Magmaw (how to count boss abilities used during fight)

[snow coral]

I'm new to creating my own weakauras, and I have looked on github and wago.io for something I could modify but no luck. I'm looking for a weakaura that tracks the number of lava spews Magmaw casts in BWD. Tried setting up a trigger of "other events, spell cast succeeded, caster unit = boss, spell ID = 77690" but then I get stuck on how to actually create the icon and count.

Goal: Have an easy tool to share with healer group so they know what CD's to use on which lava spew.

[iron helm]

Does dBm/bigwigs have a counter?

[snow coral]

I have found DBM's cd tracker, but it just gives you a countdown until the boss starts casting. Nothing that I have found that counts or would tell me "this is the 4th time the boss has cast lava spew"

I didn't check BigWigs because I haven't used it, but checking now. BW doesn't not have sufficient detail to track the number of casts, just IF the boss will be casting.

[warm orchid]

I thought within the options of the boss ability there's a section where you can count the number of the spell. Have you looked specifically at the ability in BW?

[snow coral]

I have, but I will look again!

[snow coral]

are there more advanced options I just dont know about?

[warm orchid]

probably not, a lot of times in retail when an ability matters for X number of casts it'd have the count available in the options.

since it doesn't you're going to want to go the custom trigger route where you load on boss encounter id and you keep track of a count variable and increment it everytime the combat event for boss cast happens. You can probably get away with it just being the cast without checking the unitid provided there's no adds during the fight that cast the same spell. Then in the display you'd select the custom text you return from the count in your trigger. You'd want to use a CLEU for this .. at least that's probably how I'd go about it. Just track the spell cast and increment a count returning it