Fragile is an aggro alert addon for use in Parties .
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fragile (adj)
1. easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure
There are a few addons that provide audio or visual cues when
the player gains or loses aggro.
This addon on the other hand provides Visual and Audio alerts and screen messages,
when other party members aggro.
This can be used as an advance warning for healers to know where damage is going to go next,
but is primarily written to help heighten the awareness of the party Tank.
Screen messages can be routed to the chatframe, raid warning frame or to any of a number of Combat Text addons if installed (SCT, MSBT, Parrot, Blizzard FCT, BigWigs and others).
The message contains the name of the party member color coded by his class and the keybind to target them in parentheses.
A Glow appears around the party member's frame that aggroed.
This functionality is only available on the default Blizzard Party Frames.
Any of the 3 configurable types of alerts (Sound, PartyMember Glow, Messages) can be individually enabled or disabled,
and the Addon can also be enabled or disabled ingame as a whole.
Features:
User can select to:
Sound a configurable alert when a party member aggroes.
Display a screen message through a number of different outlets.
Display a glow around the party member's frame (*).
*This functionality is available on Default Blizzard party frames only!
Configuration:
Command-line: type /fragile for options
(/fragile gui brings up a waterfall configuration screen)
Also available through Niagara (*)
*Niagara = Ace2 configuration gui
Change Log - Fragile
Version 20400-1
- updated Ace2 libraries to current versions
- .toc bumped to denote compatibility with wow 2.4
version 20300-1
- removed PlaySound() hack for 2.2 (no longer needed)
- .toc update to denote compatibility with WoW 2.3
version 20200-1
- .toc update to denote compatibility with WoW 2.2.
version 20100-1
- First public release.
Fragile1 *should* work with a simple .toc update on 2.4.
I will not update the addon on this site until I've had a chance to logon with it and verify it is so.
(Playing in EU so it will probably be tomorrow).
I have a rewrite in the works, but I didn't have enough time to get it ready for release alongside 2.4.
Changes coming are:
- Utilizing Ace3 libraries/framework where possible
- Providing option for alerts in raids.
It will never support custom unitframes.. these have their own aggro alert implementations,
but looking at some kind of visual alert for the default raidframes alongside the audio alerts.
- More customization of audio alerts per class (maybe per 'role' in the future)
Timeframe for Fragile2 is more like 2 weeks+ than 2 days+
It would be great if sound alerts were more informative.
Oftentimes the healer, for example, watches closely member`s HP, renew status etc.
and doesn`t have time to read onscreen messages quickly.
I suggest the following -
play different sound sample for each class aggroed - "Aggro on Priest", "Aggro on Warrior"
and finaly "Aggro on ME"
so the warrior knows when to take aggro off healer etc.
Originally posted by Xinh Nice idea. Any plans to support Parrot (another SCT/MSBT type of mod)?
I haven't checked specifically if it works with Parrot,
but I'm using the Sink library, so it should be one of available output options.
The list of combat-text mods I mentioned is not all-inclusive, rather indicative
Nice handy little mod. Like the addition of which F key the player is connected with being that parties will change on occasion it certainly will be handy.
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