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Updated: | 12-02-11 03:29 AM |
Created: | 10-26-08 11:30 AM |
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Shieldmonitor by Frenchie
German localisation by Spiritmoon
Russian localisation by Glaurung
French localisation by Iktose
Korean localisation by Metalchoir
Chinese localisations by xiezi and juha
Spanish localisation by miros
Current version: 1.11.0, 2nd December 2011 - Available from http://www.wowinterface.com/
IMPORTANT: unfortunately I no longer play as main any characters that use shields (my mage I used to test the last update is still level 70!). So I'm not it a position to make updates or test for most gameplay changes. If someone else wants to pick up development on this addon, I'm happy to help out with any explanation of the code as needed.
Note: Due to time constraints development on this mod by me is now in maintenance mode, if anyone else wishes to pick it up to update it or add new features, please feel free.
Changelog
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1.11.0 - Updated for Wow 4.3 combatlog API
- removed right-click menu since is causes taint - use /sm options to change any options now
1.10.0 - Updated for Wow 4.2 combatlog API - no other changes
1.9.0 - Updated for Wow 4.1 API - no other changes
1.8.2 - Where shield strength is read from the tooltip this is now used as the final value as this should now already include spell/glyph bonuses. As a result we now check the tooltip every time a shield is cast rather than caching the value, since spellpower could have changed.
1.8.1 - Fix to shields where Blizz now sends the strength going back to 100% after damage - since they also now send a SPELL_AURA_REFRESH with a new strength each time such a shield takes damage.
- added French translation for Mage Ward (Thanks Mizaru)
- added Paladin's Guarded by the Light shield (Thanks Tatltael). Note I don't have a Paladin to test this on, so it's up to you guys
1.8.0 - Since Blizz have been kind enough to include the shield strength in the combat log for Priest shields, this version now reads that value
- other classes shield strength is still determined using tooltips so a fix is also included in case the user has beginner tooltips switched on
- support for Mage Shield in the Russian client added (thanks Khom), other translations still needed.
1.7.3 - more fixes to talent detection that were causing error messages
1.7.2 - added Mage Shield, works for English client only at the moment (thanks to grimmier)
- fix for PW:S bug as a result of talent tree changes
1.7.1 - fix for mouse button click handler
1.7.0 - Compatibility fix for WoW 4.0.1 - IMPORTANT NOTE - this is a fix for small changes in the WoW API ONLY - It does not address any changes in shield mechanics or any problems that may have been caused by tooltip changes.
1.6.1 - Small fix to Russian locale for Power word: shield
1.6.0 - ToC updated for WoW 3.3, cap of 10k added on Divine Aegis shield
(for changes in older versions, see the 'Change Log' tab)
Description
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Since Patch 3.0, the combat log has shown exact figures for damage absorbed by shields such as 'Power Word: Shield'. Shieldmonitor is a lightweight addon that takes advantage of that fact to provide feedback on precisely how much more damage a shield can sustain before it fails. It does this by means of a small window that shows a bar with the percentage and damage absorption of the shield remaining as well as the time the shield buff has left.
Usage
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This addon is pretty much install and go. There will be nothing to see until a shield is cast on you (by yourself or someone else). At that point the status window appears, initially in the centre of the screen. Left-click and drag the window to where you'd like it to be. Right click on the window to pop-up a menu with options 'Lock Window' and 'disable' and 'Options'. If you disable Shieldmonitor via the menu, then you either have to use the slash command /shieldmonitor enable or the options screen to re-enable it. Note that Shieldmonitor's window disappears as soon as the shield is exhausted, dispelled or the shield buff times out.
Shields currently monitored are:
Priest - Power Word: Shield, Divine Aegis
Mage - Ice Barrier, Mana Shield, Mage Ward
Paladin - Sacred Shield, Guarded by the Light
Warlock - Voidwalker Sacrifice, Shadow Ward
Herbalists - Fel Blossom (note this provides a shield that has a min and max damage absorption. For the purposes of monitoring, the most optimistic value is taken, however Shieldmonitor will close its window as soon as the shield fails.)
Limitations
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The maximum value of a Power Word: Shield or Divine Aegis cast on you by another player will probably be inaccurate, since the shield will benefit from the casting player's spell bonus and talents and this is not available via the API, only your own spell bonus/talents. (that is unless someone can point me to a way to find it out - GetSpellBonusDamage is self only).
There are no configuration options for the style of the window other than the scaling. If you don't like it, feel free to play around with the xml file, everything that controls its appearance is in there.
Localisation
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The addon will work for the English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (zhCH and zhTW) and Russian clients at present. If any player from a non-supported locale wants to help, then you can see what needs to be done by looking at the already added German (deDE) locale block in the lua file. Only the spellnames and the TIPREAD entries are essential for making the addon work, other texts are just for completeness.
Noted suggestions (which may or may not make it into a future version!)
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- Add a sound alert to the warnings (possible, perhaps)
- Add option to customise bar textures (possible, low priority for now)
- Add option to adjust bar length (possible, low priority for now)
- make addon communicate between people in groups/raids who are all using shieldmonitor in order to make the level of PW:S casted on you by someone else accurate (possible, being researched, testing issues though, i.e. requires group!)
