Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker: See Every Kick at a Glance

Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker

Coordinating interrupts in a Mythic+ dungeon is the difference between a smooth run and a full wipe. When a deadly cast goes off because two DPS players hit the same kick, or a healer's interrupt is still on cooldown, the blame game starts. Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker for World of Warcraft puts an end to that guesswork by giving you a dedicated, real-time bar for every interrupt in your group. This addon is built from scratch for the Midnight expansion, where addons can no longer read the combat log or ask the game what another player's cooldowns are. Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker never asks. It watches for the cast and counts the time itself, using its own arithmetic to deliver a bar that fills the moment a kick is ready again.

What You Get With Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker

The core feature is simple: one bar per party member, displayed in their class colour, with the spell icon beside it and the seconds remaining inside it. You can see at a glance whether a Wind Shear is up or a Counter Shot is still ticking down.

Spec-Aware Cooldowns

Not all interrupts are created equal. A Restoration Shaman's Wind Shear is a 30-second cooldown, while an Enhancement Shaman's is only 12 seconds. Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker knows the difference. It applies the same logic across all classes, distinguishing between Muzzle and Counter Shot, Solar Beam and Skull Bash, and Axe Toss against Spell Lock. Specs with no interrupt never get a bar at all. Restoration Druids, Preservation Evokers, Mistweavers, Holy Paladins, and Holy and Discipline Priests all lost their interrupts in 12.0, and the addon knows not to show them.

Full Visual Customization

The bars can be oriented horizontally or vertically, growing up, down, left, or right. Vertical bars even turn their text a quarter turn so it still reads naturally. Every visual element is yours to arrange: anchor point, offsets, scale, bar width and height, icon size and side, spacing, font, outline, bar texture, and background darkness. Each setting comes with a slider, but you can also just type a number into the box for precise control. There are four colour modes to choose from. You can use the class colour, pick a single colour of your choosing, apply a gradient along each bar, or set a gradient that runs from one colour to another as the cooldown ticks away. This makes it easy to spot at a glance which kicks are ready and which are not.

Where It Shows and How to Configure It

By default, Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker appears in Mythic+ only. One tick in the options and it shows up in Normal, Heroic, and Mythic 0 as well. It stays out of the way everywhere else, so you won't be cluttered with bars during world quests or raids.

Talent Cooldown Reductions

Midnight does not let an addon read another player's talents. Six talents change an interrupt's cooldown: Coldthirst, Light of the Sun, Quick Witted, Honed Reflexes, Interwoven Threads, and Imposing Presence. You can tick these by hand in the options once you have inspected someone. Two of them only fire on a successful interrupt, and the options say so, because the addon can see the cast but not whether it landed.

Commands and Control

You can control everything with simple slash commands. Type /vit to open the options, /vit test to show sample bars for positioning, and /vit unlock or /vit lock to drag the window where you want it. There is also /vit verify to check every spell ID against your client, /vit debug to dump what the addon believes about your group, /vit resetall to restore defaults, and /vit about for version and credits.

Compatibility and Integration

Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker works across Retail, Classic, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm, and MoP versions of World of Warcraft. If you already run ElvUI, WeakAuras, Details, or SharedMedia, every font and bar texture they provide shows up in the dropdowns automatically. There is nothing extra to install or configure. Without them, you get the ones that ship with the game. For players looking to streamline their setup, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install for Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker for World of Warcraft, pulling the latest version directly from its addon catalog so you never have to hunt for files manually. The launcher also handles auto-updates, ensuring version compatibility with the latest game patches, which is especially useful when Midnight's frequent changes affect addon behavior.

Honest Limits

The game hides other players' cooldowns during a keystone, so the countdown is this addon's own arithmetic from the moment it sees the cast. It cannot know whether a kick actually landed, and it cannot read talents. Where it has to guess, it guesses long rather than short. A bar that fills late costs you an opportunity, but a bar that fills early sends someone for a kick that is not there.

Final Thoughts on Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker

If you want to know how to install it, the process is straightforward: download Vinnie's Interrupt Tracker from your preferred addon source, drop the folder into your Interface/AddOns directory, and launch the game. The options menu handles the rest. With its spec-aware cooldowns, deep customization, and honest approach to the limitations of the Midnight API, this is the definitive tool for anyone serious about coordinated interrupts in Mythic+. It keeps your group on the same page, one bar at a time.