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 Jan 31, 2011
@Shuang

I was wondering if there's anyway that I can help improve DXE's boss timer? it's does seems slightly off on some bosses's timer eg. ala'kir's knock back attack, neferian's tail swipe and lightning. Will sending in a copy of my transcriptor help? Please let me know what I can do to help out. Thanks!

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Posted Jan 30, 2011
Well, I haven't done heroic maloriak yet, we'll probably start on him this next reset... so if someone wants to share to PM me a transcriptor log and tell me about the differences/ect I'd be happy to try and set some stuff up.

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Posted Jan 30, 2011
Not sure, didn't have time to check all of that, i just used debuff name "Dark Sludge" to get the warning on powa. Its the debuff you get from standing in the black crap the slime adds spew on the floor during the dark phase.

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Posted Jan 30, 2011
what is the spellid / # of targets, duration / recast on dark sludge?

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Posted Jan 30, 2011
Maloriak 25hc: Dark Sludge on self isn't being detected, i get the aura indicator from powerauras but no warning from DXE.

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Posted Jan 30, 2011
r1005 is obviously a bug.

source code in DXE

local silent = true local L = AL:NewLocale("DXE", "enUS", true, silent)

error message:

1x Usage: NewLocale(application, locale[, isDefault[, silent]]): 'silent' must be specified for the first locale registered:

on the other hand if I use...

local L = AL:NewLocale("DXE", "enUS", true)

No errors.

My conclusion? r1005 is bugged, don't use it. I'm not going to try and second guess the API updates from an alpha, if you want to fix it, for yourself, on r1005, go into all the Locales.lua files and remove the 'silent' argument from the NewLocale commands and it will let you use r1005. I'm going to PM the person on the ace3 lib's author note about this too.
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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Yeah I get the latest libs since my other addons use the alpha ace 3. However it's basically a release candidate. The change is intended for the Ace-Locale change.

http://www.wowace.com/addons/ace3/pages/api/ace-locale-3-0/

For the new locale

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
hmm, doing a fresh install of Ace3 only seems to give you "Ace3 Release - Revision r981 (October 27th, 2010)" Are you downloading their beta/alpha version maybe?

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Shuang, which Ace3 are you using? I have r1005 and it is still giving me the errors.

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Mal - I linked against a fresh download of the Ace3 standalone library and didn't get any errors last night. Looks like whatever buggy stuff went in got taken back out.

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Ah okay sry didn't regard the massacre, sry my fault ;)

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
pwn1ca. That wouldn't really be helpful due to massacre and the fact you can only do so many actions in game (in terms of marking someone) per second and there are only so many icons.

I mean it would be possible, but it wouldn't really be all to helpful.

EDIT: I'm still trying to fix the locale issue with the Ace-locale changes. Not 100% sure how to fix it however. May need to make separate locale LUAs

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Thanks for the nice updates Shuang :) tested the newest version with atramedes the alternate power works fine :) only the "gong bar" shows only 8 instead of 12 (I think there are 12)

I love the funktion that DXE mark the people in some fights like chimaeron or the adds in the chogall fight, it is possible to "auto-mark" people who have less than 10k hp in chimaeron fight? that would be a nice function :)

Greets

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Altho alot of other Bossmods have visual ques for events, the custimization available for DXE with the possibility to select a color and sound for each event that is happening and is about to happen has proven extremely valuable! Cant live without it!

If anyone is looking for Lightning Rod alert:

lightningrodself = { varname = format(L.alert["%s on self"],SN[83099]), type = "centerpopup", text = format("%s: %s! %s!",SN[83099],L.alert["YOU"],L.alert["MOVE AWAY"]), time = 15, flashtime = 15, throttle = 15, color1 = "BLUE", sound = "ALERT1", icon = ST[83099], },
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Posted Jan 29, 2011
For ease and convenience. With greetings from Russia...

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Posted Jan 29, 2011
Well, with DXE I can get the timers to match the theme of my UI overall. Bar Texture, border around bar and icon, but functionality wise, i love that each timer has its own color. It provides much faster recognition on what event is coming up.

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Posted Jan 28, 2011
So, I'm curious what everyone wants to see in a boss mod and why everyone likes DXE, ect. I'd be interested to know, so please PM me.

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Posted Jan 28, 2011
Ace3 error seemed to have gone away. If it crops back up... use an older version.

Fix'd the issue with the alternate power bar.

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Posted Jan 27, 2011
Shuang if you download the new Ace 3 and install it you should get errors when trying to open up the configuration or just entering a raid instance.

At least that is what was going on for me.

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Posted Jan 27, 2011
Shuang, not sure what you mean, but the error is from BugGrabber + BugSack if thats what you mean.

as for the error it popped on its own when engageing chogall and kept popping every few seconds untill i closed the altpower window

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