RaidCooldowns
Tracks, transmits and displays the cooldowns of your raid.
What it is
RaidCooldowns is a single solution to display cooldown information for specific spells that a raid group might care about, as well as broadcasting any information about things that affect those cooldowns, such as glyphs or talent modifiers.
What it isn't
RaidCooldowns is very opinionated about what cooldowns it tracks. It tracks cooldowns that the raid as a whole might need to know about. It is not a personal cooldown tracker. As an example, a Mage might want to know his Mirror Image cooldown, but the rest of the raid doesn't really care, so RaidCooldowns doesn't track this cooldown.
If you're looking for a personal cooldown tracker, try Heatsink.
Why not just use oRA2 or CTRA?
oRA2 is a fantastic addon, but it only tracks four cooldowns, and only if the people who use those spells are also using oRA2 (or CTRA). RaidCooldowns can track not only those spells that oRA2 tracks, but also several critical spells it misses, such as Bloodlust or Heroism.
In addition to tracking more spells, it can also track most spells just by watching the user's combat log, with no syncing necessary.
As for CTRA, well... it's CTRA.
Limits of the combat log
While RaidCooldowns is able to track most cooldowns from the combat log, there are some caveats. The first major issue is that when a Shaman uses Reincarnate, no combat log event is ever fired. In order for this cooldown to be displayed, the Shaman either needs to be running oRA2/CTRA, or a copy of RaidCooldowns himself.
The second issue is that talents and glyphs can greatly modify the cooldown of a spell. This data isn't transmitted in the combat log and requires some syncing between users of RaidCooldowns.
RaidCooldowns will make the most of the data it gets from the combat log, but with more people in your raid running it, the more accurate it becomes.
Cooldowns
As of today, RaidCooldowns tracks the following spells:
- Death Knight: Anti-magic Zone, Bone Shield, Death Grip, Icebound Fortitude, Lichborne, Mind Freeze
- Druid: Barkskin, Challenging Roar, Innervate, Nature's Swiftness, Rebirth, Tranquility
- Hunter: Feign Death, Misdirection
- Mage: Counterspell, Ice Block
- Paladin: Divine Intervention, Divine Protection, Divine Sacrifice, Divine Shield, Hand of Protection, Lay on Hands
- Priest: Divine Hymn, Fear Ward, Guardian Spirit, Hymn of Hope, Pain Suppression
- Rogue: Cloak of Shadows, Distract, Kick
- Shaman: Bloodlust/Heroism, Earth Shock, Hex, Mana Tide Totem, Nature's Swiftness, Reincarnation
- Warlock: Soulshatter, Soulstone Resurrection
- Warrior: Challenging Shout, Last Stand, Pummel, Shield Bash, Shield Wall
Keep in mind that you can hide any spells you don't care about. Personally I only show about seven of the spells listed above.
FAQ
Wasn't this two separate addons?
Yes. The addon to display the data is now included by default. It was getting to be a pain to manage two addons that were so inter-connected to each other, and a bit confusing to end users. It's now a single, all-in-one solution.
Is it compatible with the previous version of RaidCooldowns?
No. The old version (two separate addons) was so out of date that any data received from it would have been questionable. As a result, I decided to make this version (single addon) use a separate broadcast code ("RCD2").
Does it handle Glyph of Guardian Spirit?
Yes, a special case was written specifically for Glyph of Guardian Spirit. If there are other cases like this that I'm not thinking of, please open a ticket.
You can type /rcd config to bring up the configuration window, or you can go to Main Menu, Interface, AddOns Tab, RaidCooldowns.
tag v3.2.0.1-beta
6a46add42abfc870772faca10f3fdb663caa7090
Cameron Kenneth Knight <ckknight@gmail.com>
2009-08-10 20:31:24 +0000
Tagging as v3.2.0.1-beta
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rspeicher:
- TOC bump
- Innervate down to 3 minutes
- Embed AceLocale-3.0 properly
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)...
