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Updated: | 07-17-18 01:55 PM |
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Omen is a threat meter.
Basically, enemies in WoW decide who to attack by deciding who is the most threatening based on the abilities you use. What Omen does is provide accurate values of your group's relative threat level on individual enemies, so that you can see when you're in danger of pulling aggro (or, if you're next on the snack list if your tank bites it). This info is usually only critical in raids, where only tanks can survive aggro, but it's useful for any multi-player situation.
FAQ
How is Omen3 different from Omen2?
Omen3 relies completely on the Blizzard threat API and threat events. It does not attempt to calculate or extrapolate threat unlike Omen2 except when Tricks, Misdirection, Mirror Image, Fade and glyphed Hand of Salvation are active.
Omen2 used what we called the Threat-2.0 library. This library was responsible for monitoring the combat log, spellcasting, buffs, debuffs, stances, talents and gear modifiers for calculating each individuals threat. Threat was calculated based on what was known or approximated from observed behaviors. Many abilities such as knockbacks were just assumed (to be a 50% threat reduction) as they were mostly impossible to confirm.
The Threat-2.0 library also included addon communication to broadcast your threat to the rest of the raid as long as they were also using Threat-2.0. This data was then used to provide a raid wide display of threat information.
Since patch 3.0.2, Omen no longer does any of these things and the need for a threat library is no longer necessary. Omen3 uses Blizzard's new in-built threat monitor to obtain exact values of every members threat. This means Omen3 has no need for synchronisation of data, combat log parsing or guessing, resulting in a significant increase in performance with regards to network traffic, CPU time and memory used. The implementation of boss modules for specific threat events (such as Nightbane wiping threat on landing) are also no longer necessary.
Further benefits of this new implementation include the addition of NPC threat on a mob (eg, Human Kalecgos). However, there are some drawbacks; frequency of updates are much slower, threat details cannot be obtained unless somebody in your party/raid are targetting the mob and it is also not possible to obtain threat from a mob you are not in direct combat with.
How do I get rid of the 2 vertical gray lines down the middle?
Lock your Omen. Locking Omen will prevent it from being moved or resized, as well as prevent the columns from being resized. If you haven't realized it, the 2 vertical gray lines are column resizing handles.
How do I make Omen3 look like Omen2?
Change both the Background Texture and Border Texture to Blizzard Tooltip, change the Background Color to black (by dragging the luminance bar to the bottom), and the Border Color to blue.
Why does no threat data show on a mob when I target it even though it is in combat?
The Blizzard threat API does not return threat data on any mob you are not in direct combat with. We suspect this is an effort on Blizzard's part to save network traffic.
Is there ANY way around this Blizzard limitation? Not being able to see my pet's threat before I attack has set me back to guessing.
There is no way around this limitation short of us doing the guessing for you (which is exactly how Omen2 did it).
The goal of Omen3 is to provide accurate threat data, we no longer intend to guess for you and in the process lower your FPS. Have some confidence in your pet/tank, or just wait 2 seconds before attacking and use a low damage spell such as Ice Lance so that you can get initial threat readings.
Can we get AoE mode back?
Again, this is not really possible without guessing threat values. Blizzard's threat API only allows us to query for threat data on units that somebody in the raid is targeting. This means that if there are 20 mobs and only 6 of them are targeted by the raid, there is no way to obtain accurate threat data on the other 14.
This is also extremely complicated to guess particularly for healing and buffing (threat gets divided by the number of mobs you are in combat with) because mobs that are under crowd control effects (sheep, banish, sap, etc) do not have their threat table modified and addons cannot reliably tell how many mobs you are in combat with. Omen2's guess was almost always wrong.
The tooltips on unit mouseover shows a threat % that does not match the threat % reported by Omen3. Why?
Blizzard's threat percentage is scaled to between 0% and 100%, so that you will always pull aggro at 100%. Omen reports the raw unscaled values which has pulling aggro percentages at 110% while in melee range and 130% otherwise.
By universal agreement, the primary target of a mob is called the tank and is defined to be at 100% threat.
The threat updates are slow...
Omen3 updates the threat values you see as often as Blizzard updates the threat values to us.
In fact, Blizzard updates them about once per second, which is much faster than what Omen2 used to sync updates. In Omen2, you only transmitted your threat to the rest of the raid once every 3 seconds (or 1.5s if you were a tank).
