"Acheron translates as the "river of woe" and it was believed to be a branch of the underworld river Styx over which in ancient Greek mythology Charon ferried the newly dead souls across into Hades."
Acheron provides an easily readable glimpse into the cause of death for anyone in your raid or party. In addition to the damage and healing that occurred to someone up to their moment of death, Acheron also tracks and displays key debuffs from bosses in 25-man raids which may also contribute to someone's death (Melt Armor on Al'ar, Corrosion on Felmyst, etc).
Right-clicking on a raid/party member unit frame will find a new option 'Show Death Reports'. Should be pretty self-explanatory from there.
I'm trying to keep the actual output relatively compact. What's not obvious from the screenshot, though, is that a tooltip pops up for each line of the report that contains more detailed information (any thing of note about the event like a crit or crush or special debuff as well as the actual combat log text). So I could probably throw the current/max health in there.
Is there a way to change the font of the combatlog lines? Mine are really small (much smaller than on your screenshot) and are hard to spot tbh.
Additionally, I was wondering if there's a way you could disable info gathering on thrash packs? I'm not sure if it's Ancheron, or something else bothering my setup yet, but whenever in Sunwell and we fight thrash my fps goes down alot, bosses are fine.
I'm sorry that I didn't try this myself and disabled Ancheron on thrash to test it and there's a few days before I'm in a raid again.
Perhaps you know if this would affect thrash more than bosses performance wise?
Great concept though, I like the layout better than GrimReaper.
Is there a way to change the font of the combatlog lines? Mine are really small (much smaller than on your screenshot) and are hard to spot tbh.
Additionally, I was wondering if there's a way you could disable info gathering on thrash packs? I'm not sure if it's Ancheron, or something else bothering my setup yet, but whenever in Sunwell and we fight thrash my fps goes down alot, bosses are fine.
I'm sorry that I didn't try this myself and disabled Ancheron on thrash to test it and there's a few days before I'm in a raid again.
Perhaps you know if this would affect thrash more than bosses performance wise?
Great concept though, I like the layout better than GrimReaper.
There's nothing that I know of that should impact performance differently between bosses and trash. Detecting the difference and enabling Acheron dynamically is probably more complicated than I want to get. But I think I probably should add an easier way to enable/disable Acheron from in-game config.
I'll also look at adding some more display-oriented configuration, such as the font and font size.
Nice, will have to give this a try. Grim Reaper is a little *too* compact - I'd like to be able to report who was healing the tank when he died for example. Expiration on the other hand is just raw combat log, which is hard to read. This looks like it could be a good compromise.
Is it possible to just report the sequence of deaths of raid members? E.g. you want to figure out at what time and in what order people died at a boss fight and report that.
Got an error trying to whisper a report to myself to test:
[2008/07/24 19:55:56-3623-x1]: Acheron-1.0\Display.lua:349: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Acheron-1.0\Display.lua:326: in function `Report'
Acheron-1.0\Display.lua:270: in function <Interface\AddOns\Acheron\Display.lua:270>
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Is it possible to just report the sequence of deaths of raid members? E.g. you want to figure out at what time and in what order people died at a boss fight and report that.
Thanks! That's certainly feasible; Acheron has that data so it could record it. But I think it's currently outside of the scope of what it's intended to do. It would be a new, separate function. I'll stick it on the list of things to mull over.
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Thanks for the heads up. /acheron also works. I'll probably just remove /ach.
Got an error trying to whisper a report to myself to test:
[2008/07/24 19:55:56-3623-x1]: Acheron-1.0\Display.lua:349: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Acheron-1.0\Display.lua:326: in function `Report'
Acheron-1.0\Display.lua:270: in function <Interface\AddOns\Acheron\Display.lua:270>
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Hrm, not able to reproduce that error. Can you describe the circumstance? Was it your own death or someone else's? Did anything happen in between the time that you opened the report window and tried to report?
I'm a Hunter and was trying to report a Rogue in whisper to myself. He had either 1 or 2 deaths recorded. Time to show was set to 30 sec, Dmg/Heal set to 0. I was trying to report from the oldest event displayed.
Was he still in your group at the time that you were trying to report it to yourself? Like maybe you opened up the GUI with the death reports, he left the group, and then you tried to report?
Hrm. I'm really not able to reproduce that error. I just uploaded a new version that contains a bunch of the requested enhancements. See if it's still happening?
79093 changelog:
- added config option to enable/disable data collection
- added 'Clear All' button to config window to replace chat command
- added config option for font size of report entries
- removed /ach command, as it overlaps with achievements command in WotLK expansion. Use /acheron for commandline options now.
- added current/max health to report entry tooltip data
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Acheron provides an easily readable glimpse into the cause of death for anyone in your raid or party. In addition to the damage and healing that occurred to someone up to their moment of death, Acheron also tracks and displays key debuffs from bosses in 25-man raids which may also contribute to someone's death (Melt Armor on Al'ar, Corrosion on Felmyst, etc).
Right-clicking on a raid/party member unit frame will find a new option 'Show Death Reports'. Should be pretty self-explanatory from there.
/acheron config to bring up the config
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9552-Acheron.html
http://files.wowace.com/Acheron/Acheron.zip
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Curse PremiumAdditionally, I was wondering if there's a way you could disable info gathering on thrash packs? I'm not sure if it's Ancheron, or something else bothering my setup yet, but whenever in Sunwell and we fight thrash my fps goes down alot, bosses are fine.
I'm sorry that I didn't try this myself and disabled Ancheron on thrash to test it and there's a few days before I'm in a raid again.
Perhaps you know if this would affect thrash more than bosses performance wise?
Great concept though, I like the layout better than GrimReaper.
There's nothing that I know of that should impact performance differently between bosses and trash. Detecting the difference and enabling Acheron dynamically is probably more complicated than I want to get. But I think I probably should add an easier way to enable/disable Acheron from in-game config.
I'll also look at adding some more display-oriented configuration, such as the font and font size.
Is it possible to just report the sequence of deaths of raid members? E.g. you want to figure out at what time and in what order people died at a boss fight and report that.
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Curse PremiumThanks! That's certainly feasible; Acheron has that data so it could record it. But I think it's currently outside of the scope of what it's intended to do. It would be a new, separate function. I'll stick it on the list of things to mull over.
Thanks for the heads up. /acheron also works. I'll probably just remove /ach.
Hrm, not able to reproduce that error. Can you describe the circumstance? Was it your own death or someone else's? Did anything happen in between the time that you opened the report window and tried to report?
79093 changelog:
- added config option to enable/disable data collection
- added 'Clear All' button to config window to replace chat command
- added config option for font size of report entries
- removed /ach command, as it overlaps with achievements command in WotLK expansion. Use /acheron for commandline options now.
- added current/max health to report entry tooltip data