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Utopia

 

Project Updated:
Files Updated: Sun, Oct 25 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.2.0
Category: Buffs & Debuffs, Boss Encounters, Caster, Combat, and Damage Dealer
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Project Manager: Zeksie
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Current Version: 3.2.2 Release 5
License: GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
Development Site: WowAce.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 159
Downloads Total: 34,368
Favorites: 101
Comments: 65
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Melee mode, partly buffed

Utopia

(aka: ZOMGDebuffs)

With today's high-end boss fights so tuned for absolutely maximum performance, it's important to know exactly what you're getting from your raiders. Do you have all buffs and debuffs available? Are the all improved? Are they active during the fight? Need to see that they were kept up during the fight?

WoW 3.0 introduced a whole new stacking system for buffs and debuffs. Add to that the myriad of hidden auras that are implied by talents, but don't appear on the tooltips. It's near impossible to look through that ever moving mess of debuffs on a target. It's just too much too look at. Nor should you have to.

So, here's Utopia. It will give you a very concise and clear view of your buffs and debuffs (see the buff display pictured below). With a fixed number of icons, which don't move or change. They'll simply be highlighted in red if missing; otherwise faded if unavailable, bright if present, yellow if present but unimproved, and so on.

Clarity is the key, and how fast you can answer yourself any questions mid-fight. I play a rogue, and because our warriors slack (they like to pretend to dps and moan about Sundering), we can very quickly see whether Sunder Armor is applied and, if it's absent, throw Expose Armor into our cycle. The icon is always in the same place, and always means the same thing.

The Display

Show Melee Icons only, which is an optional mode to show only what is of interest to your class
An arrangement of icons showing the 'classes' of debuff, rather than the traditional specific debuff icons. For example, you will have one single icon representing Sunder Armor and Expose Armor. You don't care which is applied, only that it's there. The same applies to all the myriad of other buffs and debuffs which are now grouped into doing the same job.

By default, these icons are presented thusly:

  • Dimmed - Your group can't apply this aura
  • White - Debuff applied
  • Yellow - Your group has applied this aura but it is an unimproved version. Do you feel dirty?
  • Red - Your group can apply this aura, but hasn't
  • Blue - Aura is unavavailable because of a conflicting spell (Blessings, Curses etc.)

Mousing over any of the icons will show the potential of the raid. Highlighted lines show what your raid can do. A Tick shows it's done, a cross means it's not. Next to this you get the values for the auras, and if that's different from the maximum your group can do, this is shown.

Shows details of which spells are available from your group

Anything unavailable will always show the maximum potential value of a debuff with all improved talents, whereas when something is available it will show the maximum that could be done by your raid.

The progress bar will show the percentage that has been debuffed for a quick at-a-glance view.

Standard buff tooltips are enhanced to show you the real values that you're getting from your raid member's buffs. Tooltip Enhancements

Up-Time Module

The new debuff Up-Time recorder will record a fight, when auras are applied, removed, by whom. The DPS for the fight, deaths and significant boss events so that you can examine the timeline of your fight after the fact.

Showing Ignis Fight Overview

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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  Utopia 3.2.2 Release 5 Release 3.2.0 3,342 10/25/2009
  Utopia 3.2.2 Release 4 Release 3.2.0 25 10/25/2009
  Utopia 3.2.2 Release 3 Release 3.2.0 160 10/25/2009
  Utopia 3.2.2 Release 2 Release 3.2.0 1,385 10/19/2009
  Utopia 3.2.2 Release Release 3.2.0 2,685 9/25/2009
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  • parl2001 said

    not seeing a way to add buffs/debuffs to the custom window

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  • parl2001 said

    /utopia brings up a partial addon interface, it's then impossible to get to your other addons without /reloadui

    clicking the 'configure custom' in the main utopia config opens up a window BEHIND the main window, and is unaccessible to me.

    also having a hard time configuring the custom window

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  • Benitojoe said

    Really nice add on!

    2 questions:
    Is there anyway to set it to tell people to cast there buff like it does with curses, by clicking it. As a dk I spend half the raid yelling at people to demo the boss >.<

    That mouse over Toggle and buff tooltip, while pretty, is distracting during combat. If there a way to stop the tooltip pop-ups?

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  • KBienng said

    Really awesome addon.
    Only issue I found is it claims the 3% melee miss chance debuff (from insect swarm/ scorpid string) is active if insect swarm is on the the target, but this debuff isn't applied if the druid has Glyph of insect swarm. Any way to add in a function to scan glyphs?

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  • AxnJackson11 said

    this looks pretty sweet. can't wait to try it out.

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  • BeKay said

    It's awesome! ;)

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  • Lynxx said

    Love the addon.

    The last couple of versions have not worked fully since the LibZekFrames file was first missing, but is now only lacking a listing in the .toc file.

