Guillotine recently had a chance to chat with Antiarc -- creator of Omen Threat Meter -- about what 2.4 means for the combat log, Omen, and of course its future. wow gold This continues our WoW patch 2.4 coverage, so read on for the interview with the author of one of World of Warcraft's most popular AddOns!
Guillotine: I would like to welcome Antiarc, author of Omen and ThreatLib to the Curse Word. Let’s get right into the interview!
Guillotine: So most people cheap wow gold have heard that there are some major UI changes coming in 2.4. In what ways will these affect Omen and the Threat library?
Antiarc: We'll, I've had to do a full rewrite of Threat to compensate. However, this is a very good thing, since it means we now get true per-target (not just per-target-name) threat readings. Also, tons of encounters that were somewhat buggy in Omen before are going to be far less so now. Finally, some of the changes have reduced reliance on translators, so non-english locales should have accurate threat without waiting on translators to translate. Since I did a full Threat rewrite, I decided to do a full Omen rewrite as well to address many of the issues the original Omen had. This new version should be a lot faster and more accurate, and should also very hopefully provide more useful information to various raid members. The traditional threat meter view is awesome for DPS and tanks, but it's not too useful for everyone else. This new version of Omen will provide some additional views (such as an AOE view for Mages and Warlocks that can be used while AOEing trash) and a Healer/Tank view, that shows threat lists for the target of each of your raid's tanks
Guillotine: Can you give an example of an encounter that these changes to Omen will make easier?
Antiarc: Well, Illidan is a big one. No more threat problems with the Flames of Azzinoth. You'll also see Reliquary of Souls perform more accurately, since you won't have that annoying healer "bleed over" effect in the threat readings. Basically any fight with mobs that spawn part way through the fight will have a lot cleaner readings.
Guillotine: Many people have set up a custom look for the old Omen. Are people going to have to readjust their settings for the new one or do these settings transfer over?
Antiarc: Unfortunately, this version has an entirely new setup, and thus, will require new settings. However, it should also be even more customizable, and should allow you to integrate it into your UI even more cleanly. To be honest, the customization features of the new version aren't completely finished - you can't set custom settings for a single bar yet, unfortunately - but those will be coming back. I just got too busy and ran out of time
Guillotine: On that line of thought, what features can people look forward to that won't be included in the initial release?
Antiarc: The biggest missing features will be the single-bar customization (that's dependent on a good dropdown library - there isn't one for Ace3, but I'm writing one), pullout bars (the old implementation sucked, but the idea is still good. I'll be re-doing those except with the suck removed), and FuBar/Minimap integration (again, a product of Ace3 being new and there not being integration libraries for it yet). I expect all those features to show up pretty soon though.
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