Arzoth

The Detailed Guide and How-To for Gravitas, ACT and Profit UI.
Everyone has their own way of going about setting up profit UI macros and what they say and how they say it. This is an example of mine:



I have found it easiest to establish macros with ACT when using Profit or any other macro system by creating a macro that is very very distinct for me and not very many other people use the << Target >> style of establishing who they are rezzing/gravitasing or whatever in my raid. If you just use %T... anytime someone calls your priest an asshole in guild chat, the timer will trigger... so use SOMETHING to differentiate your macro from the dumb "Hey Cupo" messages of guild/raid/group/say/shout/auction/70-79... It's just easier on the brain

So, now that you're in ACT, head to the Triggers/Sounds tab and figure out what you're going to use for the timer trigger of Gravitas being cast on your specific target. You may even want to make the Gravitas trigger something SO specific to your macro that NO ONE else's macros could come close to being confused with it. Mine, however is just:
.*<< PriestName >>

If you set yours up like mine, make sure you fill out the blank that says "Timer or Tab name" with the NAME of the actual TIMER you want... Notice Cupo is the name of the timer and on my spell timer window there is Cupo as the timer. Gabriellis, for example, was easier to just type as "Gab" for the Timer or Tab name and so on my Spell Timer Window, it's just "Gab" not Gabriellis. Just make sure they match.



On this page, you can see that I have a TTS (text to speech) of Microsoft Sam telling me whenever the Gravitas is about to run out on the Priest. Set the timer to 120 seconds (2 minute gravitas immunity) and set the warning timer to whatever you want. The warning timer will be the amount of time before the Immunity Timer wears off that Sam will tell you what's happening.

If you set the warning timer to 10 seconds, make sure Microsoft Sam tells you 10 seconds. If you set it to 5 second warning timer and you copy my style of Gravitas timer, you'll be 5 seconds late every time. Not a huge deal, I guess, but it's just one of those things.



So that's it in a nut shell. If you need some extra help or pointers you can feel free to send tells to
Kithicor.Arzoth
or just catch me in the WW dirge channel.

Note: I mis-spelled gravitas because Microsoft Sam doesn't know how to pronounce it without sounding retarded... that is all

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Kall

Stickied.

I've seen variants of questions this answers all the time so this thread should be quite useful.

Arzoth

Awesome, glad I could help.

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Ictinike

Damn nice work. Can be used in many aspects and classes. I do similar on my quick buffs and click-to-cure but I can see now I'll be doing more.

Thank you!

Leap

Sick, I haven't used ACT for anything like this before and I hate spamming my healers lol. This should be very useful.

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Arzoth

Glad you guys appreciate it.

And yeah Valgorn i use this functionality in about 25 different ways... I have ACT beep at me whenever our MT hits his incoming macro so I know to wake the fuck up and pay attention. I have ACT tell me when my CoB is back up and when the CoB is up for other dirges in my guild.

There's quite a few applications, it just takes messing with ACT to get it to work

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Lindar Phamoncry

Bad ass... so someone else has gone through this too... ACT is an awesome tool for things like this.

per this thread you can see I've been doing this for quite some time... but this guide couldnt explain it any better!

Good work!

frodex

If you guys don't use a customUI I've modified a raid window to have three clickies next to each persons name. Currently mine has Heal, Gravitas, and Confront Fear if anyone wants to have a copy of it.

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Cronoise

What do you do to keep track of actual AEs you joust or want to time? With all the radial timers from Gravitas, CoB etc. my timer window is quite overloaded.

Is there a way to restrict gravitas warnings to speech only?

I'm quite a noob concerning ACT :/

Lindar Phamoncry

I use ProfitUI and have the spell timer in the top left. That way it covers my xp bar, Maintained spells, and very occasionally my group window.

I dont believe you can make a timer and have it not show up in the timer window... not at home to check though.