Reports on a configurable dashboard or to /raid or /party on consumables, buffs, AFK, mana, aura, talent spec and many many others but in an intelligent automagic way. RBS is the last nail in the coffin of all slacking level 85 raiders. RBS also provides unique tank taunting warnings not provided by any other addon.

RaidBuffStatus is for 5 man instances and raids of all sizes.

RaidBuffStatus is dedicated to my new daughter, Jaina.

About

"RaidBuffStatus is the last nail in the coffin of slacking raiders." - Stormsnow, a Raid Leader

RaidBuffStatus is an addon to check, show and report on the complete buff status (including flasks etc) of a party or raid. It shows the information on a dashboard much like XRS. It can report via whispers and to raid chat. In addition it provides a talent spec window which also shows any special abilities such as improved spirit.

However it is quite unlike XRS, Bigbrother and most other buff checking addons. It was the first released (8th March 2008) addon to intelligently, in an automagic way, know what buffs to check for. For example only if there is a Mage will it check for intellect buff and it does not check the buffs of those not in the same zone. As much as possible is automatic.

Addons like XRS require lots of initial configuration. RBS works with no configuration out of the box. However RBS now features a Buff Wizard to help new user non-raid leaders to configure only the buffs they need to be displayed.

RBS can do the buffing for you such as your self and party buffs with a quick right-click.

RBS supports addons like Titan using LibDataBroker.

Twitter

Follow RBS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/raidbuffstatus.

Public Videos

Top 5 addons of 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7J44ifUeE

Quick informational video about RaidBuffStatus made by a user: http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/world-o.../18161756

Short video about some of the RaidBuffStatus options made by a user: http://inevitableraid.com/?p=3696

RBS being used in a ToC raid. You can see it top left. The player has configured it to stay visible in combat but to only show a few things. When he enters combat you can see it neatly resize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoaYZDRY_aY

Videos created by the RBS author

The dashboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1j7wTkyla8

The talent specialisation window: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10ZkQ4Bw30

The buff options window: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJwCF8Rm9I

The addon configuration options: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9mP7gxJTXQ

The Buff Wizard feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZ8dNsQ8po

The Unique Selling Points of RaidBuffStatus are

1. Automagically knows what buffs to check for according to the party or raid members CLASSES and TALENTS and ROLES.
2. Works out of the box with no configuration needed and is very simple to use.
3. Covers all buffs including consumables.
4. Trash and Boss checking. Boss checking assumes flasks/elixirs needed but this is configurable.
5. Has 2 levels of warning: Missing Buff and just Warning.
6. As well as report to raid/party it has a dashboard for quick glancing and for example finding out who has the soul stone.
7. Reports on talent specialisations.
8. Provides unique tank taunt warnings.
9. Provides unique Crowd Control break warnings.
10. Provides unique death warnings.
11. Actively maintained.

It is designed for level 85 raiding and partying, anything below that is not guaranteed to work.

Current checking abilities

• Raid and party buffs
  • Fortitude
  • Mark of the Wild
  • Intellect
  • Spirit
  • Shadow
  • Paladin Auras
  • Players missing Paladin blessings and which ones and which Paladin is slacking giving out their blessings
  • Drums of Forgotten Kings
  • Drums of the Wild
  • Runescroll of Fortitude

• Single buffs
  • Amplify Magic
  • Focus Magic
  • Thorns on melee tanks
  • Earth Shield on melee tanks
  • Vigilance

• Self buffs
  • Scroll
  • Food buff
  • Flask or Battle and Guardian elixir
  • Protection Paladin Righteous Fury
  • Paladin Seal
  • Hunter Aspect
  • Priest Inner Fire
  • Warlock Fel Armor
  • Shaman Water Shield
  • Mage Armor
  • Hunter Trueshot Aura
  • Shaman weapon buff
  • Warlock weapon buff
  • Death Knight Bone Shield
  • Death Knight Presence
  • Vampiric Embrace

• Warning situations
  • Check someone has a soul stone
  • AFK
  • PVP
  • Dead (Right click to auto-rez)
  • Offline
  • In different zone
  • Hunter Aspect of the Pack or Cheetah
  • Well Fed but slacking
  • Paladin Crusader Aura
  • Tanks that have vigilance on them
  • Checks that paladins don't have shadow aura and priest shadow aura as they don't stack
  • Chars with less than 80% mana
  • Chars with less than 80% health
  • Low durability (when raiders have oRA/2 installed)
  • Hunter missing Mammoth Cutters + Saronite Razorheads + Shatter Rounds + Iceblade Arrow
  • Warlock missing Soul Shards

