Intro
MobInfo-2 is a World of Warcraft AddOn that provides you with useful additional information about Mobs (ie. opponents/monsters). It adds new information to the game's Tooltip whenever you hover with your mouse over a mob. It also adds a numeric display of the Mobs health and mana (current and max) to the Mob target frame. MobInfo-2 is the continuation of the now abandoned "MobInfo" by Dizzarian combined with the original "MobHealth2" by Wyv.
MobInfo Tooltip Window
By default MobInfo now shows and uses the new MobInfo Tooltip window. On screen there is a movable anchor (click&drag to move it) called "MI". Initially you should find it underneath the minimap. Thats where the MobInfo Tooltip appears.
In the MobInfo options window you can configrue the layout of the MobInfo Tooltip (on the "Tooltip" options page). You can also decide to not use it at all and use the normal Gamtooltip instead (this option is on the "General" options page).
MobInfo-2 Data Collecting
MobInfo collects data whenever you fight a Mob. It starts off with an empty database, which fills up automatically the more you fight and play. The data it collects is used for enhancing the game tooltip and the game target frame. It is also available to other AddOns (mostly the mob/target health values). The amount of data that gets recorded is configurable through the MobInfo options dialog.
Resistances and Immunities
MobInfo implementats a considerably simplified method for resistances and immunities tracking. It records for each school of magic the number of spells that have succeeded and the number of spells that were resisted. The resulting percentage is NOT the exact magic resist stat of the mob ! Instead MobInfo attempt to show you a rough but helpful indication of how likely the mob is to resist spells of a specific class of magic. Sidenote: In fact due to WoW limitations it is impossible for an AddOn to calculate the exact magic resist stat.
Extra Information For Game Tooltip
The extra information available to show on the game tooltip is:
- Class - class of mob
- Health - current and total health of the mob
- Mana - current and total mana of the mob
- Damage - min/max damage range of Mob against you (stored per char)
- DPS - your DPS (damage per second) against the Mob (stored per char)
- Kills - number of times you have killed the mob (stored per char)
- Total Looted - number of times you have looted the mob
- Empty Loots - number of times you found empty loot on the mob
- XP - actual LAST xp amount you gained from the mob
- <nowiki>#</nowiki> to Level - number of kills of this mob neede to gain a level
- Quality - the quality of items that are dropped by the mob
- Cloth drops - the number of times cloth has dropped on the mob
- Avg Coin Drop - average amount of money dropped by the mob
- Avg Item Value - average vendor value of items dropped by mob
- Total Mob Value - total sum of avg coin drop and avg item value
- Loot Items - all loot items dropped by a Mob can be recorded
- Mob Location - the location where you killed a Mob gets recorded and can be shown in the tooltip
- Mob Resistances - the mobs magic resistances and immunities
There are two modes for displaying the data: normal mode and compact mode. In normal mode one line is added to the tooltip per single data item from the list above. In compact mode two data items will be combined on one line of the tooltip. User of TipBuddy should note that (only) the MobInfo Compact Mode is compatible with the TipBuddy Compact Mode.
Note that MobInfo offers a "Combined Mode" where the data of Mobs with the same name that only differ in level gets combined (added up) into one tooltip. This mode can be enabled through the options dialog
Target Frame Health/Mana Values
MobInfo can display the numeric and percentage values for your current targets health and mana right on the target frame (formerly known as MobHealth functionality). This display is highly configurable through the MobInfo options dialog (position, font, size, etc).
MobInfo Options Dialog
Type '/mi2' or '/mobinfo2' on the chat prompt to open the MobInfo2 options dialog. This dialog gives you full interactive control over EVERYTHING that MobInfo can do. All options take immediate effect. Simply try them all out. Decent defaults get set when you start MobInfo for the first time. Note that the 4 main categories 'Tooltip', 'Mob Health/Mana', 'Database' and 'Search' have separate dedicated options pages within the options dialog.
Everything in the options dialog has an associated help text that explains to you what the option does. The help texts are shown automatically as a tooltip.
How to Install
Before installing a (new) version of MobInfo it is IMPORTANT that you exit and close WoW ! Unpack the ZIP file and copy the folder 'MobInfo2' into your 'World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns' folder. If asked choose to overwrite existing files. If you have an existing MobInfo database it is a good idea to backup this database just so you have a backup copy in a save location. You can find your MobInfo database here: 'World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<account_name>/SavedVariables/MobInfo2.lua'. Now you can again start WoW and enjoy the new MobInfo.
MobInfo-2 will automatically load the next time you login with one of your chars. When starting the first time you might get a message that a separate MobHealth AddOn was detected. If so please remove it, or at least disable it. You will find that it is no longer needed, because MobInfo-2 is a full featured and fully compatible replacement for "MobHealth".
Bug reports
Please use CurseForge's integrated bug tracking system to report any problems you encounter, or to make any suggestions for improving MobInfo2: http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/mobinfo2/tickets
There is a general discussion forum at http://www.dizzarian.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=16, but be aware that it is checked very irregularly.
