GladiusEx
GladiusEx is an arena unit frames addon based on Gladius.
What's new
New features include:
- Party frames: support for showing frames for your own team
- Cooldown tracker: a highly configurable module for tracking all types of cooldowns
- Skill history: shows the icons of the last few skills used by the unit
- Alerts: makes the frames blink in a noticeable way during some configured events (including low health, auras and specific spells being cast)
- Pets: new module for displaying pet bars
- Interrupts: See the interrupts directly on your arena & party frames.
And the classic modules, most of which have been improved in various ways:
- Auras: now with more filtering options
- Class Icon: new display modes: by spec, role and portraits
- Cast Bar: now shows which spells can't be interrupted
- DR Tracker: track the diminishing returns timers on both the enemy team and your team. Now lets you select which icon you want displayed for every category!
- Health Bar: now displays incoming heals and absorbs
- Tags: configure every text to show exactly what you want, now with more built-in tags and improved performance
FAQ
How do I bring the user interface up ?
You can use the /gex slash command, or you can access the options from the addons tab in the interface panel.
Where did the trinket and the dispels modules go ?
They have been replaced by the cooldowns module, which now allows you to have several groups of cooldowns configured independently. By default, the trinket cooldown is shown in group 2 and a few other cooldowns in group 1.
What is that additional set of frames that I see ?
Those are the party frames. This is incremental functionality that will help you track not only your enemies but also your friends. If you use your own you can turn these easily off in the general settings. You can also disable only your own frame, but keep the GladiusEx party frames.
Is it possible to have text timers for the auras, cooldowns or the DR icons ?
The timer module has been removed, but this can be achieved with OmniCC or other similar addons.
Bugs and feature requests
Please use the ticket tracker to report any issues or request features.
Please report all the problems and bugs!
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Posted Jun 21, 2013- Awesome.
-Double awesome.
-An option like "Display party frames outside of arena - use this at your own risk, as this is a test option" with an added "Enable / disable this module if in a party of 2 / 3 / 5" or "Enable/disable outside of arena" (if that is even possible) would be triple awesome. I don't really think we need to be talking "viable" here, just no need to run scripts to enable Gex outside of arenas at people's own risk (would completely understand why you wouldn't want to add half-baked solutions though). I think most people, including myself, would just like to not have to run an additional, often basic, party frame addon/module just to run a heroic or scenario from time to time. People who use gex, who found it and know what it does, usually play PvP first and foremost (at least I think so, why else would they need it? :P). Only party-pvp mode is an arena - rest is raid-based. So the only other group modes - dungeons while leveling / heroics / scenarios, are probably secondary for a person who uses a specific, profiled PvP UF addon and they don't really require anything fancy. I think if someone wants to run challenge modes or heroic scenarios they already have party UF suitable for that purpose and won't even notice. For the rest, at least imo, a basic fix (enough to have the UFs there and with working HP/power bars and auras) would suffice to run leveling dungeons and few hcs without the hassle of installing / turning on / off another addon for the sake of it. More than that, it would have an added benefit of being able to get used to Gex before entering an arena, and that is perhaps the most important part.
- Well I havn't really though about the alert important dispellable as a hack. So many addons do this that it seemed right to me (ElvUI party frames with two filters: important and check only dispellable; VuhDo; some configurations of Grid + modules). But I guess you're right - it does sound cheesy now that I think of it.
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Posted Jun 21, 2013As you say, it would be a half-baked solution that IMO would cause more trouble than it is worth. If you really don't want to install other ÚF addon just use the blizzard's party/compact party frames - it wouldn't be much worse than using an addon that fails in random ways. I actually care a lot about making the addon as easy to use and bug free as possible (and I know it is not there yet), so knowingly adding an option that would break the addon is just not going to happen.
Also, note that it is not a list of dispellable auras that would be a hack, but rather the way it is implemented at the moment. The list currently is specific to the class icon module, and as such is independant of other modules. So the list would need to be moved somewhere else where it would be obvious that it is shared by different modules. You would probably also want to categorize it, because while dispeling a stun can be very important, perhaps you don't care that much about roots. And you probably would also want a different set of priorities, because while an unstable affliction may be the most important consideration when dispelling, you may care more about the CCs in the class icon. And having the capability to do all these things without having an overly complex configuration system that most people won't be able to understand is not easy. So yeah, I would like to improve it some day, but meanwhile having to configure the list of auras manually is preferable than another half-baked solution.
