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Raven  Updated this week!  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: r650
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Major Features

1) Customizable timer bar and icon configurations to monitor buffs, debuffs and cooldowns
2) Multi-target HoT and DoT tracking bars
3) Timelines to show buff, debuff and cooldown icons sliding along a bar
4) Comprehensive condition checking to support buffing/debuffing, spell rotations, etc.
5) Data broker display with horizontal stripe configuration
6) Value bars to show game and player info plus unit frame data

Installation and Configuration

Install Raven by copying its files into your WoW addons folder (or use your favorite addons update utility).
You can bring up a configuration panel by typing in "/raven" or clicking on Raven's optional minimap button or data broker icon. Raven includes detailed tooltips for most options in the configuration panel.

Raven project page: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/raven
Bufflehead project page: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bufflehead (for cancelling player buffs in combat)

Compatible with Shadowlands and Classic

The latest releases include support for both retail and classic servers. For classic servers, this release is intended to provide basic compatibility but not to be optimized to exactly match classic's functionality.

Getting Started

The quickest way to get started with Raven is to use the standard bar groups on the Setup tab of the configuration panel. Standard bar groups offer a variety of presentations of buffs and debuffs on the player, target and focus plus cooldowns for the player.
Select the standard bar groups you want (hint: you probably don't want all the player buff bar groups since that will result in duplicates) and click either the Create As Bars or Create As Icons button. This will create an anchor for each selected bar group near the center of your display that you can move by clicking and dragging.
When you mouse over an anchor you'll see a tooltip with shortcuts for changing the bar group's configuration and for showing test bars. You can lock and unlock the bar group anchors using buttons on the configuration panel Setup tab (locked anchors are hidden, unlocked anchors are visible). The Defaults tab lets you change the appearance of your bars with configuration options for bar dimensions, fonts and textures.

Using Bar Groups

Once you set up standard bar groups, timer bars or icons will be displayed for buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. Bars will be in standard colors which can be customized on the Defaults tab (and overridden in each bar group, see More Customization below).
After using Raven a while, you will probably want to make some adjustments. Perhaps you don't like the default colors of the bars or you want to switch between bars and icons. Or maybe you want a dedicated bar group for the procs and cooldowns you monitor closely during combat.
At this point, it is necessary to understand that there are two types of bar groups: auto bar groups and custom bar groups. Auto bar groups are used to automatically display bars for buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. Most of the standard bar groups (all except Notifications) are pre-configured auto bar groups. Custom bar groups allow you to manually configure bars for a mix of buffs, debuffs, cooldowns and notifications. Typically, custom bar groups are used to present spell rotations and buff/cleansing reminders.

Auto Bar Groups

Open the configuration panel and click on the Bar Groups tab. Using the pull-down menu near the top, select any existing standard bar group (except Notifications) or create a new auto bar group by clicking on the New Auto Group button. A second set of tabs appears that lets you configure the selected bar group.
You use the Buffs, Debuffs, and Cooldowns tabs to specify what kinds of bars to display (and which ones to filter out). These tabs lets you control how the bar group is populated as new buffs, debuffs and cooldowns are detected. For buffs and debuffs, you specify who the action must be on and who it must be cast by. For cooldowns, you specify what kinds of cooldowns to detect. When new buffs, debuffs and cooldowns are detected that match the criteria, bars for them are automatically displayed.
Auto bar groups have filter lists to let you suppress showing unwanted bars. Both black lists (i.e., don't show if on the list) and white lists (i.e., only show if on the list) are supported. You can manage filter lists on the Buff, Debuff and Cooldown tabs.

Custom Bar Groups

While the standard bar groups provide an easy way to get started, you might also want to set up bar groups that contain just the bars you care about during combat. For example, to support your feral druid's DPS rotation you might want bars for the Savage Roar buff on the player, Mangle, Rake and Rip debuffs on the target, and Tiger's Fury and Berserk cooldowns.
To create a new custom bar group, open the Raven configuration panel, select the Bar Groups tab, then click on New Custom Group and enter a name (e.g., "Combat Bars"). This will bring up a new, empty bar group. To add bars, select the Custom Bars tab and click the New button.
When you click the New button, the configuration panel is put into bar creation mode (you won't be able to access other options until you click either Okay or Cancel at the bottom of the scrollable options). Select a bar type (e.g., buff, debuff, cooldown) and then appropriate options. For example, when you select Buff, you can then enter a spell name. Pay particular attention to correctly setting who the action is on and who it is cast by. Click Okay to finishing adding the bar (it is now included in the list of bars and can be customized by clicking on it and adjusting its associated options). You can repeat the bar creation process by clicking New again to add any mix of bar types.
The Custom Bars tab also lets you make changes to bars after they have been added. Select any individual bar to bring up configuration options that let you adjust its color, label text, special effects, and other properties. You can toggle enable to disable the bar.

