PTAB (Pet Talent Abilities Button) is an addon that creates a button for activating the abilities pets get from the new pet talent system.
With the introduction of this new system, pets no longer are restricted to four active abilities and for all intents and purposes will always have more. In the most extreme case (a cat or spirit beast, which have both their unique family ability and the prowl ability, with all the talent abilities), this could reach 10 active abilities. However, the pet bar still can only hold four of those abilties.
This addon adds a button to your user interface that, based on the type of pet you have out, gives you access to the four non-speed-modifying abilities (meaning all but dash/dive/charge). Here's how it is intended to be used:
PET BAR ACTIVE ABILITY SLOTS:
- Growl;
- Cower;
- Family Ability;
- Speed-Modifying Ability (or if this is not chosen in the talent tree, Focus Dump)
- Note: For cats and spirit beasts, one of the latter two could be replaced with Prowl.
PTAB BUTTON:
Cunning Pets:
(Default) - Wolverine Bite;
(Shift) - Bullheaded;
(Ctrl) - Roar of Recovery;
(Alt) - Carrion Feeder
Ferocity Pets:
(Default) - Rabid;
(Shift) - Lick Your Wounds;
(Ctrl) - Call of the Wild;
(Alt) - Heart of the Phoenix
Tenacity Pets:
(Default) - Taunt;
(Shift) - Intervene;
(Ctrl) - Roar of Sacrifice;
(Alt) - Last Stand
NOTE: Intervene and Roar of Sacrifice will be used on your Focus and thus require one to be set.
ABILITY LEFT OUT:
- Focus Dump
When you first install the addon, the button will be in the center of your screen. Right-click and drag to move it where you want. I recommend to the right of the pet bar, about centered horizontally on the screen.
Finally, this addon will also add the global variable "PetClass" to the interface for use in macros and other addons. For example:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(PetClass)
Typing this into chat (or creating a macro of it and using the macro) will add your pet's current talent "class" (Cunning/Ferocity/Tenacity) as a message to the chat frame (on your end only). Please note that the global variable is NOT in quotes.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to some issue with the default interface, abilities that are not on the pet bar sometimes will change autocast states without notice. Please be aware of this issue and be sure to check the abilities that are not on the pet bar every so often (on log-in and when switching pets is a good idea) to make sure that the autocasting is set how you want it.
Patch 3.1.0 TOC Interface Number Update
Future Plans: Still hoping to incorporate the remaining time on each ability's cooldown.
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)...
