MobInfo-2 (includes MobHealth)

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Last Update: April 19, 2008 (3 weeks ago)
Category: Unit Frames
Tags: health, interface, mob, and stat
Project Manager: Skeeve
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Current Version: MobInfo-2 (includes MobHealth) 3.61
(for World of Warcraft 2.4.0)
Downloads Today: 2,284
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Created On: Aug. 5, 2005
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Intro

MobInfo-2 is a World of Warcraft AddOn that provides you with useful additional information about Mobs (ie. opponents/monsters). It adds new information to the game's Tooltip whenever you hover with your mouse over a mob. It also adds a numeric display of the Mobs health and mana (current and max) to the Mob target frame. MobInfo-2 is the continuation of the now abandoned "MobInfo" by Dizzarian combined with the original "MobHealth2" by Wyv.

New Feature Info : MobInfo Tooltip Window

By default MobInfo now shows and uses the new MobInfo Tooltip window. On screen there is a movable anchor (click&drag to move it) called "MI". Initially you should find it underneath the minimap. Thats where the MobInfo Tooltip appears.

In the MobInfo options window you can configrue the layout of the MobInfo Tooltip (on the "Tooltip" options page). You can also decide to not use it at all and use the normal Gamtooltip instead (this option is on the "General" options page).

MobInfo-2 Data Collecting

MobInfo collects data whenever you fight a Mob. It starts off with an empty database, which fills up automatically the more you fight and play. The data it collects is used for enhancing the game tooltip and the game target frame. It is also available to other AddOns (mostly the mob/target health values). The amount of data that gets recorded is configurable through the MobInfo options dialog.

Resiatances and Immunities

MobInfo implementats a considerably simplified method for resistances and immunities tracking. It records for each school of magic the number of spells that have succeeded and the number of spells that were resisted. The resulting percentage is NOT the exact magic resist stat of the mob ! Instead MobInfo attempt to show you a rough but helpful indication of how likely the mob is to resist spells of a specific class of magic. Sidenote: In fact due to WoW limitations it is impossible for an AddOn to calculate the exact magic resist stat.

Extra Information For Game Tooltip

The extra information available to show on the game tooltip is:

  • Class - class of mob
  • Health - current and total health of the mob
  • Mana - current and total mana of the mob
  • Damage - min/max damage range of Mob against you (stored per char)
  • DPS - your DPS (damage per second) against the Mob (stored per char)
  • Kills - number of times you have killed the mob (stored per char)
  • Total Looted - number of times you have looted the mob
  • Empty Loots - number of times you found empty loot on the mob
  • XP - actual LAST xp amount you gained from the mob
  • # to Level - number of kills of this mob neede to gain a level
  • Quality - the quality of items that are dropped by the mob
  • Cloth drops - the number of times cloth has dropped on the mob
  • Avg Coin Drop - average amount of money dropped by the mob
  • Avg Item Value - average vendor value of items dropped by mob
  • Total Mob Value - total sum of avg coin drop and avg item value
  • Loot Items - all loot items dropped by a Mob can be recorded
  • Mob Location - the location where you killed a Mob gets recorded and can be shown in the tooltip
  • Mob Resistances - the mobs magic resistances and immunities


There are two modes for displaying the data: normal mode and compact mode. In normal mode one line is added to the tooltip per single data item from the list above. In compact mode two data items will be combined on one line of the tooltip. User of TipBuddy should note that (only) the MobInfo Compact Mode is compatible with the TipBuddy Compact Mode.

Note that MobInfo offers a "Combined Mode" where the data of Mobs with the same name that only differ in level gets combined (added up) into one tooltip. This mode can be enabled through the options dialog

Target Frame Health/Mana Values

MobInfo can display the numeric and percentage values for your current targets health and mana right on the target frame (formerly known as MobHealth functionality). This display is highly configurable through the MobInfo options dialog (position, font, size, etc).