Either way, thanks again for your feedback ! I may not agree with every suggestion but I still find valuable to have other people's perspectives on the issues.
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Posted Jun 15, 2013You should consider adding feral cyclone to the cooldowns section (20 sec cd). Also pet frames make a healer's life much easier, just small health bars would be perfect to be honest.
Thanks again!
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Posted Jun 15, 2013I wasn't aware of the feral cyclone cooldown, thanks for pointing that out. It has been added in the current alpha.
Pet frames are a high priority and will be one of the next things added.
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Posted Jun 15, 2013Sweet, looking forward to it.
Couple of more missing CDs I noticed: Remove Curse (baseline for mage) and Survival Instincts for ferals (currently only listed for guardian druids, not sure if that matters). Thunderstorm CD is also reduced by 50% by their 4piece pvp set bonus, from 45 sec to 22,5 sec.
Keep up the good work!
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Posted Jun 15, 2013Fixed those, thanks!
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Posted Jun 14, 2013Hello, love the addon, great work.
It would be nice, though, with an option move the cast bars of the arena frames freely. Personally I like to have them to the side of the frames so they are easier to see for interrupting. =]
edit: also I read someone comment asking to make party frames usable outside arena. I second that wish (but I realise it is hard/impossible/takes time) :)
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Posted Jun 14, 2013Yeah, that would be easy to add and I agree that it could be useful.
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Posted Jun 14, 2013Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply and fix.
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Posted Jun 11, 2013Hello Slaren,
I have a quick question. If I enable "show only dispellable buffs" in gladiusex, I do not see any debuffs for my partyframes. I'm a disc priest so shouldn't I at least see the magic and disease debuffs?
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Posted Jun 11, 2013Yeah, I have just fixed that in the current alpha (you can grab it from the project page at wowace, or wait until I make a new beta). Let me know if it still not working as it should after updating.
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Posted Jun 9, 2013when i go into arena, my party frames bug out and lets say for example, my partners are rogue and priest. the 2 party frames from gladiusex has a priest bar and rogue bar but it is swapped. like rogue has the white priest health bar and the priest has yellow health bar. so rogue would have white health bar but sublety icon on the side. and priest would have yellow health bar but disc priest icon on the side.
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Posted Jun 9, 2013I have never seen that happen and without a way to reproduce it there isn't much I can do about it unfortunately.
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Posted Jun 6, 2013I have a question. Is there a way to enable the GladiusEx Frames inside BGs, too?
I have to switch between Elv UI Arena Frames and GladiusEx Frames. Because I use the GladiusEx Frames inside arena and Elv UI Frames inside BGs cause Gladius doesnt show them.
Is it possible?
Thanks. :-)
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Posted Jun 6, 2013Not at the moment, but I would like to make it possible in the future.
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Posted Jun 5, 2013Great addon ! Instantly adopted it !
Hope it'll be maintained forever :)
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Posted Jun 4, 2013Hey! Great addon you got there! :D
I was wondering if it were possible to make the party frames enabled in normal groups so it isnt just arena? (personal UI involving symmetry)
I quickly looked through your .lua files but didnt seem to find the information to change this.
Thanks in advance! <3
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Posted Jun 4, 2013Not at the moment, but it is something that I am considering doing. However, it would be a lot of work to make the frames work well everywhere, so don't expect it any time soon.
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Posted Jun 4, 2013Oh okay, well i'll look forward to it!
Thanks for the quick response too :)
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Posted Jun 2, 2013I do luv this addon, but i can not figure out how to get the click to cast spells to work? I went under arena/cliciks and set both left and rigth to /fear... ( i'm a lock), but the spells wont cast. i've messed with it as much as possible but cant get it to work. Any idea what i'm doing wrong? lol i'm sure if it were a snake it would bite me.
Thanks in advance