Gara'jalAnnounce
Automatically generate and announce optimal spirit totem assignments during the Gara'jal encounter in Mogu'shan Vaults. Highly customizable with numerous helpful features.
Features:
- Automatically computes the optimal player assignment when each spirit totem drops, announcing it via raid warning and whispers.
- Graphical configuration lets you define detailed priority and order for players to be assigned to the totems, subject to debuff constraints. Intelligent defaults work out-of-the-box.
- Intelligently adjusts to changing fight conditions, including mechanics such as Voodoo Doll, Frail Soul, Crossed Over and Spiritual Innervation, as well as deaths and disconnects.
- Automatically rotates dps through the spirit phase (subject to priority and constraints) to maximize dps cooldown usage.
- Optionally prioritize healer assignments based on current mana
- Optionally set raid icons on players assigned to totems, providing a visual cue to coordinate totem killing
- Optionally announce Spiritual Innervation buff magnitudes upon returning from spirit phase
- Optionally announce additional text with each player sent to the totem (eg healing assignment)
- Tunable dps/heal assignment mix for each difficulty level
- NEW in 2.0: Status window shows the real-time status of all debuffs and players sorted by priority
- Correctly handles announcement even while the raid leader is in the spirit phase
- Very efficient - automatically enables/disables when you enter/leave the boss room
- International language support - Apply translations HERE
Several additional features are planned and still under development.
Usage:
- Install as usual. Only ONE person in raid needs the addon (the leader or assistant).
- Everything works "out of the box" with intelligent defaults
- To see the current roster or tweak configuration, type "/ga config", click the LDB broker, or navigate to the addon in Blizzard options.
- All players to be considered for totems must have assigned raid roles, you will be prompted to role check if needed.
- If multiple players are running the addon, it will elect a single announcer at the first voodoo doll and all other copies are disabled for that fight. This election favors the raid leader.
- Warning: Many boss mods (DBM, BigWigs etc) default to setting raid icons on voodoo dolls. If you're using the raid icon feature of this addon it's highly recommended that you disable raid icons in those boss mods for every assist or lead in the raid, otherwise they may conflict in confusing ways.
Bug reports or feature requests
- Please direct any bug reports or feature requests to the wowace ticket system
- Bug reports in comments will be deleted
Thanks to all testers, and especially the raiders of <Fables> on US-Antonidas
I have a general question (related to the addon though) since you're probably quite familiar with the timings and such by now.
Our Gara'jal (10 normal) kills are mostly done with 3 healers but depending on dps roster we sometimes cut it very close to berserk.
2-healing seems no problem for our healing team but when we tried to use the addon with 2 - role assigned healers it failed to put a healer to each spirit totem group.
This applied to 'favorable' attempts where we didn't have voodoo-dolls debuff on healers to contend with.
Is the spirit totem timing along with any 'padding' the addon does such that it doesn't lend itself well to 2-healing the fight?
tl;dr Is setting only 2 healers in 10man a valid configuration for Gara'jal Announce?
slightly off-topic: Frail Soul afaik is hc-only debuff (can't find any mention of it on our normal logs).
Assuming Voodoo dolls doesn't target both healers (don't think I've ever seen it do anything other thank tank-heal-dps in 10man) does the timing of the Spirit Totem casts allow you to always have a healer available for going into Spirit Realm (even if it's the same one that just exited)
Edit: Answering some of my own questions.
Looking at our logs Spirit Totem is cast every 36-37 seconds so it should be possible to always have one of the healers assigned to next.
Maybe the addon already does that and our raiders were confused by a healer still inside spirit world (or just exiting) getting assigned to next one?
One thing we found tonight was that it picked a Priest healer in Spirit of Redemption form - I assume because it thought the player was alive and without the debuff.
Good catch - should be fixed in 1.7.3.
This mod is freaking amazing. Thanks so much!
Would there be any way of making it prioritize some players over the others? For example, always pick X to go down whenever he's not voodoo dolled.
Yes - open the configuration settings, select that player and set to "High Priority".
Terrific, thanks very much!
Absoloutly brillaint add-on, helped us with our kill, first time using it, 1-shot, massive high-5!
@oscarucb
Yes I didn't have high hopes for this, I understand it's an awkward mechanic to work with.
Anyway, like I said it's not happening too often and the convenience far outweighs the occasional confusion.
The problem is mostly when that involves the spirit world healer, because at least for normal a dps missing a port is recoverable, 2 dps going in without healer are certain death and wipe.
@Road_Block
This is an unavoidable aspect of the fight - voodoo doll changes at LEAST once every 60 seconds, but can also change at literally any time if a raid member dies (in which case it's impossible to predict when its "about to change"). It can even be applied at the last moment when the totem is being killed and has 1 health left, at which point you're obviously and unavoidably screwed.
The problem with trying to "fix" the assignment when this occurs basically comes down to reaction time - if the addon were to assign a second "wave" of players while the totem is being killed, it risks creating additional confusion; because by the time those players see the message, the totem they were supposed to take may already be gone.
Actually I was thinking about this all backwards.
Instead of messing with ability timers etc the simplest solution would probably be to keep monitoring the units announced for a few seconds and move to the next in line if one of them gets voodoo doll after assignment.
I.e. instead of trying to prevent the accident fix it after the fact.
Tested this and it worked great for the most part (v1.6)
The only minor issue which I'm not sure can be avoided is on a couple pulls
we had the assigned healer get voodoo doll right after the announcement/whisper.
Seems like a low probability occurrence but it happens occasionally.
I'm not sure if the voodoo doll cast is on a strict timer or how complex it would be to defer totem assignments for a couple seconds if the voodoo doll cast is "about to happen".
Used this addon in our 10-man run yesterday. Resulted in our first one-shot of the boss so far. DPS and healers were assigned correctly each totem, and the automatic prioritation helped our overal dps quite a bit.
Thanks a lot for a great addon!
Used this in a pug last night. After 7 attempts, someone suggested this addon be installed by the RL. We downed him the next attempt.
There were a few issues though, mainly the addon does not react to voodoo doll placement after the spirit totem is up. So if an assigned healer/dps gets Voodoo dolled once the spirit totem is already down, it doenst assign a new DPS.
Even with the issue above, we were able to easily adjust based upon the assignments given by the addon.
Starting in v1.7 a warning will be printed if this occurs. It does not attempt to "fix up" assignments at that point because reaction time is a factor and changing the assignments at the last second is likely to just create more confusion (ie the totem may already be dead by the time you see an updated assign).
Addon version 1.4 fixes two issues in 25-man reg+heroic (my guild only runs 10).
Thanks to my 25-man testers, and please continue to report any issues in the bug database:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/garajalannounce/tickets/
best addon eva?!?!?
Hello,
I downloaden this addon today but it dont starts in wow, i see it ad my addons when i am in character screen of wow but i dont see it when iam logged in. i typd /ga config but nothing shows up.
Who can help me with this problem? what do i mis? or what do i need to do els?
Try version 1.5 - it fixes a load error that could occur for players running very few addons.
Will be trying this out in raid tomorrow as we seem to have problems getting the proper people to the totems in time.