Mage UI and Add-ons (READ THE FIRST POST) - Page 19

tanque · 08/16/09, 9:24 PM

Originally Posted by Orona

The Lua-Code postet before to check for debuffs on your target does not work correct. For Example, you cannot check for a buff named "Master Posioner" beacause it is a talent, similar to "Judgement of the Just". I corrected the script and made a second one to check also the buffs cast on you. Those scripts work also with the German Client. Using those scripts in Pitbull will give you the following result:

Buffs/Debuffs that are not active are shown in white. Active ones, like the 5% crit debuff in the screenshot, are greyed out. I chose this colouring because I am interested in the Buffs, that are not active.

Now some explanation what those letters represent:

Buffs:

M: Manaspring/Blessing of Wisdom
R: Replenishment
C: Concentration Aura (If you have only an unskilled Concentration Aura active, it will be slightly brighter than with imp. Conc.Aura)
H3%: 3% haste
D3%: 3% damage
C5%: 5% crit
Dmg: Flametounge Totem / Totem of Wrath / Demonic Pact (the brightness will tell you the quality of the buff, you currently have)

Debuffs:

TTW: Torment the weak
Dmg: 13% spelldmg
Hit: 3% Hit
W: Judgement of Wisdom
3%: 3% crit
5%: 5% crit

The Debuffs are only shown if your target is not a player and not friendly and if you are in a raid group.

The Buffs are only shown if you are in a raid group and in fight.

And finally the two scripts (As always you have alter the names of your pallys etc.):

This is some pretty amazing stuff. But has anyone noticed any performance issues using this lua script? I imagine pitbull will be running this routine each time unit_aura goes off.

harvest · 08/17/09, 6:33 PM

All of my info stuff (Omen, Recount, Grid, Decursive) are all to the left. I like to have my unitframes (Pitbull) and actionbars (Bartender) near the bottom, centered on the screen as such. I put my DoT and proc timers (Classtimer) there as well so they're obvious to me. About the strange size of the 3D profiles on the unitframes... I dunno, I just like how it looks. I use Buffalo for my buff frames, and SexyMap for my minimap. And of course the obligatory Quartz for my castbars. I used to use Parrot for my scrolling combat text but I found it just put a bunch of text all over my screen that I never read, and lowered my FPS, so I uninstalled it.

Other mods:

RantTooltip - Tooltip mod...
ButtonFacade - changes the texture of my actionbar and buff icons.
oPie - used to manage my portals
Prat - the ultimate chatbox mod
tekticles - simple mod that changes the default WoW font
Ghost: Pulse - shows a large, pulsing icon in the middle of my screen when an ability's cooldown is up
Hot Streak Sound - simple mod that just plays a certain sound when Hot Streak Procs

Wrendallyn · 08/24/09, 1:31 PM

Originally Posted by Randull

can any other addon give me MI timer (and WE too i suppose) other than scorchio? i have replaced all of its other functionality using SBF, and if there's another way to get this result i'll take it.

Have you tried using a built-in feature of your raid alert mod? I know BigWigs can do this; I'm not sure about DBM but a quick flit to their site has "option to create custom timers" listed as one of the features as well.

If a custom timer can be made as a slash command, you can simply turn your Mirror Image or WE button into a macro. My MI looks like this:

#showtooltip
/cast Mirror Image
/e multiplies!
/stopmacro [nogroup:raid]
/bw extras custombars local 30 MI Threat!

The /bw line creates a timer bar right up there with the other raid alert timer bars. It has the added bonus of enlarging, popping down to the bottom of your screen, turning bright red and flashing once it gets down to 10 seconds.

Tedronai · 08/24/09, 1:52 PM

Originally Posted by Randull

can any other addon give me MI timer (and WE too i suppose) other than scorchio? i have replaced all of its other functionality using SBF, and if there's another way to get this result i'll take it.

I use OmniCC to get an accurate cooldown time remaining displayed right over my cooldown buttons. There's an option which allows you to show the full time remaining on the cooldown (instead of just 3M, 2M, etc.). From there I can just eyeball my MI button and invis when it's around the 2:33 mark. Same principle with the Water Elemental, though dynamic based on whether it's glyphed and talented accordingly.

