Deus Vox Encounters

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Deus Vox Encounters (DXE) is a boss mod inspired by RDX. It is designed to be functional, efficient, and customizable, so you can change what you want and how you see this addon.

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Features

Automated: Activation, starting, and stopping of encounters is automatic
Flexible alert system:
- Customizable timer bars
  - Color
  - Texture
  - Font
  - Width
  - Spell icons
  - And more...!
- Customizable full screen flashes
  - Duration
  - Transparency
  - Oscillations
  - Color
- Customizable sounds: Packaged with 18 distinct ones
- All alerts can be adjusted for all encounters
- Audio countdowns can be activated for certain encounter alerts
Raid Icons: Marking on important events with an icon of your choosing
3D Arrow: Directional arrows tells you where to go on important events
- Two types:
  - Away: Directs you to run from a player or a location
  - Toward: Directs you to run to a player or a location
- Ability to play a sound when shown
- Displays your distance, to a player or location, in game yards
Encounter Pane
- Boss health tracking gives you more awareness of fights
- Engage timer tells you how long you've been fighting
- Shortcut buttons provides easier access to common commands
- Conditions to show the pane only when you want to
Version Check: View addon and encounter versions of raid members
Distribution System: Allows you to send encounters to the raid or individual players
Profile System: Switch settings between your characters
Modular Design: Encounters are loaded in appropriate zones
SharedMedia support

Getting Started

When you first login with this AddOn you will see a black transparent rectangle with a blue bar labeled 'Default', called the encounter pane, in the center of your screen. Shift+Click on it to move it. From left to right you will see:

Stop Icon: Halts the current encounter (you should rarely have to do this)
Menu Icon: Opens the configuration dialog
Lock Icon: Toggles frame anchors
Windows Icon: Opens a drop down menu to show interface windows

Also, if you ever hide the pane and can't get it to show, type /dxe to open the configuration dialog. There is also a minimap icon.

Warlords of Draenor Update

Encounters: Highmaul, BlackRock Foundry and Hellfire Citadel have been implemented.
Party Module: Party support has been added.
World Boss Module: World Bosses support has been added.
Features: More new Alert Options and Spell descriptions on Options.

Implemented Encounters

Highmaul: All bosses
BlackRock Foundry: All bosses
Hellfire Citadel: All bosses
Warlords of Draenor Party: All bosses
World Boss: All bosses

Localizations

Please visit the localization page to translate in-game phrases. It is open to anyone with an account. The most important phrases are the chat triggers for bosses, because they start encounters. However, not all encounters are started by chat triggers. The rest of the phrases are for display purposes. The following languages need a maintainer:

Korean (koKR)
Russian (ruRU)
Simplified Chinese (zhCN)
Spanish (esES)
Traditional Chinese (zhTW)
Brazilian Portuguese (ptBR)
Latin American Spanish (esMX)

Credits

Code/Inspiration - RDX, BigWigs, DBM
Coding and Testing - Mäev
Pane Buttons - Kassay
Translations - Pettigrow (frFR), Junkie/Fearendon (deDE), horws (ruRU), and everyone else

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Posted Oct 14, 2010
That's the DataBroker Icon. Configure whichever addon you're using to display them.

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Posted Sep 30, 2010
I've got a problem. After resetting my configuration, a little window appeared and I don't know how to get rid of it.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4014/bildschirmfoto20100930u.png

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Posted Sep 16, 2010
I Switched to DXE a while back and now others are too in my guild but the Raid Icon markings conflict with DBM which the majority of raiders still use and as such many have learnt fights using DBM's Raid icon placement order - Skull, Cross, Square, Triangle, Moon, Circle, Star, Diamond (25man)

When you open up the config, click encounters then click on the Boss you want (Festurgut in this case) then click on the raid Icons tab, set the drop down box to the Spores - Just below this it says the Icon setting for Spores is Icons 6-8. DBM used Skull Cross Square - DXE used Circle, Star, Diamond - this caused some confusion on HC Fester :P A Quick fix for me was change the icons in the Alerts Panel to have icons 6-8 be Skull Cross Square (prev. they were 1,2,3) when doing Fester but that meant changing them back for Sindragosa whose icon settings use 1-6 Skull, Cross, Square, Triangle, Moon, Circle in DXE, the same pattern DBM uses.

Is it possible to change those Encounter Icon Settings somehow in DXE as it exists already or would that functionality need to be written in? I cant find anything. I.E. Make Festurgut Spore Settings use icons 1-3 (Or icons of choice) instead of 6-8 so i dont have to switch them each encounter?

Or would it be easier to allow the Encounter Advanced tab to allow you to set specifically what icons you want DXE to use for each specific encounter your doing?

Or am i stuck manually switching when doing those 2 Bosses whenever i Raid lead?

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Posted Sep 16, 2010
1st up REALLY Great addon, been using it a while now and im slowly convincing others this is the Boss mod of choice over DBM/BigWigs etc.

