This addon wraps blizzard api functions to add information about internal cooldowns to many proc based items. This allows it to display a cooldown for the item while maintaining good functionality with most UI mods.
This addon supports item based procs and set based procs as well as meta gems and enchants. Gems and enchants must be entered manually as detailed in the install guide.
Hidden Cooldown will not work with every proc based item in the game by default. Some do not follow the item description template that I use to determine which buffs to watch for. It is possible to add items manually. To do that edit hiddencooldown.lua within the wtf character folder.
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- Oct 11, 2007
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- Nov 30, 2011
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- R: Version 1.8 for 4.3 Nov 30, 2011
- R: Version 1.8 for 4.2 Sep 20, 2011
- R: Version 1.7 for 3.3.5 May 26, 2010
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- R: Version 1.6 for 2.4.0 Apr 19, 2008
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mseverns May 26, 2010 at 15:42 UTC - 0 likesHidden cooldown was the first mod for tracking internal or hidden cooldowns on proc based items. Ninja Duck and Internal Cooldowns were created after. Internal Cooldowns and Ninja Duck both rely on data entered into a file by a user for determining what the cooldown should be, if an item can produce a buff and what the buff is. Hidden Cooldown learns the information from observing the game world.
When you equip and item that may have a cooldown Hidden Cooldown begins monitoring for buffs which match the description on the item. Once it finds one it attempts to figure out what the cooldown on the item is. This usually only takes one sustained bout of dps or healing.
This allows Hidden Cooldown to find the proper Cooldown without relying on information pulled from websites or parses. This also allows Hidden Cooldown to work with items that are new to the game or not sufficiently studied.
Another major difference between Hidden Cooldown and Internal Cooldowns is that Hidden Cooldown does not rely on any libraries. This allows Hidden Cooldown to clock in at 7kb, while Internal Cooldowns is 130kb.
Internal Cooldowns has advantages in its processor usage as it does not need to do the string parsing that Hidden Cooldown relies on for learning buffs. And it can also be easier to use for items which do not follow standard practices for item buffs. Hidden Cooldown is more efficient in ram usage instead. Functionally there is very little difference between these mods.
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Dajova May 26, 2010 at 04:17 UTC - 0 likesHow's this any different from http://www.wowace.com/addons/internal-cooldowns/?
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