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NeedToKnow is a light-weight addon to monitor specific buffs, debuffs, and totems of your choosing as timer bars that always appear in a consistent place on your screen in a consistent color. It's especially useful for monitoring frequently used short-duration buffs and debuffs. For example, a rogue could configure NeedToKnow to show timer bars for Slice and Dice, Rupture, and their own stack of Deadly Poison VII. A death knight could use it to track their own diseases on a mob. NeedToKnow also works with procs and on-use trinkets. The number, size, position, and appearance of timer bars are all customizable. Timer bars can be set to a fixed maximum duration so that all spells in that group which will expire at the same time line up vertically.

Please use the Ticket system on CurseForge for bugs and suggestions!

New in latest version (3.0)
- Spell cast and internal buff cooldown timers
- Overlay a cast time. For example, easily see when to refresh Vampiric Touch or when there's less Flame Shock than it takes to cast Lava Burst.
- Support for watching totems by name
- Support for temporary weapon enchants


Instructions

General options are available in the Blizzard interface options menu. You can type "/needtoknow" or "/ntk" to lock/unlock the addon. To configure individual bars, right click them while unlocked. Bars work while locked. If you only see full bars that aren't changing in response to anything, they are unlocked! Just type /ntk to lock them and get them working for you.

You can enable more groups of bars by going into the Interface settings off the main menu and choosing the AddOns tab.

When entering your settings, be careful with your spelling and capitalization. Also remember that buffs and debuffs sometimes have different names than the items and abilities that apply them. The Death Knight ability Icy Touch, for example, applies a DoT called Frost Fever.

On each bar you can enter in multiple buffs/debuffs deliminated by commas. They are prioritized according to order.
i.e. "Rake, Lacerate" - If both are applied, will display Rake until it expires and then it will track Lacerate
i.e "Curse of Recklessness, Curse of Exhaustion, Curse of Shadows" - Good way to track single instance curses

If you wish to use SpellID, make sure you are using the correct one!
  Change Log - NeedToKnow
3.0.0
- Created a "Settings" submenu whose contents depends on the BuffOrDebuff variable. This should allow for more bar types without confusing the menu too much.
- Added new bar type: "internal cooldown" for proc cooldown timers
- Added new bar type: "spell cooldown" for tracking spell and item cooldown timers
- Fixed: Temporary weapon enchants now use a substring search. "Poison" will pick up all rogue poisons. This also fixed a lua error that could occur when watching weapon buffs
- Added: Can show an asterisk when the bar is tracking a spell cast by the player
- Improved: Added a blink enable besides just setting the alpha to 0. The alpha thing confused too many people
- Added more blink options: only in combat, only if boss, and a label for blinking bars

2.8.6
- Improved: Blinking bars try to be a little smarter about when to blink and when to just be hidden. Especially the case of debuff bars blinking when no target.
- Improved: Weapon imbue names now capture (I hope) the full name from the tooltip to compare against. The name to watch for (in the NTK config) is then regarded as a substring search. So you could configure NTK to watch for Poison to catch all poisons.

2.8.5
- Added: Option to show a spell icon to the left of active bars
- Added: Option to change the font used on NeedToKnow bars (in the interface options dialog)

2.8.4
- Added: Option to show certain bar elements: aura name, time remaining, and the "spark" (ticket 8)
- Added: Option to blink the bar when it would otherwise be missing (ticket 7)
- Fixed: Weapon imbue bars disappear on teleport (ticket 9)
- Fixed: Spark incorrectly visible on weapon imbues (ticket 6)

2.8.3
- Fixed some problems upgrading from older versions of NeedToKnow (ticket 5)

2.8.2
- Beta Support for temporary weapon enchants. Only tested with elemental and restoration shaman (not enhancement or rogues.)

