Original Addon: GladiatorlosSA This addon has been updated from Legion and beyond with permission from zuhligan of the previous project.
PLEASE UNINSTALL THE ORIGINAL GLADIATORLOSSA ADDON. GSA2 IS A SEPARATE ADDON, NOT AN EXTENSION. YOU WILL HAVE PROBLEMS IF YOU RUN BOTH.
Introduction
GladiatorlosSA is an addon created for the purpose of announcing the usage of crucial abilities cast by your opponents. No longer will you have to strain your ears specifically listening for the subtle swish of a rogue's kick, nor will you be oblivious to invisible abilities such as a monk's Revival. While tracking ability cooldowns is beyond the scope of this addon, you can stay fully informed about the events that are occurring right now to allow for quick reactionary play. Some incredibly powerful cooldowns, such as Incarnation, support alerts for both their application and their expiration!
GSA2 is an unofficial update of the original addon of the same name, updated to support the myriad of class changes that came with Legion, and now beyond! Although many crucial abilities have been added, no doubt more will continue to be added and the existing list further iterated upon as we discover what is important enough to be worth vocalized and as abilities get changed in the patches to come. Given that I have been playing since Vanilla with no signs of quitting, I will keep this addon up-to-date to the best of my ability in the foreseeable future, including into the expansions beyond!
You can reach the options by opening the Interface menu, or you can simply type /gsa. Once you click the "Load Menus" button, a + will appear beside the GladiatorlosSA entry on the addon menu, where you can access the options.
Feature Listing
- Alerts major and sometimes invisible abilities, from Kicks to Ice Blocks and beyond! All abilities can be toggled via the options menu.
- Can call out the class that triggered their PvP trinkets in arenas!
- Generic "Big Heal", "Resurrection", "Dispel", "Purge", and major Crowd Control "success" alerts!
- Alerts "Drinking"! No longer will you be unaware that the healer with terrible mana conservation skills just drank their way to victory!
- Option for alerts to be exclusive to your focus and target! (Off by default)
- Alerts for when you or an ally successfully interrupts an ability!
- Throttle options to prevent the addon from becoming too noisy.
- Easily add custom abilities and sounds!
Localization
GladiatorlosSA2 is primarily designed for enUS. String and voice translations are left to other members of the community. Below is a list of localizations and the version which they were designed for. Out-of-date versions below should still function as normal, but may be missing sounds.
- All known translations are too far out of date to be supported, currently.
Volume Control
By default, GSA2 uses the Master Sound Channel, which very few (if any) default sounds are specifically hooked into. When you adjust the volume of GSA2, you modify the volume of the entire client - your Sound, Dialog, Ambience, and Music sliders will all need to be adjusted accordingly. You may change the sound channel in the options, however note that you are then sharing a channel with other in-game sounds and may not be ideal.
There is a simple way to modify GSA2 sound files themselves, however bear in mind that these changes may be overwritten with every update, depending on your method of updating. If you do this, it is recommended that all future updates are manual to prevent your changes from being reverted, or that you back up the folder. Remember that sounds may be added or replaced in future versions, so you will need to do the process occasionally to keep your voice volume normalized.
Guide to Changing GSA2 Voice Files (Thanks, bluesh34!)
Lower the volume through use of external programs, such as Audacity.
For Audacity:
- Go in File -> 'Edit Chains then click on Add in the bottom left of the window and enter a name for the script. (Example: AmplifyDown)
- Click on Insert in the bottom of the screen and choose Amplify in the list with a double click.
- Click on Edit Parameters then use the vertical/horizontal slider to amplify the dB by Negative (for exemple -5 is 50% less, so don't be loud on it) then click on OK twice to close the Amplify window.
- Click on Insert in the bottom of the screen and choose ExportOgg in the list with a Double Click.
- Click on OK to validate and close the Chains window.
With this script, you can apply it to all of the files, so:
- Go in File -> Apply Chain then select our script (AmplifyDown in my example) then click on Apply to Files....
- Look for the GSA2 voice pack folder (../Interface/AddOns/GladiatorlosSA2/Voice_enUS/.. by default), select all files by pressing Ctrl+A then click Open and the batch script will be applied on all the files within the specified folder.
- You can find your new files in a new folder named Cleaned
- Replace the original files with the newly modified file
My other addons:
Silvershard Map Fix - Fixes the longstanding bug with the Battlefield Map (Shift+M) in Silvershard Mines where the carts would not display their controlling faction correctly.
