Ardent Defender

Ardent Defender is an addon designed to help Protection Paladins.

It provides several functions which I found useful as a Tankadin,
and hope someone else finds them useful as well.

Ardent Defender will:

• - Announces when Ardent Defender proc's and saves your life, as well as flashing your screen and shaking it to alert you to the averted death.
  
• - Detects and tells you when someone causes a parry on an NPC you are tanking. Also tells you if you cause a parry on an NPC someone else is tanking.
  
• - Announces bubblewall usage (when it activates and when it fades)
  
• - Announce if your taunt fails (and why) or if your Avenger Shield misses.
  
• - Tracks combat stats such as damage received, damage blocked, damage absorbed.
  
• - Makes use of LibDataBroker if you have it, to display combat stats and Ardent Defender info.. see screenshots to see what I mean.
  
• - Tracks & Whispers on usage: Hand of Protection, Sacrifice, Salvation,
  Freedom. also Divine Sacrifice, Divine Intervention and Lay On Hands.
  
• - (Disabled by default) Can annoy you with red screen slashing if Righteous Fury is not active AND you are currently wearing defense gear.
  
• - Will not announce or track any of the above while in a Battleground, but will work normally while in an Arena.
  
• - The LDB object displays combat statistics such as how much damage you have absorbed, blocked and received, how many times (since reload)
  Ardent Defender has saved your life, as well as how much Ardent Defender will heal you upon proc, how much damage Divine Sacrifice absorbs, and more..

Feel free to leave good or bad comments. I will take reasonable requests under consideration.

Type "/ad" to bring up the Options panel, or right click the LDB object.

Enjoy..
-Blinddate
US-Thrall

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  Author

  conundrum4000

  (Project Manager)

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  • Ardent Defender

---Ardent Defender Addon---- Blinddate of Thrall ------------

1.4a/b/c: 10/25/09 By popular demand, I reworked the system once more to allow <heal> to work in your avert death messages. It's a bit of a hack, but it works nicely. Tested it as best I could, let me know if you find any problems. Removed the screen flashing stuff from the Parry code. It's annoying as hell and was not intended. New option: Othertaunts. Alerts you when someone else taunts your target. I find it useful during certain raids. Various bugfixes introduced with 1.4, and fixed an old bug causing it not to alert you when YOU cause a parry on a target you aren't tanking. Grr the parry flashing is really gone this time.. I promise!

1.4: 10/23/09 Rewrote alot of the core event code, should be more efficient now. As a consequence of the above, AD -should- work for a Paladin of any level now, not sure if the AD Heal will be accurate or not I haven't had a chance to test it. Now tracks/whispers Hand of Freedom on target. In Battlegrounds, it will still whisper targets, but will not make any raid announcements. Fixed a bug where sometimes AD would proc and it would not be announced.. This was caused by you taking such a large hit that it absorbed all of your remaining HP and the entire AD Heal proc.. unfortunately by fixing this bug, death averted messages can no longer announce how much AD healed you for. Your settings will be reset to defaults upon loading this version, needed to fix some DB changes.. sorry New option 'Annoy RF', will flash your screen red constantly until you buff yourself with RF. Only works if you are wearing defense gear, otherwise it does not check for RF. Defaults to OFF. Addon can now be put into standby mode by typing /ad standby. Type it again to re-enable it.

1.3a: 10/20/09 Will not make announcements while you are in a BG. Still tracks statistics though.

1.3: 09/19/09 Some more bugfixes and grammatical errors in the .toc file. Added ability to whisper targets when you use your Hand of Salvation, Hand of Protection, Lay on Hands or Divine Intervention on them. Note only works at maxlevel, addon not really designed for lower levels. Above option is enabled by default, can be disabled with the "Whisper Other" toggle in the options menu. Replaced some of the messages used in announcements, uses spell links instead of just names.. especially useful when in raids with healers who don't know what Divine Sacrifice means, etc. etc

1.2b: 09/11/09 Fixes two more bugs relating to parrying and whispering, it will now work properly for everyone.. thanks for the bug reports guys! Assuming no more bugs crop up, this should be the final release. I consider the addon feature complete.

1.2a: 09/08/09 Fixes a couple bugs people were having.

1.2: 09/07/09 1.2: 09/07/09 Added option by request to WHISPER someone if they cause your target to parry. It's under Parry announce option, defaults to off. Hand of Sacrifice is now tracked as part of the Aura tracking, will announce who your hand of sacrifice is on and when it fades. Fixed some leftover code from first version where we used to track more events, had potential to cause errors. Changed the default death avoided message, seemed too long for me. I personaly use a simple 'Ardent Defender just saved my ass again!' message. When AD procs, your screen will shake and flash blue and a sound will be played (Remember Ogri'la dailies?) . This can be disabled in options. (Specialfx) Fixed bug with shift-clicking the LDB object not reporting to party/raid channels. When sending the info to a channel it will look way different than when you are alone, due to not being able to send line breaks or colors to channels. New option: SpecialFX. Enables/disalbes screen flashing and shaking. Credits for Screen shaking and flashing code go to Omen3 and Xinhuan. Thanks for letting me use the code!

Note: The Parry whisper code is untested, if you have problems with it please let me know.

1.1c: 09/01/09 Fixed a bug dealing with Avenger shield and immune NPCs (such as banished elementals), now does some sanity checking. 1.1b: 08/27/09 Bug fixes only... Activating Divine Sacrifice will no longer make an announcement for each member of your raid. Sorry about that! Death averted numbers were not properly being tracked. Fixed. Really fixed this time..

1.1: 08/26/09 Added aura tracking for Divine Sacrifice. Rewrote some of the if() statements in the combat log parser for better sanity. Changed bubbleWall option to 'trackAura' option, since it now applies not only to bubblewall but also to Divine Sacrice. Added partial implementation to track/announce Hand of Sacrifice.. do people want this? Hmm. Added info in LDB object to display an estimate of how much health Divine Sacrifice will absorb (if talented) Rearranged options to make them more enjoyable to read and use. Removed deprecated 'AvengerMiss' option, Avenger shield tracking is part of the tauntWatcher option now. Can seperate if people request it. I dont see a need for it. Hide the bubblewall message box, in all my time using the addon I never felt the need to change the bubblewall msg. I can turn it back on if people request it. I didn't enjoy the clutter. Cleaned up alot of my comments and added some more to make things more readable. CheckTalents() wasn't really needed anymore, removed it and all calls to it. Rewrote ldb object to work without it. With CheckTalents() gone, we don't need to watch for "PLAYER_TALENT_UPDATE" or "CHARACTER_POINTS_CHANGED") events anymore.

1.0a: (not released) Bugfix CheckTalents() sometimes caused an assert() failure due to the game not being fully loaded yet. Made it silent if called from self:Initialize(), we check when entering combat anyhow. -Blind

1.0: Initial Release 08/25/09