Utopia

(aka: ZOMGDebuffs)

With today's high-end boss fights so tuned for absolutely maximum performance, it's important to know exactly what you're getting from your raiders. Do you have all buffs and debuffs available? Are the all improved? Are they active during the fight? Need to see that they were kept up during the fight?

WoW 3.0 introduced a whole new stacking system for buffs and debuffs. Add to that the myriad of hidden auras that are implied by talents, but don't appear on the tooltips. It's near impossible to look through that ever moving mess of debuffs on a target. It's just too much too look at. Nor should you have to.

So, here's Utopia. It will give you a very concise and clear view of your buffs and debuffs (see the buff display pictured below). With a fixed number of icons, which don't move or change. They'll simply be highlighted in red if missing; otherwise faded if unavailable, bright if present, yellow if present but unimproved, and so on.

Clarity is the key, and how fast you can answer yourself any questions mid-fight. I play a rogue, and because our warriors slack (they like to pretend to dps and moan about Sundering), we can very quickly see whether Sunder Armor is applied and, if it's absent, throw Expose Armor into our cycle. The icon is always in the same place, and always means the same thing.

The Display

Show Melee Icons only, which is an optional mode to show only what is of interest to your class
An arrangement of icons showing the 'classes' of debuff, rather than the traditional specific debuff icons. For example, you will have one single icon representing Sunder Armor and Expose Armor. You don't care which is applied, only that it's there. The same applies to all the myriad of other buffs and debuffs which are now grouped into doing the same job.

By default, these icons are presented thusly:

Dimmed - Your group can't apply this aura
White - Debuff applied
Yellow - Your group has applied this aura but it is an unimproved version. Do you feel dirty?
Red - Your group can apply this aura, but hasn't
Blue - Aura is unavavailable because of a conflicting spell (Blessings, Curses etc.)

Mousing over any of the icons will show the potential of the raid. Highlighted lines show what your raid can do. A Tick shows it's done, a cross means it's not. Next to this you get the values for the auras, and if that's different from the maximum your group can do, this is shown.

Shows details of which spells are available from your group

Anything unavailable will always show the maximum potential value of a debuff with all improved talents, whereas when something is available it will show the maximum that could be done by your raid.

The progress bar will show the percentage that has been debuffed for a quick at-a-glance view.

Standard buff tooltips are enhanced to show you the real values that you're getting from your raid member's buffs. Tooltip Enhancements

Up-Time Module

The new debuff Up-Time recorder will record a fight, when auras are applied, removed, by whom. The DPS for the fight, deaths and significant boss events so that you can examine the timeline of your fight after the fact.

Showing Ignis Fight Overview

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- #22
Zeksie Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:38:36
@Zidomo - I specifically did not include it in the toc/package because I know it's a very very rarely used lib. And I just don't like pulling in stuff when it's not really a big deal. All it's for is translating the spec name. If the lib's found, it'll use it.
- #21
Zidomo Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:18:39
LibBabble-TalentTree-3.0 is referenced in the new Utopia_Details module. But its not going to load or be found with how its currently packaged; it needs to be referred to in the TOC.
- #20
Zidomo Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:40:04
The new library included with r97 (LibBabble-TalentTree-3.0) is not going to be found by the mod if its embedded. The only other mod I've yet seen that uses it is ClassLoot. There are no pointers to it in the TOC or anywhere else.

Zanthor Wed, 27 May 2009 16:42:50

When I try to run this I get:

Interface\AddOns\Utopia\Utopia.lua:3844: Usage: AceDBObject:RegisterDefaults(defaults): 'CASTINGBAR_SR' is not a valid datatype.

Stack trace:
-----------
Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceDB-3.0\AceDB-3.0.lua:234: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceDB-3.0\AceDB-3.0.lua:229>
Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceDB-3.0\AceDB-3.0.lua:282: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceDB-3.0\AceDB-3.0.lua:254>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Utopia\Utopia.lua:3844: in function <Interface\AddOns\Utopia\Utopia.lua:3825>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:502: in function `InitializeAddon'
Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:614: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:607>

This is directly related to Brethern raid frames settings module (OpenRDX package).

- #18
SoNoFu Tue, 26 May 2009 16:26:33
Same result. DCed after 4-10 seconds after logging back in. Another note I forgot to add: If you aren't in range of the rest of the party it will not DC. Once you get close, the DC occurs.
- #17
SoNoFu Tue, 26 May 2009 16:22:55
I love this addon. Very good idea and the visual representation is excellent for RLs that need a quick look to see if debuffs are up. However...

With the most recent patch I was getting disconnects in groups/raid. No errors, just starts lagging and DCs me from the server. I narrowed it to Utopia. All other addons are back on and no DCs. Here's how I tested it: I am grouped with a low level hunter and priest. I continued to turn off addons until it stopped DCing. It did after Utopia. I turned all others back on and no DCs since.

If I had to guess, I'd assume the scan talents function is requesting something the client thinks is an illegal procedure. I'm probably wrong! =)

All of these test are done with the most recent release from Curse. I am going to DL the current release from here and will re-comment on the results.
- #16
Zeksie Sat, 23 May 2009 00:31:32
@Kyldisk: Let me know if that's still happening. Should have nailed most problems though.

@Maxxpower: I'm not sure yet. Have been considering it.
- #15
Maxxpower Tue, 05 May 2009 16:12:39
Hi, nice Addon, finaly I found something better than my DogTags Buff/Debuff List. But I miss one single feature, I want to show Buffs and Debuffs at the same time, preferably in 2 independent windows, is this possible? It would also be nice to show icons in more than one row/collumn.
- #14
Kyldisk Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:51:10
Hiyo! Been trying to find an updated version of this addon for a while now, found it at last :)

However, just noticed something wierd while trying it out solo, while I'm hovering above an applied "Melee attack speed slow" I get the following error msg "Interface/AddOns/Utopia/Utopia.lua:900:Kyldisk's points(2) assumes spell rank(1) is the same for Judgements of the Just"

And I get a similar one if I'm using my Devotion Aura and hovers above the increased healing. Is this a bug or am I failing to set it up correctly?
- #13
Kheldarn Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:21:59
Wow, fast response. :) I was wondering if it was possible to show both the buff and debuff bar at the same time. I basically want to reapply my SW:P when all the buffs & debuffs are up, and a buff like Elemental Oath might not be up 100%.