My guild using this addon for months now. At the moment its pretty specialized, have some extra feature that maybe not needed for other warlocks, but still useful. In the addon, summoning is called 'zummon' since it sounds funny :)
- Players can queue themselves (or others) for summon (zummon) by whisper. Only works if the target is in the party/raid.
- If other locks have this addon too, and they summoned someone who was on your list, it will be removed from yours. Also announces failed/succesfull summons to them.
- Announces summons, soulwell summoning and its HP value, and Soulstoning to the raid (can be turned off)
- locks (and even raidleaders who has this mod) can check warlock status: spec, HS type, number of shards, who has SS, SS cooldown.
- There is a command for mages too (spec, wateryfood, reagent)
- Since Blizzard nerfed targeting, it uses a macro to do that. There is a draggable mini button that handls summons automatically: click on it and the next player from the queue will be summoned. Also creates a macro named 'zum', that can be used instead of this mini-button (both does the same)
- Shows if someone in the raid have an SS up
- Mages announce Ritual of Refreshment
- Supports hungarian and english, but if someone fixes the localization, then can be used in Fr, De WoW too.
Commands:
/gl - General help
/gl hun - Switch to hungarian mode
/gl eng - Switch to english mode (default)
/gl rem (xy) - Removes xy from the summonlist. Without parameter, the first name will be removed
/gl c - Clears the zummon queue
/gl reset - resets mini-button position, back to screen center
/gl w - Displays warlock status (spec, shards, HS-type, SS), not only for warlocks
/gl m - Displays mage status
/gl r - Displays Raid status (location, dead players, offline players, players that not in the same zone, SS status, and gnome% :)
/gl rr - The same as above but sends it to the raidchat
/gl mute - Turns raid announcements on/off
/gl eng, /gl hun - Switch to english/hungarian language
Most of the comands have 5-6 extra alias, so for example you can whisper summon, sumon, zum, zummon, summon pls etc. :) Or the warlockstatus can be queryed by /gl w warlock shard lock stat status ls ws stone...
At the moment we are testing this mod, but seems pretty stable now.
Please feel free to send feedbacks, error reports, suggestions!
Updated HS query and Ritual of Summoning displays the proper HS HP value (hopefully)...
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- 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".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has 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.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- 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
- Start World of Warcraft
- 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)...