Dankz · 08/25/09, 6:33 AM

Back To LB Tracking. Has anyone tried using Alofts God tag support to show debuffs? I play around with it a big tonight be maintenance, but just got unknown tag errors. The functionally is there, could this be an easy solution to Multiple LB tracking?

duloth · 08/25/09, 7:22 AM

my macro for MI is similar to the one above (using DBM and thus showing how the custom timer is created)

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Mirror Image
/dbm timer 30 Mirror Images

i used the stopcasting because it happened that maintank died/lost threat while i was casting and this way you can interrupt it.

before i used the custom bar i had this

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Mirror Image
in 27 /w Duloth Mirror Images Fading

which was annyoing because it mess the autoreply chat feature... but did his job.

Sojik · 08/25/09, 9:36 AM

CloneTimer tracks just Mirror Image. It's featured in all my videos if you want to see what it can look like: YouTube - SojikSucks's Channel

Orona · 08/25/09, 4:55 PM

I wrote a small addon called LivingBombTracker that you guys might find usefull as well. Its goal is to make it easier to apply Living Bomb via a mouseover makro. It shows a small box next to your cursor, that shows the remaining duration of Living Bomb on your mouseover-target, as seen in this screenshot:

The left box is shown, if your target is affected by your Living Bomb (7.4 seconds remaining), the right box is shown, if you do not have LB on that target. This box is only shown when the unit is an enemy, not Level 1 (to avoid critters) and not dead and you are in combat.

The Addon uses 0.04% of my CPU-Time whenever the box is shown and 0.00% when it is hidden. It checks, whether you are a mage and have skilled LB (Dual Spec works). If you do not meet those requirements the addon will do nothing.

If you are not using the English Client, you have to adjust the LBString in the first line of the file "core.lua" accordingly to your clients language.
If you want to adjust the offset of the box relativ to your cursor position you have to change the variables xoff and yoff in line 4 and 5. A reload is required.

You can download LivingBombTracker here LivingBombTracker : WoWInterface Downloads : Mage

EDIT: fixed an issue, which prevented the Addon to load correctly

Richelou · 08/28/09, 6:30 AM

Hi folks.

Rather daunting posting on EJ forums after spending the past couple of years reading. So, thanks for all the help and first post.

I've read some players preferences regarding the tracking of HS so thought I'd throw in some support for ForteXorcist which I've recently used to replace DoTimer. I found I couldn't get DoTimer to track multiple HS's without your current targets HS bar fading out. I believe I've read somewhere in these forums where a player has managed to do that so congratz there.

Being at work I don't have access to any screenshots so I'll give you a video link instead to a Faction Champions kill. Best one I could think of to demonstrate it. Excuse the running around, I tend to look like a headless chicken until I'm used to the kill

YouTube - Argent Coliseum: Faction Champions (High Definition) (incl. Commentary)

hypetech · 08/29/09, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Richelou

Hi folks.

Rather daunting posting on EJ forums after spending the past couple of years reading. So, thanks for all the help and first post.

I've read some players preferences regarding the tracking of HS so thought I'd throw in some support for ForteXorcist which I've recently used to replace DoTimer. I found I couldn't get DoTimer to track multiple HS's without your current targets HS bar fading out. I believe I've read somewhere in these forums where a player has managed to do that so congratz there.

Being at work I don't have access to any screenshots so I'll give you a video link instead to a Faction Champions kill. Best one I could think of to demonstrate it. Excuse the running around, I tend to look like a headless chicken until I'm used to the kill

YouTube - Argent Coliseum: Faction Champions (High Definition) (incl. Commentary)

Any chance you know what bar texture your Forte is using? I'd like to be able to use that texture with scorchio.

Korey · 08/29/09, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Orona

I wrote a small addon called LivingBombTracker that you guys might find usefull as well. Its goal is to make it easier to apply Living Bomb via a mouseover makro. It shows a small box next to your cursor, that shows the remaining duration of Living Bomb on your mouseover-target, as seen in this screenshot:

The left box is shown, if your target is affected by your Living Bomb (7.4 seconds remaining), the right box is shown, if you do not have LB on that target. This box is only shown when the unit is an enemy, not Level 1 (to avoid critters) and not dead and you are in combat.

The Addon uses 0.04% of my CPU-Time whenever the box is shown and 0.00% when it is hidden. It checks, whether you are a mage and have skilled LB (Dual Spec works). If you do not meet those requirements the addon will do nothing.

