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Boss Notes

 

Project Updated:
Files Updated: Sat, Sep 5 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.2.0
Category: Boss Encounters, Data Broker, Guild, and Tooltip
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Project Manager: Bethink
Additional Authors: DrKazza
Current Version: 1.0.7
License: MIT License
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 23
Downloads Total: 12,410
Favorites: 42
Comments: 22
  • About Boss Notes
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About Boss Notes

Boss Notes provides shareable notes and other information for your guild, party and raid community. The add-on lets you take notes from your boss encounter learnings and share this information with other players. You can also use Boss Notes as a general, structured in-game notepad. In addition, Boss Notes records trash and boss abilities and provides a collection of short encounter tactics.

Boss Notes is based on a modular design. The standard distribution contains the Personal Notes, Abilities and Tactics modules. Extension modules can provide additonal functionality.

Usage

If you have a Lightweight Data Broker (LDB) container add-on such as Titan Panel, Boss Notes shows in that container. Left-clicking the Boss Notes icon toggles the Boss Notes window; right-clicking the icon shows the options.

If you do not have an LDB container, type /bn toggle to show the Boss Notes window and /bn options to show the options.

Boss Notes provides a key binding to toggle the Boss Notes window. You may want to assign a key to that binding to gain quick access to Boss Notes.

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The Boss Notes window lets you choose between the generic category and specific instances and encounters. The window then displays the information available on the selected category. Boss Notes automatically switches the category when a known mob is mouseovered or targeted in a dungeon or raid.

Boss Notes Window

The Boss Notes tooltip provides quick access to the currently selected information.

Boss Notes Tooltip

All information can be sent to predefined channels.

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Modules

Boss Notes functionality is provided by modules. The following sections describe the modules that are part of the Boss Notes standard distribution.

Personal Notes

The Personal Notes module provides shareable notes. The notes are categorized. There is a general category as well as categories per instance and per encounter. Notes are by default shared with other players in your guild, party or raid. Other players can browse your notes and you can browse theirs. Sharing happens transparently in the background. If you want to control the distribution of your notes, you can disable sharing for the guild, party or raid in the add-on options under Syndication.

To edit a personal note, left-click on the content area in the lower half of the Boss Notes window. This opens the editor. The editor supports in-game links by shift-clicking. This allows you to link to items, abilities, tradeskills and other information in your notes.

Personal Notes Editor

For each category, there is a public default note. You can right-click a note to bring up a context menu that allows you to add to remove additional notes in the selected category. Additional notes can be either public or private notes. Public notes are by default shared with other players in your guild, party or raid. To ensure that Boss Notes does not cause excessive network traffic, public notes are limited to 1'000 bytes per note. Boss Notes uses smart caching to further reduce network traffic. Private notes on the other hand are not shared with other players. Therefore, they have a much higher size limitation which is currently set at 10'000 bytes per note.

Personal Notes Context Menu

Abilities

The Abilities module lists the abilities of known trash mobs and bosses (NPCs) in dungeons and raids. The module differentiates between 10 player and 25 player difficulty as well as normal and heroic difficulty. Abilities are learned automatically as they are used by the NPCs.

Please note that only the boss abilities matching the current dungeon or raid difficulty are displayed and that abilities are learned seperately for each difficulty.

Abilities

If you are playing in an instance that is not yet completely covered by the Boss Notes encounter database, you may want to use the /bn abilities learn command after entering the zone. This causes the Abilities module to begin associating unknown NPCs with the currently selected instance and encounter. Learning can be stopped by typing the same command again. Learnings can be cleared by typing /bn abilities clear.

The encounter database is still work in progress. It is fairly complete for Wrath of the Lich King, and less complete for older dungeons and raids. Please consult the Encounter Database Status page for more information.

Tactics

The Tactics module provides short tactics for dungeon and raid encounters. The tactics are maintained by DrKazza. Please contact him directly if you have feedback on the content or want to contribute.

Tactics

Reporting Bugs

Please use the Ticket System on WowAce when reporting bugs. This ensures that your error reports receive proper and timely processing. You can log in on WowAce with your Curse Network account. Posting error reports in the comments section on Curse.com is not recommended.

Extending Boss Notes

Boss Notes is based on a modular design. The add-on can be extended with additional modules. Please see the Boss Notes Provider Modules page for further information.

  • Downloads (7)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  Boss Notes 1.0.7 Release 3.2.0 2,618 9/5/2009
  Boss Notes 1.0.6 Release 3.2.0 1,664 8/14/2009
  Boss Notes 1.0.5 Release 3.2.0 1,409 8/5/2009
  Boss Notes 1.0.4 Release 3.2.0 673 8/4/2009
  Boss Notes 1.0.3 Release 3.1.0 1,216 7/20/2009
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  • DarkStarX said 

    I tested this addon first time tonight we did a ToC25 normal clear, the problem now in the list it shows me only the Penetrating Cold from Anub'arak all other bosses it says no abilities recorded yet, i looked in the lua file which saves the data they all appear there, but arent showed in the list.

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  • DarkStarX said 

    I figured now the problem, should maybe mentioned in the documentation that you need to set the dungeon difficulty to what data you want to see.

    Would be maybe even more nice to choose in the list something like
    Abilities (10)
    Abilities (10hc)
    Abilities (25)
    Abilities (25hc)

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  • DrKazza said 

    Could be tricky... the reason being that the addon looks up the NPCid. The NPC has the same number regardless of heroic mode or raid size.
    Bethink may be able to correct me but I think it's not possible.

