/b=1;}; --Elemental Sharpening Stone

as well, which could be applied to both, sharp and blunt weapons.

thx in advance
ftkxde

[Forgie]

Greetings everyone.

Cast options has some really nice features, though there's a few things that would really benefit some classes if changed.
For one, enabling Smart Rank Casting gives you the feature (not able to choose whether really to enable or not) to lower ranks of spells when you hit a percentage of mana. This does come in handy for healing, but for some occasions. I'm playing a priest my self, and I'm using Inner focus (the next spell you cast is free and a +25% crit chance). However Castoptions doesnt notice this buff and therefor making me cast a lower rank spell for free. This probably goes for mages aswell.

Perhaps if you have the time, you could look into this.

Thanks in advance

Forgie

[BlackZam]

Greetings everyone.

Cast options has some really nice features, though there's a few things that would really benefit some classes if changed.
For one, enabling Smart Rank Casting gives you the feature (not able to choose whether really to enable or not) to lower ranks of spells when you hit a percentage of mana. This does come in handy for healing, but for some occasions. I'm playing a priest my self, and I'm using Inner focus (the next spell you cast is free and a +25% crit chance). However Castoptions doesnt notice this buff and therefor making me cast a lower rank spell for free. This probably goes for mages aswell.

Perhaps if you have the time, you could look into this.

Thanks in advance

Forgie

A check for a clearcasting state would be nice so that the spells highest rank was used if you have low mana and not the down-scaled version.
Now I have to disable Smart rank so I can get the most out of clearcasting.

Suggestions:
Have Smark Rank always on, it can't hurt anyone to use the proper buff/heal on someone.
Make the new mana conservation option work, and work without smart rank.

[NailzAZ]

I don't use this because it conflicts with Paladin Assistant. But I can see how it could be useful.

[Baltezar]

http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13533

This is a link to a post i made in the bugs forum, not sure if needed to be here or there. so posting a link to that post. its as detailed as i can get with whats wrong with it.

[Xavio]

Howdy. Great AddOn and all that rubbish.

Would it be possible for CastOptions to actually change the spell out for the lower rank spell on the bar when Smart Rank Casting is enabled?

This is so that the tooltip reflects the change. Say if Heal and Greater Heal are both reduced...and Heal actually heals more at the rank it's reduced to. I'm not sure if that's possible, but it's an example, hey? I'd like to be able to tell at a glance what the lowered spell will do.

While I think the tooltip change could be enacted without actually putting the lower spell on the bar, what about the icon highlight? This makes a difference especially with Heroic Strike and other "on next attack" spells. It's more of a cosmetic change, but I like to be able to see exactly what I'm in the process of casting...on the bar as well as the cast timer.

Is this possible with Cosmos' current resources or would it require larger modifications?

Or could it already be a feature and I'm simply missing it? Something I need to enable in BarOptions for it to work?

[Rubix13]

This Add-on seems to be causing me considerable lag/chop when enabled (post 1.10). Anyone else have this experience?

I was getting a lot of lag since updating Cosmos for the patch. I basically disabled everything and then started only enabling a few "must have" add-ons at a time. When I noticed my auto/no-target self cast wasn't working (no CastOptions), I loaded only that add-on. As soon as I reloaded my UI everything got very choppy. I love CastOptions so I went in and disabled just about all of my other Add-on's but I got the same results. Went back and disabled CastOptions and everything was okay.

I love this Mod, but I can't afford to use it if it's causing me this kind of lag. I also have my memory at the character selection screen at 90, so I should be giving more than enough memory. Also, I'm on an Apple Powerbook with a gig of ram.

[CamHart]

Hey does anyone know if this is updated for the new 1.11 patch?

[zespri]

The whole cosmos is updated for 1.11 patch.

[svartalfimposter]

Standalone Castoptions on Curse hasn't been touched in months, I guess that version will be fine. :)

ACK! New patch borked Castoptions! I can't cast aggressive spells anymore :(

[Fatherbob]

I love castoptions, I am trying to get the Smart Equip Buffing to work and I have it enabled "/co se" command and "/co b" to enable castoptions for some reason I just cant get it to work at all. Anyone else having this problem??? Any help would be very appreciated.

[Malkavia]

Renew is not being checked for when casting heals. It used to auto target the next person in line if the lowest health target had renew already on them. Also, the smart equipment buffing isn't working when the buffing item is clicked on from a toolbar.

Hopefully this is the right thread to log this info.

[Fatherbob]

Malkavia, so is there another way to have some type of smart equipment buffing? or did blizzard totally remove it now?

