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Slammer

Version: r14 beta

by: vishnou00 [More]

This is an addon for warrior. It's primary purpose is to help people time their slam attack with a 2-hander. It works in two ways:
-it displays a rather large cooldown bar for your swing timer, counting down to when your next swing should be ready. It is intended to be big so you can see it from the corner of the eye, but feel free to change the size.
-displays the delay between your last hit-slam sequence. The number is precise as I could get it, but it's far from perfect. It helps you to evaluate when you should start casting slam to have both your white hit and your slam, confirming when you messed it due to server hiccup (4.7 hit-slam delay with a 3.6 weapon and a 0.5 sec cast just doesn't add up).

In a pvp context, it helps knowing when you shouldn't bother getting that target, since your attack is on cooldown anyway.

It's also trying to be helpful in many ways:
-displays your rage, in case you go tunnel vision on the bar and the surrounding MS/whirlwind cooldown. Experts can just time it right without focusing on the bar anyway

It's also trying to be more clever than most weapon swing addons:
-evaluates the parry weapon swing acceleration. As the precise time of your parry is mangled by lag, a friendly Parry message appears on the bar, indicating that you should look at animation/combat log to time know when you will swing again. Still, it's the best estimate you can get, as far as I know.
-it's trying to detect if you your last white attack isn't a windfury totem/sword spec proc off a yellow attack and act accordingly (treat the extra attack as an instant attack not resetting the swing timer).
-re-evaluates the weapon speed a bit after a hit so see if a speed altering event occured, such as flurry or Dragonspine Trophy proc.

Finally, a somewhat unrelated feature is the nagger, which reminds your in big white letters to do your part in raid and against elite creatures in general:
-tells you to cast battle shout if you have no shout
-tells you to cast commanding shout if you have battle shout from somebody else
Against raid target:
-tells your to help with sunders, for shade, druid/pally tank or simply busy warrior tanks
-tells you to put up demoralizing shout
-tells you to put up thunder clap

Usage:
Use /slam or /slammer to access options.

Thanks to the Chronographer author for an addon structure that did pretty much what I needed.

Disclaimer:
I did not intend to publish this, so it's a bit messy, but enjoy if it suits your needs.

r14 (beta): (2008-7-7)
-something about Illidan phase 2 tanking. (warns when flame blast happens and 8 seconds later)
b13: (beta) (2008-06-14)
This is kind of my scratchpad version, with no options to disable the newest features. I put it up since I had to update sink-1.0 lib.
What you might notice:
-automatic screenshot upon boss dying.
-spirit shock cast counting (1 2 3 1 2 3 etc) on reliquary of souls. It's ok if you use a 3 interrupters rotation, it will a hell of an annoyance if it is not compatible with your strat (warnings happen in /say while you are alive and /rw when you are dead, release quickly if you fail, or you will spam quite a bit)
-if you have drdamage (an ace addon), any fixed value, armor mitigated damage (thunderclap, hamstring, pummel etc) will be used to estimate target's mitigation from armor and include it in drdamage's calculations for display. I don't remember doing anything to handle absence of drdamage.
r12: (2008-05-13)
Blood Frenzy report after a fight is much nicer, you get top user, % of damage that did benefit from BF compared to the potential damage of BF (e.g. 900 damage happened, 100 was lost due to bleed downtime, you get 90% BF effectiveness). Top users are listed with their Blood Frenzy dps, and a compact ordered list of all who got something out of it.
r11: (2008-05-10)
Continuing the tradition of tacking every warrior related features I use, here are two new ones:
-Blood Frenzy tracking: tracks the extra damage coming (and potential damage lost) from Blood Frenzy. Useful if you are toying around a Blood Frenzy spec and wonder about the lost damage. Can be spammy: 2 + x lines after getting out of combat, x being the number of source benefitting from the debuff. Expect display improvement once I raid with it for a while. Enabled by default (but doesn't show anything if you don't have blood frenzy talent). (/slam bloodfrenzy)
-Interrupt tracking: if the combat log is not enough, tells you whenever anybody interrups a spell with some information regarding the interruption. Disabled by default. (/slam interrupt)
r10: (2008-04-24)
-Warns you if you use MS/BT/SS in defensive stance and have salvation ("Consider clicking off Salvation").
r9: (2008-04-17)
-Clean ups of debug prints (thanks Dridzt)
-OPA revival as Easter Egg
r8: (2008-04-15)
-fixed hit-slam delay display
-individual nag options (bleedtime, buffshouttime, demotime, sundertime, tclaptime) it is the time before fade that it will check. -1 means that nag won't happen
r7: (2008-04-14)
-doesn't nag you about bleed effect if you don't have any talent in Blood Frenzy (raid-wide +4% physical damage is worth noticing, 11 dps bleed is not).
r6: (2008-04-11)
-Updated for 2.4
-More nag: a line periodically do shorthand of current debuffs on the target, so you can be proud of your warlock and druid lowering your target's armor (toggle with /slammer debuffcheck )
-Anchor update fixes (thanks Dridzt)
-Nagger for blood frenzy ("put some bleed up" message, will scan talent in a future version)
r5:
-some lib update
-new anchor code (thanks Chronometer people) for the new "position relative to closest anchor" system in 2.2
-updated TOC
r4:
-sunder count bugfix
r3:
-anchor now resizes with the bar
-setting to reverse bar and disable nagger
-extra attack detection
-changed nagger cooldown
r2:
-corrected many bugs in the buff shout nagger part
-corrected the click-through issue near the anchor
r1:
-initial release

