InTheBuff is a mod to help WotLK raidleaders come to grips with the new buff/debuff system.
It scans through your raidmembers, looking at their talent specs, and then brings up a window showing you what buffs are covered by whom and what buffs your raid doesn't have.
Buffs/debuffs can be moused over, and you will see who provides them currently, and what classes/specs are capable of providing it.
Furthermore, where applicable, abilities are classified as weak or strong. For example: basic CoE is +10% magic damage, and is weak (yellow.) Maledictioned CoE and Ebon Plaguebringer are both 13%, so they are strong (green.)
THIS MOD IS CURRENTLY IN BETA.
This means it works, to the best of my testing. I think the bugs are out, but there may be a few. There are also some outstanding features still to be implemented.
BUGS:
- It's possible some talent calculations may be incorrect
- Not all the buffs are properly shown as weaker/stronger (please submit feedback about those categorized incorrectly.)
TODO:
There is a todo list including but not limited to:
- Option to just report the missing buffs to a channel (no GUI)
- Probably needs more of an interface than just the slash commands (minimap button?)
HOW TO USE:
/itb target
/itb party
/itb raid - the same as raid25
/itb raid25 - raid members 1 - 25
/itb raid10 - raid members 1 - 10
/itb raid40 - raid members 1 - 40
/itb group12 - raid groups 1 and 2 only
/itb group34 - raid groups 3 and 4 only
/itb group56 - raid groups 5 and 6 only
/itb group78 - raid groups 7 and 8 only
The "group" commands will be useful to raidleaders when building multiple 10-man raids if they care about balancing the buff spreads between the raids.
Many thanks to Slake of Advent Fury for his excellent code in Scrub (much of which I used, with his permission) and his invaluable help in writing this.
0.6.4
- Judgements of the Just is a Paladin talent, not a Druid talent. Fancy that.
0.6.3
- fixed major bug with scanning anything other than the full 40
0.6.2
- added blessing of wisdom, blessing of sanctuary
0.6.1
- Removed some spam leftover from testing
- Fixed ZIP for some PC users.
- Adjusted some buff priorities.
0.6.0
- Implemented additional scanning limits to be more useful
- minor bug fixes
0.5.1
- very minor bugfixes (some talents reading incorrectly)
0.5.0
- Initial released version, based in part on Slake's unreleased version of 'Scrub'
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)...
