RaidBuffStatus

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Contents 1 About 1.1 The USPs (unique selling points) of RaidBuffStatus are 1.2 Current checking abilities at version 2.02 2 How to use it 3 Support 4 Screen shots 5 Future 6 Advert 7 Gold Donation

About

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

RaidBuffStatus is an addon to check, show and report on the buff status of a party or raid. It shows the information on a dashboard much like XRS and has the flask and elixir checking of Bigbrother. It can report the status to raid chat like XRS does. It can also report to a window the talent spec and any special abilities such as improved spirit. However it is quite unlike XRS, Bigbrother and most other buff checking addons. It is the first released addon to intelligently, in an automagic way, know what buffs to check for. For example if a Priest has spirit buff talent only will it check for spirit and only if there is a Mage will it check for intellect buff and it will check for Omen of Clarity only if the talent point has been spent. And so on. It does as much as it can automatically. Another example is it does not check the buffs of those not in the same zone.

Addons like XRS require lots of initial configuration. RBS works with no configuration out of the box.

The USPs (unique selling points) of RaidBuffStatus are

1. Automagically knows what buffs to check for according to the party or raid members CLASSES and TALENTS so the only check you have to manually enable or disable is shadow protection (but it auto switches off when no priest is in the raid).
2. Works out of the box with no configuration needed.
3. Very simple to use.
4. Covers all buffs including consumables.
5. Trash and Boss checking. Boss checking assumes flasks/elixirs needed but this is configurable.
6. Small.
7. Has 2 levels of warning: Missing Buff and just Warning.
8. Works in party AND raid.
9. As well as report to raid/party it has a dashboard for quick glancing and for example finding out who has the soul stone.
10. Reports on talent specialisations.
11. Development is rapid and more features are added all the time.

It is designed for level 70 raiding and partying but will work at any level.

Current checking abilities at version 2.02

• Fortitude
• Mark of the Wild
• Intellect
• Spirit
• Shadow
• Checks that paladins don't have shadow aura and priest shadow aura as they don't stack
• Food buff
• Flask or Battle and Guardian elixir
• AFK
• PVP
• Dead
• Offline
• In different zone
• There is a different aura per paladin per group
• All paladins have an aura
• Paladins for Crusader Aura
• Chars with < 80% mana
• Chars with < 80% health
• Hunter with no aspect
• Hunter with aspect of the pack or cheetah
• Protection paladin with no Righteous Fury
• Check someone has a soul stone
• Inner Fire
• Fel Armor
• Improved Spirit
• Improved Mark of the Wild
• Warlock healthstone talents
• Druids who have the Omen of Clarity talent point that they have self buffed with it
• Reports on Priests with Lightwell ability
• Reports on Priests with improved Power Word: Fortitude.
• Reports on Paladins with Kings and Sanctuary.
• Reports on Warriors with improved Demo Shout.
• Reports on Warriors with improved Battle Shout.
• Mage has an armor self buff.
• Check for Priests, Mages and Warlocks with Blessing of Might. And Rogues with Blessing of Wisdom.
• Checks for players obviously missing Paladin blessings.
• Checks for Amplify Magic.
• Checks the flasks are correct for the zone, eg Unstable at Gruul.
• 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.
• Checks for temporary weapon buffs. Range limited to inspect range.
• Checks for mele dps with a temporary weapon buff and are in a group with an enhancement shaman.
• Party based buffs show in the tooltip who the buffers are.
• 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 3 or more people are missing, the longer reagent buff will be cast otherwise the shorter one.
• 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.
• Warning for mele tanks missing thorns.
• Warning for tanks with salvation.
• Checks for hunters missing Trueshot Aura when they have the talent spent.
• You can change the colour and alpha of the window.

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.

Support

http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=11839

Screen shots

Screen shot of some of the raid report being tested by the Spanish translator (Tanagra):

The dashboard:

Raid report in English:

The talent specialisation report window:

The options window:

Future

The todo list is huge. Many more buffs like scrolls and oils will be added in the future. Many more talent reports will be added. Please ask for features on the forum linked above.

Advert

This addon is brought to you by the Guild Barron of Senatus Redux: http://senatus.nl/

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?