Authors CurseForge

Would it be possible to change the position of the anchors themselves? I'd like to have bars growing downward from flush against the top of my screen, but the way the anchors are setup, there will always be a space.

Either that, or when testing, make is so you can drag the bars themselves, instead of the anchor?

With regards to anchors, I really like the way ElkBuffBars does anchors -- when you unlock the bars, the anchor pushes the bars down and appears where the first one was; when you lock them again, the anchor disappears and the first bar moves up to take its place.

Just a request for the version query. If you could make it list people in your raid who are not replying a version. Would make it easy to see who gets a DKP penalty ;)

I'd like an option for width/height, and perhaps font selection and sizing too.

Apologies if this was mentioned before in the thread and was answered, it's a long thread!

I second the request for width/height settings. Currently in order to make the font readable my only option is to increase the scale, which makes the bars about three times as wide as I'd like them to be.

Hey! Great mod. I recently switched from using Deadly Boss Mods for a long time. Anyway, I would like to request one bar that DBM had that BW doesn't. It's a countdown bar for the SpellSteal on Maulgar. It really helps to be able to time the SpellSteal rather then just a warning out of nowhere saying, "Spellshield on Maulgar!". That way the Mage can focus more on holding aggro and only spam SpellSteal when he sees the meter getting close to the end. Thanks!

I would think it would be less distracting to simply see a single message when you should Spellsteal, rather than having to watch a timer bar. Especially since there's no point in spamming Spellsteal before he has Spell Shield anyway...

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I would think it would be less distracting to simply see a single message when you should Spellsteal, rather than having to watch a timer bar. Especially since there's no point in spamming Spellsteal before he has Spell Shield anyway...

I see your point, but I personally disagree because, first off, with BiGWigs, you'd be able to turn that feature off if you didn't want it. Secondly, if you are playing with a high latency, getting an instant spellsteal message instead of being able to prepare for it can sometimes mean a wipe. I play with high latency and that meter DBM had was a godsend for people like me. With BW I am like, "Oh shit!" when it pops up, praying that my reaction-time/latency will allow me to steal it before I get hit with two fireballs.

I mean, what does it matter anyway if they put it in? Like I said, if it annoyed you, you can just disable it. I really miss it, but there are too many others things BW does better then DBM to switch back.

It matters because there's no way to choose between text warnings and timer bars for a given ability, so if the Spell Shield warning was changed from a message to a timer bar, my only choices would be to disable Spell Shield warnings altogether or look at a big bar that's irrelevant 99% of the time for me and anyone else who doesn't have cripplingly high latency.

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It matters because there's no way to choose between text warnings and timer bars for a given ability, so if the Spell Shield warning was changed from a message to a timer bar, my only choices would be to disable Spell Shield warnings altogether or look at a big bar that's irrelevant 99% of the time for me and anyone else who doesn't have cripplingly high latency.

I can see I am not going to make any headway with my plight. Regardless, this is a, "Bossmod" and it's got a meter for just about everything under the sun. I personally feel it's a bit odd this one was left out. Not to mention I've done Maulgar a jillion times *with* the bar and it never got in my way or made me think once, "Dead lord!!! What's with this extra bar???". I mean, isn't that the point of BigWigs' existence anyway? The way it is now there might as well be no warning because I can just as easily see his shield come up versus an instant raid warning.

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I'll look into it.

and thank you. Now I'll crawl back into my hole.

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Does anyone know the cooldown time on spellshield or can get me a transcriptor log?

I'm not sure offhand. You could download the newest DBM, look in the folder "DBM_Other", and check out "Maulgar.lua". If I knew how mods worked I'd tell you, but I'm sure a smart person could glean the info from it. I think it's around 30s or so, though.

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I still see translations added to "old" instances like serpentshrine ;)
Maybe a list with missing translations would help?
like instanz:boss/mob:language(:message) for all those LW/BW modules out there on svn
so people know what they should record...

I love that idea. I don't have time to start the wiki page this weekend, but if you'd like to...let's stick the LW one at http://wowace.com/wiki/LittleWigs/Translations and then we can link to it from the main LW page.

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Does anyone know the cooldown time on spellshield or can get me a transcriptor log?

I have a transcriptor for Maulgar encounter, but it's in french.
in record [21:09:34] - Les Tranchantes : Repaire de Gruul start at <111.3>

But, you can check the events "Krosh Brasemain gagne Bouclier anti-sort." for "Krosh Firehand gains Spell Shield.". The duration of the shield is exactly 30 seconds. He gains again the shield after 0 to 3 seconds when the cast of his Greater Fireball ends.
When Maulgar is engaged, Krosh gains immediatly is first shield but there is no event at this moment.

I wrote last week an update to display this bar, but for now, I didn't check it works correctly.

Hope it helps.