Angry Boss Reminders
This addon was written by the guild Angry (US-Illidan) to help raiders switch to the proper talents and gear for each boss during a raid. You can configure the particular talents/gear that you'd like the addon to watch for, on a per-boss basis. As you arrive in each boss's room, you'll be reminded about any talents/gear that need to be changed, and you can simply click on the reminder icon(s) to install/equip automatically. Note that due to the map API changes made during Legion, the reminders for a given boss won't be triggered until you either mouseover or target the boss, or someone else in your raid targets the boss.
Using Angry Boss Reminders
To bring up ABR's configuration, bring up the game's Interface menu and go to Addons -> Angry Boss Reminders, or you can simply use the "/abr" command.
Towards the top of the configuration screen, you will find a Boss menu that contains a "Default" item, plus each boss in the current raiding tier. To the right of the Boss menu is a Spec menu. The Spec menu controls which spec's talent/gear slots you're currently editing. By default, the Spec menu will be set to whatever spec you are currently. If you select a different spec from the menu, it will allow you to edit the talents/gear slots for that other spec without having to re-spec. (Note: ABR does not remind you to change specs for bosses, it only stores a separate profile of talents/gear for each of your specs. Reminders are always checked against whatever spec you currently are.)
First, for any given spec, you'll want to configure your talent/gear slots for the "Default" boss. Set your talent slots to whatever talents you would use most of the time. If certain talent slots don't affect raiding at all, you could just leave those set to the blank slot, and ABR will then ignore them completely. Next, pick individual bosses from the Boss menu, and then select any talents that are different for that boss, compared to what you set in the "Default". For slots that you leave blank in the individual bosses, ABR will refer back to the "Default". This means you will normally end up leaving most slots blank for individual bosses.
Gear works similarly to talents. You can specify an equipment set (from the game's builtin Equipment Manager) you want to have equipped for a given boss, or you can specify individual items by dragging those items into the appropriate individual gear slots, either in the "Default", or a per-boss profile, depending on the desired effect. As with talents, ABR will check the per-boss profile first - if it's blank, then it'll refer back to the "Default" profile, and if both are blank, it will ignore them entirely. In addition to dragging items into the individual gear slots, you can click on an empty gear slot to insert whatever you're currently wearing in that slot. To clear an occupied individual gear slot, click on it.
Next, either push the "Toggle Lock" button from within the ABR config window, or use the "/abr lock" command. This will let you configure the location and the size of the reminder icon, by dragging the icon itself or the size adjuster at the bottom right of it. After you're done with that, push "Toggle Lock" or use "/abr lock" again to lock it in place and hide it from view.
After you've configured ABR, it will begin reminding you to adjust your talents/gear as you or a raid member target the boss. The reminder will consist of a short message telling you which boss has been been detected, and icons for each of the talents/gear that you should have for that boss, but are currently missing. A left-click on an icon will immediately install that talent or equip that gear, while a right-click will dismiss that reminder for the time being (until you reload UI or see a different boss). You can also set a key binding in the game's keybindings (in the section "Angry Boss Reminders") which will be the equivalent of left-clicking on the large icon. If you enter combat with any reminders still showing, they'll be suppressed as long as you remain in combat.
Miscellaneous
The "/abr help" command will list all console commands.
The "/abr resetposition" command will reset the position of the reminder icon back to the default.
get this error loading wow have had to disable the addon:
1x AngryBossReminders\Core.lua:255: attempt to call method 'SetBackdrop' (a nil value)
[string "@AngryBossReminders\Core.lua"]:255: in function <AngryBossReminders\Core.lua:238>
[string "@AngryBossReminders\Core.lua"]:354: in function `UpdateDisplay'
[string "@AngryBossReminders\Core.lua"]:473: in function `?'
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:119: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:119>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:29: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:25>
[string "@Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-7.lua"]:64: in function `Fire'
[string "@Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0-4.lua"]:120: in function <Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
In reply to morticianoire:
ABR isn't being worked on anymore and hasn't been updated in years. You should uninstall it.
Hi, same story again - can you make this work with a de-DE client?
Thanks in advance!
will there be a version with antorus? I really like this addon
Does this work for non-english clients?
With de-de I get no ABR window when targetting a boss.
In reply to AngusBeef1:
Yes. Tomes are cheaper and we can change talents raid wise. Please update this add on to support ToS and upcoming raids. Even if the new version its triggered by selecting any boss this is a very helpful add on.
I am going to take a look at updating this again by checking your target/mousover.
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Tomes of the Tranquil Mind are cheaper in 7.2 so I'm respeccing frequently. Would really appreciate an update please for Nighthold.
Couldn't it trigger based on first targeting the boss while out of combat, instead of map position?
I don't really know anything about making WoW addons so please pardon me if this is wrong. Just wanted to make a suggestion.
It could, and if I would have updated I would do something like that.
The biggest reason for not trying to find a workaround is with the price of Tomes atm, most people I have encountered don't want to blow one to respec for every single boss. Instead they just Heart change talents and get summoned back, which defeats the point of the addon.
Whether or not you can use the addon to change talents on the fly, it was still useful to be reminded that you need to change the talents to begin with, when you get to a particular boss. The reminder aspect was always the most important part of the addon for me. This particular suggestion doesn't really work for fixing that aspect though, because it relies on you remembering to target the boss a safe amount of time before pulling...
You could pretty easily just check if *anyone* in your raid is targeting the boss, and is within range of you (LibRangeCheck-2.0 still works as of 7.1). Nothing about what this addon does actually requires player map position data to work, just because it's written that way doesn't mean it's impossible to change or useless without that behavior.
Thanks for the update to EN.
If there's a codex down, it still uses a personal tome to swap. "Codex of the Tranquil Mind" is the buff
Could it be possible to make a reminder to use certain macros?
Why can't you unselect a gear set?
1x AngryBossReminders\Core.lua:851: Usage: GetEquipmentSetInfo(setIndex)
Any chance you could add the option to set text notes per boss? For example, a reminder to change from HS to Shieldtronic Shield before Tyrant would be useful to have. Thanks!
A possibly simple question: how do I remove an Equipment Set from the "Gear" tab?
I tested equipment sets, but as I'm DPS and I only change trinkets I wanted to remove the set and set only the trinket change, but I try to click on set and put the empty one, but it just doesn't work.
@edit
Other than delete the line at "AngryBossReminders.lua" file (inside WTF > realm > your character > saved variables folder)
Nice addon!
Any chance you could add the option to export / import the setup to a plain file or something in the screen so you can share it?
Thanks!