Hero

Description:

Hero is a very light addon designed to alert the player when certain abilities are used within their Raid or Party. Primarily it is designed for Healers, Tanks and Raid leaders. The sorts of cooldowns tracked tend to be those relevant to Tank/Healer interaction. For example Shield Wall or Pain Suppression with the intention of better allowing Tanks, Healers and Raid leaders to manage their abilities within a raid or party. Many abilities are not tracked in order to keep spam to a minimum and insure only useful information is provided. Hero does not communicate in raid chat, it is solely for the benefit of the player running the addon.

Running the addon:

Alerts come in the format:

+ TARGET :: SPELL :: CASTER + Although they can be switched to + CASTER :: SPELL :: TARGET + if that is more intuitive In both cases they are accompanied by a sound alert and color coding for losses/gains and class.

Hero is primarily aimed at a PvE environment and so will automatically disable itself in Arena, Battlegrounds, or the Wintergrasp zone to avoid spam.

Slash Commands:

/Hero

- Displays list of commands

/Hero menu

- Brings up the interface menu. This can also be reached through the standard Blizzard interface button on Escape menu. The menu allows you to do all the tasks you can do with slash commands as well as: Change the font size. Check or uncheck all the spells hero tracks, broken down into groups (Buff, SelfBuff, GroupdBuff, Spell, Channel). There are two checkboxes for each spell. The "Show" box determines whether Hero tracks that spell. The "&Show Mine" box is something that can be checked or unchecked in addition to the "Show" box. Unchecking it will hide announcements for your own spell casts, whilst checking it will give you alerts for your own spells (so long as the "Show" box is also checked"). This is sometimes preferable - for example for Guardian Spirit, whilst other times is not, e.g. Taunt. Hero is configured by default with what I'd suggest might be useful, but feel free to change it. Once you have checked or unchecked the spells you want press the "Okay" button to commit this. Clicking thee cancel button will undo any changes made.

The remaining slash commands are provided for convenience. /Hero enable

- enables/disables the Hero on a per character basis

/Hero lock

- lock/unlocks the frame

/Hero sound

- enable/disables the sound alerts

/Hero reverse

- Switches between the default "Target :: Spell :: Caster" and a "Caster :: Spell :: Target" format.

/Hero reset

- Resets the position of the anchor to the center of the screen in case it has become inaccessible.

Abilities Alerted:

In particular, the following abilities have alerts:

Priest

• Guardian Spirit
• Pain Suppression
• Divine Hymn
• Fear Ward
• Power Word: Barrier

Paladin

• Aura Mastery
• Divine Intervention
• Hand of Protection
• Hand of Sacrifice
• Hand of Reckoning
• Beacon of Light
• Divine Protection
• Divine Shield
• Divine Sacrifice
• Lay on Hands
• Righteous Defense

Druid

• Barkskin
• Growl
• Challenging Roar
• Innervate
• Survival Instincts
• Rebirth
• Tranquility

Death Knight

• Bone Shield
• Icebound Fortitude
• Unbreakable Armor
• Vampiric Blood
• Anti-Magic Shell
• Anti-Magic Zone
• Death Grip
• Dark Command

Warrior

• Last Stand
• Shield Wall
• Taunt
• Mocking Blow
• Challenging Shout

Mage

• Ice Block

Shaman

• Bloodlust
• Heroism
• Tremor Totem
• Reincarnation
• Mana Tide Totem

Thanks to all the guildies who helped me write this addon, especially those who consented to falling to their death to help me test a theory