More Customization

You can further customize bar groups using configuration settings in the General, Layout, Appearance, and Timer Options tabs. The following is a brief description of what each tab supports (mouse over options for explanatory tooltips).
The General tab provides options to enable/disable the entire bar group, rename the bar group, specify how bars are sorted, conditionally show/hide the bar group, and adjust settings for mouse clicks, tooltips, and special effects (e.g., pulsing icons, flashing on expiration).
The Layout and Appearance tabs let you modify the look of the selected bar group. You can adjust the bar group's configuration and the direction that bars grow from the anchor. You can select alternate coloring schemes which, among other things, let you show each spell with a custom color that you can define on the Spells tab. You can adjust dimensions, fonts and textures (after overriding defaults set on the Defaults tab). You can turn on and off particular characteristics (icon, colored bar, spark, label, etc.) and change their relative positions. If you prefer icon-based interfaces, Raven includes configurations featuring large icons with optional mini-bars. You can also attach bar groups to each other to facilitate alignment (including the ability to attach to a bar group's last bar so a stack of bar groups can expand and shrink as needed). Play around some and check out the range of possible designs (hint: you can shift-left-click on a bar group anchor to show test bars).
The Timer Options tab lets you adjust settings related to bar duration and time left. You can set all bars in a group to have a uniform duration (this makes it easy to compare how much time is left on bars with similar, but slightly different, durations). You can specify whether to show bars with unlimited duration (e.g., paladin auras). You can filter bars based on their durations and amount of time left (this is how the standard bar groups separate short buffs from long buffs).
Bar groups can have background panels and borders. Set them up in the Defaults tab to show them for all bar groups or in the Appearance tab for individual bar groups. You can enable a background panel with texture, color, and size (size is specified as padding in pixels from the bar group's bars and icons). You can enable a background border separately with a border design, color, edge size, and inset (inset helps merge panel and border correctly).

Multi-Target Buff and Debuff Tracking

Raven includes multi-target buff and debuff tracking similar to other DoT and HoT timer addons. The Setup tab now includes Buff Tracker and Debuff Tracker standard bar groups. These bar groups will group timer bars for buffs or debuffs that you cast on each target and, by default, will show a header with the target name above its associated timer bars. Optionally, you can include the target name in the timer bar labels instead of showing headers (set Hide Headers on the General tab for the bar group). Use black list and white list filtering capabilities in these bar groups to customize them (e.g., you can make a Beacon of Light tracker by creating a HoT timer bar group with only that spell in its white list). You might want to stick with bar-oriented configurations for these since the headers (which include raid target icons and indicate current target, focus or mouseover unit) are currently designed to work best as bars.

Conditions

Raven monitors a variety of events during play and can display notifications when certain conditions are met. While somewhat complex to set up, conditions are quite powerful and can help with spell rotations, decursing, etc. Raven includes default conditions for each class for basics like making sure you have class-specific buffs during combat.
Conditions can be used in Raven to trigger notifications and to control whether or not bar groups are visible. Generally speaking, once you set up a condition you will want to set up a notification bar to show you when the condition is true. When you configure the Notifications standard bar group on the Setup tab, you automatically get notifications for your configured conditions.
Conditions are configured in Raven under the Conditions tab. To get a feel for setting up conditions, take a minute to look at the default conditions for your class. Select one of the conditions using the pull-down menu near the top. A second set of two tabs (General, Tests) appears with options for configuring the selected condition.
The Tests tab has a summary of settings at the top and a list of available tests below. There are tests for checking status of the player, target and focus, tests for checking for combinations of buffs and defuffs, and tests for checking if spells or items are ready to be used. Selecting a test brings up options specific to that test. For example, the Player Status test lets you check if you are in combat, resting, have more than a certain percentage of your health, how many combo points you have, etc.
All the tests you enable must be true for the overall condition to evaluate to true (the summary at the top is intended to help visualize how the tests combine). You can also add dependencies between conditions that can be helpful for factoring out common tests (e.g., a condition to see if you are in cat form and in combat might be a dependency for other conditions defining a druid's feral spell rotation).
The General tab for each condition allows you to enable/disable the condition and specify if the condition is suitable for triggering a notification. You can also associate a spell with a condition (the spell's icon and color are used to customize notifications based on the condition).

