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 +

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 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

Paladin

• Divine Intervention
• Hand of Protection
• Hand of Sacrifice
• Beacon of Light
• Divine Protection
• Divine Shield
• Divine Sacrifice
• Lay on Hands

Druid

• Barkskin
• Survival Instincts
• Rebirth
• Tranquility

Death Knight

• Bone Shield
• Icebound Fortitude
• Unbreakable Armor
• Vampiric Blood
• Anti-Magic Shell
• Anti-Magic Zone

Warrior

• Last Stand
• Shield Wall

Mage

• Ice Block

Shaman

• Bloodlust
• Heroism

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