MobInfo Options Dialog

Type '/mi2' or '/mobinfo2' on the chat prompt to open the MobInfo2 options dialog. This dialog gives you full interactive control over EVERYTHING that MobInfo can do. All options take immediate effect. Simply try them all out. Decent defaults get set when you start MobInfo for the first time. Note that the 4 main categories 'Tooltip', 'Mob Health/Mana', 'Database' and 'Search' have separate dedicated options pages within the options dialog.

Everything in the options dialog has an associated help text that explains to you what the option does. The help texts are shown automatically as a tooltip.

How to Install

Before installing a (new) version of MobInfo it is IMPORTANT that you exit and close WoW ! Unpack the ZIP file and copy the folder 'MobInfo2' into your 'World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns' folder. If asked choose to overwrite existing files. If you have an existing MobInfo database it is a good idea to backup this database just so you have a backup copy in a save location. You can find your MobInfo database here: 'World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<account_name>/SavedVariables/MobInfo2.lua'. Now you can again start WoW and enjoy the new MobInfo.

MobInfo-2 will automatically load the next time you login with one of your chars. When starting the first time you might get a message that a separate MobHealth AddOn was detected. If so please remove it, or at least disable it. You will find that it is no longer needed, because MobInfo-2 is a full featured and fully compatible replacement for "MobHealth".

Official MobInfo discussion forum

There is an official MobInfo discussion and bug reporting forum that you are all welcome to use. The main advantage is that it allows creating seperate topic threads for discussing different topics. This means your comment wont get lost in a flood of comments. Here's the link to the forum: http://www.dizzarian.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=16

New Features

Recently a number of great new featrues have been added to MobInfo. I'm sure you'd love at least some of them, if not all, if only you knew they existed and how to activate them :-) So here is a list for you:

  • MobInfo now featuers its own movable and configurable MobInfo tooltip window
  • optimized and simplified MobInfo options window
  • MobInfo minimap button for opening the MobInfo options window
  • drastically improved Mob health calculation accuracy
  • vendor sell value of items can be shown in item tooltip
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  • Frac said
    May 17, 2008, 01:59AM (4 hours, 32 minutes ago)

    I'd love to have this track mobs that "call for help". The miners near Hillsbrad, for example. Some beast mobs "howl" to attract attention too.

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  • Xaximus said
    May 14, 2008, 05:11PM (2 days, 13 hours ago)

    Resists are not showing up in tooltips.

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  • Darklor said
    May 15, 2008, 03:27AM (2 days, 3 hours ago)

    The tracking of resists is broken.

    Darklor

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  • Solgath said
    May 13, 2008, 11:42PM (3 days, 6 hours ago)

    anyone else notice the run away notice is broken? i tried both versions of mobinfo and i still can't get it to log when mobs run from me... anyone got any info that can help me fix this?

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  • Frac said
    May 17, 2008, 01:56AM (4 hours, 35 minutes ago)

    It's working for me. Once I kill a mob that runs, the next time I view the tooltip, it shows the flag. I'm not sure how it tracks. Do you have the "...runs away in fear" messages blocked by something else?

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  • Blixa said
    April 30, 2008, 07:39AM (2 weeks, 2 days ago)

    Feature request:
    Please add an option "time to die" -> displays time in sec, where the mob is supposed to die (very usefull for raid trash and bosses with a lot of hp when placing DoTs and managing CDs)

    Thanks, Blixa

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  • Blixa said
    April 30, 2008, 12:53PM (2 weeks, 2 days ago)

    Bug:
    All displays on the target frame does not show on startup.

    To fix this I always have to open the config window and uncheck/check any (realy any) of the checkboxes there.

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  • squirt937 said
    April 30, 2008, 04:20AM (2 weeks, 3 days ago)

    How do I get the word "Skinnable" to show without having to show both tooltips??

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  • Silmeria29 said
    April 29, 2008, 02:41AM (2 weeks, 4 days ago)

    hello Skeeve I have a little problem with Mob info , well.. as you know Blizzars make a new patch this patch is a leaguage patch the latiamerican patch ,this make the normal english WOW in Latinoamerica spanish and that is the big problem the Localization are US and the idiom are spanish, and my question is can make a MobInfo for this kind of Patch please, because I use your addon a lot and I really need

    Silmeria29

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  • Bidybag said
    April 28, 2008, 08:23PM (2 weeks, 4 days ago)

    Does this work with Perl classic unit frames?

