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By Trilliance, April 18, 2010 11:25 AM

* As of Patch 3.3.5, AVR will cease to work! It was fun while it lasted… *
AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) allows you to draw and add lines, circles and other markings in-game environment itself. All markings may also be shared with others, but I assume they need to have the addon installed as well. Raid leaders will find this addon an extremely helpful tool for explaining strats to the raid. For example, it can be used to mark locations when explaining raid tactics. These marks can even be left visible for the fight itself. Say goodbye to all those flares!

Download AVR here

To install: Copy the folder to your Addon folder, restart WoW and you’re good to go.

Other things you can do with AVR:

• Draw range circles around you at any range
• Clearly mark players close to you
• Bossmods type things, currently adds a red circle on Festergut spores, Putriced Malleable Goo (one target only), Rotface ooze explosion and Sindragosa Frost beacons. (Requires BigWigs for these to work.)
• Mark any location relative to player position and rotation, for example mage blink landing spot
• Measure distances

Here’s a screenshot of how the addon looks like in game.

Here comes the best part. The coolest thing is that it integrates with another addon: “AVR Encounters” (aka AVRE) to provide visual effects to highlight various boss mechanics, “boosting” your raid awareness heaps. You can download the godly addon AVRE here.

Currently AVRE supports only some encounters in the Icecrown Citadel raid:

• Icecrown Citadel: Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Festergut, Rotface, Professor Putricide, Blood Prince Council, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, The Lich King (does not work correctly after the platform collapses due to Blizzard zone coordinate bugs).
• Ulduar: Hodir, Freya, Mimiron, General Vezax, Yogg-Saron.

Example videos:
These are some somewhat early examples of what AVR+AVRE can do. The graphics have been altered a bit since these videos were taken, but you get the idea.

• Putricide (Unbound Plague):
• Putricide (Malleable Goo):

Addon memory usage is surprisingly decent… ~780kb of addon memory usage in our Lich King attempts, way lower than some resource-intensive addons such as Grid or Recount. If you have a decent system, it doesn’t hurt your framerate very much. Yes, it does lower it some. If you have a slow computer or low frame rate already, I wouldn’t recommend using AVR/AVRE.

Overall, I think this is a really excellent addon and an extremely valuable tool for raid leaders to explain raid tactics precisely, accurately on the in-game environment. Coupled with AVRE, there is no reason for you to fail at certain boss fights now!

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By Trilliance, January 5, 2010 10:59 AM

Tired of Grid eating up 4 MB of addon memory? Try this low memory alternative instead!

Injector is a lightweight grid-like raid/party frames addon, and is ‘advertised’ to use only 200kB!
That’s a whopping 95% decrease in raid frame memory! You can’t get any better than this.

Here’s the download link:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info14339-0.7.1.6.html

• Easy multiclass configuration
• You can turn on duration on indicators on some spells (looks like cooldown)
• You can easily add and place new indicators and icons of any size whereever you want
• LibHealComm-4.0, LibQuickHealth-2.0, Clique supported
• Manabars
• Ability to filter spells cast only by you
• Color changing depending on charges
• Track HoTs
• Track Arena buffs and CC’s
• and other stuff…

This is a preview of how the Indicators/Icons are set up:

There are some console commands available:
/inj unlock | lock — the anchor is a tiny red circle which you can use to move your frames.
/inj reset
/inj scale
/inj charspec — toggle character specific position and scale
/inj toggle | show | hide
/inj togglegroup <1-8>

But most of the configuration settings have to be done using the config.lua file. There is no in-game GUI, but it is well worth the effort. Adding Raid Debuffs have to be done by editing the loadables.lua file (you’ll can either give the spell ID or type in the name of the spell in “…”), and by default take a side icon instead of a center icon so you have to manually edit the file.

Once you have saved the changes in the lua file, just reload your UI (“/rl”) and the changes should be reflected in-game. No need to relog, restart WoW, etc… The only drawback I can see is that configuration may be a bit daunting for those new to LUA editing, but it only takes a while to get used to it. For those with some experience, it will only take a short while to set everything up the way you like it. I’ve even added more spells to be tracked and it even tracks beneficial buffs such as Evasion, Barkskin, Shield Wall, etc… so you know when tanks are using their cooldowns and when it’s over. Well worth the time if you ask me!

