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Addon Review: AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality)

Trilliance — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:25:34 +0000

* 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!

Heroic Putricide down!

Trilliance — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:54:19 +0000

Only the Lich King stands in our way now, and we won't stop until we get him down. Great job everyone, especially those who managed to stay alive the whole fight. Here's our first kill video: Feral Druid PoV Hunter PoV

Icecrown Citadel (Heroic) 1st Week progress – 4/12

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:18:02 +0000

After our 1st week of heroic modes, we're 4/12 on heroic ICC-25. The four bosses we've downed are -- Lord Marrowgar, Gunship Battle, Rotface, and Blood Princes. Some of these bosses were not as 'heroic' as we thought, and were one-shotted without much difficulty.. We're looking to down a few more heroic difficulty bosses this week. Stay tuned for further heroic ICC progress. In other news, a couple of our 10 man teams are now 10/12 on heroic ICC-10. Only Sindragosa & Putricide are in our way before unlocking heroic mode Lich King. We're still looking for exceptional players (all classes) to join us in our goal to kill Heroic Lich King. If you share that common goal, think you are good enough and can make our raids, please apply.

Putricide (25-man) video!

Trilliance — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:23:59 +0000

Goood Newws Everyone! After wiping the 1st try of the night at 0% (35k HP before we let him heal), we went back for revenge and downed him the 2nd try and thus clearing the Plagueworks! Here's a video of of us with the Prof... (1st PoV: Exitt - feral tank, 2nd PoV: Mitigator - Holy priest) Be sure to catch the screenshots after the jump.