ShockAndAwe displays timer bars for Shocks, Stormstrike, Windfury (internal CD), Maelstrom Weapon, Lava Lash, Feral Spirits, and your shield. It optionally shows number of orbs on left shield, stacks of MW, advises of next shock in rotation. It also shows a user configurable priority icon frame to advise you of what the highest damage ability available is. Using the priority frame ensures you always use the highest damage ability to maximize your DPS.
ShockAndAwe is a WotLK replacement for DisqoDice. Disquette of of Sargeras was the original author of this mod. He has stopped playing the game and he kindly allowed me to take over the mod. I renamed it to ShockAndAwe as I felt that that was a more appropriate name for an addon devoted to helping Enhancement Shamans Shock, StormStrike and Windfury (and Lava Lash and Lava Burst ) their way to their maximum dps.
I have updated it to work with WotLK and patch 3.0.8 and I actively invite testers to comment, provide bug reports, and make suggestions for improvements.
Bars
- Feral Spirits: Shows two bars the longer one is the 3 minute cooldown of before you can use the Feral Spirits again and the smaller bar shows the 45 second duration of the Feral Spirits out and active.
- Shield: shows red when shield is inactive, shows time left on shield when active. Displays as pale grey when water shield active, blue when lightning shield is active, and green if some other shaman has cast an earth shield on you. It also displays the number of orbs charges you have left on the bar.
- Maelstrom: Shows 30 second cooldown and stacks of Maelstrom charges. Shows number of charges on the bar and lights up when you have a full 5 stacks of Maelstrom, this is to show that an instant cast spell (Lava Burst, Lightning, Chain Lightning) is possible. Option flash the bar and/or play a sound when you get 5 stacks.
- Stormstrike: bar shows when SS is active, duration is modified by Imp.SS talent - overlayed on this bar is hidden Windfury cooldown, so when WF procs you can see how long it will be before SS is ready and whether its worth waiting to proc WF off a SS.
- Shock bar: shows the type of shock cast (green - earth, orange - flame, blue - frost, grey - wind) and duration before shock is next available. Duration of bar is modified by Reverberation talent.
- Global Cooldown: shows expiry of GCD
- Lava Lash: shows cooldown of Lava Lash
Uptime Box
New frame that shows uptime of our major buffs : Flurry, Unleashed Rage, Elemental Devastation. May also add Lightning Speed (Mongoose proc), Elemental Strength (Stonebreaker Totem proc) however these will probably be replaced by new lvl 80 buffs so will probably wait until those are implemented. Display has both session uptimes and last fight uptimes.
Now supports SharedMedia, so you can configure your bar textures to suit your UI. Also now supports altering colours to suit your own preferences.
Priority Box
Now you can configure a priority queue so it will show you the icon of the next skill thats off cooldown that gives highest dps. User configurable options for priorities. Defaults are MW5_LB, ES_SS, SS, ES, LL, ST, LS as those are showing top DPS according to EnhSim. Will also optionally show windshock icon if your threat is overtaking the tank.
Other Features
Now warns if your weapons are missing buffs on entering combat - warns when shield expires.
Now can flash Maelstrom bar when you get 5 stacks, and optionally play a configurable sound every few seconds. Plus can do the same for 4 stacks - feature requested by community.
Displays an optional WF & SS dmg totalizing and option to output to scrolling combat text. So now you can see the total dmg you do from a WF or SS hit.
Gives options to keybind your weapon buff choices and your shield choices.
Ability to export your character data for use in the Enhancement Shaman Sim so you can calculate your dps and the best kit stats for your personal setup.
To configure the addon
Simply type /saa config to bring up the config panel to allow you to configure it.
One of the most common requests for changing the config is to adjust the frame/bar widths, and to change the sounds for MW4 & MW5. These are easiest changed on the Blizzard Config options.
On the TODO list
Please see the tickets at http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/shockandawe
If you have any suggestions for improvements or want to report a bug please submit a ticket this makes it a lot easier to track individual problems. Please submit one ticket per issue at the following URL.
http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/shockandawe/create-ticket/
Facts
- Date created
- 05 Oct 2008
- Categories
- Last update
- 21 Oct 2009
- Development stage
- Release
- Language
- deDE
- enUS
- esES
- frFR
- ruRU
- License
- Academic Free License v3.0
- Curse link
- ShockAndAwe
- Recent files
Relationships
- Embedded library
- Ace3
- CallbackHandler-1.0
- LibSharedMedia-3.0
- LibStub
- #21
Bebine Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:57:25Maybe this as already been talked about... But is there a way to put trinket cooldowns or readiness somewere in the addon...
maybe an extra minibox for trinkets could be good.
Regards,
Bebine
- #20
Pericles Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:17:55@JRRNeiklot
You failed to mention the version so I am unable to assist.
- #19
Pericles Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:17:07Yes turn off debug information. You should only have debug info on if I asked you to turn it on to assist diagnosing a problem.
/saa debug
will toggle debugging info on or off. When you issue the command it tells you what the status is. You must have clicked the debug box on the config panel?
- #18
Slcska2004 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:16:32any way of fixing the displaying icon spam that you get in your chat menu. every time i get a new icon display in my Priority list it says a text in my chat box of what it is displaying. and its a lot so it gets annoying.
- #17
JRRNeiklot Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:04:20Hi,
I can't seem to get the maelstrom bar to show up unless I set it to flash. Any idea what my problem is?
Thanks.
- #16
Thorakon Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:08:56I have not encountered any errors, but as far as I can see, Shock and Awe will overwrite it's shock timer when using Wind Shear (replaced Wind Shock)..which now is on seperate CD. So if you use Earth Shock as an Enhancement Shaman as part of your usual rotation and interrupt some spell afterwards, you will not be able to see when earth shock is ready again (except in the priority frame if it has top priority then). Maybe there's a seperate timer bar needed for Wind Shear (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=57994). Alternatively just let the Shock bar ignore WS, users will have to find another way to see it's CD then.
- #15
Pericles Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:23:30It works just fine for me and thousands of others in patch 3.2. If you want me to help you'll have to give far more info than "it's not working".
- #14
shamwow47 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:43:53The addon has not been functioning for me since the 3.2 patch. When are you going to be releasing a version that supports the latest patch?
- #13
Skibum86 Fri, 15 May 2009 01:48:14Is there a bug with the Malstrom Wep Sounds?
I have S/A set to play sound on 5 stack and the sound wave set. I can hear the sound play when I'm changing the sound on the menu. However, the sound will not play when a 5 stack is complete (in combat).
Almost every thing else is turned off because I only use this mod to export and the malstrom sound. What are the other dependancies for the sound to play (in combat)?
- #12
Groundzero303 Mon, 04 May 2009 12:48:07I`am so sorry that I didn`t do very well. This time I translate from enUS line by line. I think that it will be much better. Here is the file for vsesion 4.34 http:rapidshare.de/files/47020204/Locale-zhTW.lua.html.