Camp Twacker - Appends Return to Camp location info in the spell's tooltip for the Vulpera Make Camp and Return to Camp racials!
Please direct all feedback, questions, and comments to this project's Curseforge Page.
Hi everyone, thanks for the heads up regarding the issues for 3v3. I haven't been able to queue arenas in a while and was unaware there was any kind of issue going on.
I can't promise a time for a fix as I have not noticed any issues in my limited time playing, but I will keep a sharp eye out and work on a fix as soon as I can identify what the issue is. In the meantime, I sincerely apologize for the problems.
please fix add on, its broken for 3v3. freezes alot. tried reinstalling wow and add ons etc, nothing fixes it.
Hi nice addon,I have a problem, on bg addon works OK all the time (the voice says many spells without stopping and laggin), but in the arena, especially 3v3, it starts to freeze a LOT, what could it be?
Anyone who has the russian installation of retail as of the latest mini patch 2 days ago, GSA stops working. Could you please look into this and make an update?
any chance of getting just the sound files that pertain to TBC without retail included? Both releases include the same sound packs.
how can we change it to say death coil instead of mortal coil (TBC)
anyone know how to add natures swiftness if its not in options?
Anyone have any idea why I can make new profiles, but they won't save any of the settings? It even shows the new profile in the txt file in saved variables but doesn't populate the list for the profile. So basically it won't let me make anything besides my original profile I made a while ago. Any help is greatly appreciated!
In reply to Sunni011:
I have the same issue someone know a solution?
In reply to belaram_19:
I never found a solution. Basically you're stuck with one profile on any battlenet it seems. I even tried messing around in saved variables to just make the profiles via txt files so its probably something to do with the addon itself...I doubt many people are really making multiple profiles tbh, so they rarely run into this issue. For me, I was trying to use Losa for arena (one profile) and then make a profile for keystones for friendly buttons(profile two) and I found a work around...I'm using losa for pvp, vocal raid assist for pve. If your issue is similar id recommend it, but for two profiles in losa I couldn't fix it.
Hello, would anyone be able to assist in making this addon not be heard through a twitch stream? I know its a bit complicated as GladdySA is attached to wows master volume, but essentially I would like for only my wow game sound to be heard but not GladdySA, thank you so much in advance for anyone that can help!
In reply to JoTheJoe:
Little late reply, but there should be a way. So on the general menue for lossa there is an "output" or "change output". If you change it to something like SFX or another toggle that isn't master, and then turn that off in your main sound menu, it should do exactly what you want. Let me know if it works please!
Edit: ok i just realized that makes no sense...I'm not super familiar with twitch but if you use obs or something that can split wow's sound streams out separtely, and do this, and then disable that for stream it would work but I'm not sure if OBS and things get wow's audio in multiple streams. If it does, this will work..youll just set it to someting like, say you play with sfx on...set it to output sfx, change in OBS to not stream sfx...but I'm not sure if OBS and streamelements or whatever ppl are using work that way. If they don't split wow's sound out in multiple streams then I do not think there is a way. If it does, this should work fine.
This addon doesn't work in duel.arena,world and bg are ok
I play retail and gsa is the latest version
Guys I am trying to setup my Tournament Realm characters and just realised now. It is not saving profiles, if I switch between them so I lost all my settings multiple times now while testing. Also if I change realm not all profiles are listed (which is not relevant while profiles are not even working.) Feel free to reach out to my disc if you need more details Pulsing#6045
Updated BC to GSA2_TBC-1.2 which should finally implement PvP trinket alerts and fix Drinking to only alert when cast by an enemy,
Please give this a try and let me know if these changes don't work or if anything else broke. Thanks!
In reply to xGrit:
can u change mortal coil to say death coil or explain how to do it??
Hi, mine keeps announcing necro warrior Conqueror's Banner covenant ability which i cant find from settings at all to disable it, I would like to hear only things that I set myself.
Is there a way of disabling Conqueror's Banner somehow?
In reply to neuvoteuvo:
Fixed in the next version, thank you!
Hi, will you be hosting this addon on another page like wowinterface, wago, or github so that we can continue to use this addon? Since Overwolf now requires us to use their spyware to update addons from curse, this isn't a feasible place to download addons from anymore.
In reply to Hobbes0773:
It's already on GitHub, check the Source link at the top of the page.
I won't be posting it anywhere else, sorry.