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Absolute Combos.
Your rotation, front and center. One row of slots, docked between your player and target frames in Absolute View, lights up your next press and the key it's on, glows on procs and follows your talents, while the Rotation and Guide tabs teach your spec. It never presses anything for you, so you keep full speed.
Version 1.0.10 · one file for both WoW Forever and Retail. Also built into Absolute View.
See it in game
Your next press, front and center
Click any screenshot to see it full size.
Features
What Absolute Combos does
Your next press
- The spell the game wants next pops with an orange edge
- Its key shows as an orange number, so you learn where it lives on your keyboard
Procs you can't miss
- A slot glows gold when its spell procs or turns instant
- Cooldown sweeps and charges on every slot
Real spells, full speed
- Click a slot or press its key: it casts the real spell
- No 25% slower global cooldown, unlike the Single-Button Assistant (which sits in slot 1 if you want it)
Follows your talents
- Slots fill from your spec, talents and hero tree
- Docked, the row holds as many slots as fit between your frames; the floating bar adds a row
Make it yours
- Reorder, hide or drag in spells, saved per spec
- Docked in Absolute View’s unit frames, or a floating bar with its own size, rows and scale. Every effect on or off
Learn your rotation
- After each fight: how many of your presses matched the suggestion
- A Guide tab with tips for your spec and how to set up your keys
One download
- One package for WoW Forever and Retail
- Built into Absolute View, or on its own
Learn
Set up your keys and learn your rotation
Everything here is also in the addon’s Guide tab: type /acombos guide in game.
How to read the bar
- Orange edge and an orange number: press this next. The number is the key it’s on (on the bigger floating bar it’s a big orange letter).
- Gold glow: a proc. That spell is empowered or instant right now, so press it soon.
- Slot 1 with the blue edge: Blizzard’s Single-Button Assistant. One key plays the whole rotation for you, with a 25% slower global cooldown. Turn it off in Layout if you want to learn the real spells.
- A buff lit up out of combat (Skyfury, Lightning Shield, a weapon imbue): the game asks for buffs you’re missing before a fight. Cast it and the bar moves on.
- Dimmed: you can’t cast it yet. Blue: not enough mana.
Set up your keys
Open Keybindings
Press
Esc, open Options, then Keybindings.Use Quick Keybind Mode
Click Quick Keybind Mode, point at a button on your action bar and press the key you want for it. Press
Escwhen you’re done.Keys under your fingers
Put the spells you press most on
1to5, thenQ,E,RandF. Shift versions of those keys are good for cooldowns.Put every spell on a bar
Absolute Combos reads your keys from your action bars. A spell that isn’t on any bar shows no key, so drag it from your spellbook onto a bar first.
Set up your rotation
- It sets itself up. The slots fill from your spec, talents and hero tree, and change when they do.
- Your order: open
/acombos, go to Spells and use the arrows. Put your most-pressed spells first. - Hide what you don’t use: uncheck Show, or Alt + right-click a slot.
- Add a spell: drag it from your spellbook onto the bar.
- More room: docked, the row holds as many slots as fit between your player and target frames, so put the spells you use most first. On the floating bar, set rows and buttons per row in Layout, or keep Grow with my talents on.
- Check yourself: after a fight, the Rotation tab shows how many of your presses matched the suggestion, spell by spell. Aim for 80% and up.
Tips for Enhancement Shaman
- Before you pull: Lightning Shield, both weapon imbues and Skyfury.
- One target: keep Lava Lash rolling, spend 10 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon on Lightning Bolt (Tempest with Stormbringer), and fill with Crash Lightning, Stormstrike and Voltaic Blaze.
- Big moments: Surging Totem (Totemic) or Ascendance, then Doom Winds, Sundering and Primordial Storm at 10 stacks.
- Three or more targets: Crash Lightning first, Lava Lash whenever Hot Hand is up, and Chain Lightning instead of Lightning Bolt.
- Keys: Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Crash Lightning, Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning on 1 to 5.
More specs are on the way. Until then the Guide tab gives every spec a tip for its role.
Tips for every role
- Melee: build, then spend before you cap. Short cooldowns go out the moment they’re ready. Stay behind your target, and lead with your area attack on three or more enemies.
- Casters: keep casting. Keep damage-over-time effects rolling and save instants and procs for when you have to move.
- Tanks: active mitigation up before big hits, defensives early rather than late.
- Healers: the bar suggests your damage rotation. Heal first, then fill spare global cooldowns with the orange key.
Where the suggestions come from
The orange key and the spells on the bar come from Blizzard’s Assisted Combat, the system built into the game behind the Single-Button Assistant. It follows your spec, talents and hero tree. Spell text comes from the game’s own tooltips. The tips on this page and in the Guide tab are written by Absolute Gaming and checked against the public class guides on Wowhead and Icy Veins. On WoW Forever, which has no Assisted Combat, the bar shows the spells on your main bar and two bottom bars, and the orange key lights the first spell in your order (Spells tab) that is ready and in range of your target, with procs first.
Install
Up and running in a minute
Download the addon
AbsoluteCombos-1.0.10.zip works on both WoW Forever and Retail. It’s also on CurseForge.
Unzip it into AddOns
Extract it into that game’s
Interface\AddOnsfolder, so you end up with anAbsoluteCombosfolder there.Start the game
Or type
/reloadif it is already running.Open it
With Absolute View’s unit frames the bar docks between your player and target frames; without them it floats on screen. Type
/acombos, right-click a slot or use the addon compartment for settings. Updating? Replace the old folder; your settings are kept.
Commands
/acombos | Open or close the settings (also /combos) |
/acombos lock | Lock or unlock the bar |
/acombos reset | Put the bar back on your player frame |
/acombos rebuild | Reload your spells |
/acombos rotation | Open the Rotation tab and your last fight report |
/acombos guide | Open the Guide tab: how to use it, keybind help and tips for your spec |
/acombos about | Open the About tab |
/acombos help | List the commands |
What’s new in 1.0.10
- Layout tab fixed: the docked note no longer runs into the first checkbox.
- About tab updated for the docked row. On WoW Forever it explains that the orange number follows your order on the Spells tab.
Recently, in 1.0.7 to 1.0.9:
- Spell tooltips are off by default. Turn them on in Settings > Layout > Spell tooltips on hover.
- Docked between your player and target frames. One row of slots the size of your buffs, centered in the space between the two frames, level with their health bars. It stays centered when you move either frame.
- A big ABSOLUTE COMBOS title over the row: glowing gold capitals on a filled red box, easy to read.
- A white bold number on every slot: the key it’s on. The next press pops with an orange edge and its number turns orange.
Found a bug in Absolute Combos? Send us a report with screenshots. Every report is reviewed, and fixes ship in the next update.
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