In a nutshell, this addon is good for quick judgement calls on whether to pop a cooldown, or maybe even stand in the fire another few seconds *GASP!*
I think it offers a few new approaches to solving the problem of knowing the state of your buffs/debuffs. It's features are more focused towards telling you what you don't have for example (although there's no requirement to use it that way).
For example:
* It displays a percentage of buffs that are up. You only have to look to see what's missing if you want more info.
* It shows the duration of the shortest buffs among all tracked (although I found out recently that NeedToKnow does this, I just didn't know)
* In addition to the various ways for organization, it also has what I call triggers, which are a way to dynamically choose what spells to track based on in game events.
It also tries to be as unobtrusive as possible. There are already tons of great bar mods out there (e.g. Raven) and this isn't meant to replace them. It's more of a supplement.
Quick feature dump:
* Complete profile support: Allows copying configurations between characters.
* Low CPU and memory overhead: Won't bog your computer down.
* Tracks internal cooldowns on items (when supplied).
* Dynamic spell and category tracking.
* Lots of configuration options: Keeps from clashing with your carefully designed UI!
* Tracks yours, and others buffs/debuffs.
* Optional (and highly configurable) buff/debuff Tracking Window: Filter to only missing items, only active, or show everything.
* Handles spells providing the same effect (e.g. Sunder Armor and Expose Armor)
* Organization features: To aid in enabling or disabling tracking of related spells.
Triggers are pretty new and I had to rewrite a lot of the core to make them do what people expect so show mercy on me! I hope to polish it up as necessary.
* Complete profile support: Allows copying configurations between characters.
* Low CPU and memory overhead: Won't bog your computer down.
I'm not sure either of these are worth mentioning in the first place -- does anyone write an addon that intentionally bogs your computer down? does anyone write an addon that intentionally uses more CPU or memory than needed? how many addons with class-specific functionality like yours don't support profiles? -- but the fact that you listed them at the very top of your feature list, above things that users actually notice or should care about seems kind of strange...
Thanks! Being the first addon I've ever made (and new to Lua and everything else here) I was perhaps overly concerned. From the get go I was keeping an eye on those things.
I'll update the page as I agree with your advice.
Thanks again!
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In a nutshell, this addon is good for quick judgement calls on whether to pop a cooldown, or maybe even stand in the fire another few seconds *GASP!*
I think it offers a few new approaches to solving the problem of knowing the state of your buffs/debuffs. It's features are more focused towards telling you what you don't have for example (although there's no requirement to use it that way).
For example:
* It displays a percentage of buffs that are up. You only have to look to see what's missing if you want more info.
* It shows the duration of the shortest buffs among all tracked (although I found out recently that NeedToKnow does this, I just didn't know)
* In addition to the various ways for organization, it also has what I call triggers, which are a way to dynamically choose what spells to track based on in game events.
It also tries to be as unobtrusive as possible. There are already tons of great bar mods out there (e.g. Raven) and this isn't meant to replace them. It's more of a supplement.
Quick feature dump:
* Complete profile support: Allows copying configurations between characters.
* Low CPU and memory overhead: Won't bog your computer down.
* Tracks internal cooldowns on items (when supplied).
* Dynamic spell and category tracking.
* Lots of configuration options: Keeps from clashing with your carefully designed UI!
* Tracks yours, and others buffs/debuffs.
* Optional (and highly configurable) buff/debuff Tracking Window: Filter to only missing items, only active, or show everything.
* Handles spells providing the same effect (e.g. Sunder Armor and Expose Armor)
* Organization features: To aid in enabling or disabling tracking of related spells.
Triggers are pretty new and I had to rewrite a lot of the core to make them do what people expect so show mercy on me! I hope to polish it up as necessary.
I'm not sure either of these are worth mentioning in the first place -- does anyone write an addon that intentionally bogs your computer down? does anyone write an addon that intentionally uses more CPU or memory than needed? how many addons with class-specific functionality like yours don't support profiles? -- but the fact that you listed them at the very top of your feature list, above things that users actually notice or should care about seems kind of strange...
I'll update the page as I agree with your advice.
Thanks again!