Authors CurseForge

Raven tracks auras and cooldowns on player, target, focus and pet and uses that information to provide:

Timer bars displayed in customizable bar groups

Raven provides two types of bar groups. Auto bar groups are used to automatically display bars for buffs, debuffs and cooldowns based on factors like who they're on, who cast them, how long they last, and how much time they have left. Custom bar groups allow you to manually configure a mix of specific buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, and condition notifications.

Comprehensive condition checking

Condition checking is a key feature of Raven and, while somewhat complex to set up, has enough flexibility to prioritize, to use a feral druid example, refreshing Savage Roar before it runs out over using accumulated combo points for another Rip or Ferocious Bite. Raven includes tests for checking detailed status of player, target and focus, tests for checking combinations of buffs and defuffs, and tests for checking when spells or items are ready to be used. Each named condition can include any combination of individual tests and all of the tests must be true for the condition itself to evaluate to true. You can add dependencies between conditions that allow you to both factor them in useful ways and to prioritize between them. You can also reference Raven conditions from other addons so they could be checked from, say, PowerAuras.

Button highlights for active spells and cooldown counters

Raven can add colored overlays to action bar buttons to indicate when buffs and debuffs are active on the player, target or focus. Customizable counters can also be displayed on buttons for spells with cooldowns. Highlights and cooldown counters are currently only supported with Bartender4 and Dominos action bars.

Presets for class-specific spells and conditions

Raven includes a database containing default bar colors, cooldown info, and buffs/debuffs for class-specific spells. It also includes built-in conditions for each class (except warriors and death knights, at this time) for basic buffing and decursing.

Optional class-specific spell rotation modules

Raven supports optional modules that suggest spell rotations for particular classes/specs. These modules will contain conditions that prioritize spell selection based on player and target status plus resource availabilty (combo points, energy, etc.). You can, of course, tune the condition definitions to your own preferences. These modules will be separate addons and distributed/enabled separately. Initially, I plan to release modules for survival hunters and feral druids.

Raven uses Ace3 libraries, LibSharedMedia-3.0, and LibDataBroker-1.1.

This is my first large addon and I welcome advice and feedback from the developer community before going public with a beta release.

Quote from Phanx

A nice touch would be to automatically disable these if OmniCC is enabled...

Thank you for the suggestion. I have checked in this change.

I'll see if I can add Macaroon support next.

I've added support for Macaroon now--my first experience with this very different and interesting action bar mod. I use Bartender4 so I'd appreciate further testing of the highlight and cooldown module by avid Macaroon and Dominos users. You do not need to set up anything in Raven in order to see active buff/debuff highlights and cooldown counters--they should be on by default when Raven is loaded (cooldown counters only if OmniCC is not loaded).

Thanks to the authors of DrDamage for the example code!

Since Raven already tracks auras and cooldowns it is a small step to include button highlights and cooldown counters on action bars. Highlighting active spells was once a feature of Bongos--I missed it in Bartender4 and included it in Raven. OmniCC only does cooldown counters (but does them more extensively for those who want that, adding them to more places). Automatically turning off the counters in Raven when OmniCC is loaded seems like a pretty good solution to the feature overlap.

Craxziz, thank you for trying the addon. I checked in a fix for the issue with icon only mode. There was also a related issue with disabling sparks addressed with the fix. I'll go through more test cases tomorrow.

I'll look at how EBB anchors groups of bars together soon.

I'll think about bar coloring alternatives too. You can directly change bar colors in custom bar groups but in the auto bar groups the bars are created on the fly from detected auras and cooldowns which is why their colors are associated with spell names. Typing in spell names is a bit of a pain...

Again, thanks for the feedback. I have been working on adding the features requested. You found the bar group attachment addition and there is now a "standard color" mode that can be set per bar group. I added ButtonFacade support (but highlighting doesn't work with all skins so it is off by default). I'm still actively testing these changes, which is why I held off on posting. The version I checked in tonight is getting close though. I'm still working on how Raven shares bar group settings between characters (the Link Layout feature is morphing into a more complete Link Settings feature).

As for the use of icon-only mode, it is possible currently to still see the timing numbers with just icons but setting it up is not obvious. Also, you can't see stack counts then since they are currently in the bar labels but I'll be moving the stack count to the icon soon. I'll test a couple approaches to simplify the setup--I can't even remember how to do it off the top of my head so clearly it needs some work.

I uploaded r22 to back out a part of the Link Settings change in r21 that caused timer options to be reset in bar groups that previously had Link Layouts enabled. If you loaded r21 then the standard bar groups can be repaired by going to the Setup tab, selecting the standard bar groups you are using, clicking Configure, and confirming the overwrite.

I played around a bit with icons-only and came up with these bar group settings:
This yields a strip of icons with their remaining times underneath them.

I'll be looking at how to simplify setup for icons-only bar groups later this week. If you have any preferences for how they should look and work please let me know. Thanks!

Quote from Craxziz

I'm having trouble getting one to display swiftmend when it is off cd.

I've added an "Is Usable" option to the "Spell Ready" condition test. It defaults to true so it will be backward compatible. If you turn it off then it should do what you want (I tested it on my tree with Swiftmend). I will do more testing but it is a pretty isolated code change so I'm checking it in now for you.

With respect to totem timers, I am using the terrific TotemTimers addon on my shaman and haven't tried to replicate its functionality in Raven. I'll add it to my list to look at it though.

Also, I'll look at using icon alpha as an indicator when I work on icon-only modes later this week.

Quote from Craxziz

Whilst on the subject of potential feature requests, would it be possible to add an invert option to the sort by time remaining option for displaying bar order, just when you anchor two groups together and set one to grow up and the other down, they don't sort in the same direction.

Indeed that is a good idea. I have now generalized the sort order selection. You can chose between sort methods (alphabetical, time left, overall duration, class, and custom, with custom only for custom bar groups) plus you can select "Reverse Order" for any of them.

In keeping with making the usability test optional for the "Spell Ready" condition, I also made it optional for cooldown ready bars. These bars are an option for cooldown timer bars within custom bar groups, so you can now show ready bars even if a spell is not actually usable (as in the Swiftmend example).