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Omen is a threat meter.
Basically, enemies in WoW decide who to attack by deciding who is the most threatening based on the abilities you use. What Omen does is provide accurate values of your group's relative threat level on individual enemies, so that you can see when you're in danger of pulling aggro (or, if you're next on the snack list if your tank bites it). This info is usually only critical in raids, where only tanks can survive aggro, but it's useful for any multi-player situation.
FAQ
How is Omen3 different from Omen2?
Omen3 relies completely on the Blizzard threat API and threat events. It does not attempt to calculate or extrapolate threat unlike Omen2 except when Tricks, Misdirection, Mirror Image, Fade and glyphed Hand of Salvation are active.
Omen2 used what we called the Threat-2.0 library. This library was responsible for monitoring the combat log, spellcasting, buffs, debuffs, stances, talents and gear modifiers for calculating each individuals threat. Threat was calculated based on what was known or approximated from observed behaviors. Many abilities such as knockbacks were just assumed (to be a 50% threat reduction) as they were mostly impossible to confirm.
The Threat-2.0 library also included addon communication to broadcast your threat to the rest of the raid as long as they were also using Threat-2.0. This data was then used to provide a raid wide display of threat information.
Since patch 3.0.2, Omen no longer does any of these things and the need for a threat library is no longer necessary. Omen3 uses Blizzard's new in-built threat monitor to obtain exact values of every members threat. This means Omen3 has no need for synchronisation of data, combat log parsing or guessing, resulting in a significant increase in performance with regards to network traffic, CPU time and memory used. The implementation of boss modules for specific threat events (such as Nightbane wiping threat on landing) are also no longer necessary.
Further benefits of this new implementation include the addition of NPC threat on a mob (eg, Human Kalecgos). However, there are some drawbacks; frequency of updates are much slower, threat details cannot be obtained unless somebody in your party/raid are targetting the mob and it is also not possible to obtain threat from a mob you are not in direct combat with.
How do I get rid of the 2 vertical gray lines down the middle?
Lock your Omen. Locking Omen will prevent it from being moved or resized, as well as prevent the columns from being resized. If you haven't realized it, the 2 vertical gray lines are column resizing handles.
How do I make Omen3 look like Omen2?
Change both the Background Texture and Border Texture to Blizzard Tooltip, change the Background Color to black (by dragging the luminance bar to the bottom), and the Border Color to blue.
Why does no threat data show on a mob when I target it even though it is in combat?
The Blizzard threat API does not return threat data on any mob you are not in direct combat with. We suspect this is an effort on Blizzard's part to save network traffic.
Is there ANY way around this Blizzard limitation? Not being able to see my pet's threat before I attack has set me back to guessing.
There is no way around this limitation short of us doing the guessing for you (which is exactly how Omen2 did it).
The goal of Omen3 is to provide accurate threat data, we no longer intend to guess for you and in the process lower your FPS. Have some confidence in your pet/tank, or just wait 2 seconds before attacking and use a low damage spell such as Ice Lance so that you can get initial threat readings.
Can we get AoE mode back?
Again, this is not really possible without guessing threat values. Blizzard's threat API only allows us to query for threat data on units that somebody in the raid is targeting. This means that if there are 20 mobs and only 6 of them are targeted by the raid, there is no way to obtain accurate threat data on the other 14.
This is also extremely complicated to guess particularly for healing and buffing (threat gets divided by the number of mobs you are in combat with) because mobs that are under crowd control effects (sheep, banish, sap, etc) do not have their threat table modified and addons cannot reliably tell how many mobs you are in combat with. Omen2's guess was almost always wrong.
The tooltips on unit mouseover shows a threat % that does not match the threat % reported by Omen3. Why?
Blizzard's threat percentage is scaled to between 0% and 100%, so that you will always pull aggro at 100%. Omen reports the raw unscaled values which has pulling aggro percentages at 110% while in melee range and 130% otherwise.
By universal agreement, the primary target of a mob is called the tank and is defined to be at 100% threat.
The threat updates are slow...
Omen3 updates the threat values you see as often as Blizzard updates the threat values to us.
In fact, Blizzard updates them about once per second, which is much faster than what Omen2 used to sync updates. In Omen2, you only transmitted your threat to the rest of the raid once every 3 seconds (or 1.5s if you were a tank).
Where can I report bugs or give suggestions?
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03-25-08, 03:55 PM | ||
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Re: help
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03-25-08, 06:06 PM | |
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[edit: I hadn't refreshed my screen when i posted the message that was here]
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03-25-08, 07:42 PM | |
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Not working
Nevermind. I didnt realize i have to extend the window down to see the bars
Hey, i have just updated Omen via WAU without Externals (as i do with all my ACE addons) and Omen doesnt seem to be working. I can see the omen frame but when i attack something omen doesnt do anything. I have got the activate when solo option checked, show always option checked, i am running the latest version of omen, BugSack doesnt report any errors. Any idea wat could be causing this please. Thank You
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Re: Re: help
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03-25-08, 10:56 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: help
Make sure you exit World of Warcraft and restart before testing the new version. |
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03-26-08, 08:33 AM | |
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not syncing?
The new omen doesn't seem to sync with people using the old omen or with people using KTM. Is there some way to make this happen? I'm especially concerned with it not seeming to sync with people using KTM.
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03-26-08, 10:39 AM | |
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AOE Mode?
Anyone have any luck with AoE mode? As a tankadin I was greatly looking forward to it.. but last night it was just giving blank looks. Single-target mode and tabbing to each target was giving me the correct results.
This was just outdoor questing in a 2-person group.. does it need a Raid and a MT assigned? |
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03-26-08, 01:59 PM | |
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can't get it to work >.<
i've installed the latest version via WAU and it appears in my addons list (on the login screen) but i can't get it to appear in-game.
any got any ideas? |
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Anyone know why im getting this error...
[2008/03/26 23:26:32-856-x9]: Omen\Modules\AOE\AOE.lua:149: attempt to call method 'GetName' (a nil value) Heres another.. [2008/03/26 23:32:16-857-x1]: Omen\Bar.lua:111: attempt to call method 'GetName' (a nil value) Basically my bars all show <name> <enemy> blah blah.... Cant tell which bar is mine.
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03-26-08, 10:42 PM | |
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I don't use Omen on my hunter unless I'm in a dungeon. But I can't keep it from popping up everytime I change zones or dismount. I can't find an option to keep it hidden when solo.
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03-27-08, 03:36 AM | |
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I have of problems now with this omen2
previously i used the Omen on 2.3, and it worked perfectly, calculating taunts, growl, each strike etc, but now this version is quite annoying, plus it doesn't count growl threats, so i can't really check the real threat my pet build up, and i can't shot freely like before. |
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03-27-08, 07:21 AM | |
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If you do some assorted clicking of the buttons eventually they become unfunctionable. Pressing the Single Target and next one over buttons stopped working after a while. Forget a few if statements somewhere?
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