Multiple Characters

Raven is designed to simplify configuration across multiple characters. This is required because each class may make quite different use of timer bars (e.g., some depend on tracking cooldowns while others watch for debuffs to expire on the target). In the Profiles tab, Raven includes the profile options common to Ace3-based addons and, by default, creates a new profile for each character.
In addition to using profiles, Raven shares a variety of settings across characters. This can result in some confusion since it works differently than in other addons (but can simplify configuring Raven if you play several different classes). First, the appearance options on the Defaults tab (dimensions, fonts, textures) apply to all profiles (they can be overridden as needed in any bar group, of course). Second, almost all bar group settings (the primary exception being the actual bars associated with custom groups) are linked between bar groups of the same name in all profiles that have Link Settings enabled (note that Link Settings is no longer enabled by default for standard bar groups on the Setup tab). Third, filter lists are linked by default between auto bar groups of the same name in all profiles, simplifying dealing with unwanted buff, debuff and cooldown bars.

Cancelling Buffs

Raven includes support for right-click cancel of player buffs when out of combat but only limited support for cancelling in combat.*The addon Bufflehead was created to address this. Please check it out and consider using it as a companion addon with Raven.*Raven does include an "in-combat" bar that is useful if you can anticipate which buffs you will need to cancel. You set up the "in-combat" bar with a list of player buffs that you want to be able to cancel in combat. When one of these buffs becomes active, its icon pulses into place on the "in-combat" bar and you can right-click it to cancel.

Final Words

I hope you enjoy using Raven for all your buff, debuff and cooldown needs! Questions and comments are always welcome.

24 March 2024
  • Removed tracking from the player's auto group bars.
  • Fixed enemy buffs in target auto group bars.

23 March 2024
  • Fixed Cataclysm beta API bug.

22 February 2024
  • Split hiding Blizzard's buffs and debuffs into separate configuration options.

9 February 2024
  • Disabled the tracking type for auto buffs bars in Classic.

31 January 2024
  • Fixed classic-only bug with target-of-target frames.

19 December 2023
  • Added new time format that replicates the Blizzard's time format.
  • Fixed bugs introduced with previous release.

18 December 2023
  • Fixes for 10.2.5 API changes

18 November 2023
  • Removed support for range checks in conditions. An unfortunate casualty of Blizzard preventing mods from telling players where to (not) stand during encounters.

16 November 2023
  • Fixed bug caused by namespace changes in Classic WoW.

10 November 2023
  • Fixed bug caused by Retail changing the addon management API.

24 August 2023
  • Fixed bug caused by Classic Era now using part of the Dragonflight API for addons.

25 June 2023
  • Fixed bug causing Apotheosis and Power Word: Salvation cooldowns to not be tracked properly.

18 May 2023
  • Fixed bug causing Fire Elemental and Storm Elemental to not have their cooldowns tracked properly.

12 May 2023
  • Fixed bug caused by tooltip API change.

3 May 2023
  • Fixed bug caused by weapon buffs API having changed.

21 April 2023
  • Fixed bug to active talent conditions not differentiating between choice talents.

16 March 2023
  • Fixed a bug leading to cooldowns to not be cached properly in WotLK.

11 March 2023
  • Fixed a bug causing cooldowns to be incorrectly cached.
  • Fixed a bug causing Ignore Pain to not be testable as ready for non-Protection Warriors.

19 February 2023
  • Fixed a cooldown bug for Arms Warriors, where Whirlwind would not properly trigger a cooldown.
  • Fixed bug with item cooldowns no longer working in Dragonflight.

26 January 2023
  • Optimized Weapon tooltip Scan for Temporary Weapon Enchants

14 January 2023
  • Fixed bug causing Slam's cooldown, when combined with the Storm of Swords talent, to not be testable for conditions.

28 December 2022
  • Fixed spelling for global cooldown in options menu, causing errors for some users
  • Fixed bug with game version variation detection
  • Improved check for TukUI/ElvUI fonts

27 December 2022
  • Rewrite of basecode to better handle variations in game versions
  • Extracted "Global Cooldown" from "Other" to it's own checkbox in the "Cooldowns" tab for bars
  • Fixed issues with Wrath PTR

7 December 2022
  • Added toc-file for Wrath of the Lich King.
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Originally posted by tur1n
I merged two groups, short buffs into debuffs. When I now change the Bar Color Scheme under Appearance for debuffs, the debuffs' bar color will change, that of short buffs will not. I have to go back to short buffs, unmerge, select the desired color scheme for short buffs, and remerge. Looks like a bug.
I have found the root cause of this bug and I am testing a solution. Thank you for reporting it.
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I've been using Elkano's Buff Bars for couple of years now. I tried Raven because EBB hasn't been updated for 4.0.1 yet, and I'm extremely impressed so far. It does exactly what I need it to do, and the configuration system is straightforward yet completely flexible. Kudos for creating such a useful and well-designed addon.

The only source of frustration is that I can't right-click buffs to cancel them, but that's Blizzard's fault. Bad Blizzard! :P
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On the merging point--Kings and Mark overwrite each other now. Might be useful to automatically merge them in the default Notifications group.
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Very promising buff mod -- but killer bug

I really like what I've seen so far. However, I get LUA errors when hitting Argent Tournament targets (a pesky nil error).