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04-11-08, 09:18 AM
vishnou00 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 37 Uploads: 2	Thanks for the patch, I had a 2.4 version working for a few days now, just didn't get around uploading it. I will see if you did it better, my fix was always somewhat hackish, and I think some features were cut (but I don't remember if those were released... mostly debuff tracking, so you can see what is on the mob. Did Demon's jub, but spitting the output through sink then most combat text addons) Last edited by vishnou00 : 04-11-08 at 09:20 AM.

04-04-08, 05:17 PM
Dridzt A Pyroguard Emberseer Forum posts: 1360 File comments: 829 Uploads: 56	You're trying to 'weave' your slams in between your auto-attacks. Slam delays the swing timer until it hits.. so if you begin to cast slam as you were about to auto-attack (but haven't yet), your auto-attack will not happen until slam has landed which is alot of wasted time. You need to be casting slam as close as possible to the start of your swing timer, and this is what this addon helps with by visualizing it.

04-01-08, 03:50 PM
Tchernobyl A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 16 Uploads: 0	Okay, so maybe i'm blind but.. what am i watching out for? when am i supposed to slam and whatnot? ` Explain for this nub!

03-27-08, 09:39 AM
Dridzt A Pyroguard Emberseer Forum posts: 1360 File comments: 829 Uploads: 56	2.4 compat Hello, I've updated Slammer for the 2.4 combatlog changes. Check your PM for a link to new package Hope it's of use. Edit: I'll upload as an optional patch (will be the full distribution in reality) Last edited by Dridzt : 03-27-08 at 12:38 PM.

02-07-08, 12:11 AM

vishnou00

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Dridzt
Any special reason the bar shows only for 2H or 1H/Shield?

I don't know how to sort out a main-hand or off-hand hit, so the bar always reset. I guess you could have two bars and try to identify the hit by the amount of damage, but I don't know if it would be that useful (i.e. worth the work). Even if you had equal speed weapon, you would also likely desync after a while because of flurry.

For whirlwind, it is likely because it thinks it's an extra attack. The log is kinda annoying because the hit usually happens before the extra attack message, so I guess I would have to assume both extra attack and and no extra attack happened until I can confirm later with the extra attack message (or lack of thereof).

It would be nice if the new log could put some more info about the nature of each white strike (main hand, off hand, extra from sword spec or windfury). Or even better, make the cooldown to your next attack available through the API, obsoleting most of this addon!