[Malkavia]

Not that I know of. I mean, currently if you right click on a item buff from your bags, it will auto apply it to your weapon. But don't know why it won't work if the item buffer is on a toolbar. Must be a blizzard nerf.

[Calis22]

Hi there. I use castoptions. I Think it is a good addon, but one thing is not realy good.
I`m a Mage with clear cast.
If i enable "Intelligentes Zaubern nach Rang" , in english it shoud be the option "Smart Rank Casting" and i have for example 100 Mana left AND a clear cast. Now i start to cast Frostbolt Rang 11. But Castoptions selects Rang 5 because this costs only 85 mana.

Do you see the Problem? Castoptions waste the clearcast by casting a lower rang.

So, is ist Possible to:
1. Add an option below of "Intelligentes Zaubern nach Rang" ("Smart Rank Casting") like "Ich bin Magier mit Arkane Konzentration" which will mean in english "I`m a Mage with clear cast"
2. If this option is enabeld, Cast option will check rigth before every cast with low mana if i have a clearcast (Buff). If i have one, it`ll cast even the highest rang as sellected. If not it will cast the next possible rang of this spell.
3. (maybe) If i spam frostbolt and it scales from rang 11 to 7, i get a clearcast while i`m casting the next low lvl frostbolt it interrupts the cast so that i can cast new and it uses the rang 11 for clear cast again? (like the addon Clearcaster has done it ... Link to clearcaster (http://www.curse-gaming.com/de/wow/addons-4299-1-clearcaster.html))
Do you think this ise possible?

P.s. sorry for my bad english ;) Hope you does anderstand what i wand to say ^^

[the_mikor]

okay so I use this addon all the time... and was in HEAVEN when there was a smart rank cast.... it saved me time when I was helping lower-level friends that I didn't have to go searching through the spell book to buff or heal them.

suddenly smart rank cast is gone.

And I've "patched" cosmos many many times.... but it's suddenly no longer there?

What happened to it?! I didn't realize just how dependent I was on it until it was gone!
and I want it back please :(

[Ripperjack]

R.I.P. Cast Options, 5th December 2006.

You will be sorely missed. :cry:

Having mods like this being wiped from the game has really put a damper on my enthusiasm for WoW. I think patch 2.0.1 will drive more people away, myself included, once they realise that beloved mods like this are to be dropped from the community.

[Td]

agree..
not leaving wow, but forgetting since that day all my healing classes chars and moving to rogue-hunter alts.

[Jaiyna]

I dearly want to see this mod working.. heck.. if I knew enough i'd update it. You can get it listed and active in game.. but its being blocked each time :( As a priest this made "spam Healing" in high damage situations doable. Without it, im back to click casting by what I can see by using the normal raid bars. :(

[Gryphon]

It can't be fixed for the most part. Blizzard blocked most of what this addon did.

[Jaiyna]

... and it figures there's no other mod that can just turn your target to the one most needing healing/taking current damage. I swear my eyes were crossing watching 20 people, 40 is gonna drive me insane! Heh... taking care of one group is ez.. eight /cry!

[Boccob]

Any idea what plugin would give me that point casting part of Castoptions or if it can atleast be rewritten for 2.0?

Just putting mouse over player x on raidframe is so much faster than selecting player x and then pushing the button.

[Hassius]

mouseover casting can be handled by macros.

/cast [target=mouseover] Greater Heal(Rank 4)

You can get the proper spell text by typing the first part, and then opening your spell book and shift clicking on the spell you want to macro. Now, add that macro to your bar somewhere and bind a key to it. Jjust mouse over your target and hit the key you have mapped. It will not change your target, it will just cast the spell on that target.

I'm going to see today if this works while hovering over the raid icons. If so, this also will be userful for decurseing!!!

Good luck with the 2.0 changes.

[Freyasdottir]

Please, please try to fix castoptions! There has to be something, anything that can be done. Don't let this great addon just die. I used it every-single time I played any heal or (de)buff class.

[Boccob]

mouseover casting can be handled by macros.

/cast [target=mouseover] Greater Heal(Rank 4)

You can get the proper spell text by typing the first part, and then opening your spell book and shift clicking on the spell you want to macro. Now, add that macro to your bar somewhere and bind a key to it. Jjust mouse over your target and hit the key you have mapped. It will not change your target, it will just cast the spell on that target.

I'm going to see today if this works while hovering over the raid icons. If so, this also will be userful for decurseing!!!

Good luck with the 2.0 changes.Seems to work on raid frames also.

Thanks for the macro.