HoTForecast

A WoW Forever addon that shows how much your HoTs will still heal, right on your raid and party frames.

After the usual incoming-heal bar it draws:

• the next tick, a brighter segment
• the rest of the HoT, a fainter segment after it

When a tick lands, the health rises into the bright segment, the chunk that was healed flashes, and the next tick starts from the new edge.

Druids with the Bloom talent get its heal (100% of your Spirit) added to the last tick of Rejuvenation and Regrowth.

Works with EllesmereUI (raid and party frames, their pet frames, and the player, target, target of target, focus, focus target and pet frames) and with WebbyFrames (the same unit frames, its party frames and pet minis, and the raid-style party and pet tiles).

Pet frames have no incoming-heal bar of their own in either addon, so HoTForecast draws one there (green, before the HoT bars). You need at least one of the two.

Settings

/hotf, the minimap button, or Options > AddOns > HoTForecast opens the settings window:

• turn the forecast, the tick flash and sending your HoTs to the group on or off
• show HoTs from everyone, or only you
• bar colour, and the opacity of the next tick and the rest of the HoT
• Show on: which frames get the bars (party and raid, player, target, target of target, focus, focus target, pets)
• direct heals on pet frames
• the minimap button
• Test bars, to preview on every frame, and Reset all

Which HoTs

Any class's HoTs. HoTForecast reads your spell descriptions ("Heals the target for 298 over 15 sec"), so it follows your gear and spell power without a spell list. Bandages, food and damage-over-time spells are skipped. Party-wide heals with no single target, like Tranquility, aren't tracked.

Other healers

Every HoTForecast user shares their HoTs with the group over addon messages, so you see the HoTs of other healers who run it too. Healers without the addon don't show. On WoW Forever, addons can't read other players' buffs during combat.

Limits

• In combat the game hides buffs from addons, so HoTs are timed from the cast. A HoT dispelled in combat keeps showing until it would have run out or the fight ends.
• The forecast counts whole ticks at the listed amount. Overhealing is cut off at full health.

Commands

/hotf (or /hotforecast) on its own opens the settings. The settings can also be changed from chat:

Command	What it does
/hotf on / off / toggle	Show or hide the bars
/hotf alpha 0-100	Opacity of the rest-of-HoT bar (default 35)
/hotf tickalpha 0-100	Opacity of the next-tick bar (default 65)
/hotf color r g b	Bar colour, 0-1 or 0-255
/hotf flash on / off	The flash when a tick lands
/hotf share on / off	Send your HoTs to the group
/hotf show mine / all	Show only your HoTs, or other HoTForecast users' too
/hotf test	Preview bars and the flash on every frame
/hotf debug	Attached frames, active HoTs, recognised HoT spells, sharing counters
/hotf trace / trace clear	Record tick timing to the saved variables, for bug reports

Settings are saved per character.