2.8.1
- Fixed: Watching totem by spellid did not work
- Fixed: Logging in when the character was in the second spec would use the first spec's setting

2.8.0
- Added the ability to track increases in spell duration, especially useful for dps druids
- Marked as being a 3.3 addon
- Fixed: Took advantage of a new 3.3 API to get the spell id of active buffs and debuffs. Bars that check spellid should be much more reliable and, for example, be able to tell the difference between the two different Death's Verdict procs
- Fixed: Totem timing is much more accurate
- Fixed: Visual cast times now updates based on changes in haste and other casting-time-affecting abilities
- Refactored the internal structure a bit, which results in easier hooking by other addons

2.7.1
- Fixed: Accidentally removed the background color picker

2.7.0
- Added options for how the time text is formatted. The current style is the default, with mm:ss and ss.t as other options
- Added "visual cast time" overlay which can be used to tell when there's less than some critical amount of time left on an aura
- Hid the spark when the aura lasts longer than the bar (either an infinite duration, or using the Max duration feature.)
- Hid the time text when the aura has an infinite duration

2.6.0
- Added support for a new "Buff or Debuff" type: Totem. Type in the name of the totem to watch for (can be a partial string.)
- Fixed a parse error in the DE localization
- Slightly improved performance of "target of target"
- Added two new /ntk options: show and hide. They can be used to temporarily show and hide the ntk groups.

2.5.2
-Changed event parsing to try to be more robust (see autobot's errors)

2.5.1
-Trying a different strategy for identifying "only cast by me" spells
-When editing the watched auras, the edit field starts with the current value
-Configuring by SpellID is automatically detected and does not need a menu item checked

2.5
-Fixed ToT issue
-Added support for SpellID

2.4.3
-Added SharedMedia support, uses LibSharedMedia-3.0
-Greatly improved performance

2.4.2
-Fixed a bug with the multiple buffs per line
-Fixed a small bug with resize button showing
-Optimized performance slightly

2.4.1

-Fixed character restriction on buff names, no accepts up to 255 characters.
-Added Russian localization

2.4

-Brought up to 3.2 API standards
-Added multiple buffs/debuffs per bar
-Dual-Specialization support

Version 2.2
- Added option to show bars with a fixed maximum duration
- Fixed an issue with targetoftarget
- Added koKR localization. Thanks, metalchoir!
- Added deDE localization. Thanks, sp00n & Fxfighter!

Version 2.1
- Updated for WoW 3.1
- Can now track spells cast by player's pet or vehicle
- Can now track buffs/debuffs on player's vehicle
- Added options for background color, bar spacing, bar padding, bar opacity
- Fixed a problem with buff charges not showing as consumed

Version 2.0.1
- Updated for WoW 3.0
- Can now track (de)buffs applied by others
- Added option to only show buffs/debuffs if applied by self

Version 2.0
- Added support for monitoring debuffs
- Added support for variable numbers of bars
- Added support for separate groups of bars
- Added support for monitoring buffs/debuffs on target, focus, pet, or target of target
- Bars are now click-through while locked
- Reminder icons have been been greatly expanded in functionality and split off into their own addon: TellMeWhen
- Cleaner bar graphics
- Users of older versions will need to re-enter settings

Version 1.2
- Updated for WoW 2.4 API changes

Version 1.1.1
- Icons should now work properly with item cooldowns.
- Reset button should now work properly when you first use the AddOn.

Version 1.1
- Icons will now show when reactive abilities (Riposte, Execute, etc.) are available.
- Added options for bar color and texture.
- Added graphical user interface. Most slash commands gone.
- Added localization support. Translations would be much appreciated.
- Users of older version will need to re-enter settings.

Version 1.0
- Hello world!
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  Archived Versions - NeedToKnow
File Name
Version
Size
Author
Date
2.8.6
64kB
Kitjan
01-11-2010 12:09 AM
2.8.5
64kB
Kitjan
01-10-2010 01:49 AM
2.2
45kB
Kitjan
05-10-2009 09:31 PM
2.1
76kB
lieandswell
04-28-2009 10:44 PM
2.0.1
70kB
lieandswell
10-18-2008 09:53 AM
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Old Yesterday, 11:04 AM  
Kitjan
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Quote:
Originally posted by Aisenfaire
Hello,

I am rather confused.