If you are not using the English Client, you have to adjust the LBString in the first line of the file "core.lua" accordingly to your clients language.
If you want to adjust the offset of the box relativ to your cursor position you have to change the variables xoff and yoff in line 4 and 5. A reload is required.

You can download LivingBombTracker here.

EDIT: fixed an issue, which prevented the Addon to load correctly

Thanks for sharing! I used it in a raid tonight and it works fine. It definitely makes the mouseover macro more manageable in large clumps of enemies than waving it around randomly hoping an LB will stick.

I did a little research, and the holy grail solution we're looking for - a nice list of clickable/mouseoverable frames of all enemies aggroed or nearby - isn't possible at the moment for the same reason why you can't click a scorchio or dotimer bar to target that specific enemy.

Richelou · 08/29/09, 1:28 PM

Any chance you know what bar texture your Forte is using? I'd like to be able to use that texture with scorchio.

Yep, sure thing. It would appear to be its default texture : Xus.tga

Auro · 08/29/09, 1:30 PM

Originally Posted by Orona

I wrote a small addon called LivingBombTracker that you guys might find usefull as well. Its goal is to make it easier to apply Living Bomb via a mouseover makro. It shows a small box next to your cursor, that shows the remaining duration of Living Bomb on your mouseover-target, as seen in this screenshot:

The left box is shown, if your target is affected by your Living Bomb (7.4 seconds remaining), the right box is shown, if you do not have LB on that target. This box is only shown when the unit is an enemy, not Level 1 (to avoid critters) and not dead and you are in combat.

The Addon uses 0.04% of my CPU-Time whenever the box is shown and 0.00% when it is hidden. It checks, whether you are a mage and have skilled LB (Dual Spec works). If you do not meet those requirements the addon will do nothing.

If you are not using the English Client, you have to adjust the LBString in the first line of the file "core.lua" accordingly to your clients language.
If you want to adjust the offset of the box relativ to your cursor position you have to change the variables xoff and yoff in line 4 and 5. A reload is required.

You can download LivingBombTracker here.

EDIT: fixed an issue, which prevented the Addon to load correctly

hey, im having a problem with your adon, i changed to my russian language the living bomb, but when i mouseover targets with living bomb it still shows like -/-
Can you suggest something please? I would appreciate that

Ilyawen · 08/29/09, 11:05 PM

After many long years of limiting myself to a small, old screen, I finally got a new one, and redid my UI with some space to spare. Been sort of a UI-geek for quite some time, but with the added luxury of more screen-space and more memory, I threw away a few old companions and some old principles, and went for something new - at least for me. Time to share:

Addons used (most of them at least):

- Grid (+Clique)
- Pitbull4
- MSBT
- DBM, ora, Recount, Omen, all the raiding stuff...
- Quartz
- Macaroon (+ButtonFacade)
- TitanBar
- CowTip
- Chatter

- kgPanels - It's quite a dilletantic use of a great addon, buts its just down there to seperate the information on the lower end of the screen a bit

- Finally, the "trias" of bar-addons:
1. Elkanos Buff Bars - displaying the buffs top right, normal debuffs. Also, tracks (lower left side from the target-frame) combat-specific buffs I don't always need to see, like trinket-proccs, wether I'm in range of auras and totems.
2. Scorchio2 - on top of the target frame, centerscreen, tracking everything really needed for combat
3. CooldownWatch - small, easy to configure addon, tracking all the cooldowns you want it to track (and nothing else). Lower right from the target frame, set up to look like the EBB-bars opposite from it

And two additions: Questhelper is enabled in that screenshot, so take away roughly 25MB from the memory usage displayed on Titan. Also, PowerAuras is not set up properly yet, but I will enable it again to add extra tracking for the important things (HS and LB mainly).

I've been a bit more generous in this UI with "wasting" space (big buff-bars for example) then usual, but it should still provide a high ammount of overview, whilst not spreading the most important information all over the screen.

Orona · 08/30/09, 12:45 PM

I uploaded LivingBombtracker to Wowinterface.com and made some changes.

- You no longer have to set the name for LB according to your clients language. It should now also work with a russian client.
- A range check is now implemented. When you are oor the border will turn red.
- Slash-commands are now available. Type '/lbt' or '/livingbombtracker' for options.

Download LBT here: LivingBombTracker : WoWInterface Downloads : Mage