Parrot

Floating Combat Text of awesomeness.

Displays Events from the combatlog (damage, healing, ...) as moving text and numbers across the Screen. It also supports various other Events (Loot, Cooldowns, ...). Further Parrot offers a Trigger-system to display Text and play sounds on certain predefined events (e.g. Nightfall for Warlocks).

Localization

If you want to translate Parrot into your language (or update an existing translation) please do so here.

FAQ

Q: "I created a custom Trigger doing <something>. Is it worthy to be in parrots default triggers?"
A: In many cases it is. If you want to contribute a custom trigger to be added to the default triggers, please post a ticket where you describe *exactly* how you set it up. I can't figure that out for every class and every spec.

Q: "Parrot is not showing heals, but it's enabled in the options"
A: Since 3.2 WoW displays every full overheal in the combatlog (even for HoTs). That's why Parrot v1.9.0+ contains an option in Events to "Hide full overheals" which is enabled by default to avoid unnecessary spam.

Q: ''I want to use custom fonts and sounds in Parrot, but there are none available'
A: Parrot doesn't provide sounds or additional fonts (only the fonts included in WoW) For additional fonts and sounds please install SharedMedia.
To use custom sounds and fonts see the "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia.txt" in the SharedMedia-folder.

Q: "Whenever I /reload or log back in again, parrot auto-hides blizzard's default outgoing damage text (the one above the mob in question). Is there any way to avoid having to enable blizz's functions all the time?
A: When enabled Parrot manages the settings for Blizzard FCTs damage- and heal-display. You can enable these features to be used with Parrot in the config (General->Game damage/healing)

Q: "Sometimes when Looting stackable items, the stackcount is off. Why isn't this fixed?"
A: The problem is, that the Interface-event for the Loot is sometimes triggered before, and sometimes after the item was put in the bag (depending on lag). If anyone knows a solution that does not involve constantly polling the bags' content, I'm open to suggestions.

Questions

If you need help with some option, trigger, or whatever use the Parrot-forum on wowace for any questions you might have (please no bug-reports).

Feature Requests

To make a feature Request please use the ticket-system.
Before making a feature Request please make sure that the current alpha does not contain the feature already.

Also check if there is a similar feature request among the open tickets already (and maybe join the discussion there).

Bugs

Please use the ticket-system

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Warzzs Dec 10, 2011 at 19:03 UTC - 0 likes
Since 4.3 Parrot has been having a small issue for me. On the incoming scroll area when I absorb something it says [unknown absorbed]. Before 4.3 it would tell me an amount, it's nothing major just a rather large annoyance. If there is anything to fix it please let me know, if not I'll just wait for an update. Thanks
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macarthor Dec 09, 2011 at 02:28 UTC - 0 likes
hi, I find parrot damage module makes FPS low. If I disable parrot damage module and enable wow damage, FPS is normal (30 ~ 60 FPS). But when I enable parrot damage module and disable wow damage, FPS drops heavily to below 10, even sometimes below 5...
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- #114
yyz5028 May 20, 2011 at 22:42 UTC - 0 likes
Can you show me how to ignore a CD? I tried to use the ignore function in Cooldowns by entering the names tof the spells that I want to ignore, but notifications still show up when those skills are ready. For instance, how do I ignore the CD of the skill, "Army of the Dead"? How should I input the name to make it work? Thanks.
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Psyche150 Apr 28, 2011 at 19:19 UTC - 0 likes
Just to clarify, Parrot works but none of the changes I make are being saved and new scroll areas don't work.

The reason I thought it didn't work at all is because I remade my scroll areas and diverted events to them, nothing at all showed up in the scroll areas I made. These changes were reverted when I restarted WoW.
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- #112
Psyche150 Apr 28, 2011 at 18:53 UTC - 0 likes
Tried updating to your latest version but still can't get Parrot to work at all.

Parrot was so much more powerful than SCT, please fix it!

Thanks for all your hard work.
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- #111
profalbert Apr 27, 2011 at 06:10 UTC - 0 likes
I just merged the 4.1-port I created some weeks ago. I don't know if it fixes all the issues. I'll look into it more deeply in 14 hours
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cixelsyd1990 Apr 22, 2011 at 02:52 UTC - 0 likes
Hi, I'm trying to get the Rune Strike trigger to function, but I cannot seem to get it working since blizzard changed it to always be active if you have enough runic power and you are in blood presence.

Do you have any idea how I can make this trigger properly?

Thanks in advance!
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- #109
ImaLamer Apr 06, 2011 at 22:40 UTC - 0 likes
Been looking, but is there a way to change the Parrot strata? I'm not seeing it. I want it to not cover things like healbot and so forth - or am I barking up the wrong tree and should be looking to make healbot appear "on top"?
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- #108
profalbert Apr 06, 2011 at 06:34 UTC - 0 likes
Using the Suppressions-module maybe you can use "^strike$"

You could also try add a "spell filter"
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rakkarage Apr 05, 2011 at 16:13 UTC - 0 likes
hi, can anyone tell me how to suppress "strike" without also suppressing heroic strike and mortal strike etc? thanks