SpellQueue Tracker
Every caster knows the feeling: a boss fight ends, you check the meters, and something is off. Your damage or healing should be higher. The culprit is often a tiny gap between casts, a moment where nothing was queued and a global cooldown slipped away. SpellQueue Tracker exists to make those gaps visible, audible, and fixable. Also known as QueueMiss, this lightweight addon watches your casts and plays a sound whenever a cast finishes and no follow-up spell was queued or started in time.
If you have ever wondered why your rotation feels slightly loose, this is the tool that answers the question in real time, without spreadsheets or log analysis.
How SpellQueue Tracker Detects Wasted GCDs
The logic behind SpellQueue Tracker is simple but effective. When a cast with a cast time, or a channel, ends, the addon waits for the global cooldown to finish plus a small tolerance window. If you have not started another spell by then, you hear the alert. Spells you queue inside the spell queue window cancel the check automatically, so a properly queued spell never triggers a false alert.
The addon is also latency-aware. Your network latency is added to the tolerance, so a spell that was queued in time but confirmed late by the server does not count as a miss. That detail matters for players on high-ping realms or unstable connections.
Features That Help You Tighten Your Rotation
- Miss alert sound: instant audio feedback the moment a gap happens.
- End-of-combat recap: a chat summary showing how many misses occurred out of how many casts, when they happened, after which spell, and how long each gap lasted.
- Sound picker: choose from built-in game sounds, your own custom miss.ogg file, or any sound from your LibSharedMedia library, with preview before selecting.
- Fully configurable values: tolerance after the GCD, automatic or manual latency handling, combat-only checking, hostile target requirement, instant spell tracking, recap length, and audio channel.
- Spell include and exclude lists: exclude procs, trinkets, or any spell causing false alerts, or force a spell to always count as a cast. The panel shows your most recently cast spells so you can add them with one click.
- Smart defaults: only real casts that trigger the GCD are tracked, and Auto Shot and Auto Attack are always ignored.
For players who want a faster setup, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path that places SpellQueue Tracker directly into your AddOns folder, and its catalog keeps the addon updated automatically as new versions appear.
Supported Game Versions and Addon Compatibility
SpellQueue Tracker for World of Warcraft is built to work across the major game versions players still enjoy today. Whether you raid on Retail, level through Classic, or revisit The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, or Mists of Pandaria, the addon adapts to the spell queue behavior of each client. That means the tolerance logic, latency handling, and GCD tracking all behave correctly no matter which era you play.
Interface and Slash Commands
Type /qm to open the options panel, also reachable through Settings, AddOns, QueueMiss. The panel has three tabs: Sound, Values, and Spells. Useful commands include:
- /qm grace 0.25 sets the tolerance after the GCD in seconds.
- /qm recap shows the recap of the last combat.
- /qm ignore <id or name> excludes a spell from the check.
- /qm include <id or name> always counts a spell as a cast.
- /qm list displays your current spell rules.
How to Install and Tune SpellQueue Tracker
To download SpellQueue Tracker manually, extract the QueueMiss folder into World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/ and restart the game. If you get false alerts, raise the tolerance slightly, for example to 0.30 or 0.35 seconds. Recap gaps of only 0.3 to 0.5 seconds are usually false alarms, while gaps of a second or more are real misses worth fixing. To use your own alert sound, drop a file named miss.ogg into the addon folder and select it in the Sound tab.
SpellQueue Tracker turns an invisible problem into clear, actionable feedback. Once you hear the alert and see the recap, tightening your rotation becomes a matter of practice rather than guesswork, and those lost global cooldowns start disappearing from your logs.