Where can I report bugs or give suggestions?
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04-08-08, 08:20 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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My guild HAD some of the problems said here.
1: The unknown / unknown I do suspect comes from some people are still using KTM Threatmeter. Don't know if it's still like this, but after patch KTM & Omen don't mix any more as they once did. So unknown / unknown really is = KTM Threatmeter / version number 2: Also Omen seems to be much more "version sensitive", it seems to bug out of some people have other previous versions, even though it is "after 2.4" versions. 3: The last issue we had was to get people for the meter to "work". What you need to do is to get all people to set their Omen on the "Single Target" mode. What some seem to miss is that if you SWITCH target so does your threat position on that specific mob you are targeting. So when you say you only sees one or a few others ... That mean only YOU and a few other are targeting THAT specific mob and the others are targeting something else. So ... Get ALL people i the raid to go and download the LATEST version of Omen, no KTM won't do, all set "Single Target". I do suspect alot of the hassle comes from that either people are to lazy and just says they have download the latest version, when in reality theres a new one out. Or that they maybe downloading from a place where it's not been updated. Get all to DL from the same place aka here. I had to sit down and more or less force each raider in a KZ run to go and DL it rightthere and then, and then checked the online Omen version checker if they had done it. After that ... Ran like smooth warm butter.
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04-06-08, 12:16 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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Why doesn't my settings get saved during logout? The position, font, bars, warnings and stuff gets saved, but the Background color and Border color resets all the time. Whats the problem?
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04-06-08, 09:52 AM | |
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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I receive a whole lot of "unknown" bars during raids. I only see a handful of people, perhaps 5 and myself, and the rest are just unknown.
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04-03-08, 10:58 AM | ||
A Defias Bandit
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Or could it just be a matter of everyone needing to delete their omen2 related stuff from the WTF\SavedVariables folder due to so many updates cause of the patch? |
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04-02-08, 11:28 AM | |
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I only see myself and maybe 1 other as well, although everyone in the guild has the latest versions. Please fix!
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04-02-08, 09:34 AM | ||
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Last edited by ellanon : 04-02-08 at 09:36 AM.
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04-02-08, 12:55 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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Everyone in my guild is having a problem where only 1 or 2 player's threat is showing. We've tried all settings we can see, but are we missing something?
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03-31-08, 09:08 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: not syncing?
Silly or not, addons are freely given out of the generosity of the hearts of the authors. You take what they give and be thankful or don't use it. Unless you can do better, try not to complain, you'll feel better for it. |
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03-31-08, 05:59 PM | |
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I read through the previous posts and didn't see anything about this, so if i missed it forgive me.
I'm not a prot spec'd warrior, I'm fury/arms but sometimes have to OT mobs. If i try to use Sunder Armor Omen gives me an Blizzard error msg box that pops up on the screen that reads ...addons\Omen\Libs\Threat-2.0\ThreatClassModuleCore.lua:1032: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'threat' (a nil value) It only happens with sunder armor all other abilities have not cause this message to appear and it happens no matter what mode I have Omen in. I can not test devestate since i'm not prot but have not heard our prot warriors say anything about it. any suggestions or answers? |
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03-31-08, 12:38 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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Omen & FuBar
there is an option "Fubar: Attache to minimap" > i can't uncheck the box, is there an issue ? more and more addons are going to minimap, i would like to get it back in fubar.
i tried deleting SavedVariables lua file, i also tried tu edit that file. i'm playing on enGB client (same as enUS, think...) using WoW Ace Updater daily to keep up to date. thank you |
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03-29-08, 05:16 PM | ||
A Kobold Labourer
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Re: Re: not syncing?
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03-29-08, 02:22 AM | |
An Aku'mai Servant
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There is a new version available.. fixed another of the naming issues I was having r66721..I got it through the wow ace updater thingy.
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03-28-08, 08:31 PM | ||
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Re: Sounds
modules > single target > warnings you can change the threshold to something other than 90% and change the sound/switch it off. |
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03-28-08, 03:18 PM | |
A Murloc Raider
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Sounds
Omen2 is making a sound that is really annoying whenever I pass 90% aggro on the table...is there any way to turn this sound off?
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