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PugLax
Tank tested, Perky Pug approved!
What is PugLax?
PugLax is an addon aimed at making the pug experience smoother for the upcoming Cataclysm expansion pack. Many of us remember the good old days of actually using CC in five man dungeons. However, it can be time consuming to make customized macros to echo things like kill order and mark assignments to your group.
PugLax aims to make this easier by automatically generating a list of crowd control available to your group, sorting those CC's based on priority, and finally printing that list along with direct assignments to party chat for you along with the kill order. For baseline forms of crowd control, PugLax assumes that the character has the CC if they are the appropriate. For talent based forms of crowd control (like Repentance), the addon inspects the character to ensure they have the required talent.
For now much of this is hard coded; however, this initial release offers options for which marks you wish to enable/disable as well as which forms of crowd control you wish to enable/disable. Simple set the addon up once based on what you feel is worth using (sap and polymorph, but not fear and hibernate for example). Then, simply type "/puglax party" and the addon will take care of the rest.
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01-04-11, 07:14 PM | |
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Home and working on 2.0
The new base method for assignment (person to mark instead of action to mark) suggests a change to the way I currently handle priority lists as well. Here's the plan; instead of adding/removing and sorting CC's in the priority list - they are going to be weighed. Like this: PugLaxDefaultPriority = { "polymorph" = 2.0, "freezingTrap" = 1.8, "wyvernSting" = 1.3, "sap" = 1.2, } (more or less random here, not the actual priority) And so on for all the CC. CC without any use in the instance will be set to 0 (or not added to the list at all, really doesn't make a difference to me). The reason I'm going to do it like this is that, when assigning marks, the "priority" for each person is going to be the sum of all their valid CC for that instance. So for instance; a mage vs a hunter - the mage would be considered a higher priority in that list. However, if the hunter had Wyvern Sting they would become 3.2 and thus take priority over the polymorph. Only "enabled" cc will be counted. So if Banish is enabled and Seduce is disabled, warlocks will only gain priority as if they had Banish. Just something I wanted to toss out in case anyone had a better suggestion for handling it, or wanted to suggest some priorities for the cata instances/default. |
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01-14-11, 09:30 AM | |
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Hello everyone,
Just wanted to give everyone an update on 2.0 Progress has been pretty slow, I havn't gotten as much development time this month as I had expected (got home from my trip and got slammed by some family drama). Hopefully sometime in the next couple of weeks I'll have an alpha version available for testing though! Thanks for the continued suggestions and kind words. |
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01-30-11, 12:03 PM | |
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To be honest everyone, I've been trying to find the time to work on this but it just isn't there at the moment (and it's hard to justify trying harder since I'm not playing World of Warcraft at the moment either).
If anyone would like to take the idea and run with it, please feel free to contact me. The code released publicly so far is a mess anyway though - so the best option would be to just make a new, similar addon that isn't written like frankencrap. Sorry folks, 2.0 just isn't in the cards for now. If I come back to WoW and nothing has taken it's place I'll revisit the addon. |
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04-26-11, 08:42 AM | |
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4.1
4.1 is almost certainly going to break PugLax.
I've recently started playing World of Warcraft again; however, now that I am actually in heroics having a good time I find that they ended up being *significantly* easier than I had anticipated - even on my fresh new warrior tank I'm just not feeling the need for crowd control, not to the point where an entire addon dedicated to making that a bit easier is warranted. Sorry folks, but the pug's dead for good. |
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