Go to Page... |
Compatibility: | Classic (1.15.2) Plunderstorm (10.2.6) WOTLK Patch (3.4.3) |
Updated: | 04-03-24 03:14 AM |
Created: | 10-11-10 09:56 PM |
Downloads: | 145,072 |
Favorites: | 537 |
MD5: | |
Categories: | Buff, Debuff, Spell, Casting Bars, Cooldowns |
For feature suggestions and/or bug reports, please use our issue tracker.
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.
File Name |
Version |
Size |
Author |
Date |
r650 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
03-24-24 05:45 AM |
|
r648 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
03-23-24 02:08 AM |
|
r647 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
02-22-24 06:08 AM |
|
r646 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
02-09-24 06:21 AM |
|
r643 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
01-31-24 03:53 AM |
|
r642 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
01-19-24 12:52 AM |
|
r640 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
01-18-24 03:04 AM |
|
r639 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
11-18-23 03:43 AM |
|
r638 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
11-16-23 12:39 AM |
|
r637 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
11-13-23 07:15 AM |
|
r636 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
11-13-23 06:42 AM |
|
r635 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
11-13-23 02:06 AM |
|
r634 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
08-24-23 12:12 AM |
|
r632 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
06-25-23 01:48 AM |
|
r631 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-18-23 10:23 AM |
|
r630 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-18-23 03:51 AM |
|
r629 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-13-23 12:42 AM |
|
r628 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-11-23 11:30 PM |
|
r627 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-03-23 07:32 AM |
|
r626 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-03-23 12:12 AM |
|
r625 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
04-21-23 02:28 AM |
|
r624 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
03-16-23 11:21 AM |
|
r623 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
03-11-23 02:53 AM |
|
r622 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
02-19-23 05:57 AM |
|
r616 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
12-30-22 04:19 AM |
|
r541 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-19-21 02:39 PM |
|
r539 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
05-04-21 03:00 PM |
|
r534 |
1MB |
Tojaso |
01-25-21 01:38 PM |
Comment Options |
sindalee |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to sindalee |
Find More Posts by sindalee |
Add sindalee to Your Buddy List |
07-21-11, 08:27 AM | |
|
Version r188
Version r188 contains a number of new features as well as bug fixes. It includes the following changes:
1) Add spell lists that can be set up on the Spells tab and then included by name in filter lists. This new feature lets you separate the management of lists of spells from the management of bar groups. There is also a new API that lets you initialize spell lists from tables of names or spell identifiers. 2) Add option to exclude detected buffs and debuffs on particular units in all auto bar groups. This option was already present for multi-target bar groups (e.g., Buff Tracker, Debuff Tracker). Including it for other bar groups allows, for example, only showing buffs for target-of-target when that is not the player (requested by tanks for obvious reasons). 3) Add additional expiration options both for bar groups on the General tab and for individual bars in custom bar groups on the Custom bars tabs. New options include setting a minimum bar duration for enabling expiration options, the ability to selectively color bar, label text, or time text, and the ability to show warnings in combat text (tested with Blizzard's standard combat text, MSBT, SCT, and Parrot). 4) Add new primary and secondary talent spec options to bar group Show When settings on the General tab. 5) Add option to wrap bar configurations and fix attachment of bar groups with wrap options enabled. Add options for attaching to last bar in either row or column for wrapped bar groups. Changed wrap count default to 0 (used to be 16 but in order to not affect existing bar configurations it is now set to not wrap). 6) Rearrange options on the Layout tab, moving the ones previously labeled Icon Configuration Options into the top Configuration section (because the wrap options now apply to both bar and icon configurations). 7) Add Harmony to Druid presets. 8) Add special case support for shaman Call of Flame talent that extends duration of Flame Shock on targets affected by Fire Nova. 9) Add eight new time format options. 10) Fix intermittent issue with time text being partially hidden by cooldown overlay. 11) Fix ready bars for item cooldowns. 12) Move Clearcasting from general presets to class presets so that it shows up as a buff option for appropriate classes. 13) Add width to time text to prevent clipping with small icon sizes. |
|
Tojaso |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Tojaso |
Find More Posts by Tojaso |
Add Tojaso to Your Buddy List |
07-20-11, 11:19 PM | ||
|
Re: Multiple debuffs not showing up
|
|
|
Tojaso |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Tojaso |
Find More Posts by Tojaso |
Add Tojaso to Your Buddy List |
07-20-11, 11:02 PM | ||
|
Re: missing some short debuffs.
|
|
|
Tojaso |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Tojaso |
Find More Posts by Tojaso |
Add Tojaso to Your Buddy List |
07-20-11, 09:07 PM | |
|
missing some short debuffs.
i'm running raven out of the box for regular buffs, short buffs, and debuffs.
aside from that i have some self and target monitors, but that's not the issue. have noticed over time that some debuffs just plain old fail to show. most of them have been unimportant, but recently doing the Baleroc fight, i am not seeing the debuff for Torment, which means i cannot monitor my stacks. suggestions? i've poured through the options, i don't see anything i can change to make debuffs like this show. |
|
sindalee |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to sindalee |
Find More Posts by sindalee |
Add sindalee to Your Buddy List |
07-20-11, 05:37 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
Forum posts: 1
File comments: 69
Uploads: 0
|
Multiple debuffs not showing up
First: Raven is phenomenal. Does entirely too many awesome things.
