World of Warcraft - Add-on Anchoring

Today we’re going to take a look at a feature that a lot of add-ons support called “Anchoring.” Anchoring is the ability to tie multiple user interface frames together to form a single cohesive frame that will move together. What this provides you is the ability to move one single frame and have other frames stay in the same position relative to the “anchor” frame.

Building an Auto-Dismount WeakAura

A guildie of mine, named Druid, who ironically plays a Demon Hunter, suggested that I build a WeakAura that dismounts you whenever you speak to the Flight Master.

This obviously sounds strange, but it’s actually a great suggestion. The reason is that there is currently a bug in the game where some classes, Demon Hunter’s especially, will get disconnected if we take flight path’s while we are mounted. It’s extremely frustrating and the WeakAura that we’re going to build should help reduce the amount of times we get disconnected.

Painsmith Raznal: Spiked Ball Marker

Recently our guild has been progressing on Heroic Painsmith Raznal; which is fine and well. But this isn’t a post on the specifics of that fight.

There is a specific ability in the fight called Spiked Balls, where Raznal will summon a wall of Spiked Balls. The goal of this mechanic is to have the DPS focus down a single ball to break a “hole” in the wall for everyone to go through. it’s a fairly straight forward mechanic.