Overall, I found this to be a really excellent alternative to Grid. It has almost all (maybe even more) features than Grid has and uses a sliver of the memory Grid uses. This has to be the most memory efficient Grid-alternative out there right now, and I highly recommend it for those using older computers like I am. As a side note, I recommend that you go through some of the comments if you’re editing the LUA file as it may provide some useful tips in there. Need a function missing in Injector? Feel free to post a comment there and who knows… maybe the author will do something about it.

Which Raid Frame do you currently use?

• Grid
• Healbot
• Vuh'do
• Injector
• Default Blizzard Frames
• Others

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By Trilliance, November 17, 2009 11:25 PM

Addicted to HoN? Love PvP? If your answer to both is YES, I guarantee you’ll love this addon.

Download here (latest version is v1.0.0-r2 dated 9 Oct 2009)
To install: Copy the folder to your Addon folder, restart WoW and you’re good to go.

Essentially this addon emulates the announcer sounds from Heroes of Newerth (HoN) in WoW. The best way to test this addon? Queue up for a battleground and start killing Alliance scum!

Here is the description of the default sound files available in the download:

Killing Spree:
1.”Blood Lust!”
2.”Serial Killer!”
3.”Massacre!”
4.”Ultimate Warrior!”
5.”Legendary!”
6.”Onslaught!”
7.”Savage Sick!”
8.”Domination!”
9.”Blood Bath!”
10.”Genocide!”
11.”Immortal!”

Quick Kills:
•”DDDDouble Kill!”
•”Hat Trick!”
•”Quad-Kill!”

Killing blows while under 5% health:
•”Smack Down!”

Battleground Power Ups:
•Berserking – “Double Damage!”
•Restoration – “Regeneration!”
•Speed – “Haste!”

Enter a Battleground or Wintergrasp:
•”Lets Get It On!”

Target Paladin Divine Shield:
•”RRRRAGE QUIT!”

On Death:
•”Defeat!”

There are similar addons which incorporate sounds from Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Quake into WoW… but HoNAnnouncer is my favorite by far — it gives me an ego-boost when I’m in the battlegrounds killing stuff!!  It also only uses ~10kB of addon memory, so I have it loaded all the time.
Many thanks to Slushe for a wonderful job writing this cool addon.

I did a slight MODIFICATION to this already great addon just suit my shamanistic lust for blood:
I went to the sounds folder, took the “Blood Lust!” sound file (1_kills.ogg) and replaced it the DotA “First Blood” sound. I just think it’s more appropriate. On top of that, this frees “Blood Lust!” for my Bloodlust trigger in MSBT. To do this you’ll need 2 more things:

1. The DotA sound files which can be downloaded from http://dota-allstars-blog.blogspot.com/2008/03/dota-allstars-sound-effects-free.html They are all .wav format which needs to be converted to .ogg to use them in HoNAnnouncer.
2. A software that is able to convert between .wav/.mp3/.ogg formats. I found a free software called “Switch”, works for both PC and Mac. To download Switch: http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

To set up the First Blood sound in HoNAnnouncer:

1. Find the “First Blood” sound file and convert it to .ogg. Rename it “1_kills.ogg”.
2. Rename the original “1_kills.ogg” in your HoNAnnouncer\sounds folder to “bloodlust.ogg”. This file will be used in MSBT, I’ll explain how to do this later.
3. Place the new “1_kills.ogg” sound file in your HoNAnnouncer\sounds folder
4. Quit and relaunch WoW and it should play “First Blood” on 1st kill now.

To set up Bloodlust announce sound with MSBT:

1. Convert the “bloodlust.ogg” to .mp3 or .wav format. MSBT will only accept these 2 formats!
2. Copy the .mp3/.wav sound file you have just converted to your MiksScrollingBattleText\sounds folder.
3. Open up MSBT by typing ‘/msbt’ in text box and select the “Custom Media” tab on the left-hand pane. You’ll need to add new sound file to MSBT before you can use it.
4. In the 1st box ‘Name’, give a name to the file you want to use (eg. bloodlust).
   In the 2nd box ‘Path’, enter “bloodlust.mp3″ or “bloodlust.wav” depending on which format you converted it to.
5. Click OK. This sound file (bloodlust) should now be one of the sounds available in the drop-down menu when you configure your trigger’s sound.

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