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Updated: | 07-17-18 01:55 PM |
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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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06-04-09, 01:48 PM | |
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Odd.. when I put OMEN on Fubar, if I reloadui or restart the game the icon is not on Fubar anymore?
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05-10-09, 08:06 PM | |
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Hey there, i am curious if there is a way of making omen display a chat message or screen flash/shake if someone is about to pass a threshold (90%) of the main tanks threat.
thanks //kelen |
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04-17-09, 08:27 AM | |
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Hello guys, I'm experiencing some strange thing with Omen3. I downloaded it, place it in my addons folder but when I'm ingame omen3 is not working. I looked in to the options and stuff but everything seems fine. I got no errors with the addon it just don't work. In raid group, in normal group even single ... I attack a mob and no bars of threat are shown.
Last edited by umrete : 04-17-09 at 08:45 AM.
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04-16-09, 09:26 PM | |
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Not showing threat.
Must type /omen show to make it show up no matter what, even if it should appear when in combat and disappear when not. Using 3.0.7. |
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04-15-09, 05:05 PM | ||
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Until then, thanks for all the work on such a useful addon |
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03-23-09, 02:47 PM | ||
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03-21-09, 06:22 PM | |
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Omen pops up ingame when fighitn something new, but it doesnt show threats at all, all the tests work.
when we fight a new mob or boss, it shows the name of the mob/boss/w/e it is, but no threat meters are displayed... why? [private server btw]
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03-08-09, 08:08 AM | |
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Under Vista, if You delete the WTF-folder within 'Program Files/World of Warcraft' it will work fine. (same thing after applying a patch too)
If there is a WTF-folder in program files AND a WTF-folder within the virtual store -> wow will write changes in wtf within virtual store but read outdated data from wtf within programm files. it's confusing, I know |
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03-07-09, 11:37 PM | |
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That's not entirely true, and it's certainly not a bug. The issue Flynt describes only occurs under Windows Vista (not XP) and is actually a security feature that prevents non-Administrators from modifying data in the Program Files directory. When a program run by a non-Administrator tries to save data inside Program Files, Windows Vista redirects the changed files to a "virtual store" directory in the user's profile instead. When the program later tries to access data that it saved, Windows Vista sends it the changed files from the user's profile instead. This doesn't always work well with WoW because WoW was written before Windows Vista was released, and no previous version of Windows behaved this way. Blizzard, for whatever reason, has not released any updates to make WoW interact with Windows Vista in the way Microsoft wants programs to interact with it (i.e. just store data in the user's profile directly instead of Program Files).
As a user, the best (and simplest) solution is to simply move WoW out of the Program Files directory. Open up My Computer, navigate to the C:\ drive, Program Files directory, and right-click on the World of Warcraft directory. Select the "Cut" entry, then navigate back up a level to the C:\ drive. Right-click somewhere and select "New > Folder" and name the new folder "Games" (this isn't strictly necessary but will help keep things organized in the long run). Open the folder, right click, and select "Paste". Next time you run WoW, Windows should be able to figure out where you moved it to, and update your shortcuts accordingly. This may take a few minutes, so don't panic. However, if you're not using Windows Vista, then this obviously isn't your problem. |
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01-06-09, 07:15 PM | ||
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Re: addon troubles.
I actually just joined to hopefully answer this question.
There is a certain bug, I guess that's what it would be called, with most Windows XP and Vista operating systems that do not save settings if you're running WoW on a regular account. If you do not have an administrator's account, then this will continue to happen until you can gain access and save those settings on that profile. That's as much as I can help on this subject.
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01-06-09, 05:22 AM | |
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addon troubles.
hey guys.
a couple of people have tried to fix this problem with no success. im not sure if its the addon problem or a computer problem. i downloaded omen3 the usual way. i activate it in the addons tab but wen i log in its turned off. i log out and go back into the addons tab and its turned off, i turn the addon back on but yet again wen i log in the addon switches of. i went on my mates account (same computer) and the addon worked so its just my account. so if anybody knows of a setting i could have switched on accidently or any other information that would be great, thanks, Heirothic. |
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01-03-09, 04:31 AM | ||
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You might have another addon interfering that is turning on sounds for you automatically.
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01-01-09, 10:25 PM | ||
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01-01-09, 09:16 PM | ||
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To really turn off sound, you need to ESC -> Sound & Voice -> Sound tab -> Turn off "Enable Sound" checkbox.
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