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Updated: | 12-08-09 08:36 AM |
Created: | 08-23-09 08:35 AM |
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This is a rune frame replacement addon. The addon brings together the most critical information that you need to time your abilities into one location. Also, the addon emphasizes areas that need your immediate attention by using bright, fast-moving bars. Finally, the addon puts indicators of events that are happening soon on the same time scale so that you see the exact order in which the events will happen.
A primary feature of the addon is that it shows the 2.5-second grace period after a rune becomes available when it should be used in order to avoid wasting rune production. The addon also shows the global cooldown (GCD) on the same scale, so you can tell exactly when you can use your next abilities. Finally, the addon has optional target disease bars that can tell you exactly when your diseases will wear off relative to your runes and GCD.
Rune Display
In this addon, there are 6 colored vertical bars that grow upward. Each colored bar represents a rune, just like you've learned to expect from other similar addons. When the bar is completely filled to the top of the frame, the rune is ready for use. As a colored bar nears the top, you'll see a brighter bar appear, moving upward. This bright bar represents the 2.5 second grace period in which you should use the corresponding rune. If you use the rune before the bright bar completely slides off the top of the frame, then you are using your runes optimally and you are well on your way to maximizing your DPS or threat.
In case some folks considering this addon don't know what the rune grace period is, let me give a brief explanation. For every death knight, a particular rune becomes available for use at the time when both of these conditions are satisfied:
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Dayn |
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01-02-10, 09:08 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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Thanks for the quick reply.
There was a slight bug in the expression you quoted but using it, I managed to understand the function used to create the bars. What I did was to create a local array: Code:
runeBarIndexArray = {3, 4, 2, 6, 1, 5} It's perfect now |
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04-06-10, 04:39 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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Hey, I've been trying to figure out how to change the order of the runes, however I haven't been able to figure it out, and since the expression you made for zhuojia seems to be bugged, I was wondering if you could fix it so I could choose my own rune order.
Ideally it should be FUBBFU. |
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04-29-10, 03:17 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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After one day of use, i can confidently say that this is the perfect rune add-on, and to my knowledge the only rune add-on to elegantly incorporate the oh-so important grace period.
The lack of an in-game menu is of course frustrating for moving the frames; but i can imagine it cuts down a lot of work and maintenance to the add-on. Any DK that goes to the effort of downloading a small and wildly under appreciated add-on for the well incorporated grace period/GCD moving scale will have no problem spending fifteen minutes configuring and scaling the frame according to the instructions in the config lua file. One question i do have is will there be/is there any functionality for the GCD bar being shorter from GCD hastened spells like Death Coil and Howling Blast, which to me have ~1.3-1.4 second GCDs. It's splitting hairs but it would be the icing on the cake of a complete, all in one rune addon catering for the hardcore. I hope that you continue updating this Dayn, until the rune system changes in 4.0. |
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05-05-10, 08:35 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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This mod looks very promising, if only me or my friends could figure out how to use the thing. While it looks very nice in the bottom middle of the screen, thats where a lot of other stuff on my UI goes.
Props for what looks like a good concept, but this thing needs to go back to the drawing board so that non programmers can use it. I tried the instructions and received a wall of text that I couldn't decipher (I only speak English, not C+). Still, I think this mod has a lot of potential in the future when its a little more fleshed out. |
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06-20-10, 06:38 PM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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LFM
This is the first rune addon that I can actually use. I can never keept focus with any of the other addons.
That being said. I'm LFM. Can I customize Target Disease Display to show Frost Fever, Blood Plague, Ebon plague, and Unholy Blight? Those are the four I watch as Unholy, using another addon, but life would be so much easier If I could watch the runes, and the diseases in the same field of space, on the same set of bars. My eyes are too distracted to watch the raid, my other addons, my runes, and my diseases all in different places. Thanks for the addon none the less. If your wondering I'm using class timers for the 3 diseases, and UB. {Big EDit} Now that I think about it. This addon defiantly could benefit from a configuration interface. I'm dual spec DPS/Tank, and I do use the pestilence glyph in my tank spec. Switching Between specs, people will have different CD's and needs that may need to change as quickly as possible. especially in a raid when I can be asked to pick up tanking duties. The raid isn't going to appreciate me logging out every time I switch specs to change the lua file. Food for thought. Still crazy about this great addon.
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07-12-10, 04:16 PM | |
A Defias Bandit
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Re: Great Mod
I really see a lot of potential in this mod, it desperately needs a UI setup to make it easier to ease people into setting up it.
However, is it possible to make the bars run left to right instead of up and down. Ive played with Magic Runes so long that make a transition to an up and down rune system would be painful (have to redo my UI etc) and Im just not accustomed to looking at a up and down system. The other feature of magic runes that I would miss, is the count timer timer in the rune bars. It gives you a numerical value in addition to filling up your bars. |
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10-14-10, 07:42 AM | |
A Kobold Labourer
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any chance this gets updated for 4.0.x ?
really got used to it and cant miss it anymore |
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