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Old 06/08/07, 11:43 PM   #1
gilf
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Mod Wanted: Number of mobs targetting me.

Is there a mod out there that shows how many of the mobs within a certain range are targeting me?

I've looked around curse, etc, but only find mods like Perfect Targets which show how many raid members are targeting given mobs.

This mod would be mostly diagnostic. For example, I'm having trouble gaining aggro over our healing pallies on the Morogrim fight. I want to try different options and see which works better.

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Old 06/08/07, 11:47 PM   #2
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As discussed in other threads, there's no way for the combat log (and thus mods) to tell how many of a given target there are if any of them share the same name. As soon as there are 2 of something on the same pull, a mod like this would be inaccurate. Sadly this covers the majority of pulls in the game, so the best you can do is to determine whether or not you are the target of at least one mob.

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Old 06/09/07, 1:00 AM   #3
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Dur. Yeah. That's what I get for posting in the middle of raiding. Thanks.

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Old 06/09/07, 6:45 AM   #4
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Hm, BanzaiAlert seems to be able to warn you if someone targets you, even if you haven't targetted him itself.
I.e. even in PvP it will show you the alert if some enemy player has selected you.

I don't know if it depends on other players having the same library, but I suppose since it works even in AV, it's something other and it seems not to depend on the combat log (as in, he just targets you and doesn't perform any action that is showing up in the combat log).


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Old 06/09/07, 6:58 AM   #5
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The way it works is just scanning your raid for targets and then firing Ace2 events when the target status changes. Currently BanzaiLib supports 4 events: Banzai_UnitGainedAggro, Banzai_PlayerGainedAggro, Banzai_UnitLostAggro and Banzai_PlayerLostAggro, and has 2 API methods: GetUnitAggroByUnitId and GetUnitAggroByUnitName.
From the www.wowinterface.com description of BanzaiAlert. As you know you can see party targets with some unit frames (I believe PitBull does this). BanzaiAlert takes this a step further by checking whenever any target changes of any of the targets of your raid. If the new target is you and the targetting unit is an enemy, it triggers BanzaiAlert. Therefore if ANY of your raid members is targetting ANY of the mobs that you gain aggro on during fighting, the alert will show up.

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Old 06/09/07, 7:02 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by sp00n View Post
Hm, BanzaiAlert seems to be able to warn you if someone targets you, even if you haven't targetted him itself.
I.e. even in PvP it will show you the alert if some enemy player has selected you.

I don't know if it depends on other players having the same library, but I suppose since it works even in AV, it's something other and it seems not to depend on the combat log (as in, he just targets you and doesn't perform any action that is showing up in the combat log).
Haven't looked at that specific mod, but in general these things work by iterating over all your raid members' targets (which there are specific unitids for) and seeing if any of their targets are targeting you. So nothing to do with your combat log.

Sadly it's just not possible to do what the OP suggested due not only to naming overlap, but also to the complete lack of any functionality in the API to find any information about what mobs might or might not be nearby in general.

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Old 06/09/07, 9:36 AM   #7
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The closest thing to what you want is getting a tooltip mod with ToT in the tooltip (I can recommend tinytip). Just takes one sweep with your mouse to see +- how much of the murlocs have different targets.

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Old 06/09/07, 1:03 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by vorda View Post
The closest thing to what you want is getting a tooltip mod with ToT in the tooltip (I can recommend tinytip). Just takes one sweep with your mouse to see +- how much of the murlocs have different targets.
This is what I've been doing. Although we've been tanking the murlocs right by Morogrim, so with 10+ murlocs, melee dps, healing aggro pallies and murloc tanks all right in the same area, it's kind of hard to tell.

My guess is the need for this mod is necessitated by poor strategy, which shouldn't really be discussed here.

Thanks for the comments!

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