BossTactics improves and simplifies explaining boss tactics in World of Warcraft.
***Looking for coders to assist.*** Would like to bring this back
Knetik (aka Czarknetik) has taken over this addon in an attempt to keep it going. This has been a great addon that has helped many guilds to simplify fight strategies and setups.
Sorontur's final statement before handing it off
After over 5 years of WoW, it is time for me to end my time ingame. It was really a great time, raiding with so many friends and achieving so much.
Cataclysm is really not what WoW used to be, so this is a good point to stop this. But this also means, that i will not continue my work on BossTactics.
I put really much effort in it and I hope you have had lots of benefits. I tried it in 4.2 and there where no lua exceptions for me, so maybe you can use it for a while until Blizzard again changes the complete API. Maybe someone likes to continue the work, feel free to do so, just send me a message on curse and i will grant you permissions.
So this is my good bye to you! Have a good time in Firelands.
Sorontur
Main Features
* Tactics for all Raidinstances ingame
* Maps for every bosslocation, to show where people have to stand
* Buttons for playerpositions
* Raidleaders can add/remove/move/name Buttons
* Raidleader chat
* Control if people are actually watch the right scene
* Short Bosstactics for the Raid-chat
* Sessions for explainig a Bosstactic
* Save your own tactic for Bosses or Trash and switch between yours and the standard
* Trash tactics, if available
* Ping on the map
* Paint on the map
* Chat channels for classes and rols
* Synchronizable tactic texts
* Queries for Addon- and Item-Checks
* Assigning tasks to tanks, healers, and special roles depending on the bosses
* ID tracking for all your characters. Realm independent.
* 5-man instances quickinfos and tactics
* Raid leaders can start acclamations
Instance Modules
This version contains only the framework, if you like to download only a few instance modules, you can find them here:
Dragon Soul
Firelands
Pack of all Cata-release Modules
Throne of the four Winds
Blackwing Decent
Bastion of Twilight
Baradin Hold
Cataclysm 5 man instances
Pack of all WOTLK modules (i know this link is sometimes broken, still this is a curse issue, i have no clue why. just try again later)
BC-Modules
Video Guides
I've set up a video guide for raidleaders to show all the functions containing in BossTactics. You can find it on youtube:
Part 1 (
Without Music)
Part 2 (
Without Music)
Bugs
This is a well tested release but still bugs can be there. If you find a bug please tell me at
www.bosstactics.net/forum Thanks for help.
Slash Commands
/bt or /bosstactics for overview
/bt show opens bossframe
(check the others in the overview)
Changelog
See changelog.txt in the BossTactics folder.
Localization
If someone likes to add language support to BossTactics you can post the locales here:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/boss-tactics/localization/. The strategy texts are too big for this feature so there it cannot be used.
Now that it works, I would suggest two things: A picture to each boss, and a short description for raidmembers to post. They know the boss, but they might have forgotten something.
Would be great to implement this.
And pictures are there, too :P
Can you tell me, did you delete the lua files in the wtf folder as well? if yes which?
yes that is some kind of nice. I thought about such a feature. Thanks for reminding me :) I think this could be done in the next version. The last is some seconds old so it was kind of late to put it in there ;)
Since i more than once already typed extra stuff in the text, plus deleting some.. If possible, please do :-)
My guild tends to have very odd raid setups so we often have to deviate and adapt to most "standard" raid strats.
Is it possible to make changes to the modules in game or do I have to make chages offline and then distribute the "modified" package to all my raiders?
I was able to hold dynamic sessions where I can move the dots on the map etc... but I would also like to be able to edit the right side frame (Text strat and boss abilities).
Please help
thanks :)
yes there is a feature request for also providing possibilities to share the tactic texts. This will be available in a future release. I'm on that.
What you want are some short notes on each boss... you should check out Boss Notes for that
<selfpimpage>
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/boss-notes.aspx
</selfpimpage>
Kaz
p.s. Sorontur... Amazing addon... a lot of work gone into it
BossTactics really deals with raid tactics. If people like to write for 5 people instances modules, tell me and i will try to change messaging that it will work in parties as well. For now BossTactics can only send messages through the raid.
Is there any way to move/drag the frame around??
This is a long term issue to resolve that problem, thanks for reminding me that maybe this is possible in future versions... but i cannot promise.
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?:
AceAddon-3.0-5 (Titan):496: in function `EnableAddon'
AceAddon-3.0-5 (Titan):589: in function <...face\AddOns\Titan\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:575>
<in C code>: in function `LoadAddOn'
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:229: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn':
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:252: in function `CombatLog_LoadUI':
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:414: in function `UIParent_OnEvent':
<string>:"*:OnEvent":1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
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