Second: I'm having an issue on Lord Rhyolith in the Firelands. Rhyo casts a debuff called Eruption when a volcano is active. If two volcanoes are active, I would have two separate Eruption debuffs. The problem I'm running into is that my Eruption debuffs are being consolidated into one bar instead of multiples, so I'm unable to see exactly how many stacks I have of Eruption. For instance, if a volcano has been up for a while and has given the raid 4 stacks of Eruption, I will see a bar with Eruption showing 4 stacks. But, if another volcano spawns and gives a separate Eruption debuff that goes to, say, 2 stacks then I will only see either the 4stack Eruption bar or the 2stack Eruption bar, not both. Is there a way to make sure I always see separate debuffs even if they have the same name? Thanks! |
|
SoulFlare99 |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to SoulFlare99 |
Find More Posts by SoulFlare99 |
Add SoulFlare99 to Your Buddy List |
07-17-11, 10:14 PM | ||
|
Re: Dots updating on non-targeted mobs
I just added special case code to detect Fire Nova damage on units affected by Flame Shock and to add 3 or 6 seconds based on the number of points spent on the Call of Flame talent. It seems to work on the target dummies so I will be interested in your feedback when this code is released later this week. |
|
|
Tojaso |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Tojaso |
Find More Posts by Tojaso |
Add Tojaso to Your Buddy List |
07-17-11, 10:30 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
Forum posts: 0
File comments: 44
Uploads: 0
|
Dots updating on non-targeted mobs
As you may or may not know, recently Call of Flame in Elemental Shaman tree reads like this:
Increases the damage done by your Fire Totems and Fire Nova by 20%, and damage done by your Lava Burst spell by 10%. When your Fire Nova damages a target, the duration of your Flame Shock effect on that target is increased by up to 6 seconds. Attempting keeping flame shock dot rolling on 2 target dummys, and then rolling Fire Nova off on cd to stack up on the dot time, here's a screenshot: http://bildr.no/image/929497.jpeg I then switch target to the other dummy to check the dot time: http://bildr.no/image/929498.jpeg And as you can see, not until I switch target does it actually update the timer. The "before" screenshot shows the timer on the first dummy to be 20 secs after I fire nova'ed, whereas the "after" shot shows it as 24. The problem also happens on tidy threat plates (as can bee seen on the SS), so I don't know if it's the target dummies only that have this problem, or what. I'll try to get it tested on some mobs, just need to find some that have enough health.
Last edited by Bellante_mazrigos : 07-17-11 at 04:47 PM.
|
|
Bellante_mazrigos |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Bellante_mazrigos |
Find More Posts by Bellante_mazrigos |
Add Bellante_mazrigos to Your Buddy List |
07-16-11, 10:29 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
Forum posts: 0
File comments: 26
Uploads: 0
|
Just a little thank you for making these. keep it up.
|
|
Moosenose |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Moosenose |
Find More Posts by Moosenose |
Add Moosenose to Your Buddy List |
07-14-11, 10:42 PM | ||
|
Re: Styling
Last edited by Tojaso : 07-14-11 at 11:02 PM.
|
|
|
Tojaso |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Tojaso |
Find More Posts by Tojaso |
Add Tojaso to Your Buddy List |
07-14-11, 10:21 PM | |
|
Styling
Just a small request (or at least i hope it is) would it be possible for you to add in support to have the icons skinned by rActionButtonStyler. Not sure how much of a pain it would be but really only using ButtonFacade for raven and would love to drop it to lower usage. Ty for the great addon!
|
|
nitewarlord |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to nitewarlord |
Find More Posts by nitewarlord |
Add nitewarlord to Your Buddy List |
07-14-11, 09:11 AM | ||
|
__________________
|
|
|
sikwidit |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to sikwidit |
Find More Posts by sikwidit |
Add sikwidit to Your Buddy List |
07-14-11, 08:56 AM | ||
|
Also, the Buff and Debuff Tracker bar groups are highly recommended to be displayed in bar mode rather than icon mode currently due to how headers are generated. It is possible that the issues you are seeing are related to this, too. I expect to address icon configurations for these trackers in a future release. So, bottom line, I recommend that you use the Target standard bar group rather than Debuff tracker for now in your mod.
Last edited by Tojaso : 07-14-11 at 08:58 AM.
|
|
|
Tojaso |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Tojaso |
Find More Posts by Tojaso |
Add Tojaso to Your Buddy List |
07-13-11, 10:54 PM | |
|
first and foremost i love your mod, i great replacement for sbf, i even added it in my compilations of ui's which is now called Sik UI. one problem i am having tho is this. i have the debuff tracker active on target, normally i dont see a problem when doing a single target. now when i do aoe and dont even have any of the mobs targeted, the icons wont fade or disappear even when i'm not in combat. it has the same problems in both specs that i use which is frost and fire. i end up turning off the debuff tracker which i like to use, anyway you can help on this? i included a pic to show you what i have. as you can see i'm not in combat and the icons are still up.
__________________
|
|
sikwidit |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to sikwidit |
Find More Posts by sikwidit |
Add sikwidit to Your Buddy List |
07-13-11, 02:11 PM | |
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
Forum posts: 11
File comments: 24
Uploads: 0
|
Hey Tojaso,
Finally decided to look for a replacement for SBF, and found your mod. I was pleasantly surprised at how robust and well done it is, I never expected to find a good replacement for SBF and Raven seems to even surpass it in many ways. Great mod!
Last edited by Asuhrie : 07-13-11 at 02:11 PM.
|
|
Asuhrie |
View Public Profile |
Send a private message to Asuhrie |
Find More Posts by Asuhrie |
Add Asuhrie to Your Buddy List |