• Talent specialisation reports
  • Priests with improved Spirit and Power Word: Fortitude
  • Priests with Lightwell and Circle of Healing
  • Druids with Improved Mark of the Wild, Earth and Moon and Improved Faerie Fire
  • Warlock healthstone talents and Demonic Pact
  • Paladins with Sanctuary, Sacred Cleansing, improved Devotion and Retribution, Aura Mastery
  • Warriors with improved Demo Shout, Battle Shout and Vigilance
  • Shamans with Earth Shield
  • Death Knight Anti-Magic Zone and Ebon Plaguebringer
  • Mages with improved Amplify Magic

• UI features
  • Ctrl-click a self buff and the addon whispers those who need it.
  • Ctrl-click a party buff and the addon whispers the person who casts it and tells them who needs it.
  • The whispering of party buff casters is intelligent and it will only whisper those who have spent the most talent points in improving the buff.
  • Start ready-check button.
  • It tells you how long someone was AFK, Offline, PVP or dead.
  • It can hide selected dashboard items on entering combat to reduce the size and only show what matters in combat.
  • It can hide the dashboard entirely when in combat.
  • Party based buffs show in the tooltip who the buffers are.
  • Role information and main tank lists are parsed to be able to know who is a tank. A button, disabled by default, shows whom RBS thinks is a tank based on tank list, spec and spells cast on them.
  • You can change the colour and alpha of the window.

• Help you to buff
  • Alt-click on a self buff will renew that buff
  • Alt-click on a party buff will cast a spell on someone in a party missing that buff. If 4 or more people are missing, the longer reagent buff will be cast otherwise the shorter one.

• Tank taunt warnings
  • Warns you when one of your taunts fails (this is what all taunt addons do)
  • Warns you self when other people's taunts to your target fail (again most taunt addons do this)
  • Warns you when someone else taunts your target
  • Warns you when someone else taunts your target which is targeting you
  • Warns you when someone else who is not a tank taunts your target
  • Warns you when someone else targets a mob and taunts that mob which is targeting you
  • Option to only apply to bosses

• Crowd Control break warnings
  • Warns when a tank breaks CC
  • Warns when a non-tank breaks CC

• Death warnings
  • Warns when tank dies
  • Warns when melee DPS dies
  • Warns when ranged DPS dies
  • Warns when healer dies

• Food Raid Warning Announce
  • Fish Feast
  • Refreshment Table
  • Soul Well
  • Repair Bot

Tank warnings

This feature warns you about people taunting your target. It has different warnings according to who taunts; taunts, ninja taunts (someone taunting your target you are tanking), your taunt fails, other people's taunt fails and when a non-tank taunts your target. Ninja taunts are when the mob is targeting you which, in theory, means you are tanking it. It might be changed to take into account threat but so far it seems reliable without that.

The most interesting feature is that it can even tell you about mobs being taunted off you which you are not even targeting.

How to use it

When you join a party or raid the dashboard main window will open. (Alternatively click on the mini-map icon to toggle the dashboard open and closed). It will automatically know what to check for. If you want to disable a check then click the icon representing that spell. Click again to re-enable. RBS does not know if you want to check for Shadow Protection so that one single button you will have to disable or re-enable as needed.

To report to raid or party click Trash or Boss. You need to be in a party or in a raid and be the leader or assistant to do this. Trash assumes all buffs except elixirs and soul stone. Boss assumes all buffs. To report only on one buff, Shift-Click on the icon for that buff. To send a whisper to someone missing a buff, Control-Click on the icon for that buff.

It is as simple as that.

To initiate a ready check click R button.

To view the spec information on people in the raid click the top left menu button. This window can be sorted by any of the columns by clicking on the buttons above the column itself. The spec is gathered as soon as a person is within inspection range and cached for the duration of the raid. Considering you will have to gather up at the start or outside before you begin it is highly likely to have all the info when you need it.

In the top right there is a menu button which opens an options window. In that window you can do things like configure which buffs to check and when and so on.

Raiders in groups 6, 7 and 8 are ignored for buff checking as these groups are often used for substitutes. This is configurable.

Dual Spec

RBS copes with Dual Spec by re-reading talent specs any time they change it. You need take no action when someone changes spec as it is completely automatic.

Tank List

RBS tries to automatically spot who the tanks are. It does this in two steps. First it looks at the tank list. (Every raid uses a tank list right?) It can use many tank list systems in common use including anything compatible with the Blizzard tank list, oRA2, ctra, or xperl. Then it looks at the talents and class of the players on the list to check they could tank. It will ignore players who are not tanks (eg Priests) that are only being used for following DPS or other scenarios.

Support

For support, problems, feature suggestions, etc go here: http://www.wowace.com/projects/raidbu.../tickets/

Forum

For comments go here: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=11183...

Screen shots

http://www.wowace.com/projects/raidbu.../images/

Gold Donation

If you like the addon then why not send the character Danielbarron on the Kul Tiras server on the Europe servers some gold? Total gold donated so far - about 194g.