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  • Lynxx said

    I'm using the curse client and have it configured to download alpha versions. The version listed here is a few days older than the one I have installed.

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  • Beutju said

    Can you please add draenei +hit aura to the buffs.

    Thank you

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  • gcbirzan said

    An interesting situation I'm in as a healer is and I would like to see different buffs, depending on if I'm targeting someone (i.e. a tank) or not (myself). I'm guessing that an ideal way to do that is maybe let people edit 'automatic' aura filtering (because the one now is really too verbose for me) and add certain people to it, maybe linked with talent options: when X specs holy, display this, when he's prot, display that. How outside the realm of possibilities is that?

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  • CommandoXXX said

    I realise you've just answered this in your last comment, but there are situations where buff UpTime would be really useful. One example is Demonic Pact, which comes from a proc based on Felguard's attacks. It's not something that's cast at the start of the fight and then stays until someone dies, so knowing the UpTime would be reall useful. This is especially important because if the UpTime is low then it means the Warlock probably needs to improve their gear or tactics.

    It's also important for other proc based buffs like Unleashed Rage, as well as for short duration buffs like Horn Of Winter and Battle Shout - these won't last the entire fight, so even if they're there at the start they drop off before the boss is dead, and if Utopia is set to show only debuffs during combat you may not even notice.

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  • Zeksie said

    That's a fair point, and I'll have to think about it.

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  • Zeksie said

    @BeKay: Thanks, fixing the format() thing and have added a priority for FF over CoW. I think it's the only buff/debuff that's a problem because all the variants are the same base value. All other reportable auras select the best of the raid.

    @vars: Will check it out. I tried to work around an issue with the blizzard options which would cause the correct addon's options not to be selected if they're scrolled off the bottom of the list. Bit of an oversight on their part, so I tried to kludge it.

    @evilhop: Fixing Shaman talent and there's an /uptime command for the fight history.

    @hix89: Adding that.

    @focusphyre: I did think about doing buff uptime as well as debuffs, but decided against it. Buffs are really something everyone has to check before a fight starts and given this, it's fairly certain they're going to be up for the duration, barring shaman deaths or similar, which is a seperate problem to be fixed rather why people aren't buffing.

    @Ambeco: Thought of this at some point, but decided it wasn't quite in the realm of what was intended for the mod. It does colour other blessings as unavailable when there's no more paladins left to buff remaining ones, which I think is a suitable compromise.

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  • BeKay said

    3125:
    self:Print(format(L["Notifying %s regarding %s"],self:ColourPlayer(bestUnit), spellLink))

    Added the "format(...)" code manually once more in the new version. ;)

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  • vars said

    Config windw issue using r168. If I open the config window via the /utopia or titan panel, it removes the config options for all my other addons in the addon pane. I have to reload to get the other addons config options back. If you open the options by esc<interface<utopia, everything is fine.

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  • BeKay said

    Doing ToC10 I've noticed something odd.
    Utopia seems to prefer asking the warlock for CoWeakness rather than the feral cat for FFF. It's one GCD for the druid and quite a lot of dps lost for the warlock to do it this way.

    FF(F) should be prioritized over Curses.

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  • evilhop said

    Hurro, 2 quick items for you. 1 Bug, and 1 question.

    (1) The Armor % buff no longer works that way. Ancestral healing is now called Ancestral Fortitude, and reduces physical damage by 10%. Same w/Inspiration. So at the moment the Armor % Buff check does nothing. (this is on r167, which I dled today)

    (2) I know that I can CTRL-Click the utopia icon in fubar/dockingstation for the fancy gui. How do you get to the fancy gui if you are not running fubar/docking station? Is there a command like /utopia show or /utopia gui?

    Thanks for making this mod, it's fairly badass.

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  • BeKay said

    When using the right-click "ask for buff" function to paladins for their blessings, I'm getting the lua error message below.
    Got any quick fixes for this? Not that it's overly annoying with a buggrabber, but it's an error none the less. :)

    [2009/09/10 09:27:41-5716-x1]: AceLocale-3.0: Utopia: Missing entry for 'Notifing %s regarding %s':
    Utopia-166\Utopia.lua:3110: in function `ReportMissingIcon'
    Utopia-166\Utopia.lua:1934: in function <Interface\AddOns\Utopia\Utopia.lua:1927>

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  • Papajan said

    I love the uptime display, but sometimes it doesn't work. Like on my feral druid, sometimes it doesn't even show bleed damage (mangle) or minor armor reduction (faerie fire) but they were up 90% or the time. But they're not even shown on the uptime display.

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  • hix89 said

    Yo, great addon, but atm when i go to alt say, and try to copy a main's settings - the bars all switch nice and fine but the addon doens't move itself to the place that the main's is at. If you could add placement functionalilty to profile use that be perfect.
    Also this may just be me who has this problem :S if so let me know :)

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