Note: It's likely to be a while now before I dovote a lot more time to Shieldmonitor as, like everyone else I suspect, I'm now busy levelling my main characters to 80
Bugs
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Due to the complexity of testing various shield combinations at the same time, the priority of the shields with respect to each other might not yet be correct. Any testing info always welcome!
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frenchie |
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10-14-10, 03:09 PM | |
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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that worked.
noticed some other things that may need adjusting, with no more spell ranks etc. |
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10-14-10, 02:11 PM | |
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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PW:S doesn't appear to work. can't seem to find where the issue is though =(
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10-14-10, 12:34 PM | |
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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temp fix for mage ward
temp fix for mage ward.
The fix below does NOT take into account type of damage you are recieving. but at least you get a bubble bar for mage ward for now. although it appears to be working right either way. Code:
local SHIELDMONITOR_SPELLS = { -- priest [SHIELDMONITOR_PWS]={tip=1,bonus=2,slot=5,icon='Spell_Holy_PowerWordShield',r=.7,g=.7,b=.3,tb={[1]=0,[2]=0,[3]=0}}, [SHIELDMONITOR_DA]={slot=3,icon='Spell_Holy_DevineAegis',r=.7,g=.7,b=.6,tb={[4]=0}}, -- mage [SHIELDMONITOR_IB]={tip=1,bonus=5,slot=2,icon='Spell_Ice_Lament',r=0,g=.75,b=.75,gb=0}, ['Mana Shield']={tip=1,bonus=7,slot=6,icon='Spell_Shadow_DetectLesserInvisibility',r=.9,g=0,b=.9}, --EDITED BY GRIMIER --added in mage ward and removed fire and frost ward, does not check school for damage types atm. --['Fire Ward']={tip=1,bonus=3,slot=4,school=4,icon='Spell_Fire_FireArmor',r=.9,g=0,b=0}, --['Frost Ward']={tip=1,bonus=5,slot=4,school=16,icon='Spell_Arcane_FrostWard',r=.5,g=.5,b=1}, ['Mage Ward']={tip=3,slot=4,icon='Spell_Fire_TwilightFireWard',r=.9,g=.5,b=1}, --END EDIT -- warlock ['Sacrifice']={tip=1,slot=2,icon='Spell_Shadow_SacrificialShield',r=.5,g=.5,b=0}, ['Shadow Ward']={tip=1,bonus=6,slot=4,school=32,icon='Spell_Shadow_AntiShadow',r=.6,g=0,b=.6}, --paladin ['Sacred Shield']={tip=1,bonus=2,slot=1,icon='Ability_Paladin_BlessedMending',r=.8,g=.8,b=.2}, -- herbalist ['Fel Blossom']={tip=2,slot=3,icon='INV_Misc_Herb_Felblossom',r=0,g=.5,b=0} }; -- what line and pattern we need to extract the shield's maximum damage absorbion from the tooltip local SHIELDMONITOR_TIPREAD = { [1]= { line="4",pattern="[aA]bsorb%a* (%d+) [^d]?%a*%s?damage" }, -- all spells use line 4, and (for English at least, this pattern) [2]= { line="3",pattern="Absorbs %d+ to (%d+) damage" }, -- only used by Fel Blossom, we take the most optimistic value for the shield --EDITED BY GRIMIER [3]= { line="4",pattern="[aA]bsorb%a* (%d+) Fire, Frost or Arcane damage" } -- Mage Ward uses different wording added in its own filter -- END EDIT };
Last edited by grimmier : 10-14-10 at 01:31 PM.
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10-14-10, 09:03 AM | ||
A Kobold Labourer
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And now you could just fix Mage Ward which is basically a ward that absorbs Fire, Frost and Arcane damage, afaik it scales same like Frost Ward or Fire Ward, and that's all. The icon is 'spell_fire_twilightfireward' and the color is pink R238G162B173 would be fine I guess . Of course, if you can fix that, then there's nothing else to update to it, I think, everything else just works well damn fine. |
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10-14-10, 08:34 AM | |
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They have replaced fire and frost ward with one mega ward called "mage ward". Im sure its an easy fix
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=543 I'd be happy to do the testing for this on my mage, I really loved this addon
Last edited by Codex : 10-14-10 at 08:50 AM.
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10-14-10, 08:25 AM | ||
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10-14-10, 07:34 AM | |
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If possible could you also fix it so we could move the shield anchor again? It doesn't respond to left or right click, so we can't unlock it or move it at all.
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10-14-10, 06:09 AM | ||
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10-14-10, 04:41 AM | |
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So I notice Shieldmonitor vanished in 4.0. The addon still loads, and I can access the options through /sm options, but when I shield myself with Ice Barrier, the graphic itself is just gone. Is there any way to fix this?
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08-09-10, 03:29 AM | ||
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No, its not "logically sound". You can't "multiply this by 5" and get a "base starting amount". Absorbs are not shown in the combat log. As a result, the amount of absorbs actually done on a person receiving a shield can only be estimated (through heuristics). The glyph healing is based on the absorbed amount. And the absorbed amount can only be estimated, as mentioned. |
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06-28-10, 01:43 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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thanks for that imba addon
i rly like it noted its not show the icc's buff absorb too |
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06-01-10, 06:14 PM | |
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wtb support for Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem
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