RaidWatch 2
Raid Watch 2
Raid Watch is an addon for tracking events during boss fights in both raid and 5-men dungeons. It will keep track of important boss cooldowns, warn for events that requires the users attention and inform about some things that happen around him. It will do this in the form of timer bars, sounds, big warning text accompanied with a screen flash for the most important stuff and small text messages for less important things, direction arrow and more.
Raid Watch also have some functionality that is useful outside of boss fights, such as in game eqDKP display.
I have decided to disable the comments on curse.com since they are hard to keep track of, so instead:
For comments, suggestions, bug reports and general chat please post in the Raid Watch forums
News
From version 1.46 there is now a new module that handles the new alternate power bar that blizzard added. This bar is used in a few encounters and quests so far, for example Cho'gall for the corruption and Atramedes for the sound bar. This new plugin let you position it, or hide it completely and instead show a normal bar using the multi-purpose bar plugin that is used for health bars and other small things atm. The options for this plugin can be found under Plugins -> Alternate Power Bar.
How To
- How To: Getting Started - For first time users
- How To: Get eqDKP data in game
- FAQ
- More coming soon..
Features
- Timer bars Gives an easy overview of given events during an encounter
- All timers will move between 2 or 3 anchors depending on their the length of the duration they have left. These anchors can be moved freely and placed individually. You can also configure at what duration they should move to each anchor.
- Personal warnings Easy to react to message that is only shown to yourself when it concerns you
- Messages Messages show about events happening to the raid or the boss in question.
- Health frames Shows the current health of the boss, and also npcs when usefull. Can also be used to show other things besides health. One example i the Blood Power stacks in the Deathbringer Saurfang encounter.
- Raid marking Automatic raid marks for important events that happen to players or NPCs.
- Directions For some events you will get arrows pointing towards the point of interest.
- Customization
- Each event that is tracked in an encounter have detailed settings where you can turn of messages, timers and icons individually depending on your current role.
- Colors and sounds can be individually set for each type of warning for each event.
- Fonts, textures and colors can also be set on a global space to be able to make fast changes and have a uniform look of all objects.
- Statistics You can see how many times you have done each encounter, how many times you defeated it, how many wipes. You can also see your fastest kill so far. All this is recorded separately for 10- and 25-men raid and also for normal and heroic.
- Load on Demand All boss mods are in their own modules and are not loaded into memory until they are needed, and this will be done automatically. But can also be loaded manually if needed for configuration before raids.
Including mods for
- The Ruby Sanctum
- Icecrown Citadell
- Crusaders Coliseum
- Ulduar
- Vault of Archavon
- 5-men
- Forge of Souls
- Pit of Saron
- Trial of the Champion
Localization
Raid Watch 2 is fully or partially translated to most languages, but could use some more people to help with the translation as they are important to make the mods to work for all languages. At any point where boss emotes or yells are used as triggers it will or may not work on other clients. But things that only rely on combat log events will still work.
If you want to contribute to the localization simply go to the Localization page or click the localization tab up top and then on your language and start translating. It is open for anyone as long as you have an account here.
Credits
- Ideas and Inspiration: DBM, BigWigs
- Ulduar Mod: Mcslein
- Bad Omen For testing and feedback.
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And my settings file is at... http://union-europe.net/RaidWatch.lua
Was doing Deathwhisper HC25 last night. Is it possible to add marking to the Vengeful Shades targets (3), or doesn't the encounter work like that? Was pretty tired from the 10 man the night before but does the addon give a warning if you're targetted? Kinda prefer the "come closer" wav for some reason.
As for the marking of shades, to be able to mark them someone needs to target them. And it sounds unlikely that anyone in the raid would target them. Same applies when you want to find out who they are targeting. Could possibly find some of the targets if you happen to mouseover them, but still not anywhere near 100% warnings.
Localized most of the german option texts. I have no way to test them. Also lacking some more boss emotes and 3.3 5man emotes. If anyone wants to fix and also update the localization in the future, please contact Mangeg to set you to translator! Much appreciated.
Still looking for translators for the other languages aswell. Check the Localization tab at the top for more info.
@yanwin I have started with Icecrown localization for now to see that its working and will add the rest of the instances after that. And eventually also the core and options GUI.
If you want to be a translator for zhTW i could add you right away :D
Great work! However, while playing in zhTW client, I have tried to localize but find that the addon is not ready for localization. T^T
Yeah I am doing some changes to make it not load so much when you log in, but rather when you enter an instance that RW have mods for. So the latest version that will work for now is v1.19b-release. The new structure will be working in by the end of today or tomorrow hopefully.
yea your alpha's normally worked pretty good :) Thanks for the versions that are working ill check those
Btw love the addon .. I changed from DBM and i love it.
Yeah, alpha is alpha :)
Use release if you never want to be bothered by not working versions or beta if you feel a bit more lucky. Alpha can break from time to time. r292 or 291 should be the newest working version for now.
Just curious I had a few errors so I downloaded the new version I saw. All the folders are renamed and I cant even get into the config anymore. Not sure if you were aware of this or not.
@Starpriest: I localized the Icecrown mod as much as i could. I am german, but playing on an english server with an english client. There are some boss yells for the pull and death trigger missing and some might need some fine tuning, but i copied those i could from the Bigwigs and DBM files so they should be accurate. They had nothing for the bosses that unlocked this reset though.
I'm also not very familiar with the german wow lingo and mightve used the english terms. Feel free to correct them if you want to.
Help is appreciated and im guessing we can also get the Ulduar/VoA mod into this process, but i hope we can get it to work for you at least.
This should all be in the next build.
No, icons are not customizable. It would not work if people have different settings for what icon is used. Would be totally random then what mark would be up in the end. The highlight is just some stuff from AceGUI that is default when creating an image.
Can you customize the raid icons? Seems right now you can just enable or disable, but wasn't sure since they do show a highlight when mousing over in the config.
Gonna just generally mention missing timers as replies to this comment.
If you are unfortunately RW2 is not yet localized so things like the Saurfang engage timer wont work since they rely on the yell from the NPCs to be in english.
Also, can you add a /say Defile on me if you're targeted for Defile @ Lich King P2 on.