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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- #12
Zeksie Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:30:10
Thanks Kheldarn. Don't have a warlock, so I was relying on exactly this kind of reply from someone. Fixed in r52 :)
- #11
Kheldarn Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:44:36
data.lua, lines 861, 867 The number 17803 ("Improved Shadow Bolt") should be 17800 ("Shadow Mastery"). Shadow Mastery is the actual buff being applied by the new ISB.

Perhaps this should be done with a mapping, but what warlock is gonna use the other ranks of that talent anyway? :)

Anyway, quick fix for those interested until it gets fixed. (Bug report has been made).
- #10
BlueRage Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:39:11
Awesome Addon. Could be possible to configure the shown debuffs or buffs on the Bar so i can remove especific melee or caster ones that i dont care?
- #9
WuFnA Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:27:19
Is it maybe possible to make the addon work on fokus target instead of target?

i'm a healer & a raid leader. to keep track of my targets debuffs simply doesn't help me a lot. with focus target this addon could be a great help.

oh sorry, alread ticket open for that. :/
- #8
BlueRage Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:36:05
Could be possible to remove some of the icons so i can ignore debuffs that i dont care about? (lets say all the spell related ones to a melee or the melee ones to a caster)
- #7
Jiminimonka Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:45:16
Would it be possible that when you mouseover a debuff (during a raid) that it shows which player(s) can apply the debuff so I can remind them before the fight starts to keep it up (I know it kicks in like this once the fight starts)
- #6
Auraka Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:11:15
A thought comes to mind. Instead of dimming debuffs that the raid can't even apply (since the information is n/a) why not have the bar collapse unavailable debuffs. This would just save some screen retail, and make at glance be much clearer. Also if red is off, green makes a rather good "on" ;)
As always, a must have for me now. As zomgbuffs is. Thanks for all your hard work, it's much appreciated. :D
- #5
Zeksie Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:11:02
Good point killmore, I'll work something out :)
- #4
killmore Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:38:19
great addon !
I'm a healer and I want to use this addon in raid, the problem is, I need to target the boss/mob to know about the debuff on the target.
Any way to work with focus target instead of direct target?
- #3
Zeksie Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:59:05
No, It'll remain a seperate mod. I was going to make it a module in ZOMG, but decided the target audience would in some cases be mutually exclusive.