However sometimes the Raid Icon markings conflict with DBM which the majority still use and as such many have learnt fights using DBM's Raid icon placement order - Skull, Cross, Square, Triangle, Moon, Circle, Star, Diamond (25man)

One thing i wanted to ask is - when you open up the config, click encounters then click on the Boss you want (Festurgut in this case) then click on the raid Icons tab, set the drop down box to the Spores - Just below this it says the Icon setting for spores is Icons 6-8 (adjustable in alerts panel).
A Quick fix for me was change the icons in the Alerts Panel to have icons 6-8 be Skull Cross Square (prev. they were 1,2,3) when doing Fester but that meant changing them back for Sindragosa whose icon settings use 1-6 (Skull, Cross, Square, Triangle, Moon, Circle) the same pattern DBM uses.

Is it possible to change those settings somehow in DXE as it exist already or would that functionality need to be written in?
I.E. Make Festurgut Spore settings use icons 1-3 instead of 6-8 so i can not have to switch them each encounter?
Or would it be easier to allow the Encounter Advanced tab to allow you to set specifically what icons you want DXE to use for each specific encounter your doing?

Or am i stuck manually switching when doing those 2 Bosses?

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Posted Sep 13, 2010
Great addon!

Anyhow, I just wanted to add that Deus is pronounced "DEE-us," or "DAY-us." Not "deuce."

My guildmates are driving me nuts when they talk about it.

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Posted Aug 19, 2010
Will DXE ever give bars for the mini-bosses?

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Posted Aug 19, 2010
oh nice. Thank you on the reply. Any idea on Pvp and 5 man timers?

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Posted Aug 15, 2010
This is a great addon. I been using for about a month now and I really like it. I was just wondering if you’re thinking of adding pizza timer, PvP timers and 5-man dungeon timers? At the moment I’m using DBM just for that but would be nice to just have it all in one addon. Thank you for all the hard work.

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Posted Aug 16, 2010
Pizza timers exist, the slash command is /dxelb (local) // /dxerb (raidwide)

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Posted Jul 26, 2010
@Brwmmice, it's probably actually Prat. Don't believe Quartz has ever shipped with the broken library.

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Posted Jul 25, 2010
I was having an issue with the deathbound ward, everytime I would pull the game would instantly disconnect me until I disable dxe.

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Posted Jul 24, 2010
Ah, I see. I tried your suggestion and it worked - I'll narrow down the addon (it will take some time, but I can enable groups and work from there) and notify the correct people. Thanks.

Edit: After some testing, I concluded that Quartz was the issue. However, I disabled all addons except Quartz and DXE and it worked together just fine. My guess is that addons are interacting in some strange way, causing issues. All addons enabled except Quartz still works fine, though.

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Posted Jul 24, 2010
@Brwmmice: Try turning off all addons except DXE and then configuring the status bar texture. There is a broken version of AceGUI media widgets floating around addons and I am pretty sure it's not packaged with DXE.

@ZubrDP: It's currently not possible to do from the gui. You'll have to edit 'flashtime' in Encounters.lua It's certainly a feature I'd like to add in the future.

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#944 Posted Jul 23, 2010

I'm having a few errors pop up when trying to change the background and bar textures in the options panel. Here's the error message:

Date: 2010-07-23 15:58:05
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\StatusbarWidget.lua line 35:
   attempt to perform arithmetic on global 'number' (a nil value)
Debug:
   (tail call): ?
   [C]: ?
   ...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\StatusbarWidget.lua:35:
      ...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\StatusbarWidget.lua:29
   ...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\StatusbarWidget.lua:150:
      ...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\StatusbarWidget.lua:137
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Posted Jul 21, 2010
Perhaps I've missed it, but is there any way to control when cooldowns move to the center bar? When this happens the alert/flash fires. It seems to occur at 5s for most cooldowns, but for some encounters that's almost an eternity. I did find that the text raid warning timer can be adjusted, to warn say 2s before a cooldown is up, but that does not fire an audible alert.

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Posted Jul 20, 2010
Is there a way to use 2 proximity meters on sindragosa hardmode? I don't particularly need them but some of the raiders seem to need a little more help seeing how far away they should run.

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Posted Jul 20, 2010
I'm new to this addon and have been configuring it.

I went to the totc and realised snobold aren't coming up in the encounter. Like I saw in a youtube video clip how there's arrows pointing where the snobolds are but when I did it today. Nothing appears. Have I missed something thats preventing some abilities from a boss not active with the addon?

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Posted Jul 20, 2010
Well seeing as Hallion's health is shared this is kind of a invalid question. The way the fight work is he has a buff that starts of 50/50, if one side is out dpsing the other, then on side with get more of less of that buff/debuff. So the object is to even out dps. In short, the health you see up top, is the same health he has down low.

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Posted Jul 15, 2010
Does the health of the other Halyon (i.e. I'm up top in phase 3, and I can see my Halyon, and there is the other Halyon in the Shadow Realm) have to be seen by someone with the DXE addon that is down in the Shadow Realm?

There are only maybe three people in my raids who have DXE, so I can't see the health of Halyon in the other Realm, is there a way to fix this? Or should I just use the addon that others use or make the Blizzard boss health things (like in Gunship where it shows the health of both ships with the Default UI) visible again?

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Posted Jul 14, 2010
@Melchior2032, you'll lose the focus target when he goes out of phase.

@ZubrDP, Right now there's no way for your client to get that info so we'd have to pass it via comms. Right now DXE doesn't do any in fight comms. So it's something that would take some new core code to add.

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