Is this a known issue?
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Re: Very promising buff mod -- but killer bug

Originally posted by vor_lord
I really like what I've seen so far. However, I get LUA errors when hitting Argent Tournament targets (a pesky nil error).

Is this a known issue?
Yes it was reported earlier and is a high priority bug to be fixed as soon as possible.

Update: This is fixed in version r89 by disabling the vehicle action cooldown code. This code will be fixed properly when I can find out how the vehicle code works in 4.0.1.
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Originally posted by Tojaso
The filter list for cooldowns is separate from that for buffs and that for debuffs. Does that help?
Not really--they're both buffs. One is the proc from this talent (http://www.wowhead.com/spell=93622) that is triggered by a lacerate tick that makes my next Mangle rage-free. The other is the activated ability from the same talent that removes the cooldown from Mangle for the next 15/20 seconds.

I might want to have one filtered out of a buff group but not the other. I think right now the only thing I can filter by is title text, both of which are just "Berserk." This isn't terribly urgent, but I noticed it while testing tonight.
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I'm afraid there's something wrong with the cooldowns. On my mage, it will display Mirror Image, Invisibility or Blink cooldowns on both autogroups and custom groups as you would expect it, but ignore others like Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Iceblock or Icy Veins for no apparent reason.
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Originally posted by tur1n
I'm afraid there's something wrong with the cooldowns. On my mage, it will display Mirror Image, Invisibility or Blink cooldowns on both autogroups and custom groups as you would expect it, but ignore others like Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Iceblock or Icy Veins for no apparent reason.
I get the same on my Priest. I get most cooldowns, but not many of the new ones.
the Holy Word: Chastise / Holy Word: Aspire / other Holy Word: xxx spells don't show, even if I create a custom group for just them and check only them.

I can get Chakra: Renew buff time to show in short buffs, but not on a custom bar. Trying to get a place where I can show just the Chakra related cooldowns (time remaining before Chakra expires plus time remaining on the relevant Holy Word: xxx cooldown for that Chakra.
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So far ive managed to get the same setup as Satrina Buff Frames, but i can't find any option set the amount of Buffs and Debuffs you want to show.

For example i only want about 6 Debuff Shown as ive oversized them, and i want 30 Buffs shown in 3 Rows of 10.
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Stacks

In creating custom conditions, is there any way to test the number of stacks of a debuff, e.g., Faerie Fire (Feral)?

Edit: I'll just say again how awesome this is. I've basically recreated FBN's bear mod. One bar shows me the appropriate icons when Mangle, Maul, and Swipe are available to cast. The other bar tells me when the target is missing FFF (or other classes' equivalents), Demo Roar (or equivalents), and when I'm missing Pulverize.
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Originally posted by Concillian
I get the same on my Priest. I get most cooldowns, but not many of the new ones.
the Holy Word: Chastise / Holy Word: Aspire / other Holy Word: xxx spells don't show, even if I create a custom group for just them and check only them.
Originally posted by tur1n
I'm afraid there's something wrong with the cooldowns. On my mage, it will display Mirror Image, Invisibility or Blink cooldowns on both autogroups and custom groups as you would expect it, but ignore others like Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Iceblock or Icy Veins for no apparent reason.
Are you using a non-English client? I am afraid the spell names in the presets haven't been localized yet and that might explain these issues. I am considering options for addressing this but I don't have a ready solution at hand. The best solution is likely to annotate the preset tables with spell ids--that will be a lot of work but probably necessary.
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Re: Stacks

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In creating custom conditions, is there any way to test the number of stacks of a debuff, e.g., Faerie Fire (Feral)?
There are tests for both buff and debuff stack counts. They are called "Buff Count" and "Debuff Count" and let you check either less than or more than a number plus who the buff/debuff is on and whether it was cast by only you or anyone else.
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Originally posted by Lunyra
So far ive managed to get the same setup as Satrina Buff Frames, but i can't find any option set the amount of Buffs and Debuffs you want to show.

For example i only want about 6 Debuff Shown as ive oversized them, and i want 30 Buffs shown in 3 Rows of 10.
There is no limit yet but it would be relatively easy to add. I'll put this on my "feature request" list. Thanks!
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Originally posted by Tojaso
Are you using a non-English client? I am afraid the spell names in the presets haven't been localized yet and that might explain these issues. I am considering options for addressing this but I don't have a ready solution at hand. The best solution is likely to annotate the preset tables with spell ids--that will be a lot of work but probably necessary.
Nope, I use the english client.
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Something else i ran into. Would be nice if the Tooltip could be at the cursor like it's normaly when you go over the Buffs and Debuffs

Unless i missed an option to do that ofcourse.
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