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Old 03/28/07, 5:54 AM   #1
Daboran
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Buff watching mod

Does anyone have recommendations for an addon to watch and cast party/raid buffs?

A pet peeve of mine is starting an encounter with an odd person who hasn't got PWF/MotW/AI etc. I'm using Grid and rather than add even more information to it I'd like a standalone mod to tell me who in the party/raid hasnt got any particular buff.

For example the old version of RDX used to have a small window with the name of every player without a particular buff and you only needed to click their name in the window to cast the buff on them.

As I'm using primarily Ace addons I tried BuffMe, but it seems either not fully developed or bugged in the version I have. Players don't get added to the window, not even myself if I click off MotW. I also tried Cork_Fu but I dont really like it on FuBar and it doesnt give an "at a glance" overview of buff status in a raid.

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Old 03/28/07, 6:25 AM   #2
aya
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I was testing out Cryect's BigBrother mod (Big Brother is watching you) just yesterday, and found it rather handy for monitoring who has which buff. Helped coordinating blessings on people.

It doesn't have timers for the mods (or atleast I wasn't able to find them), but as a tool for buffing up before pulls, it performed marvelously.

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Old 03/28/07, 6:36 AM   #3
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Yeh, I've been looking at that, but I'd prefer a window I can have open all the time that auto-populates as people lose/gain the buff and that I can just click the player to select/buff them.

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Old 03/28/07, 7:04 AM   #4
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I use XRS (XRaidStatus) for buff monitoring; it won't let you specifically buff someone who's missing a buff, but it does give you buff icons telling you who's missing a given buff, and if you click on the icon it automatically picks one person who's missing the buff and buffs them.

It does autoupdate as people gain/lose the buff, and also works as a raid/class health/mana/alive/etc. monitor, if that functionality is useful to you.

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Old 03/28/07, 9:41 AM   #5
Teenee
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XRS lost the ability to target individual people with the 2.0 changes. I'm really wondering why. Spamming the "AI" button is essentially the same. But before, you could review the list of people with no AB and no AI, and then make a specific choice in casting say AB, instead of 3 AIs. Now when casting AB, it just picks a seemingly random person in one of the groups missing AB.

A sad loss. Also with stuff like Amplify Magic, which is ... occasionally used on tanks. Previously you could have an AM button, and you could set it to list all druids/paladins/warriors, and then just go over the list, and click the actual tanks. That won't work anymore either.

I don't need it to work in-combat, but surely this ability would be possible OOC? Something to do with "secure" unit plates I guess. *sigh*

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Old 03/28/07, 10:05 AM   #6
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I'd like to point out RABuffs, which has a multitude of buffs that can be shown (e.g. protection potions, Onyxia Cloak, ...).
The display is a bit plain, but I really got used to it.
You can also mash a buff bar to buff your party/raid with single/party buffs.
As all addons it cannot change targets dynamically while in combat, but it does not bail out either.

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Old 03/28/07, 10:45 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Teenee View Post
XRS lost the ability to target individual people with the 2.0 changes. I'm really wondering why. Spamming the "AI" button is essentially the same. But before, you could review the list of people with no AB and no AI, and then make a specific choice in casting say AB, instead of 3 AIs. Now when casting AB, it just picks a seemingly random person in one of the groups missing AB.

A sad loss. Also with stuff like Amplify Magic, which is ... occasionally used on tanks. Previously you could have an AM button, and you could set it to list all druids/paladins/warriors, and then just go over the list, and click the actual tanks. That won't work anymore either.

I don't need it to work in-combat, but surely this ability would be possible OOC? Something to do with "secure" unit plates I guess. *sigh*
There's no reason it couldn't work out of combat, but it'd make the code significantly more complex, so the author probably either doesn't want to do it or just hasn't done it yet.

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Old 03/28/07, 11:41 AM   #8
Teenee
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Aye, I can fully understand. It was just such a nice touch, and I miss it

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Old 03/28/07, 3:19 PM   #9
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I believe, but am not certain, that PerfectRaid has the ability to show who has what buffs. I think it's actually who DOESN'T have certain buffs, but I believe you can edit what it checks for a such.

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Old 03/29/07, 4:49 AM   #10
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I use smartbuff.

It lets you buff people outside combat by scrolling your mousewheel, you can also setup when to use groupbuffs or single buffs.

It doesnt let you monitor other buffs though I use Crytecs mod for that.

Last edited by Durza : 03/29/07 at 4:50 AM. Reason: missing info

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Old 04/02/07, 12:11 PM   #11
Ana
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I also use rabuffs. As the healer leader it lets me monitor all the buffs I want and you can ctrl+click on the buff bar to broadcast missing or soon to be expired buffs into a set channel. This removes the need for me to "nag" people about buffs. It's pretty much at a glance buff monitoring, easy click cast buffs, and auto-nagging all in one mod.

It is customizable as well since you can monitor things like raid health, mana, pvp status, combat rez's etc in addition to buffs. What I also like about it, is that you can shift and mouse over mana for example and it shows you a list of people and their mana percentages. Or do it over health and see who is dead. For people worried about memory usage, you can set the refresh rate so it's not looking for updates too frequently.

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