SpeakinSpell

SpeakinSpell is a nifty little addon I found a long time ago that I love. It started back before I found this one when there used to be an addon called WittyDruid... there's also WittyMage, but the druid version was what got me even more interested in playing with it. Witty Druid basically added speeches to your character whenever you shapeshifted into various forms or cast certain spells.

But after a long time, Witty Druid was no longer showing up in Curse.com, so I ended up without any speeches when I shapeshifted. But eventually I found SpeakinSpell. It took me a long time to learn how to use it well, but it's actually easy.

Here is the link -- http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/speakinspell

Special thanks go to the makers of this addon, Rismisner, Duerma, and Meneldil_Duskwood. It's an awesome addon and I hope it keeps getting updates. I wish I know how to make built in templates of my own sort of similar to the ones that already come with the addon itself.

Now initially I used it to add speeches to my shapeshifting abilities, but lately I've been applying it to other spells as well. For my hunter, when I cast Misdirection it says, "I swear it wasn't me! (target) is the one who insulted you in (randonfaction)!" and the target could be either my pet, or my focus target which is usually the tank in a dungeon group. I don't have it set to say it every time I cast the spell, but sometimes seeing it go off lets me know if the macro I have to set misdirection on a target is working properly... and it does, but sometimes my focus gets cleared and it goes back to setting the spell to my pet instead.

Another trick I've been doing is Mass Rez. Massive Resurrection is a spell that level 25 guilds have at their disposal and it'd very handy when your group wipes and you manages to survive it. Well, I've come up with a way to announce a mass rez when casting the spell via SpeakinSpell...

Here's how to do it. When you open your SnS addon, go to the create new menu and set it to find spells under the category "Spells, Abilties, And Items (Start Casting)". And in the search box you can type any spell name you like, and it should find it... You can even type just part of the word or a few letters, and it'll try to find any spells that contain those words or letters. Once you have found the spell you wish, select it from under the select and create drop list and hit the red button that says, "create speech event"...

Now you can go to the tab marked Message Settings, which is just above the Create New on the menu to the left... The teal text labels options in numerical order. Option 1: search. This lets you find the event you want to edit. You can do this by typing in the name of the event or spell, or using the drop menu to select certain categories for the spell in question. For example, lets say we created an even speech for "food" and it will proc when you start casting it? So we set the category to search for spells that you start casting...

Option #2 is labeled Select. This drop menu shows what spells are available for you under what category you've selected.

Then Option #3 is Edit. This is where the fun begins. First we have How Often? Under here we can set how often the addon will display speeches for the spell based on when you cast it... I have mine set to 20% so it won't have me say something every time I sit down to eat... I mean, what if I sit to eat, get interrupted somehow and try to sit down to eat again? So yeah, this limits how often your macro will deliver messages for your spells. For each individual spell you can set it's own chances to say something. 1% is very rarely, and 100% is every time you cast it, which is nice if you want to test it out for yourself to see how it looks.

Then we have the "Which Channel" Option of this menu. This allows you to select what channel you want to set your addon to announce the speeches in. One setting is set just to yourself via speak in spell so nobody else can read it - which is probably great for testing and alright for just your own amusement, but if you want other people to be able to read it, you have to change it.

These settings can be set for different circumstances. If you're by yourself, you can have it set to not say anything at all (silent) or /say -- if you're by yourself, you can't use /party chat or /raid chat, for the obvious reason. But if you're in a party or raid, you can still use /say or you can set the addon to announce the events in /party or /raid.

And then we come to the "What to say" feature. Here is where you're creativity comes in. And once you write your speeches, you can select an option to show read-only speeches below. More on the read-onlys in a bit. Let's make a speech!

You'll see the words "Random Speech 1" and below that is a text edit box. Type in anything you like thats appropriate for the spell and hit the accept button. And thats it. A new speech edit box will appear below it giving you the option to make another speech... you have have quite a lot, I don't remember how much, but I don't make that many anyway.

So for this example, lets say you created a start-casting speech for food, set it to announce the event with emotes (the /e where you can make custom emotes). Try typing, "sits down for a snack. Mmm!" Don't put in the quotation marks. And if you have it set to 100% then you'll see it proc right away.... Grab a fortune cookie or any other food item and click on it to eat it and the event should occur.

And there you have it! In your chat window you'll see that when I started eating my fortune cookie, as you can see when I got a fortune card from it, the event triggered. It displayed a custom emote as well as a /say speech. Int he edit box for your speeches, you can edit with multiple lines, just like in here I had to display two things at once, one being an emote, and the other a /say speech.

Last thing I wanna mention is an option you can select on your edit speeches menu. For whatever spell you are editing, you can select the speeches to be "read only" which means that they won't be easily edited or deleted. Sort of a child-safety precaution really. But it also saves space in your edit speeches screen so you can see what you have in your list. You can always uncheck the box so you can edit the speech or delete it later.

Here is a list of my resurrection macros in the SpeakinSpell menu. It's set to /say for solo, party, and raid settings. In speech 14 is a two liner. The first line is a regular /say speech, and right after that is the second line where it does a custom macro (/e) for that one event.

Lots of possibilities here. =)

Also in the above photo, look at the 11th speech... see how it has the word "target" in the brackets? That means that it will state the name of the target you have selected. So if your target is for example, John, then you addon might say, "Damnit John, I'm a doctor! Not a druid! ... Wait a second... Nevermind. Rezzing John."

The word "class" in the brackets will announce what class you are such a a priest, paladin, druid, etc. So even if you were to share this speech with an alt who has rezzing powers, then the addon will use whatever it has. If you use "race" it'll announce your race, such as human or orc. If you use "targetrace" it'll name the race of your target. Like say you're a gnome priest rezzing a dwarf hunter. and your addon is set to say, "It's not every day I stop to pry dead (targetrace) (targetclass)s off the ground.... but okay! Rezzing (target) now!" Then what it would really say is: "It's not every day I stop to pry dead Dwarf Hunters off the ground.... but okay! Rezzing Drunkeebeard now!" And it'll adjust this speech depending on your targets name, class and race automatically! AWESOME!

So what I've done is I made the mass resurrection spell to proc at 100% of the time, which shouldnt be too often really, but if people die and I have the chance to mass rez, it'll proc a message that's broadcast to the whole raid or party in raid or party chat respectively, and it'll not only give them something to laugh at, but will also let them know that I'm bringing them back to life.

And thats about it! I'll share some of my other speeches later. Meanwhile this last screenshot is of my speeches for the mass rez. I set them allt he read only so I could fit more into the screenshot, and also because I wasn't going to edit them anytime soon. Use them for yourself, or as inspiration to make your own. =) Enjoy!!!