PVPWarn aims to help the player to hear and see enemy spells cast on himself and also spells that an enemy player resisted or spells that the player himself resisted
PVPWarn uses both visual and acoustic effects to make the player aware of certain events. The addon aims to be configurable to the players preferences and allows customization on exactly what spells should be brought to the attention of the player and in what form.
WoW Classic Support
This Addon supports WoW Burning Crusade Classic see - bcc-PVPWarn
WoW-Addons are installed directly in your WoW directory:
[WoW-installation-directory]\Interface\AddOns
Make sure to get the newest version of the Addon from the releases tab:
Note: If the Addon is not showing up in your ingame Addonlist make sure that the Addon is named
PVPWarnin your Addons folder
PVPWarns goal is to help the player recognizing combat log events in a more visual and acoustical way. PVPWarn can display visual and acoustical cues when a certain event is found in the combat log. As an example PVPWarn might play a sound both when an enemy warrior activates recklessness and when it runs out.
The basic feature of warning the player can be configured for each class and some additional categories such as items, racials and misc.
PVPWarn can also detect when certain spells where either resisted by the player itself or an enemy player.
The avoid tab allows the configuration of warnings for all spells of a certain category. If you're interested in knowing when you resist a certain spells such as the silence of a shadow priest you will configure this in the priest category.
To configure the resist warning for your own class use the Enemy Avoid navigation point. This menu contains all spells for your class that can be resisted and are supported by PVPWarn. If you use a different class the content of that menu is different.
PVPWarn loads a default profile based on your class when the addon loads for the first time. The default profile can be loaded again at any point. If you however start modifying what spells are tracked you can create a new profile, or you can even have multiple different profiles that you can then load based on your situation.
Once a profile is created in can be loaded manually or with a macro.
/run _G["RGPVPW_MACRO_LOADPROFILE"]("[profileName")
-- e.g.
/run _G["RGPVPW_MACRO_LOADPROFILE"]("Warriorprofile")The addon can be configured to automatically enable or disable in certain zones. This might be useful in Zones such as Alterac Valley where a lot of events are getting generated.
PVPWarn can track a targets combat state and will display this next to the targetframe. The combat icon can be moved to another place if required.
PVPWarn can track a targets stance state and will display this next to the targetframe.The stance icon can be moved to another place if required. Tracking the stance is limited to certain classes and can only be tracked if PVPWarn was able to observe the stance in the combatlog.
If PVPWarn is unable to determine the stance it will display a question mark for an icon.
Make sure to recheck the installation part of this Readme and check that the Addon is placed inside [WoW-installation-directory]\Interface\AddOns and is correctly named as PVPWarn.
This is what we call a Lua error, and it usually happens because of an oversight or error by the developer (in this case me). Take a screenshot off the error and create a GitHub Issue with it, and I will see if I can resolve it. It also helps if you can add any additional information of what you were doing at the time and what other addons you have active. Additionally, if you are able to reproduce the error make sure to check if it still happens if you disable all others addons.
Those obnoxious messages are intended for the development of this addon and means that you download a development version of the addon instead of a proper release. Releases can be downloaded from here - https://github.com/RagedUnicorn/wow-classic-pvpwarn/releases
This can have multiple errors. It might be an actual bug where the addon did not recognize the spell. Before creating a ticket however please make sure to check that the spell is actually configured to show a visual or acoustical warning.
PVPWarn is not complete and certain spells might have simply forgotten. If you have a certain spell that you would like to see supported in a future version of the addon make sure to create a ticket for it, and I will have a look at it.
This is a limitation of the WoW Api. Stances can only be observed when a warrior is switching from one stance to another. It is not possible to get infos about the current stance. PVPWarn will however display the stance as soon as it is able to observe it.
Switching between development and release can be achieved with maven.
mvn generate-resources -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P development
This generates and overwrites GM_Environment.lua and GearMenu.toc. You need to specifically specify that you want to overwrite the files to prevent data loss. It is also possible to omit the profile because development is the default profile that will be used.
Switching to release can be done as such:
mvn generate-resources -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
In this case it is mandatory to add the release profile.
Note: Switching environments has the effect changing certain files to match an expected value depending on the environment. To be more specific this means that as an example test and debug files are not included when switching to release. It also means that variables such as loglevel change to match the environment.
As to not change those files all the time the repository should always stay in the development environment. Do not commit GearMenu.toc and GM_Environment.lua in their release state. Changes to those files should always be done inside build-resources and their respective template files marked with .tpl.
To package the addon use the package phase.
mvn package -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P development
This generates an addon package for development. For generating a release package the release profile can be used.
mvn package -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
Note: This packaging and switching resources can also be done one after another.
Note: The packaging is not fit to be used for CurseForge because CurseForge expects a specific packaging
# switch environment to release
mvn generate-resources -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
# package release
mvn package -P release
Before creating a new release update addon.tag.version in pom.xml. Afterwards to create a new release and deploy to GitHub the deploy-github profile has to be used.
# switch environment to release
mvn generate-resources -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
# deploy release
mvn package -P deploy-github -D github.auth-token=[token]
Note: This is only intended for manual deployment to GitHub. With GitHub actions the token is supplied as a secret to the build process
Note: It's best to create the release for GitHub first and only afterwards the CurseForge release. That way the tag was already created.
# switch environment to release
mvn generate-resources -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
# deploy release
mvn package -P deploy-curseforge -D curseforge.auth-token=[token]
Note: This is only intended for manual deployment to CurseForge. With GitHub actions the token is supplied as a secret to the build process
Note: It's best to create the release for GitHub first and only afterwards the Wago.io release. That way the tag was already created.
# switch environment to release
mvn generate-resources -D generate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
# deploy release
mvn package -P deploy-wago -D wago.auth-token=[token]
Note: This is only intended for manual deployment to Wago.io. With GitHub actions the token is supplied as a secret to the build process
This project has GitHub action profiles for different Devops related work such as linting and deployments to different providers. See .github folder for details.
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