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.
I changed the visablility of the Task manager in Version 2.18 to over all, so everybody with that version should be able to use it. At least the raid leader (the one in the blizzard raid, with the crown symbol :) must always be able to use it in former versions.
So check the versions if all have the newest version, try to promote your officers to be a raid leader via BossTactics (use the raid leader dialogue) if this doesn't help look for error messages.
I hope that helps you, if not write me again.
the only reason why i dont provide images is just a time factor.
but i cant open the frame
i used /bt and long version /bosstactics
but nothings happend
i read addons and the addon bosstactics are out of date maybie is that the problem
so first question is do you have a minimap button for BossTactics? then /bt musst give you a list of parameter, so if there is nothing then the addon is not installed correctly or not activated. please check that. If this is all correctly done, please look if in the WTF/accountName/SavedVariables folder is a BossTactics.lua file.
/bt dont work and /bosstactics dont work
i can not find bosstactics in WTF/accountName/SavedVariables folder.
if i starting up the game and i see on addons
i see:
bosstactics[arch] dependency missing
bosstactics[crusaders] dependency missing
bosstactics[icc] dependency missing
enz enz
it is not that i don't want to do it, but i hate copying code because it makes releases more complex, and the biggest problem is, if i forget one to update... ^^ but anyway i will talk with the curse people maybe there could be an automatic collection of the modules, which is always updated if one module is updated. So I let you know here, an on the bosstactics website how the status is.