New Shaman Totem Feature - Page 5

Xrystal · 08-08-09, 01:40 AM

Rofl, I assumed it was a combat lock thing as well.

If nothing is figured out by Monday I'll see if I can find the weak link in the blizz code that allows them to work in other UIs. And has been said I have been keeping my normal action buttons set with totems for those times in combat when I need to quickly cast a different totem down.

Shammoz · 08-08-09, 05:09 AM

Don't take this the wrong way but I am glad it is not just me that thought it was Working As Intended™

I am a regular poster on the WoW EU In game support forum and there was NO WAY ON EARTH I was gonna post this problem on there and get made to look a noob buy the rest of the regulars

spiel2001 · 08-08-09, 07:22 AM

~lol~

We try to keep things friendly around here... no sharks allowed in the pool.

~grin~

As for the totem thing... I think what is happening here is that Blizz is tainting the bar because I've reparented it in order for it to work with nUI... which sucks and frankly I would call a bug. I'll post a bug report to Blizz on this, though I wouldn't look for a fix anytime soon.

In the meantime, I'll be building a custom totem bar for nUI 6.0 and hopefully that will allow me to address this taint problem then... which I'm sure will happen faster than we can expect a fix from Blizz.

spiel2001 · 08-08-09, 07:50 AM

I think I found the source of the problem... something I had never thought of before now which may actually be the one thing that still causing me a couple of other taint issues.

I'll post a fix shortly and let you Shammy types try it out and see if it addresses the problem.

EDIT: Okay... I have confirmed it's a taint issue on my lvl 9 shammy... still working on a fix.

Shammoz · 08-08-09, 08:03 AM

/Cheer!

spiel2001 · 08-08-09, 08:21 AM

Bad news...

The following piece of code causes the problem...

Code:

        if MultiCastActionBarFrame then
            MultiCastActionBarFrame:SetParent( UIParent );
            MultiCastActionBarFrame:ClearAllPoints();
            MultiCastActionBarFrame:SetPoint( "BOTTOM", nUI_Dashboard, "TOP", 0, 10 );
        end

That means it is not possible to make the totem bar visible without tainting it. I'm afraid there's no fix for this problem until either Blizzard fixes the taint problem on the bar (which in this case I strongly suspect they won't do) or I code a custom bar for totems... and I'm not sure if this taint issue is going to rear its ugly head there or not.

Shammoz · 08-08-09, 08:22 AM

Ouch

Ok, I will remove the movers file and put totemtimers back on, i think they updated it now and I am used to using that anyway.

Thanks for trying

spiel2001 · 08-08-09, 08:33 AM

Not that it helps in the short term, but I have posted about it here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...76470259&sid=1

We'll see if we get a fix. I suspect we won't.

Shammoz · 08-08-09, 08:49 AM

Cool, to be honest, the totemtimers addon bar is better than blizz anyway as you can manage your shields, totems and weapon buffs all together. Its what i have used before blizz introduced theirs and they have updated it now for the "All in One" drop action.

Not too worried.

Thanks for all the effort you have put in to fix it. You may want to remove it from the movers file tho, as not being able to change totems in combat may cause some a few issues...

spiel2001 · 08-08-09, 09:02 AM

I've added a slash command so you can hide the default Blizzard totem bar if you want to use an alternate plugin. I'll be posting a development release shortly to address that.

Xrystal · 08-08-09, 10:54 AM

I actually prefer the new totem bar over totem timers. The timer functionality is all I use totem timers for

eaglepgc · 08-08-09, 11:08 AM

wow... again why I am glad I use NUI. Thanks for all the hard work on this!

Raventiger · 09-06-09, 11:49 PM

Well I can say that this bug doesn't effect elemental Shammy's (at the moment anyway). I haven't tested my Resto spec with the totem bar but hopefully that spec will be fine too. In the mean time I'll stay away from Enhancement as nui and the new totem bar suit my play style perfectly.

Xrystal · 09-06-09, 11:56 PM

The problem is with Resto shammys too. My shammy is predominantly healing and I have noticed several times when it would ignore my totem changes because we had started the fight sooner than I expected.

Raventiger · 09-09-09, 08:39 PM

Actually I was confused about this issue. It is present in elemental shammy's, but it's a minor issue and I can live with it. I would much prefer the blizzard sharman totem bar and NUI with it's current limitations to not having it.