X-perl kinda tells you what spells you can steal as the spell will be "glowing" under the bosses portraits. But not all "glowing" spells are stealable like Ice Block or Bubble.
magenuggets
You can use Power Auras for this.
magenuggets
^^
That's what I use too. A neat, small little box will appear when you target someone that has a stealable buff and lists all the stealable buffs available.
The default interface target frame shows stealable buffs at the bottom of the list highlighted in yellow. But if you're using some crazy UI addon, I would reccomend magenuggets.
Yeah i use Magenuggets for that too
I could be mistaken about this but I think the addons people suggested (xperl, magenuggets, powerauras) will only inform you if your current target (or your focus) has something you can spellsteal, whereas DBM is capable of telling you if any mob has something you can snatch (because it can see mobs other players have selected and their DBM can tell your DBM about it).
I hear there's this thing called paying attention...
Attention =/= pay attention.
Default UI
magenuggets
Is what the majority of mages I know use. Small light weight and very powerful. It can also have seperate proc alerts for a variety of mage spells. Plus adds the Spellsteal monitor window so anytime something you are targeting has a spellstealable buff on them it will pop up and tell you. Very handy indeed. Has won me several spell stolen innervates on Deathwshisper from mind controlled druids.
Spell Stealer
Simply put, this addon creates a movable frame listing
any and all buffs that you can steal from your current target.
If the target has no stealable buffs, the frame stays hidden.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info15720-SpellStealer.html
SpellStealer is what I use, MageFever had an awesome on screen button that you could place anywhere and use click it with your mouse but they have not updated it in forever and it finally broke on me when 4.0 popped. Another addon that I find a must for any caster class, is Quartz. Spell cast time that takes your Latency in to the equation.
Paying attention trumps all of this, as you can do so on 2 targets (your kill target, and your focus target, duh). It ain't hard to see on your target if they have any buffs since they show up on a separate row from debuffs on that target. Real players don't need add-ons to rely on, for ANYTHING.
Only part I don't like about Spellsteal/Decurse atm is that you could continually be spamming those buttons on a target now and even if they don't have anything to dispel, you'll still keep casting the dispel. Pre-4.0, you'd get a red line saying "Nothing to steal/remove".
Any chance we could get that line back if we've spellstolen somebody dry? I can deal without it since I'm 1 of the few players in the game that isn't afflicted by tunnel-vision, facerolling syndrome, and actually can see and pay attention to EVERYTHING.
where can i download "paying attention"?
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