What is Gladius?

Gladius adds enemy unit frames to arenas for easier targeting and focusing. It is highly configurable and you can disable most features of this addon.

Features

• Uses the 3.0 Arena Unit IDs, this enables full functionality even if the enemy is seen first while in combat.
• General arena unit frame features:
  • HP bar + Text
  • Mana bar + Text
  • Cast bar + Text
  • Class icon
• PvP trinket status:
  • Five display options:
    • Name icon.
    • Name text.
    • Big icon (big, scalable icon to the right).
    • Small icon (small icon to the right on top of the mana bar).
    • Grid-style icon (colored square to the right on top of the mana bar that turns red when the trinket has been used).
• Target of Target - displays a class icon representing the enemy's target.
• Announcements
  • New enemy announcement - announces new enemies.
  • Trinket announcement - announces when the trinket is used/is ready again.
  • Drinking announecment.
  • Enemies on low health - announces enemies that are about to die, you can set the percentage yourself.
• Auras - shows important buffs and debuffs on the arena enemies.
  • You can add/delete/edit auras via the configuration screen.
• Click actions - you can select what is going to happen when you click on a Gladius button.
  • Ten editable click actions.
  • Three modifiers: SHIFT, CTRL and ALT.
  • Four different action types: Target, Focus, Cast Spell and Macro.

Diminishing Returns addons that work with Gladius

• DiminishReturns by Adirelle
• Gladiminish by ghanburighan

How to use

Slash commands

• /gladius ui/config/options - displays the configuration screen.
• /gladius test1-5 - shows a test frame with the chosen amount of test units.
• /gladius hide - hides the test frame.
• /gladius trinket - simulates a trinket being used for the first arena target.

Macros

Macros are meant for the more advanced users, since you'd need to use "*unit" (short for the UnitID of the enemy) for a macro to work. To cast Polymorph on the enemy and print out the name of the enemy in the party chat you would have to do:

/cast [target=*unit] Polymorph
/script SendChatMessage(UnitName("*unit"), "PARTY")

FAQ

Will you ever have Gladius function in a non-arena environment?

No, Gladius is meant for arenas only and it'll stay that way.

Can I hide that annoying header ("Gadius - drag to move")?

Yes, simply lock the Gladius frame.

Suggestions and Bugs

For suggestions and bugs, post a ticket here: http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/gladius/create-ticket/.

Translations

Curse has setup a very good and easy to use translation system, see: http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/gladius/localization/.

If you'd like to become a permanent translator, send an e-mail to gladius@proditor.net.

Thanks to

• sillyboy6 - zhCN and zhTW translations
• bluenyx and ozma211 - koKR translations
• dlmk - deDE translations
• Hemathio, StingerSoft - ruRU translations
• Shadowed (SSArenaFrames) - snippets of code, inspiration and lots of help
• Proximo - inspiration