Description

Omen does such a great job that I haven't seen any other interfaces to Threat-2.0 developed, but with the complexity of fights in Sunwell, I wanted something that keeps me aware of my current threat level, but allows me to focus on the fight at hand. So, Simple Threat Meter was born. It displays two vertical threat bars when you are in combat. Threat Bar A - the TANK bar. This is the thin red bar and always stays at 100% as a reference. This represents the threat level of the current target of the creature you are targetting. Under normal circumstances, this should be the tank. Threat Bar B - the PERSONAL THREAT bar. This is the wider, customisable bar that starts at 0% and represents your threat against your current target, expressed as a percentage of the tank's threat. For reference, the values you need to be aware of: 110% - you will pull aggro from the tank if you are in melee range. 130% - you will pull aggro from the tank if you are further than melee.

Configuration and Usage

To open the configuration panel, type the command: /stm

Additionally, if you have the mod unlocked, you can access the options screen by right-clicking on the drag bar.

The configuration options themselves should be fairly clear. Click on the "Show test" button to see what the threat bars will look like in use, with the options you have configured. Click on "Hide test" to make the test bars vanish again (or they will do so automatically the next time you end combat).

The threat bars only display in combat (you don't need them outside combat, so why leave them there?) though you can show test bars using the config panel.

The threat bars are also click-through, meaning that they don't get in the way and stop you clicking on targets. This is very important for me, as I want the add-on to be really obvious and on my screen, but I can't allow it to get in the way of me clicking to select targets.

Lastly, you can configure a transparency level, so you can see through the bars. Yup, you need to make sure there's no mobs hiding behind it!

The Technical Stuff

Simple Threat Meter is an Ace3 mod. I've bundled all of the required libs with it on this download and tested that it works as a standalone, with no other mods.

It hooks into the Threat-2.0 library, so is guaranteed to give you the same results as Omen.

Bar textures are loaded from LibSharedMedia-3.0 so STM can use any other handy textures you have from other mods / libs.

The config screen is using the new Blizzard interface, but you can use the command-line instead if you wish.

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