New Features
Recently a number of great new featrues have been added to MobInfo. I'm sure you'd love at least some of them, if not all, if only you knew they existed and how to activate them :-) So here is a list for you:
- MobInfo now features its own movable and configurable MobInfo tooltip window
- optimized and simplified MobInfo options window
- MobInfo minimap button for opening the MobInfo options window
- drastically improved Mob health calculation accuracy
- vendor sell value of items can be shown in item tooltip
Credits
This addon was originally created by Skeeve on Wowace. All credit for all work done on this addon at this point in time goes go him, with the exception of bugfixes since patch 3.0.2. Credit for bugfixes for 3.0.2 goes to PapaTango over on Incgamers. Credit for post-3.1 to 4.0.1 bugfixes goes to Speeddymon. Shortly before the release of Cataclysm, Speeddymon left the project to devote himself to his family (http://my.curse.com/articles/speeddymon/848044.aspx). Post Cataclysm, various emergency bugfixes have been handled as they have arisen by new maintainers Brandmauer and Speedwaystar.
Facts
- Date created
- Aug 05, 2005
- Categories
- Last update
- Sep 09, 2012
- Development stage
- Release
- Language
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- License
- Public Domain
- Curse link
- MobInfo2
- Downloads
- 646,824
- Recent files
- R: 5.0.4.0 for 5.0.4 Sep 09, 2012
- B: 5.0.4.0 panda 1 for 5.0.4 Aug 31, 2012
- R: 4.34 for 4.3.4 Jul 06, 2012
- B: 3.88 beta 4 for 4.2 Sep 11, 2011
- B: 3.88 beta 3 for 4.2 Jul 04, 2011
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- #21
texnikos Oct 02, 2012 at 12:16 UTC - 0 likesHello there. Last days start play WoW again and after updating all of my addons receiveing this msg from MI2 :
What i mast do to fix it?
Tnx for time
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- #20
galen2 Mar 06, 2011 at 17:54 UTC - 0 likesGreat work speeddymon
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- #19
next96 Feb 10, 2011 at 09:51 UTC - 0 likes4.0.6 Patch Error
fix please.
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- #18
BJRubino Nov 26, 2010 at 21:39 UTC - 0 likesHi, Thank you for your work on this mod; I really appreciate it!! One thing I have noticed is that I am getting kill credits for mobs that are being killed by other players of NPCs. An example is the redesigned starting area for dwarves. I am getting credit for killing the troggs that are being killed by the NPCs. I found that with a new toon and a fresh install (no saved var. file) I am getting credit for each trogg that the NPCs are killing.
Is there any way to fix this?
Thanks, BJR
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- #17
next96 Nov 03, 2010 at 07:34 UTC - 0 likesthnak you fix. :)
Please, Change blizzard api Mob Health instead of Mobhealth.lua.
I can wait it fixed =_=;;
Slowly slowly works !!!!! :)
Thank you
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- #16
next96 Oct 30, 2010 at 13:33 UTC - 0 likesgalen2
this code is blizzard api item value.
so, MobInfo2 -> MI2_ItemData.lua is not necessaried.
and if KC_ITEM ( ItemSync etc..) is not 4.0, next code is not necessaried.
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- #15
galen2 Oct 29, 2010 at 18:13 UTC - 0 likesnext96,
What issue fix this code?
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- #14
next96 Oct 28, 2010 at 09:39 UTC - 0 likesMobInfo2.lua line 1467 function MI2_FindItemValue( itemID )
next fix (GetItemInfo ())
instead of MI2_ItemData.lua- Reply
- #13
Todd Oct 18, 2010 at 23:25 UTC - 0 likesYeah, that's the one I'm using now. I don't have any problems with it at all. I have it set to use the game tooltip instead of the mobinfo tooltip. Everything seems to be working fine for me. I haven't messed with any options though. As long as it updates the loot counts and the tooltip works, I'm happy.
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- #12
galen2 Oct 18, 2010 at 18:29 UTC - 0 likesI give a try to that version of mobinfo updated to 4.0.1
It´s updated by EmeralDreamCrosa
link to download http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1T9V2X9S
Issues with this version:
- Options window when you click any list option box it doesnt work
- Lua error when you click Delete Database option buttons (fixed)
- Can´t move options window
- Not show kill count on MI tooltip or game tooltip (fixed)
- Value of creature´s dropped money not saved, then show 0c value for dropped money on DB and Value/V-Coins/V-Items not show on tooltip
#UPDATE 1. Fix for kill count issue. By Speedwaystar.
-- MI2_OnCombatLogEvent()
--
-- MobInfo main event handler function, gets called for all registered events
-- uses table with event handler info
--
function MI2_OnCombatLogEvent(self, event, ...)
--midebug("event="..event..", a1="..(arg1 or "<nil>")..", a2="..(arg2 or "<nil>")..", a3="..(arg3 or "<nil>")..", a4="..(arg4 or "<nil>"))
local realEvent = MI2_EventHandlers[event]
if realEvent then
realEvent.f(...)
end
end -- MI2_OnCombatLogEvent
#UPDATE 2. Fix for Delete database button issue. By Speedwaystar.
in MI2_Slash.lua change the following:
line 187:
StaticPopupDialogs["MOBINFO_CONFIRMATION"].text = MI_TXT_CLR_ALL_CONFIRM.."'"..MI2_OPTIONS["MI2_OptClearHealthDb"].help.."' ?"
line 201:
StaticPopupDialogs["MOBINFO_CONFIRMATION"].text = MI_TXT_CLR_ALL_CONFIRM.."'"..MI2_OPTIONS["MI2_OptClearPlayerDb"].help.."' ?"
line 215:
StaticPopupDialogs["MOBINFO_CONFIRMATION"].text = MI_TXT_CLR_ALL_CONFIRM.."'"..MI2_OPTIONS["MI2_OptClearMobDb"].help.."' ?"
your code should look like this: http://speedwaystar.pastebin.com/XAaCmEce