01-29-08, 08:30 PM
Dridzt A Pyroguard Emberseer Forum posts: 1360 File comments: 829 Uploads: 56	Little question. Any special reason the bar shows only for 2H or 1H/Shield? I know "why"... line 264 or thereabouts has a Code: local mainSpeed, offSpeed = UnitAttackSpeed("player"); if offSpeed == nil then but I don't know why

10-19-07, 01:03 AM
nsl41288 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	only a few things remain to make it perfect, although I'm perfectly content as it is, but this mod has really good potential after a windfury the bar goes blank and wont show til you hit him again anchor bar does not auto resize, but will resize if you exit wow and enter again also anchor bar seems to be mis aligned with the actual bar, or at least mine is they don't really matter too much because just wait til you see the bar again if your gonna slam and only use the anchor bar 1 time then you'll never mess with it again unless your doin some big ui overhaulin

10-16-07, 08:13 AM
nsl41288 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	hooray it stays now! you da man!

10-15-07, 09:18 PM
vishnou00 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 37 Uploads: 2	Well, you're in luck, I tried resetting my profile and got the same problem as you. Expect r5 at some point taking a shot at this problem. Update: fresh out of the oven. Enjoy Last edited by vishnou00 : 10-15-07 at 10:17 PM.

10-15-07, 08:43 AM
vishnou00 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 37 Uploads: 2	I did not get the saved variables issue, but saving variables isn't my code, so I would have to research the problem. In the meantime, you can check if the libs need updating, or hardcode the position (i.e. hardcode the default values to what you use, around line 64 "local defaults = {"). If I'm get on the raid waitlist, I might look into a more convinient solution. Just a hunch about the misblaced bar: 2.2 changed the way frames are anchored, so try to reset to the default profile once. Killing your frame cache in WTF might help too, but be aware that it is likely to misplace many other frames (damage meters, clocks, misc bars). About wowace.com hosting, an administration issue I don't care enough to correct prevents me from using it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

10-12-07, 08:57 AM
Kaladryn A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	I'm having the exact same problem as the previous poster, it seems that every time I relog, Slammer positions itself off of my screen. My only solution is to reset the addon and then reload my UI after every log on. Other than that I love it, and it's really helping me get the most out of slam.

10-10-07, 09:49 PM
nsl41288 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	some bugs This addon works great the first time, i absolutely love it. But, when i exit wow and load it up again, the bar has disappeared and cannot be found at all. Even doing /slam anchor will not show any of it Also, I use a bunch of other ace 2 mods, but yours isn't on wowace.com you should put it up on there and make sure its getting on the wowace updater so i can update it through that like all my other mods Edit: the remedy that i have for this now is deleting the slammer.lua and slammer.lua.bak in wtf\account\accountname\savedvariables folder but i have to do this everytime and have to reconfigure it, must be a problem with the saved variable Last edited by nsl41288 : 10-11-07 at 11:42 PM.

09-19-07, 09:00 AM

vishnou00

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Sqalls
Yeah vishnou00 thanks alot it works. "Not to complain" but I alson wanted the timer to change sides (because of the way my ui is set up) lol, but its perfectly fine like that.

There is no parameter for text placement in CandyBar (which I use since I don't want to code my bars), so it's not likely to be coming any time soon. You can check around f.timertext:SetPoint("LEFT", f.statusbar, "LEFT", 0, 0) and see if changing LEFT for RIGHT do your thing, in CandyBar.lua. I won't.

Last edited by vishnou00 : 09-19-07 at 09:02 AM.

09-18-07, 08:13 PM
Sqalls A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 6 Uploads: 0	Yeah vishnou00 thanks alot it works. "Not to complain" but I alson wanted the timer to change sides (because of the way my ui is set up) lol, but its perfectly fine like that. Ill be waiting for your next version, thanks alot mate !! Edit: Also, I forgot to add that the timer that tells you how late your slam was is very helpful, since I'm tweaking my interface to better evaluate the cue to cast slam in pvp. Last edited by Sqalls : 09-18-07 at 08:16 PM.

09-18-07, 05:32 AM
Taion A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	Thank you it work ! Now it's almost perfect, I'm loving this add <3 But if I can suggest few things to improve it that would to be able to turn off the messages ingame and that the anchor mode would have the custom size that we entered with /slam width because it's hard to set if we have to fight between every size changing, do you see what I mean ? It's not important but it may improve the use of the addon.

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