EVENT ALERT IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED. I QUIT WOW ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO, AND WON'T BE RETURNING. HOPEFULLY SOMEONE ELSE CAN PICK UP THIS ADDON AND MAKE IT THEIR OWN. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT AND I'M GLAD EVERYONE GOT SOME GREAT USE OUT OF EVENTALERT!
The addon will notify you in the middle of your screen with an icon, name of the spell that has procced, the time left on the proc and will make a subtle sound. EventAlert is also able to handle more than one proc at a time (this option was not available in previous versions).
I am not fond of addons that have very complicated installation and setups. The mod should work on install without any config, but if you wish to change any options use the following command: /ea options
To see a more detailed list of what options are avaiable to the mod, just check out the screenshot of the options pane.
This mod tracks the following events/procs:
Death Knight
Cinderglacier (Runeforging)
Killing Machine (Frost)
Rime (Frost)
Rune Strike
Druid
Eclipse (Balance)
Nature's Grace (Balance)
Omen of Clarity (Restoration)
Owlkin Frenzy (Balance)
Wrath of Elune (PvP gear proc)
Elune's Wrath (T8 set proc)
Hunter
Improved Steady Shot (Marksmanship)
Kill Shot
Lock and Load (Survival)
Rapid Killing (Marksmanship)
Mage
Arcane Concentration (Arcane)
Blazing Speed (Fire)
Brain Freeze (Frost)
Fingers of Frost (Frost)
Firestarter (Fire)
Missile Barrage (Arcane)
Hot Streak (Fire)
Paladin
Art of War (Retribution)
Infusion of Light (Holy)
Sacred Shield
Hammer of Wrath
Priest
Borrowed Time
Holy Concentration
Martyrdom (Discipline)
Serendipity (Holy)
Surge of Light (Holy)
Rogue
Riposte
Shaman
Elemental Focus (Elemental)
Maelstrom Weapon (Fifth stack) (Enhancement)
Tidal Waves (Restoration)
Warlock
Backdraft (Destruction)
Backlash (Destruction)
Decimation (Demonology)
Eradication
Empowered Imp (Demonology)
Molten Core (Destruction)
Nightfall (Affliction)
Glyph of Lifetap
Warrior
Bloodsurge (Fury)
Overpower
Execute
Revenge
Sudden Death (Arms)
Sword and Board (Protection)
Taste for Blood (Arms)
Victory Rush
Glyph of Revenge
Other
Healing Trance (Gruul healing trinket proc)
Quick Backstory: I created this addon as a test for myself as my first "from the ground up" addon. Most of my coding in WoW LUA was taking other addons and just fixing them so they work from minor bugs or whatnot.
Anyhow, I needed a mod that was lightweight and did only what I wanted it to do, and that was warn me when one of my spells or talents procced something I needed. Thus, EventAlert was born. There are likely to be bugs, explosions and not so good things that may come from this mod. I'm sorry in advance! If you find a bug, please let me know so I can fix it.
Also, if anyone finds a spell/talent/etc that they want watched, please let me know and I will add it!
Change Log - EventAlert
4.2.26 - Change: More CPU load changes. This should be a pretty big improvement. Let me know on WoWInterface or Curse. Feedback is important!
To see the full change log, view the changelog.txt file included in the EventAlert zip file.
Originally posted by FriKinzoku If it's broken, and the author's not going to update it, can anyone say an alternative? Thanks
GoodNewsEveryone (here on WowInterface, made by Tekkub) is probably the closest/best working alternative to EventAlert. And its well coded, efficient & non-buggy.
GoodNewsEveryone hasn't been "updated" for WoW 3.3, but it works without issue as it uses a different method of detecting procs than the now-broken mods do.
Its a bit different in style than EventAlert in that instead of a big icon, its more "text oriented". It puts up the full text name of a proc (along with a timer) that you can adjust the size & location of.
It also plays a sound when something procs, like EventAlert does. You can easily change the sound on line #114 of its LUA if you don't like its default.
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Originally posted by Omegam The closest addon i can think of for a replacement to this is PowerAura
There is no such thing as "PowerAura" . You mean "Power Auras Classic"? If so, that mod alerts to a lot more than just procs/events as EventAlert used to. Due to that--and its coding--it is incredibly bloated. Uses a giant pile of memory & CPU time. Not to mention the latest version is apparently buggy (according to its comments).
GoodNewsEveryone is a superior, working alternative.
Anyway, sorry to hear you have left, CurtisTheGreat. Thanks for the mod; it was great while it lasted . Good luck in the future.
Question before I download and install (as I'm not at a computer I can play WoW on): is there an option to remove the icons and timer, and just have the text, or is there another mod (other than MSCT) that will do the same thing? I basically only want a text alert on my screen that says what the proc name is and I only want it to show procs that I tell it to.
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Great mod, haven't missed a proc since I got it
I've recently aquired a chance on hit trinket + 2-set t8 bonus for mage.
I can understand that adding all trinket procs ingame might be a little too much to add to the addon, but perhaps there's an (easy) way to add some spesific procs myself? Would love to know how would make keeping track of trinket procs in pvp a much easier with all the stuff going on
Hi .... great Mod. MY lock uses it all the time but my kitty needs some love
Any chance you could add some procs for her?
savage roar would be a great start as it is a buff to the cat and makes you take your eye off of the target.
Great Addon! 2 questions.
Is there a way to make the event icons be vertical instead of horizontal.
and how do I add more sound options. It would be neat if I could set up a sound for event 1 and a different sound for event 2... so on.
If not can I insert a small mp3 clip in a folder somewhere to have the option for more sounds.
Originally posted by Clark This new version has no detectable CPU usage at all on OptionlessHouse.
Only when idle, though.
Finally got around to testing this again. v4.2.26 & OptionlessHouse (only mods loaded), WoW 3.1.3 live, on an 80 Mage.
No CPU time is used at all when a character is idle. Nor in combat if a proc has not occurred and the EventAlert frame isn't present on-screen. But when you proc, it medians approximately 0.9-1.0 CPU/second for the entire time the EventAlert frame is onscreen. It returns to 0.0 when the frame goes away.
So its much (much) improved . Still about 5 times more CPU than SurgeTrack uses when a proc occurs, though.
Tested that with the Ace3 libraries it needs disembedded (when the full library package is loaded alone, they use between 0.1 to 0.2 CPU/second with no Ace3 mods loaded). When a proc occurs, the Ace3 libraries go up from 0.1-0.2 to 0.3-0.4 CPU/second (with SurgeAlert itself using 0.0) giving a net use for SurgeTrack of approx. 0.2 CPU/second. Like EventAlert, it reduces to a net use of 0.0 when idle or in combat when no proc is occurring.
So nice work on the resource usage improvements currently, but still room for a bit more .
This might start a landslide of requests, but given the extremely popular nature of the Greatness trinkets, you may want to add that as a proc, since I know some classes (notably melee) will pop certain things during that proc. If it helps, the exact buff name is "Greatness" and lasts 15s.
. You mean "Power Auras Classic"? If so, that mod alerts to a lot more than just procs/events as EventAlert used to. Due to that--and its coding--it is incredibly bloated. Uses a giant pile of memory & CPU time. Not to mention the latest version is apparently buggy (according to its comments).
