Auracle (De)Buff Monitor
Auracle provides compact & customizable filtering, monitoring and grouping of buffs and debuffs.
Overview
Auracle's capabilities are organized roughly into "trackers", "windows" and "styles".
The most important of these is the "tracker", each of which can monitor a list of multiple auras (either buffs or debuffs, but not both at the same time). When any of those (de)buffs are found, the tracker lights up (or changes visually in any number of other interesting and configurable ways).
A "window" is just a collection of trackers that all watch the same unit. On a fresh installation, Auracle provides one window that watches "target", so any trackers in that window will activate according to the (de)buffs on your current target. You can create as many windows as you want, and each one can watch any unit you want (player, pet, focus, etc).
The visual aspects of windows and trackers are controlled by "styles". There is always a "Default" style (one each for windows and trackers), and you can create as many additional styles as you want.
Distribution & Translation
Please note that Auracle is kept current by the author on wowace.com, curse.com and wowinterface.com. If you get it from any other source, you are not guaranteed to get the latest version.
If you would like to help translate Auracle into other languages, please use the WoWAce Localization tool.
Getting Started
Since every role, class, spec and player will be interested in monitoring different (de)buffs, Auracle does not provide any trackers by default. The first thing you'll want to do, then, is add one.
To do this, open Auracle's configuration window, either with the chat command "/auracle" or from Interface Options->AddOns->Auracle. Select the "windows" tab to see your windows (you'll start with one, "Target") and their trackers (none yet). Select the light blue "(Add Tracker...)" option and click the button to add a new blank tracker to the window.
Click the new tracker, and then open its "Auras" tab. Set the type to "buffs" or "debuffs" according to what you want to monitor, and then type the names of as many auras as you want, one per line. Now, whenever your target has any of these (de)buffs applied, this tracker will light up and show the time remaining.
Configuration Ideas
Auracle is highly configurable; there are a great many ways you can set it up to display information however you want. Some ideas:
- You could set up two windows that both watch "target" (or "focus", etc), but make one of them only visible when the target is a raid boss, and the other one only visible otherwise. Now you can have one set of trackers for bosses, and a different one for trash.
- You could set up a window style with no border or background, and a tracker style that hides everything (border, icon, text) when missing. Now you can position a window with this style in the middle of your screen, and add trackers to watch for procs (like Clearcasting, for example). Now whenever that proc goes off, you get a big fat icon in the middle of the screen letting you know about it, but when you use it up, it disappears completely.
- You could set a tracker's text to display the time remaining, and its spiral to display stacks. Now the spiral will fill up (or drain away) in chunks according to how many stacks are present, while the text shows you the duration: a nice compact way to see two kinds of information on the same icon.
- You could set up trackers for various raid debuffs which are visible when missing, but disappear completely when present. This becomes your "big brother" raid-leader view; if someone slacks and doesn't put up a debuff, that one pops up for you to holler at them, without having to look through the other 40-odd debuffs which are all correctly applied.
Donations
You do not have to donate. Auracle is free, open-source software, and will always be free to use.
However, if you do use and enjoy Auracle, making a donation is a great way to show your appreciation and support future development. I no longer play WoW as a pastime, so the only reason for me to pay the subscription fee is to do addon development; any contribution to cover that cost is greatly appreciated.
If you do choose to donate, you may do so here: Donate!
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Changelog
See http://www.wowace.com/addons/auracle/pages/changelog/
History
During its alpha development phase, Auracle was called AuraHUD. It was renamed to avoid confusion, since "HUD" has particular connotations for WoW addons which Auracle does not really reflect, and there was already another (completely unrelated) project called BuffHUD.
The concept for Auracle is based on Smarty by Luxx of Death and Taxes, but has been essentially rewritten from scratch.
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In general, there's no reason not to file a ticket for any problem you encounter. Even if it ends up originating in a library or something, I can just close the ticket, but it makes it easier for other people to see that the issue has already come up.
It should print a warning when it loads, listing some SpellIDs that are no longer valid. Send those to me (file that ticket, private message, email, post here, whatever) and I'll remove them from the presets.
i have filed a defect about the spell id
http://www.wowace.com/addons/auracle/tickets/23-addon-warning-in-3-3-ptr/
also, it would be nice to have a bleed debuff tracker preset
http://www.wowace.com/addons/auracle/tickets/18-text-of-auras-field-not-visible-editable/
As far as I can tell it's a problem in the underlying AceOptions/AceGUI libraries, and will have to be properly fixed by the Ace3 team. Since I notified them of the issue almost 2 months ago and have had no response, I recommend you vote on this ticket to get it more attention:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/ace3/tickets/68-invisible-uneditable-text-in-multi-line-edit-box/
After searching for an addon in this matter i was happy to find auracle. However I'm having problems with adding Mangle to target debuff monitoring. I've created a new debuff tracker with the exact same example of text as above
Mangle - Cat
Mangle - Bear
Trauma
But nothing happens, just an empty square of no purpose. I tried disabling all other addons. Reinstalling. reactiviating my specc etc. nothing works. Got the same thing with player buffs on Clearcast. I've tried adding the talented option as well when creating and tracker but it dsn't help. any sudgestions?
Replaced Mangle - Cat with Mangle (cat) *notice the space between mangle and cat* and the addon responds.
Moused over the buff and it actually said "clearcasting" not clearcast. so yeah, silly me I s'pose
However, please remove that Screenie that says Mangle - Cat unless it's a command that works for others. I'd like 40 mins of my life back please :P haha. Anyway keep it up really enjoyable addon.
First of all, this addon has been a great help in min-maxing my dps. I use it to check short time procs and here comes the problem: The 2 piece proc from Tier 9.25 for Deathknights has the same buff name as the proc from the runeforge. I have tried filling in spellids for these, but the spellid gets translated to the buffname by auracle and when you have these 2 buffs available at the same time (this is what I check for max disease damage and reapply diseases to keep them rolling with glyph of disease) only one of them will be shown in any of the trackers.
So my wish is : - I want to be able to create 2 trackers which will show different buffs with the same name (Unholy Strength in this case)
Any help is much appreciated.