WeakAuras

WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows you to display highly customizable graphics on your screen to indicate buffs, debuffs, and a whole host of similar types of information. It was originally meant to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras, but it now incorporates many features that Power Auras does not, while still remaining more efficient and easy to use.

Features include:

An intuitive and powerful configuration interface
Custom textures including all textures from Power Auras and the new Cataclysm spell alerts
Progress bars and textures that show the exact duration of auras
Displays based on auras, health, power (mana, rage, soul shards, holy power, etc.), cooldowns, combat events, runes, totems, items, and many other triggers
Preset and user-defined animations
Custom side-effects such as chat announcements or sounds
Grouping, which allows multiple displays to be positioned and configured at the same time
CPU optimizations such as conditional loading/unloading of displays, modularity, and prevention of full aura scanning
Powerful customization options, such as animation paths, on-show/on-hide code, and custom triggers, for Lua-savvy users

To open the options window, type "/wa" or "/weakauras"

Note: WeakAuras works better with more media!

SharedMedia for more bar textures.
SharedMediaAdditionalFonts for more fonts.

For in-depth documentation, see the Usage page.

For some examples of what WeakAuras can do, see the Examples page!

News

1.4.0 is released! Many new features were added, including:
- Auto-cloning: a feature available for multi-target, group, and full-scan Auras that will automatically duplicate your display to show multiple sources of information
- Dynamic Text options for Progress Bar and Icon displays
- A Circular growth option for Dynamic Group displays
- Specific Unit options for all triggers that use a Unit option - this allows you to watch only a specific group member, or use the boss1, boss2, etc. unit IDs to watch bosses
- A new display type, Model, which allows you to display any 3D model from the game files on your screen
- Third-party addons can now define pre-made displays that can be quickly and seamlessly integrated into your configuration
- Localization for German, Russian, and Chinese, and partial localization for French
- WeakAurasTutorials, a framework for displaying in-game step-by-step assistance, along with two pre-made tutorials:
  - Beginners Guide: A guide through WeakAuras' basic configuration options
  - New in 1.4: See the new features of WeakAuras 1.4
Examples!

Upcoming

Upcoming:

More Tutorials, for more advanced features
Documentation updated for 1.4

Problem?

Please see the Usage page.
If you need help with your set-up, post in the Forum.
If you've discovered something that's clearly wrong, or if you get an error, Post a Ticket.
If you have a general comment or concern, feel free to comment on the main page!

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- #355
Twopro Dec 08, 2012 at 10:48 UTC - 0 likes
Text Auras: i am having a problem with text auras, i create a text aura, i /reload to save it and when its reloaded the text aura is moved to the right slightly. what is causing this ?
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- #354
ZzmuadDibzZ Dec 02, 2012 at 13:07 UTC - 0 likes
My water Shiel aura for shaman doesn't work anymore since 5.1 update.(try with full name or id 52127). it's look like it can't see if present

I also add lot of problem with time tracker when use icon auras to follow flame shock ... still doesn't appear.

Last edited Dec 02, 2012 by ZzmuadDibzZ
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- #353
Gragagrogog Nov 30, 2012 at 23:42 UTC - 0 likes
For those having problems pulling tooltip info values with custom text functions: Blizzard has changed UnitAura/UnitBuff/UnitDebuff in 5.1.

They switched position of tooltipinfo values and "isCastByPlayer", the tooltip info starts on 15th position now, not 14th as in pre-5.1.
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- #352
Stanzilla Nov 29, 2012 at 16:50 UTC - 0 likes
@angrysteel: Go

Yes I really didn't see that. Commited it now, thank you very much!
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- #351
angrysteel Nov 29, 2012 at 00:59 UTC - 0 likes
@Stanzilla

I notice you are doing most of the updates to Weak Auras. Any chance you can look at http://www.wowace.com/addons/weakauras/forum/39635-display-ordering-and-frame-strata-within-a-group/

Following these steps allows you to set up Weak Auras as a priority cast sequence addon. Basically stacking a bunch of icons ontop of each other, and the one with the highest priority will show above the others.

I have been doing this for months, and have seen no ill effects with Weak Auras, but everytime there is an update here, i need to go back and edit the code again.

Any chance of this getting added into the official release? Or is there a reason this functionality isnt currently being included?

Thanks!
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- #350
Twopro Nov 28, 2012 at 01:06 UTC - 0 likes
hey, the latest update doesn't work. fyi. i'm seeing priest auras on my warrior ui and my warrior auras on other characters. just saying.
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- #349
gtadem Nov 27, 2012 at 22:14 UTC - 0 likes
Long time power auras user finally making the switch to weak auras. Having an issue setting up an icon to indicate the time remaining on my Tiger Power buff: The timer isn't in sync with Blizzard's timer. It is off by 1 second. Power auras had a checkbox I could uncheck to stop it from rounding up like this. I see no such option in weak auras. I keep looking and searching online and cannot find any current information. Can anybody help please?

Last edited Nov 27, 2012 by gtadem
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- #348
aeln Nov 22, 2012 at 11:22 UTC - 0 likes
I really love WeakAuras, it really helps me a great deal with rotation and rage management, keeping everything in the middle of the screen.

I was wondering though, are there any plans for a programmable api, perhaps even embedding WeakAuras from lua? It would be kinda awesome if I could set everything up there, since I'm trying to create a portable thing (just for my own use).

Thanks for a great addon!
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- #347
angrysteel Nov 15, 2012 at 01:06 UTC - 0 likes
@puntr

Worked great except the hiding. It definitely triggered when the Monstrosity cast perfectly, but then the icon just stayed on the screen.

I will look at it more, and see if i can fix it. But it should be hiding after 3 seconds. (Maybe 2.5 sec, dont remember the cast time, but 3 seconds is fine).

But atleast the trigger worked, which is much better than i could get going :D

EDIT: Just switched from Custom Hide to just a timed Hide. Havent tested it, but im sure this will work fine.

Last edited Nov 15, 2012 by angrysteel
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- #346
angrysteel Nov 13, 2012 at 06:51 UTC - 0 likes
Will try these out tomorrow. Thanks !