ScudThreat

Thanks for letting me know, I checked the code and my logic was weird and awful. This should now be fixed. Though I've not tested it. Highly unprofessional of me, I know. Thanks again l12w!

Oh, as an aside, ScudThreat ignores that setting for the Blizz aggro thingy, and it's just always on. Think it shouldn't?

Excellent

It is set to disappear if you are securely tanking. If it disappears that means you pulled aggro. There will obviously be other indicators at this point .

If it's truly not displaying 90-100% when it should be, I'll need more info if I'm to reproduce this I'm afraid, as it displays 90-100% just fine for me.

With more than one MT it will display your threat as a % of the amount you'd need to pull aggro from the tank (as ever), and it will display all of the MTs in total-threat order around you. This means you may have more actual threat than the tank, who will display below you, but since you don't have enough to pull aggro you will still be below 100%.

I believe I have the MT colour changes at 50%, 70% and 90% at the moment (corresponding to 'irrelevant', 'low-threat', 'relevant' and 'threatening'). Your threat% will only change according to your own threat status (based on the tank) but the MTs names will change colour based on their total threat in relation to you. It will be easy to stay below two tanks, you simply make sure there are always two names above your threat number - if the bottom one goes red you're getting too close.

(EDIT: I'd also like to explain that 70% and 90% are important points of safety. Suppose the mob stuns/fears the tank, and you take aggro, if you were below 70% (76% really, 70 was a nicer number) the tank will retake aggro as soon as the CC fades. If you were below 90% he simply has to run into melee range to pull aggro.)

If you're an MT you may still wish to know whether the second tank is close enough to you to overtake when needed, or if you need to slow up to let him catch up, which here will mean keeping their name in red, whether above you or below. But showing MTs at all is optional, and if you have it off then this won't display anything while you're tanking, other than to say if you're losing aggro, and you can just kick back with one fewer thing distracting you.

I'd just like to say to anyone reading this, not to worry, there won't be a test. It is all set up to be intuitive on the eyes. I'm just explaining here what Mr Wizard can expect to see under certain conditions. I hope that when he does he will find that it's fairly obvious what's going on to make it look that way, otherwise I've done something wrong.

I just upped a different, up-to-date screenshot in which you can see how I'm showing MTs. In short the MTs' names will appear above or below the threat% based obviously on whether they have more or less threat than you. Their names will be coloured according to how far a threat lead they/you have. They *should* be ranked in order, but I've not had a chance to test it with more than 2 players. Since 3.0 hits this week, I'll be able to get it all thoroughly beaten into shape on a live raid if need be.

Oh and also, the current tank has a little -> in front of his name, I'm going to see about getting that changed into a nice pretty icon instead.

OK, I added this in 1.3.6. The size, not the font face.

Thanks ever so much for your feedback Mr. Wizard, I just wanted to follow on from this sentiment. As I said before, I am trying to keep this addon to a minimum because I think a lot of the things threatmeters often do is a bit unnecessary and cluttered, but I do think the default Blizz one is a little bit *too* bare-bones.

The things I have ever used a threat meter for, other than making sure I'm not going to overnuke, which the Blizz UI covers, are:

- Staying below two tanks on fights with aggro wipes.
- Whilst leading people, to make sure nobody else is going to overnuke, to shout at them down Vent.

I have now introduced a way of doing the first of these into my addon, in a way which I feel is sufficiently small to justify its addition. So long as the MTs are setup (/mt, it's been built-in for a long time now), it will be very easy to stay below two tanks using ScudThreat now.

As for the second one, I imagine it's not a very big step from the MTs feature, since that already scans the group and reports each player's threat based on certain conditions ('are you an MT?' isn't so hard to couple with 'or are you too high on threat?'), and I may put it in soon.

I guess I was looking to see if people thought these two additions are worthwhile? And also, does anybhody feel it important to check pets as well? That would add to the CPU time without, probably, being very useful.

Finally, whilst this addon is currently taking a pretty small amount of memory, I'm not especially happy with the amount of CPU time it's taking, although this too is also pretty low compare to most addons. I will probably be trying to ease up on this in coming builds.