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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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04-13-08, 12:46 AM | |
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Omen threat bars
Hello, I have a problem with Omen players name in threat bars. I only can choose between the colors black, blue, pink & red, this screenshot shows that I have selected the white color & leaves a pink
Here's a screenshot Omen Problem Thanks in advance. Cheers & sorry for my english
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04-13-08, 03:01 AM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: not syncing?
A threat meter that is intuitive for everyone to use is the commodity you are seeking. The makers of Omen are working on getting one ready, if you do not like their product then you are free to find or make one that you do, if you are incapable of that then I guess you have to wait it out like everyone else.. If you do not like the price that the oil companies are charging for gas you can put your own time, energy, and money into finding raw oil, getting the mineral rights to it, pumping it out of the ground, and refining it. (actually no you probably can't legally do that but you get the idea) I suspect the outlay to actually produce your own widget (threat meter that works for you, or gasoline) would not pass any reasonable cost benefit analysis. |
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04-14-08, 02:00 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: not syncing?
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04-14-08, 03:55 PM | ||
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: not syncing?
Last edited by Spiderkeg : 04-14-08 at 10:38 PM.
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04-16-08, 06:46 PM | |
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mines not doing anything, no bars or names nothing.
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04-19-08, 06:12 PM | |
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When I log onto WoW, I receive an error that says it cannot find the library of Threat 2.0. How do I fix this?
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05-01-08, 09:39 PM | |
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This thing just flat out isn't working anymore. It looks nice, loads nice, I like the added skinning options, I like the different mode capability, I have been a user of Omen since I first heard of it. I have always preferred it to other stuff floating around.
That said, I'm in the process of removing it from my system. It no longer works, it doesn't display anything consistently (not even my own threat while solo'ing). I have posted about it, I have seen others posting about it (on other sites much more frequently than here). I never see anyone's data. I occasionally get information that others are using out of date Threat 2.0 (tonight in fact), but guess what? With tonight's case, both myself and the other player running Omen in our group had JUST DOWNLOADED the same revision # from WAU. It still reported that the other player's Omen wasnt compatible (downloaded no more than 2 minutes apart as a test). It's bugged all to hell. As I'm frequently a tank, I don't really need Omen so much to monitor my OWN threat, but I do like to keep an eye on who may be climbing the threat ladder during fights. I find it helpful to know who I may need to move mobs away from, or position myself closer to in order to proactively intercept their threat (if it does pass my own), etc. The old Omen was a GREAT TOOL and perhaps I have never seen anything better (including the latest Omen). I simply don't know what happened that busted this mod but I hope it gets resolved someday. Back to WOW the old fashioned way - "hey idiot, if an ogre is pounding your face, you have threat and guess what? if you're wearing a dress you may want to ease up on pissing him off!". Happy Killing |
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05-30-08, 01:54 AM | |
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Error in Omen
I been getting this error in omen everytime i enslave a demon and sometimes it happens on a banish but thats rare.
Screen shot here. http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6742/omenerroroc6.jpg Comp out =D |
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06-26-08, 07:59 AM | |
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I installed this last night & my system crashed 5 times in the Arathi Basin. Several times without even the windows crash box. The whole WOW application just shut down. After removing it, 4 hrs in the BGs with no further issues. I have not gotten any of the one-screen ingame errors posted below.
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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...49604&sid=2000
On the beta servers, the new 8719 there is an new BUILT IN THREAT METER! From the link above..
(also more information @ http://mmo-champion.com .) |
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Does it have any command line para to switch between single target mode and AOE mode?
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