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  • DarkStarX said 

    it should work, in Abilities.lua on line 222 it does
    if bit.band(spell.flags, difficulty) ~= 0 then
    which determine which spells to show

    difficulty is take from
    local difficulty = self:GetDifficulty(instance and instance.raid)

    which uses the difficulty set atm in game, easiest would be i guess, make a 2nd function GetDifficultyToShow(instance,difficulty) and just clone the GetDifficulty function but remove the difficulty is determined by client instead set by the variable.

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  • Bethink said 

    Technically, this is doable. The reason it is not designed that way is that I prefer the simplicity of having only one difficulty setting for raids and dungeson in the client - which is the one provided by Blizzard.

    I agree that the documentation should mention this explicity. This particular behavior is only documented in the release notes at this time. I am going to update the web page. Thanks for pointing this out.

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  • DarkStarX said 

    Well i would like that so i can compare spells between the different versions, when i am in a raid i cant swap the difficulty to see the other spells versions and also if not in raid its a hassle to change it in game all time to see stuff.

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  • ogre2112 said 

    Decent mod, has potential. It says here that the abilities database is nearly complete for WotLK, yet every boss entry for abilities is empty. I know I can set it to learn them, and that is really cool, but is there a pre-populated database I can download?

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  • Bethink said 

    No, there is not. However, boss abilities are learned automatically when you engage the boss for the first time. The learning mode you are referrring to is for learning NPC to encounter associations only. This is generally not required, unless you are playing an encounter that is not yet in the encounter database.

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  • Gawek said 

    I moved my character from one server to another, and copied my WTF from the old server onto the new one. All my other addons then were setup as they were back on my old server, but my boss notes from the other server are nowhere to be found. Is there any way to move the boss notes? And if so, how?

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  • Bethink said 

    Check the Lua file containing the saved variables and adjust the server name.

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  • Stormbringer said 

    Hi,

    is there a way to see all instances in the drop-down menu of the Boss Notes window? Even with the 1650x1080 resolution I only see "All instances" to "Sunken temple" (56 at all), but several aren't shown in the list.

    cu

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  • Bethink said 

    I plan to add a scroll bar to that drop down. This will be much like the Title drop down in the character window which gets a scroll bar when you have gathered more titles than fit the screen.

    Until this is implemented, I recommend that you limit active instances to one set of raids and one set of dungeons.

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  • raisers said 

    I must say that addon doesn't show tooltips half of the time. I couldn't find exact reason but usually when i turn on learn abilities options then after they show in mouse over tooltip. Still next time i'm in raid again i wont be able to use abilities links inside addon or mouse over them. Very weird.

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  • Bethink said 

    Please note that abilities are learned seperately for each of the four raid difficulties (10 player, 10 player heroic, 25 player, 25 player heroic). Your current raid difficulty determines which abilities set is shown. For example, if your play an encounter on 10 player heroic and next day on 25 player, the abilities from yesterday are not shown due to a different raid difficulty. This may account for what you are describing. Obviously, once you have played an encounter on all raid difficulties, the abilities are present all the time.

    One other thing: If your game client crashes, abilities learned during that session are lost and need to be re-learned (as with all dynamic add-on data.)

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  • raisers said 

    What i meant was i can see a list of abilities but cant interact with them like hover mouse over for tooltip or shift+click into chat. I can only use complete chat dump of abilities list which is too huge. And i haven't pinpointed what's the exact cause of it.

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  • Bethink said 

    Just to clarify, mousemover and shift-click work in the Boss Notes window, not in the tooltip.

    If shift-click does not work as expected, this is indeed strange and probably related to another add-on on your system. I would suggest that you disable other add-ons in order to isolate the one that causess this problem when used along side Boss Notes. I'll be happy to install that add-on and determine why the effect occurs and then either fix the problem in Boss Notes or try to accomadate the behaviour of the other add-on.

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  • GravityDK said 

    Addon uses unexpectedly high CPU. I profiled it with OptionHouse addon. Wierd. Here's a screenshot. I didn't dig any deeper, just wanted to report it.
    http://pwnwear.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/wowscrnshot_081909_105216.jpg

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  • yiNXs said 

    Hi, I'm experiencing the same problems. Bossnotes runs pretty smooth at a fresh start, but if the machine has been running for a while it starts to cause 1-3 second long freezes each time I either mouseover a mob, or switch targets in an instance. A reload ui fixes this (for a while), though the problems usually returns later. But even with a fresh start/reload I can notice short freezes if I quickly hover the mousepointer over instance mobs (or tabswitch), this is best noticable when done fast. It might indicate that some function is already using more resources then necessary (memory usage seems to increase a lot too).

    I have tried bossnotes as only activated addon, and it also caused the same short freezes. The most CPU seems to be used by the [Abilities] mod. I couldn't get it to freeze for long periods, but it seems to only happen after the machine has been running for some time, could also be triggered by a particular action, but I haven't discovered it yet.

    The location that seems to be an almost sure place for me to get these problems are the trash mobs on the 2nd boss in trial of the champion.

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  • Bethink said 

    Thanks for the report.

    As BossNotes comes relatively early in the alphabet, it is very well possible that on your setup BossNotes is loading most of the Ace libraries, causing it to get accounted for CPU time used by other Ace add-ons.

    It would be very interesting to see what happens when you are running with libraries disembedded, as I am unable to reproduce the high CPU usage.

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  • DrKazza said 

    Not sure bethink's seen this comment... I'll raise a ticket and see if we can replicate and find out what's causing it.

    until that point can you buy a better cpu ;)

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