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On RoS encounter most of the events aren't broadcasted to RW.

This is a request for some help in following up on the people who were after a DBM-style Mother Shahraz helper marking each person with FA with a different symbol.

I'm not proficient in lua coding and its beyond me to make sure it'd work, so I thought I'd turn to here and see if any better programmers could help.

In the Mother Shahraz mod, this function seems to do the /rw warning for FA:

function mod:AttractionWarn()
	local msg = nil
	for k in pairs(attracted) do
		if not msg then
			msg = k
		else
			msg = msg .. ", " .. k
		end
	end
	self:IfMessage(L["attraction_message"]:format(msg), "Important", 41001, "Alert")
	for k in pairs(attracted) do attracted[k] = nil end
end

I noticed that a similar function exists in the Kil'Jaeden mod for the Firebloom debuff, and the author had changed the code to add raid symbols above peoples' heads:

function mod:BloomWarn()
	local msg = nil
	table.sort(bloomed)

	for i,v in ipairs(bloomed) do
		if not msg then
			msg = v
		else
			msg = msg .. ", " .. v
		end
		if db.icons then
			SetRaidTarget(v, i)
		end
	end

	self:IfMessage(L["bloom_other"]:format(msg), "Important", 45641, "Alert")
	self:Bar(L["bloom_bar"], 20, 45641)
	self:DelayedMessage(15, L["bloom_message"], "Attention")
	for i = 1, #bloomed do bloomed[i] = nil end
end

It struck me that it'd be very simple to use the Kil'Jaeden solution to modify the Mother Shahraz mod to do a similar thing. I think possibly it'd be needed to initialise another local variable, and I'm not certain how the table sorting works, but assuming the Kil'Jaeden mod is sound, it struck me as a pretty easy job? It's a bit beyond me to make it definitely work out of the box first time... and since we're only working on our second ever Mother kill, I don't really have the luxury to fiddle mid-raid. Could some kind person give me a hand and explain what modifications would be needed to the Shahraz lua to add this functionality?

And yes, we can of course kill Mother without this or use DBM to do it, but hey, I'm all for making life easier :)

Quote from Saroz »

Patch: http://ace.pastey.net/76343

Remove the ChatFrame1 debug line... no check for PWS atm.

My guild has only recently started raiding BT and oddly enough I came up with exactly the same idea and I was going to implement it tonight in pretty much the same way. But then I found this post. However I don't see this patch ever having been applied to bigwigs and the functionality is not there.

Why is it not applied to BigWigs? I assume the main author of BW thinks it is against what BW is supposed to do?

If it is never going to be included as standard, do you have any objection to me making it into a separate BW addon and releasing it?

Quote from Starinnia »

Isn't that the Bigwigs_NajAssist plugin? So, its already separate from the core...

No. That gives a list of who is below 8.5k. This modification gives a big warning for when it's safe to throw the spine. Gives almost the same effect in the end though.

Quote from danielbarron »

No. That gives a list of who is below 8.5k. This modification gives a big warning for when it's safe to throw the spine. Gives almost the same effect in the end though.

It's safe to throw the spine when there is no one in the 'below 8.5k' window.