MFClip - Mind Flay clipping warner

MFClip warns about unintentional Mind Flay clips (clipping shortly before next Mind Flay tick). MFClip warns by playing a configurable Sound and/or displaying Mind Flay damage data via common combat text addons (currently supported: SCT/MSBT/Parrot/Blizzard Floating Combat Text).

General Idea

Clipping Mind Flay shortly after the second tick to cast Mind Blast/DP/VT increases your damage output. Unintentional clips shortly before a tick decrease your damage output, including the third and final tick. MFClip's goal is to help you to learn when to cast while channeling Mind Flay and to ensure you are doing it right. As a side note, zero unintentional clips (to much idle time between tick and new cast) decrease your dps as well as regular unintentional clips do, playing somewhat aggressive helps your dps. Also, it is recommended to filter out Mind Flay with your combat text (if available) and use MFClip combat text output (if available for your combat text addon). If you are using [nochanneling] macros there is no need to use MFClip ([nochanneling] leads to less dps).

Installing a cast bar addon (like Quartz) with a customized cast bar skin that shows when Mind Flay ticks is strongly recommended. If you are using Quartz you should also try out Quartz_LatencyMF2.

From Version 1.0 onwards MFClip features its own Castbar. This is integrated into MFClip's LiveBars. LiveBars consist of a castbar with latency support für Mind Flay & Mind Sear ticks, a cooldown bar for Mind Blast and dot timers for VT, DP, SW:P. Those bars also display efficiency data for casting/dot uptime/cooldown usage and show the DPS of the different damage sources.

Video: MFClip v1.0 Intro Video

Basic introduction video showing MFClip's basic features and the newly revamped LiveBars.

Video: casting & statistic output

Video showing MFClip's statistics output (v0.6+). Audio featuring the typical MFClip clipping sound. Addons: MSBT, Quartz+Quartz_LatencyMF2 and a single Macaroon bar. See Video: Live Bars for bars displaying statistics during combat.

Video: Live Bars

Video showing MFClip's Live Bars (v0.7+). Deprecated with v1.0.

Slash Commands

The slash command for MFClip is /mfclip.

/mfclip enable

enables/disables MFClip

/mfclip config

calls configuration gui (using Blizzards addon config interface)

/mfclip configlb

calls configuration gui for LiveBars (using Blizzards addon config interface)

/mfclip reset

resets configuration data

Configuration Options (GUI)

Main tab

Enable Addon

enable/disable MFClip

Show combat data

toggles showing Mind Flay damage, casting and clipping statistics at the end of the current fight (30s fights minimum)

Clipping warning [ms]

if the caster clips Mind Flay the given time (in ms) before a tick should occur an unintentional clip is recorded (lag dependent, play around with that setting)

Wait for Combat Log [ms]

time (in ms) MFClip waits for combat log data after the Mind Flay tick should have occured (lag dependent, play around with that setting); after given time has elapsed without a tick Mind Flay cast data is generated and output if selected

Auto Adjust Wait for Combat Log

adjusts wait for combat log on high haste situations

Play Sound

play sound (Sound File) when unintentional clip is recorded

Generate Combat Text

generate combat text output for selected combat text (Select Combat Text), combines Mind Flay ticks into Mind Flay cast, also showing unintentional clips

LiveBars tab

Out of/In combat config

LiveBars configuration string executed when leaving/entering combat. Following commands are accepted.

• on/off
  • enables/disables LiveBars
• hidecb/showcb
  • hides/shows castbar while not casting
• cast/mb/vt/dp/swp
  • creates castbar/MB cooldown bar/dottimer; command order gives order how LiveBars will be shown from top to bottom

Localization

Configuration in english only, but works for all languages.