    Also does it show the HP of enemies on battleground?

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  • magneeto said
    April 21, 2008, 08:59PM (3 weeks, 4 days ago)

    Thanks Skeeve. By the way, do you have any plans to update the MobInfo-2 Browser? It would be nice to see it included with MobInfo-2!

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  • Skeeve said
    April 21, 2008, 03:44PM (3 weeks, 4 days ago)

    Hi magneeto,

    Yep, you found out correct: the red number is one of your items. MobInfo stores only the identification numbers of items within the data of a mob. The names for the items are stored in a separate list. So within the data of the mob theres only the info that this mob dropped two times the item with the number 2725. Then theres a second list saying (or supposed to say) that item 2725 is in fact "The green hills of Stranglethorn page XX". This saves A LOT of memory !

    You can probably guess what went wrong ? For some unknown reason this second list with the names is laking the text for item 2725. Whenever this happens I decided to print just the number in a red color.

    @Grenadieris:
    Well, please do feel free and invited to uninstall and ignore AddOns that you consider to be totally useless.

    Skeeve

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  • magneeto said
    April 20, 2008, 08:33PM (3 weeks, 5 days ago)

    I noticed something odd today when killing. The mob tooltip is showing a red number, and has a drop percentage next to it as if it were an item. I'm guessing it's the item ID number for Volatile Rum since the number of drops and the percentage are the same. So far I've seen it on two mobs, Bloodsail Warlock and Bloodsail Elder Magus in Stranglethorn Vale. Not a big deal, but thought I'd mention it. Here's a screenshot of it http://media.curse.com/dl2/23/125/244.JPG

    Edit: The red number is actually for the Green Hills of Stranglethorn pages. Instead of the name, it shows the red number for some of the pages.

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  • mystery8 said
    April 20, 2008, 06:47PM (3 weeks, 5 days ago)

    There's prebuilt databases out there (you'll have to search yourself) with drop info. Or you could just kill stuff yourself and let the database grow. The tooptip window can be adjusted (see options) and Mobhealth works fine after you kill a mob for the first time. Useless addon? With 2,272,914 downloads that's unlikely. Your comment however, is useless. L2P and stop dissing a great addon.

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  • Chibito said
    April 19, 2008, 02:03PM (3 weeks, 6 days ago)

    Err...I just downloaded the addon. From www.curse.com. Never had the problem you described before.

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  • Skeeve said
    April 19, 2008, 12:30PM (3 weeks, 6 days ago)

    Hi everyone,

    My WoW account still has a few days left on it, so I used the time for one more MobInfo update. I fixed (or at least hope I fixed) the annoying bug that kills were not being counted for Mobs that do not give XP.

    Sorry for that bug, but blame it on Blizzard, who keep making drastic AddOn breaking changes to their software. The kill counting got broken by the recent combat log changes that Blizzard made.

    Never the less: I am still leaving WoW, as posted below (read there for the full story). My account runs out in about 10 days. There is good news for all fans of MobInfo, though. About 5 people voluntered to continue the AddOn ! I am amazed and happy about this fantastic offer of support. I have now asked one of the volunteers to take over AddOn maintenance.

    Best wishes,
    Skeeve

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  • Dandre said
    April 20, 2008, 01:59AM (3 weeks, 6 days ago)

    Skeeve --
    Sorry to see you leave, but I agree, you've been really responsive and your addon is always up to date and top-notch. Thanks for everything :)

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  • Steil said
    April 19, 2008, 06:51PM (3 weeks, 6 days ago)

    I'll definitely miss ya! you were one of the best and most responsive addon author's to date. Thx for the good times and excellent mod.

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  • Lynchsta said
    April 18, 2008, 03:12PM (4 weeks ago)

    I used to like the original mobinfo addon, as it was stationed where I put it on my desktop, and stayed there for every mob kill. I do NOT like this one at all with the floating text window. Is there a way to change this and make it sticky someplace.

    Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out about 30 seconds after I posted.

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