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Floating Combat Text of awesomeness.

Displays Events from the combatlog (damage, healing, ...) as moving text and numbers across the Screen. It also supports various other Events (Loot, Cooldowns, ...). Further Parrot offers a Trigger-system to display Text and play sounds on certain predefined events (e.g. Nightfall for Warlocks).

Localization

If you want to translate Parrot into your language (or update an existing translation) please do so here.

FAQ

Q: "I created a custom Trigger doing <something>. Is it worthy to be in parrots default triggers?"
A: In many cases it is. If you want to contribute a custom trigger to be added to the default triggers, please post a ticket where you describe *exactly* how you set it up. I can't figure that out for every class and every spec.

Q: "Parrot is not showing heals, but it's enabled in the options"
A: Since 3.2 WoW displays every full overheal in the combatlog (even for HoTs). That's why Parrot v1.9.0+ contains an option in Events to "Hide full overheals" which is enabled by default to avoid unnecessary spam.

Q: ''I want to use custom fonts and sounds in Parrot, but there are none available'
A: Parrot doesn't provide sounds or additional fonts (only the fonts included in WoW) For additional fonts and sounds please install SharedMedia.
To use custom sounds and fonts see the "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia.txt" in the SharedMedia-folder.

Q: "Whenever I /reload or log back in again, parrot auto-hides blizzard's default outgoing damage text (the one above the mob in question). Is there any way to avoid having to enable blizz's functions all the time?
A: When enabled Parrot manages the settings for Blizzard FCTs damage- and heal-display. You can enable these features to be used with Parrot in the config (General->Game damage/healing)

Q: "Sometimes when Looting stackable items, the stackcount is off. Why isn't this fixed?"
A: The problem is, that the Interface-event for the Loot is sometimes triggered before, and sometimes after the item was put in the bag (depending on lag). If anyone knows a solution that does not involve constantly polling the bags' content, I'm open to suggestions.

Questions

If you need help with some option, trigger, or whatever use the Parrot-forum on wowace for any questions you might have (please no bug-reports).

Feature Requests

To make a feature Request please use the ticket-system.
Before making a feature Request please make sure that the current alpha does not contain the feature already.

Also check if there is a similar feature request among the open tickets already (and maybe join the discussion there).

Bugs

Please use the ticket-system

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_ForgeUser6469228
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Posted Nov 9, 2014
ty mate

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Posted Nov 1, 2014
I'm having to use MSBT which I'm not too happy about due to the lack of customization. PLEASE UPDATE!!!!!

Just read that parrot is no longer being updated - check their website. Well....that sucks....

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Posted Oct 28, 2014
Update please :(

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Posted Oct 24, 2014
I would also like a confirmation that this addon will be updated. Been using it since Wrath and don't wanna switch.

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Posted Oct 19, 2014
Any news on when Parrot will be updated to support 6.0.2?

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Posted Oct 22, 2014
Anyone with abit LUA-knowledge should be able to do it. As it's only crits that does not update as sticky. Atleast I see nothing else that does not work. So I guess it's just new APIs or similar. Could someone look into this? :)

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Posted Oct 19, 2014
Crits doesn't show as sticky anymore. They just show as regular hits. I really don't want to use any other addon, and this is the only thing that doesn't work for me now since 6.02.

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Posted Oct 19, 2014
Quote from catonbreak »

Crits doesn't show as sticky anymore. They just show as regular hits. I really don't want to use any other addon, and this is the only thing that doesn't work for me now since 6.02.

Same for me. Anyone have a quick fix?

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Posted Oct 19, 2014
I've actually been noticing that crit hot/dot ticks are showing as sticky, but everything else isn't. i.e: A crit flame shock tick is sticky, but not a lava burst.

But yeah, a fix would be nice.

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Posted Oct 29, 2014
Edit the Data\CombatEvents.lua, line 427 and line 471

to:

local numCrit = info.throttleCount_isCrit_true or 0

Now we get crits sticky, but I don't know how to fix damageThrottleFunc.

Yes, the (%d hit, %d crit) don't work. I had never seen this after my fix.

I only get "1234(3++)" single line after casting flamestrike.

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Posted Oct 18, 2014
WoD 6.02 pre-patch changed the Druid stance numbering.

So the secondary trigger condition, Druid Form no longer works as expected. Currently, I have to change my custom "Cat form" triggers to "Aquatic form" for them to work.

previously: 0=caster, 1=bear, 2=aquatic, 3=cat, 4=travel, 5=moonkin

now: 0=caster, 1=bear, 2=cat, 3=travel(all types combined), 4=moonkin

There may be others.

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Posted Feb 26, 2014
I have some problem with reputations. Its a bug or something with blizz system but this addon cant show the reputation with faction what have boosted by Commendation stuffs. I tought this is a random issue, but today I have used the commendation for Kirin Tor Offensive and the addon stopped showing the reputation gain with them aswell after that. Anyone else have this problem and/or can fix it please? I love this addon, but this bug is rly annoying as im a reputation jerk. :PThanks

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Posted Feb 5, 2014
Im getting a 504 to the tickets link.

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Posted Feb 3, 2014
I am having difficulty with the suppresion feature. If I want to keep a specific ability from popping up, (deep wounds in my outgoing scroll area) what else do I need to put in the edit box besides [Deep Wounds]?

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Posted Dec 15, 2013
Hi!
I have a problem with this addon:

After my money loot (for example, 10s, 45c) I'm getting a wrong message like "Loot +10|r45|r".

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Posted Nov 8, 2013
What's the (1x, 2++) behind damage and how do I remove it from showing please? :)

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Posted Nov 24, 2013
That's what I was about to report... Same in MSBT, on XCT+ it works.

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Posted Sep 13, 2013
Absorbs is showing as default combat text not as my predefined global text i have it set? how do i fix that?

Here is a picture of what I'm talking about: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/qmi8.jpg/

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Posted Feb 3, 2014
It's all incoming heals for me.

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Posted Sep 10, 2013
The ticket-system is bugged now, so I report this here (maybe I will do it again in the ticketsystem):
The short numbers option (Parrot->Events->Shorten Amounts) seems not work for all catagories. All Damage and Overheal Numbers will be shorten. But for example Healing and Falling Damage will not be shorten.
I tried to to reset to default settings, but it didn't helped.

I'm using Parrot for years, and want to thank you this way :)

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