Magic Targets 2
Addon Support Statement
NEWS: I'm back in WoW. I'll try to update addons after catching up, especially if they are bugging out.
Addon Description
Magic Targets is a simple set of frames that shows the current targets of the members raid or party. It's meant primarily for use in raiding to keep track of all the mobs currently engaged in combat. Feature list:
- Optionally marks your current target and focus target with green respectively blue arrows.
- Lists the number of people who's currently targeting each mob.
- Colors each bar based on target status (crowd controlled, tanked, untanked or idle).
- Shows the icon(s) of the crowd controll methods a mob is currently affected by and optionally shows a countdown timer for the longest duration remaining crowd control method.
- Automatically adds new mobs as members of the raid targets them.
- Automatically removes mobs after when they die or when they haven't been actively targeted by someone, or seen in the combat log, for a small period of time. Crowd controlled mobs are always kept on the list.
- Uses oRA2 and buff detection (defensive stance, bear form and righteous fury) to determine if a player is a tank.
- Customizable font and font size, bar texture, color and size, and more.
- Optionally able to listen to events from Magic Marker to prepopulate the list with mobs, including the assigned crowd controlled methods.
- Optional tooltip shows mob level and type, health percentage, current target, status and Magic Marker assignment. It also lists all players targeting the mob.
Recent Changes:
Changes in 2.0.119:
- MoP compatibility / raid scanning fixes.
Changes in 2.0.106:
- Fixed 4.1 bug with growing or shrinking bars hopefully.
Changes in 2.0.104:
- Combat log parser fix for 4.1 + toc bump
About Magic Targets 2.0
MT2 is a major refactoring of the original addon. The layout of the bars is now much more flexible. Not only can you freely decide which data to show on the bars, there are also multiple layouts to choose from. Best of all, the transition to Magic Targets 2 should be transparent. Note that the default layout of Magic Targets 2 is different. If you prefer the Magic Marker 1 layout, go into the configuration options => Bar Labels and select the classic Bar Layout. Comments are welcome!
Configuration and use:
Configuration is done using the Blizzard configuration UI. You can use the FuBar/Minimap button or the slash command /mgt config to open it. To get access to a larger number of fonts and textures you need to install the SharedMedia addons.
Note: The bars are not clickable. Due to the secure templates added in WoW 2.0, this is no longer possible. PvP specific addons get around this limitation by making macros that target players by name. Since NPC names are not unique, this is not a viable solution for Magic Targets.
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Posted Dec 11, 2009-
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Posted Dec 12, 2009Also quick question regarding warrior tank detection. Without running Ora2 I've noticed that the only time the bars will display green is if I inspect the warrior tank. While the inspect window is open it will show their tanked mobs as green but when closed their bars turn red again. Is there any way you could add an option to manually add the name of a tank to be treated as a tank from then on? I suppose I could just edit the code if you feel this isn't a good idea. Running Ora2 just for this mod at the moment until I take the time to hard code our warrior tanks in.
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Posted Nov 29, 2009-
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Posted Dec 10, 2009-
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Posted Oct 16, 2009would it be possible to have it target of target upon click? meaning, intelligently target of target a creature if atleast one person is already targeting it. granted you wont be the fastest person to swap over during say faction champs, but youll still find your target a lot faster than trying to click on the screen or tab over.
i know its a lot to ask, so im not asking like everyone else... just looking for a solution instead ;)
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Posted Oct 16, 2009One possibility would be to add encounter-specific "fixed bars" that knows about the mobs you're about to face. This could help in fights like faction champions but it might be a lot of work for relatively little benefit.
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Posted Sep 20, 2009I was wondering if the developer allows customers to pay for specific enhancements. I think it would be very handy to have the ability to target the bad guy by clicking the target in the Magic Targets UI.
Currently, I rely on tab targeting; when there are lots of bad guys in the mob, it's time consuming to use this method to acquire a specific target.
Thanks for your time.
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Posted Jun 4, 2009It will be very usefull, for the raid lead to see who doesn't focus the right target....
Thanks in advance
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Posted Jun 4, 2009(The checkbox is the next to last one, called "Show who's not targeting a mob in the tooltip", and the description says "If enabled, all party or raid members not targeting the player will be shown in the tooltip. Otherwise people targeting the mob will be shown" - by the way there's a slight mistake in the first sentence, as it should be "not targeting the *mob*", not "player")
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Posted Jun 7, 2009This is an awsome addon, I'm very thankful for creating it :)
A few weeks ago you added the feature to show, who is NOT targetting a target. Currently I'm missing two features, which will brought the "who is NOT targetting" feature to the cutting edge of target control mnechanism:
1) Please add the option to alert this "not" targetting people (e.g. by an whisperbutton)
2) Would it be possible to create an exclude list for 1), like Pop-Down Raidlist, where you can activate or deactivate the message for the raidplayers (e.g. the Tanks and healers (XXX, XY and babyface) shall not receive the "You are targetting the wrong Main-Target"))?
Cheers
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Posted Jun 4, 2009i.e.:
Mob name | Mob life bar | Mob % heath | Player targeted by mob (if any) - this one being possibly clickable if you can do it (not sure from your explanations if that would be or not possible, considering those would be player frames so with unique name, if it's not, just having the targeted playes would be good :))
Thanks for that great addon by the way.
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Posted May 18, 2009Ah, an additinal request :) Would it be possible to exclude dead people from the "not tragetting" list? Thanks :)
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Posted May 17, 2009Hi
This is an awsome addon, I#m very thankful for creating it by you :)
A few weeks ago you added the feature to show, who is NOT targetting a target. Currently I'm missing two features, which will brought the "who is NOT targetting" feature to the cutting edge of target control mnechanism:
1) Please add the option to alert this "not" targetting people (e.g. by an whisperbutton)
2) Would it be possible to create an exclude list for 1), like Pop-Down Raidlist, where you can activate or deactivate the message for the raidplayers (e.g. the Tanks and healers (XXX, XY and babyface) shall not receive the "You are targetting the wrong Main-Target"))?
Cheers,
DMcLeod
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Posted Apr 27, 20092.0.87 fixes it. Sorry about that, I forgot how my own addon worked and broke it completely while trying to optimize it. As a side-note 2.0.87 fixes DK tank detection and the forever broken warrior tank detection.
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Posted Apr 26, 2009r84 is totally broken, when I target something it's saying noone is targeting it after a second - even me. I do NOT have the new option enabled to show who is "not" targeting the targets.