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Category: Buff/Debuff/Spell Mods

Addon Information

Author:	lieandswell [more]
Version:	2.2
Date:	05-10-2009 09:31 PM
Size:	45.32 Kb
Downloads:	26,237
Favorites:	386
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NeedToKnow allows you to monitor specific buffs and debuffs of your choosing as timer bars that always appear in a consistent place on your screen in a consistent color. It's especially useful for monitoring frequently used short-duration buffs and debuffs. For example, a rogue could configure NeedToKnow to show timer bars for Slice and Dice, Rupture, and their own stack of Deadly Poison VII. A death knight could use it to track their own diseases on a mob. NeedToKnow also works with procs and on-use trinkets. The number, size, position, and appearance of timer bars are all customizable.

New in latest version (2.2)

- Added option to show bars with a fixed maximum duration
- Fixed an issue with targetoftarget
- Added koKR and deDE localization

Instructions

General options are available in the Blizzard interface options menu. You can type "/needtoknow" or "/ntk" to lock/unlock the addon. To configure individual bars, right click them while unlocked. Bars work while locked.

When entering your settings, be careful with your spelling and capitalization. Also remember that buffs and debuffs sometimes have different names than the items and abilities that apply them. The Death Knight ability Icy Touch, for example, applies a DoT called Frost Fever.

To do list

Add support for tracking multiple (de)buffs with a single bar. Add options to customize text display.

Note

The reminder icons from previous versions of NeedToKnow have been greatly expanded in functionality and split off into their own addon: TellMeWhen

Change Log - NeedToKnow

Version 2.2
- Added option to show bars with a fixed maximum duration
- Fixed an issue with targetoftarget
- Added koKR localization. Thanks, metalchoir!
- Added deDE localization. Thanks, sp00n & Fxfighter!

Version 2.1
- Updated for WoW 3.1
- Can now track spells cast by player's pet or vehicle
- Can now track buffs/debuffs on player's vehicle
- Added options for background color, bar spacing, bar padding, bar opacity
- Fixed a problem with buff charges not showing as consumed

Version 2.0.1
- Updated for WoW 3.0
- Can now track (de)buffs applied by others
- Added option to only show buffs/debuffs if applied by self

Version 2.0
- Added support for monitoring debuffs
- Added support for variable numbers of bars
- Added support for separate groups of bars
- Added support for monitoring buffs/debuffs on target, focus, pet, or target of target
- Bars are now click-through while locked
- Reminder icons have been been greatly expanded in functionality and split off into their own addon: TellMeWhen
- Cleaner bar graphics
- Users of older versions will need to re-enter settings

Version 1.2
- Updated for WoW 2.4 API changes

Version 1.1.1
- Icons should now work properly with item cooldowns.
- Reset button should now work properly when you first use the AddOn.

Version 1.1
- Icons will now show when reactive abilities (Riposte, Execute, etc.) are available.
- Added options for bar color and texture.
- Added graphical user interface. Most slash commands gone.
- Added localization support. Translations would be much appreciated.
- Users of older version will need to re-enter settings.

Version 1.0
- Hello world!

Archived Versions - NeedToKnow

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
NeedToKnow	2.1	76kB	lieandswell	04-28-2009 10:44 PM
NeedToKnow	2.0.1	70kB	lieandswell	10-18-2008 09:53 AM

Comments - NeedToKnow

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02-10-2007, 09:49 AM
seebs A Warpwood Thunder Caller Forum posts: 95 File comments: 135 Uploads: 5	Inverting the sense of reminders? I'm not sure exactly what I'm thinking of here, but the idea that occurred to me is that I really never care about Arcane Intellect unless it has less than two minutes left. Then I suddenly start caring. So, it might be cool to have a "show only if less than N seconds" option on the bars. Most importantly, though, I want the bar to be there if I don't have my buff. (This is especially true of my poor sad druid, who has no fewer than THREE buff spells to keep up.) The reminder buttons might be usefully extended to show you a given spell/ability only if you don't currently have it on, not just when the cooldown has expired.

01-30-2007, 10:53 AM
frosty69 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	the mod looks pretty sweet in general. id still like to use the bars for cooldowns too instead of buff fades, as displaying abilities with short CDs like fireblast, CoC and blink (ye, im not a rogue ;P) would be very convenient via the bars. thus, making the bars a bit more customizable would clearly be nice

01-27-2007, 06:49 PM
lieandswell A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 28 File comments: 14 Uploads: 8	Re: Reminder icons Thanks for the bug notice, Discordant. Should be fixed in 1.1.1.

01-25-2007, 07:56 AM
Discordant A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	Remindericons! First off id like to thank for the perfect addon for my rogue. Its the one addon that made my UI just perfect I cant get the remindericons to work properly though, and allthough i dont really need reminding, it would be awesome to get them working, seeing as theyre implemented in the addon and all. My problem is trinkets, and their inability to show up as remindericons. Ive tested with Insignia of the Alliance and the new "Earthstrikeish" trinket, Bladefist's Breadth. Ive tested with showing reminders in and out of combat. When the trinkets are cooled down, their icons show up for a splitsecond, then disappear and stay gone. The remindericon for Cold Blood works perfectly. Any suggestion to what i could possibly do to make it work properly? Big thanx in advance!

01-17-2007, 09:53 PM
lieandswell A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 28 File comments: 14 Uploads: 8	Update Version 1.1 - Icons will now show when reactive abilities (Riposte, Execute, etc.) are available. - Added options for bar color and texture. - Added graphical user interface. Most slash commands gone. - Added localization support. Translations would be much appreciated. - Users of older version will need to re-enter settings.

01-17-2007, 09:51 PM
lieandswell A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 28 File comments: 14 Uploads: 8	Thanks for the kind words, kazamx. Tracking debuffs on mobs or other players is much much more complicated than tracking them on yourself. You have to 'figure out' information that Blizzard deliberately witholds from the UI. It involves a whole lot of extra code, making the AddOn bigger and slower. And since there are other AddOns that do it already, I don't see myself tackling that problem anytime in the near future. Sorry.

01-12-2007, 07:16 PM
kazamx A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Can I start by saying this Mod is FANTASTIC, thank you and well done. If I may be a real pain and beg grovel and plead for you to make a Mod just like this but shows debuffs to a mob. As a Druid I would love to be able to see Bash, Maim, Moonfire, Entangaling roots etc. I know there are other mods out there that do this sort of thing, but your design is just so nice. Once again thank you

01-03-2007, 08:36 PM

lieandswell

A Fallenroot Satyr

Forum posts: 28

File comments: 14

Uploads: 8

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Originally posted by Bashui
. . . something like this, but that tells me if my target is NOT debuffed with certain debuffs that I can cast.

What you're talking about is definitely doable, but it's not in this mod and should probably be a separate mod in itself. Basically it'd be like the cooldown icon bar here, but the icons would show when your target doesn't have the relevant debuff. You should make it.

You could even cannibalize my icon code and just rewrite the Show()/Hide() conditions.

Note: It wouldn't be able to distinguish between 'your' debuff and one that someone else cast, though. Blizzard delibrately keeps that functionality out of the addon API.

01-03-2007, 07:46 PM
Bashui A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 4 File comments: 3 Uploads: 2	One thing that I would like, and have kinda been working on is something like this, but that tells me if my target is NOT debuffed with certain debuffs that I can cast. Does this support something like this, or is that something that could be added?

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