Authors CurseForge

I hope this is a simple request. I'd like a addon to track the Necrotic Plague on Lich King for the achievement. You need 30 or more stacks of it to get it. Maybe as soon as 30 stacks are achieved, send out a raid warning, or clearly visible message in the middle of the screen? Or, if there is already a addon for this, I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction to it.

you could just let the tank yell when the lk has his 30 stacks.

It's not the Lich King's buff stacks that need to be tracked but the Necrotic Plague itself that jumps around the adds and kills them.

Plague Siphon is what Lich King gains whenever Necrotic Plague jumps.

While it might seem simple that whenever Necrotic Plague jumps, Plague Siphon stacks too, the stack size on Lich King's buff doesn't tell how many stacks Necrotic Plague has. For instance, the Plague might disappear if the adds died too quickly and it didn't have any close units to jump to OR separate smaller stacks of the plague can combine into one larger stack.

So, you need to track Necrotic Plague stacks, and when the stacks go high, it jumps around pretty quickly and might be quite hard to keep track off. Thus, something that could track the stacks from combat log for example could be nice. There (apparently) also might be a bug that if the stack goes from 29 to 31 (skips 30), the achievement might not trigger. Don't know if it's fixed yet.

Maybe you could make a suggestion to the author of RaidAchievement.

Quote from Snargul

It's not the Lich King's buff stacks that need to be tracked but the Necrotic Plague itself that jumps around the adds and kills them.

Plague Siphon is what Lich King gains whenever Necrotic Plague jumps.

While it might seem simple that whenever Necrotic Plague jumps, Plague Siphon stacks too, the stack size on Lich King's buff doesn't tell how many stacks Necrotic Plague has. For instance, the Plague might disappear if the adds died too quickly and it didn't have any close units to jump to OR separate smaller stacks of the plague can combine into one larger stack.

So, you need to track Necrotic Plague stacks, and when the stacks go high, it jumps around pretty quickly and might be quite hard to keep track off. Thus, something that could track the stacks from combat log for example could be nice. There (apparently) also might be a bug that if the stack goes from 29 to 31 (skips 30), the achievement might not trigger. Don't know if it's fixed yet.

Maybe you could make a suggestion to the author of RaidAchievement.

I suggested the idea to the author of RaidAchievement, but he says it isn't reported in the combatlog. I just responded and tried to tell him otherwise, but if he still doesn't think so, would anyone be willing to give this project a shot?

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I suggested the idea to the author of RaidAchievement, but he says it isn't reported in the combatlog. I just responded and tried to tell him otherwise, but if he still doesn't think so, would anyone be willing to give this project a shot?

I think he's right though. I checked one WoL parse that was mentioned on wowhead and the parse only showed one "is afflicted by necrotic plague (31)". The person reported that the stack went from 29 to 31, so the "SPELL_AURA_APPLIED" event might only occur if the doesn't grow linearly. (I assume SPELL_AURA_APPLIED is the event that gives the "x afflicted by debuff (stack)" message, I don't know for sure).

[23:17:40.224] Drudge Ghoul afflicted by Necrotic Plague (31)

So I think the only way to track this via the combat log is both tracking that rare event (if you only drop one plague to the adds it won't show at all) and calculating the stacks based on the damage it does. First stack ticks 50k, 2nd 100k, 3rd 150k, ... 29=1.45M, 30=1.5M, etc. One could add a warning for stacks 26-32. (26 so that you know if you need to wait for a new add wave or if you can bring the LK down to 70% and the Plague will have enough adds to jump to). I'm not sure if Ebon Plaguebringer will increase the damage of Necrotic Plague as well.

Quote from Snargul

While it might seem simple that whenever Necrotic Plague jumps, Plague Siphon stacks too, the stack size on Lich King's buff doesn't tell how many stacks Necrotic Plague has. For instance, the Plague might disappear if the adds died too quickly and it didn't have any close units to jump to OR separate smaller stacks of the plague can combine into one larger stack.

So, you need to track Necrotic Plague stacks, and when the stacks go high, it jumps around pretty quickly and might be quite hard to keep track off.

Just have only one plague on all mobs.

When we did this on Tuesday we let the first plague vanish (decurse the one with it just out of camp).
Then gave the mobs the second one, to asure that enough mobs are present.

After that just decurse every plague until you're done and have the bored ranged DDs monitor the debuff... they got nothing better to do anyway...

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Just have only one plague on all mobs.

When we did this on Tuesday we let the first plague vanish (decurse the one with it just out of camp).
Then gave the mobs the second one, to asure that enough mobs are present.

After that just decurse every plague until you're done and have the bored ranged DDs monitor the debuff... they got nothing better to do anyway...

Ye we did this achievement before the first post in 10 man and a couple of days ago on 25 man but I'm one for making things simple if they can be. And every time you do the achievement you need to explain that it's not the stack on the boss that counts, which could be avoided with this addon. Well, unfortunately it can't be done in a nice way, but fortunately it's not something you really need.

Basically, just drop one plague on the mobs (be it 1st or 2nd or 3rd) and it should be enough. And as you said, bored dps can scan the targets and when the stack is at X and X+N(mobs+tank)>=30 you can switch phases. Just don't let your healers go afk along with the dps. :D