NeedToKnow

Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but is there any way to track singular buffs such as Sacred Shield or Beacon of Light without having to keep the person targetted or focused? I know that like SpellReminder can do this, is there a way to make NTK do it? If not, any chance of adding such a feature?

Feature request: would it be possible to have the mod flash a warning when a buff/debuff expires, or when there are x seconds to expire?

"I have been having some trouble with NTK lately. Specifically on Iron Council, sometimes the debuffs I apply to the bosses are not showing on their portraits. When this happens, NTK seems not to track them. Is there a way to fix this?"

-Same problem, alot of times NTK won't register my Rupture skill but the other spells seem to work, any fix?

Feature Request: Sort by time remaining ascending or descending.

Great addon, but it's not precise enough for me. I modified it to show tenths of a second once the remaining duration is below 10s.

NeedToKnow.lua:336

Change:

self.time:SetFormattedText(SecondsToTimeAbbrev(self.timeLeft));

to

self.time:SetFormattedText(NeedToKnow.FormatBarTime(self.timeLeft));


Add the following function at the end of the file.

function NeedToKnow.FormatBarTime(timeLeft)
if timeLeft <= 10 then
return ('%.1f'):format(timeLeft) .. " s"
elseif timeLeft <= 60 then
return ('%d'):format(timeLeft) .. " s"
else
return min:format(math.ceil(timeLeft / 60)) .. " m"
end
end

In some odd cases, the following was causing lua errors.

return min:format(math.ceil(timeLeft / 60)) .. " m"

change to:

('%d'):format(math.ceil(timeLeft / 60)) .. " m"

Might be nice to switch the bars from horizontal to vertical, too.

added russian localization in comments on wowinterface

Works great so far, but is there a way to have the bars show the CD of the attack you're using and not just the buff/debuff duration (like have the bar show the 25 second CD of Feign Death and not the 6 min duration).

I'm a long time ClassTimer user, and NTK has some really nice options that I like better than ClassTimer - the configuration of bars is very intuitive and you can have seamless merging of buffs/debuffs/etc. Setting self-only or any buff/debuff by bar is also incredibly useful. Having static locations of all the timers relative to one another is nice too.

But there are a few options that make it so that I can't really switch to using NTK quite yet:
-for whatever reason, having blank bars in the middle really bothers me. Sometimes it's unavoidable if you want to try and setup a single bar group for both cat and bear form (same problem as Karthis). It's somewhat similar for my mage cause I want the order Living Bomb/Pyroblast/Imp Scorch, but the Pyro one will be empty most of the time.
-not showing a decimal place on the seconds really hurts me sometimes. Like on my warlock, I tend to start casting Immolate when my GCD/casting is free and the debuff has 1.5s or less on it.
-configuration of colors is a pain in the butt. Like I can't get them all exactly the same for one, but configuring them all separately is annoying. Maybe if it were possible to color them (by default) via standard spell class colors (SCT has a list of colors you might grab in their code)
-there aren't enough characters allowed in the debuff name to fit "Improved Scorch,Winter's Chill,Shadow Mastery"

Feature request: As a feral Druid it would be awfully handy to be able to show/hide groups based on the form (stance) I'm currently in.

I have been having some trouble with NTK lately. Specifically on Iron Council, sometimes the debuffs I apply to the bosses are not showing on their portraits. When this happens, NTK seems not to track them. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks for keeping this addon going; I absolutely love it!

Have you given any thought to allowing wildcard characters in the buff/debuff names, thereby allowing a single bar to take care of, for example, Mangle (Cat) and Mangle (Bear)? I think this would be extremely useful.

Thanks again!

I modified NTK last week to display aura durations relative to a set amount of time (20 seconds) instead of the aura starting time. The change can be accessed here (and I also added in Tanordheim's change, which is amazing):

http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2009/05/needtoknow-t-update.html

Ideally this would be turned into an option so that a user could specify the time to relate buff durations to, or else turn the feature off altogether. Not being a LUA programmer (and not having the time to learn) I decided that this was beyond my capabilities to attempt at the moment.... the UI stuff looks non-trivial.

Excellent! Thanks, and keep up the great work.

Okay, redid my interface and brought up newest NTK version. Can't get it to proc anything. Worked 30 minutes fiddling with Lock and Load, player buff. No go, nothing. Any ideas??

The space doesn't seem to matter. As soon as I add a second spell, the entire line is ignored.

For instance, I track Faerie Fire as follows:

Faerie Fire,Faerie Fire (Feral)

If I simply use: Faerie Fire (Feral)
it is tracked fine.

Whether I use a space after the delimiter makes no difference, and it doesn't matter which order I seem to place the spells. As soon as I add multiple spells, they aren't tracked. I didn't have this problem in 2.01

Are you sure you've updated the addon with my changes at http://www.7rond.net/wow/needtoknow/? Multiple buffs per bar isn't in the standard version of NeedToKnow.

For it to work you can't have any space after the comma it seems.
"Mangle(Cat),Mangle(Bear)" is correct
"Mangle(Cat), Mangle(Bear)" will not work, however