ThreatU

Not exactly MyTPS using Omen, but both report sustained TPS for a fight. Two totally differant directions for the two mods though. As with MyTPS I will add Titan Panel and Fubar plugins to give a better interface to the data it retains. I also intend to release a lua script for converting it to xml for loading into a database or displaying on a webpage.

The differance between this and MyTPS is this is focused on party dynamics in regards to threat and MyTPS is focus allowing a tank to review their generation and giving feedback to aid them in improving it. It is ThreatU because ultimately the intent is to advance the idea of threat utilization, i.e. what portion of the threat the tank generated was actually used by dpsers. Much of what I want to do can't be done until 2.4 provides the ability to track threat by individual mob rather than mob name. An example of the problem currently is mob tanks, another mob with same name targets off-tank, but it looks like one mob changed targets.

This tracks the entire party. All Omen provides is threat by player by mob name. One value isn't all that interesting so I derive a few. One is how much threat you dumped. I track whether your threat went up or down since the last sample. TPS is calculated off ending threat, but it has how much was gained and how much was lost. I also track when each party member first generated threat and when they first generated significant threat. What is considered signficant defaults to 300 to screen out buffs, blood rage, polymorphs, ranged attacks by tanks for pulls, ect. You can set it to any value you please though. It also retains a fight history, the default is the last ten fights, but you can set that to any value you please. It also tracks statistics for all fights since last reset though many off those may have rolled out of history.

Since it tracks every fight you were in and all the party members in any group you were in at the time you need to reset it periodically. The idea is you reset at the start of a run and review it at the end of a run. Also the fight start time is when either you entered combat or Omen started registering combat. So start time may vary a bit for individual players. It may say the tank generated threat for the first time 3s into the fight while another player shows he first generated threat 0s into the fight because they were not in combat when the tank started showing up in Omen.

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Installation Guide

1. Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
2. Download the mod you want to install
   • Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
   • Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
   • If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
3. Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
   Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
   • Windows
     • Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
     • WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
     • WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
   • Mac Users
     • StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
4. Verify your WoW Installation Path
   That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
5. Move to the Addon folder
   • Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
   • Go into the "Interface" folder.
   • Go into the "AddOns" folder.
   • In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
   • The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
   • Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
6. Start World of Warcraft
7. Make sure AddOns are installed
   • Log in
   • At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
   • If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
   • If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...