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Boss Notes

 
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Project Updated:
Files Updated: Wed, Feb 10 2010
Supports Game Version: 3.3.0
Category: Boss Encounters, Data Broker, Guild, and Tooltip
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Project Manager: Bethink
Additional Authors: DrKazza
Current Version: 1.1.3
License: MIT License
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 78
Downloads Total: 18,202
Favorites: 56
Comments: 32
  • 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 as well as boss emotes and provides a collection of short encounter tactics. With the powerful Rules module, you can extend your existing boss mod with additional encounter rules for custom notifications, timers, raid target icons and yells.

Boss Notes is based on a modular design. The standard distribution contains the Personal Notes, Abilities, Emotes, Tactics and Rules 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.

Screenshots

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.

Emotes

The Emotes module lists the emotes, whispers and yells of known trash mobs and bosses (NPCs) in dungeons and raids.

Emotes

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

Rules

The Rules module allows the definition of custom encounter rules for notifications, timers, raid target icons and yells. In a nutshell, it supports a roll-your-own boss mod approach to encounters which is completely in-game and does not require programming. Instead, declarative rules are used. The rules module is not intended to replace your current boss mod. Rather, it provides bridges to common boss mods that integrate your custom rules with the regular display provided by your boss mod. As the Rules module is powerful and complex, its complete description is on a separate page.

Rules

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 and most likely leads to the respective comment being deleted without consideration.

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 1.1.3 Release 3.3.0 43 2/10/2010
  Boss Notes 1.1.2 Release 3.3.0 750 1/24/2010
  Boss Notes 1.1.1 Release 3.3.0 563 1/20/2010
  Boss Notes 1.1.0 Release 3.3.0 1,049 1/9/2010
  Boss Notes 1.1.0 Beta 3 Beta 3.3.0 238 1/2/2010
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  • DrKazza said

    Updated Info for the new bosses and cleaned up some older confusing ones.

    New release should come soon... Bethink, check your inbox pls

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  • Taiine said

    One thing I would like to see would be a class rules. For instance. "DK's PLEASE NO ARMY OF THE DEAD!!!!! (+ an explanation why)" Or say priests "For this part only heal with holy nova as it does not cause any threat!"

    and such..

    Also where do you customize the tactics text? Some of them a bit hard to understand and don't make things all that clear. and some raid boss fights we use a diff tactic then mentioned that just works well for us. I'd like a detailed explanation and a short 'reminder' version for those that have done it before and just need a quick reminder of some things.

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  • DrKazza said

    I'm going to clean up some of the tactics... for the new bosses they're so complicated it turns into Partychat TLDR.

    Would LOVE input on where they can be shortened please.

    Kazza

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  • HailMary said

    Great mod!
    Is there a way to Hotkey the Tactics for a boss to a default channel?
    Like Tactics (GD) does (but outdated now) All you have to do is highlight the boss and hit a key or a command line.
    http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/tactics-gd.aspx

    Thanks

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  • Bethink said

    Would a key binding that sends the currently selected note to the channel that is most appropriate be useful? The definition of "most appropriate channel" would be battleground (if in a battleground), raid (if in a raid) or party (if in a party).

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  • Taiine said

    So can this let me type up a boss's strat to broadcast to the party? Like for Krick and Ick "Simple fight, if he emotes ANYTHING, you move away!"

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  • Bethink said

    Yes. And a lot of other stuff, too.

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  • GravityDK said

    I would very much like to choose the default setting for "Learn". I would have it set to default on until I'd gathered everything, then set to default "off". Another option would be to ask. LoggerHead has this kind of behaviour if you'd like to see code for it.

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  • Bethink said

    You are correct that learning is not sticky. The reason for this behavior is that you generally do not need to use the learnning mode. Especially, you do not need to use the learning mode in order to have Boss Notes pick up NPC abilities and emotes. This haapens anyway :)

    The only situation where the learning mode is required is if you do new content (typically in the first 1-2 days after launch) and if I have not been able to play that content on the PTR. In this case, the NPC-to-encounter associations in the encounter database may be incomplete and the learning mode allows you to fill that gap until a new version of Boss Notes with an updated encounter database is released.

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  • Oziah said

    Is there a way I can edit the tactics?

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  • Bethink said

    You may enter your own personal notes. The tactics libraray, however, is read-only at this time. If you want to contribute to the tactics in a general sense, please PM the maintainer DrKazza.

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  • smallway said

    By the way, I have several characters in one acount, but they can't share the notes, it's saved seperatedly, is it possible to make all characters use the same notes...?

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  • Bethink said

    This is on my TODO list with an open ticket.

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  • smallway said

    Hello, this addon is really helpful, but I got a problem in TW chinese verson wow, the boss abilities function works fine and records the boss' abilities, but it won't show the ability details when I click on each ability, and when I try to post the abilities, it just shut the wow down... is there any way to fix this..?

    To post the notes I type is no problem

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  • smallway said

    It works, thank you so much for your help =)

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  • Bethink said

    The TW chinese localization is maintained by a contributor. I believe that this localization is incorrect for the key SPELL. In the file Locales/Locale-zhTW.lua, you may want to replace this line:

    L["SPELL"] = "|cff71d5ff|H法術:%d|h[%s]|h|r"

    With:

    L["SPELL"] = "|cff71d5ff|Hspell:%d|h[%s]|h|r"

    Let me know if this helps.

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  • yiNXs said

    A while ago I wrote about gamefreezes (1-5 secs) introduced by Boss Notes[abilities] when mousehovering or targeting an elite enemy mob in an instance (probably any mob with abilities). Since that happened I changed to the newer version and thought the problem was gone, but yesterday it happened again. Then I realized it only happens on one specific character of mine. There's just one thing that's different on this char compared to my others: besides being a paladin, it's the char I do all my selling and buying on AH with. I use Auctioneer and I do a lot of posting/scanning with it (I have +1000 items on AH at any time). Only after I've been busy on the AH for quite a while I get these long freezes. I've tested this a few times, and it seems to be a guarantee. This does NOT happen when Boss Notes was deactivated before, or when I /rl after using the AH.

    I know this is very strange, and I don't understand the relation also, except that they both do things with tooltips perhaps, or maybe use a similar database (both addons are big on memory usage).

    Anyway, I just wanted to let you know. Since this is only a problem on that one char, I'm not that fussed about having Boss Notes turned off there, but if you as programmer can see some relation and can think of a way to fix it, that would be very welcome.

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  • Bethink said

    The only educated guess that I can make is that this problem is related to the load on demand or processing of auction related data.

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  • DrKazza said

    very bizarre. I use auctionlite myself because auctioneer was far too overelaborate for my needs.
    http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionlite.aspx

    would be good to know if anyone else is using Auctioneer and has the same problems.

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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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