What is the difference between NeedToKnow and NeedToKnow-Updated? I saw they were updated on the same day, have similar descriptions, but different download files.
The difference is just historical, in that "NeedToKnow" was dormant for awhile. I've been updating both so that people don't have to change their UI clients or favorites.

I'm not sure why the file downloaded from "NeedToKnow" has the number prepnded to it, but it is the same file as from "NeedToKnow - Updated". You can download and use either.
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Old Yesterday, 07:09 AM  
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Hello,

I am rather confused.

What is the difference between NeedToKnow and NeedToKnow-Updated? I saw they were updated on the same day, have similar descriptions, but different download files.
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Old 02-06-2010, 06:33 PM  
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Re: Re: Arcane Blast

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Originally posted by Kitjan
I don't have a mage to test with, but I might guess that you missed Arcane Blast is a debuff?
Thanks for the reply...I havent checked yet since im not ingame but i will do as ssoon as i can.

Thanks for the reply
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Old 02-01-2010, 11:15 AM  
Kitjan
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Re: Arcane Blast

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heya folks

Anyone have any idea how to get this working for mages Arcane Blast please?
I have it working really well on all my other toons but not on my mage.
Any help you could give would be most appreciated, because i am really loving this addon and dont want to have to use my old one as well for the sake of one buff/spell.
I don't have a mage to test with, but I might guess that you missed Arcane Blast is a debuff?
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Old 01-31-2010, 06:57 PM  
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heya folks

Anyone have any idea how to get this working for mages Arcane Blast please?
I have it working really well on all my other toons but not on my mage.
Any help you could give would be most appreciated, because i am really loving this addon and dont want to have to use my old one as well for the sake of one buff/spell.
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Old 01-10-2010, 11:45 PM  
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Originally posted by Farook
Did the two projects for NeedToKnow merge or what happened?
More or less; they are now the same addon.
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Old 01-10-2010, 11:05 PM  
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Did the two projects for NeedToKnow merge or what happened?
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Old 10-20-2009, 06:18 AM  
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Video to help first time users

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Old 08-29-2009, 12:28 PM  
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Updated NeedToKnow

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...o.php?id=14579

Has support for multiple buffs per bar, shared media, and dual-talent specialization.

Last edited by Bilt : 09-08-2009 at 10:55 AM.
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Old 08-25-2009, 03:52 AM  
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The buff from the T9 Death Knight DPS sigil AND the DPS T9 2 piece bonus is "Unholy Strength", the same as the buff from Rune of the Fallen Crusader. Since NeedToKnow only tracks by name, they fight for control of the Unholy Strength bar and it's really annoying.

It irritates me that Blizzard did this in the first place, but is there any sort of work around for this? I'd love to be able to track stuff by individual spellIDs or something, but implementing something like that seems non-trivial at best.
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Old 08-25-2009, 02:52 AM  
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Updated NeedToKnow

I updated NeedToKnow so that you can put multiple spells per bar such as Mangle (Cat),Mangle (Bear),Trauma. It also correctly determines if its your buff or debuff. I don't really know how to go about submitting it, or a good place to host it.
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Old 08-18-2009, 11:08 AM  
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Quote:
Originally posted by richerich
About tracking debuffs/buffs, is there any way to track different debuffs/buffs on the same line? For example on my paladin, i use JoW as tank, but JoL when i DPS and i have to use different lines to show them.
I would love to see a way to track both on the same, kinda like "Judgment of" or something like that.
As a feral druid I very strongly echo this request. I don't care if the target has Mangle (Cat), Mangle (Bear) or Trauma on it when I DPS, as long one of them is up.
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Old 08-08-2009, 10:53 AM  
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I was using Needtoknow before 3.2 and after patch came it always resets settings after i logout.Somehow this happens only to my main char and not to my alts.. Any1 know what can I do? Or what the problem is?Help..
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Old 08-06-2009, 12:55 AM  
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Great addon, but im having trouble getting it to track my dots. Im a DK and i run Spartan UI, the addon will not track the dots frost fever and blood plague. I have checked the spelling and everything, Any help would be appreciated.
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:57 PM  
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Can we expect an update soon, or shall we look for an (updated) alternative?
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