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
Please direct all feedback, questions, and comments to this project's Curseforge Page.
Fair point, but personally I have a big interest in GLSA2 for Classic as there might be ways to hide certain spell animations with clever use of game mechanics. For example, a druid can use Noggerfogger to hide his shape shifting forms so a sound alert would be great to know when he shifts in what exact form. I just like sound alerts more than visual ones.
Thorns from Druid isn't work anymore. Hope for soon fix !
Id like to comment that the addon has not been calling out THORNS when the enemy team is using it. I have reinstalled and deleted all files and still have the issue.
In reply to MatchlessChivalry:
Thank you, this is fixed in B12.
B11 is up for approval, and should fix all incidents of "Invalid fileDataID" error while in combat. It also brings back a few alerts that we've been missing, such as Cenarion Ward, Faerie Swarm, Psychic Horror, and Tremor Totem!
NOTE: You will continue to get the "Invalid fileDataID" error when changing some of GSA2's settings. This is due to how option playback was originally coded, in a time before trying to call invalid file names resulted in an error. I'll fix this eventually, but for now you can safely ignore the error and go about your business, your settings will save.
Im getting an lua error after updating
In reply to Uputz:
Will look into it. I suspect I know what the problem is so it shouldn't be too difficult to fix - but I probably won't have a chance to fix and test it for a couple days.
Anyone know if this works with wow classic?
In reply to natesob:
The mod will probably work in Classic, depending on what they do to the combat log. For the most part Classic is running on the modern-day API, with some changes.
SpellIDs might be different though, and obviously and "new" abilities that are not currently supported will be missing.
Really though, Classic wasn't exactly very complicated. As much as people like to rag on modern-day class design, there's almost nothing in Vanilla you would need GSA for. It didn't even have arenas and battlegrounds won't be out at first. I don't have any intention of supporting GSA for Classic myself. If someone did most of the heavy-lifting to make a Classic compatible GSA, I'd happily integrate it though.
In reply to xGrit:
Damn I was really hoping that this would get updated for classic right away..
This is not true at all. GSA is an absolute god-tier addon even in vanilla and it has been one of the most common addon for pvpers on private servers - there's a version of GSA for 1.12 called Rank14losSA.
In vanilla you can't track enemy cooldowns and visually see what the enemy does as easily as in retail wow (bfa). Being able to hear the enemy use their pvp trinkets, reflector trinket, interrupts, fear ward, cold snap, prep etc. etc. is a HUGE game changer!
Please do not think that your work would be wasted if you were to update this to Classic, it is a very much needed addon, trust me!
EDIT: Keep in mind that maintaining addons for classic probably wont require so much. Classic will forever stay in 1.13.X and I think it's very unlikely that blizz will make any major changes that would affect addons.
In reply to 1Killerzombie:
Fair points.
A lot of it does depend on what the API looks like, I'm not rewriting the addon from the ground up if they decide to break everything. Fortunately we're supposed to be running on a very similar version of the current API so it probably will literally be almost exclusively just fixing spell IDs, and something like that I'm fine doing - just probably not literally Day 1.
While I don't really agree that a GSA-style mod is necessary in an overly simplistic game that doesn't even have arenas, I may be underestimating Classic at least a little bit. The main hurdle I'm not willing to go out of my way to address is the same one plaguing current GSA: recording the sounds. I don't know off the top of my head what abilities are worth alerting in Classic that we don't already have today aside from recent returns like Tremor, but I can't even get anyone committed to doing any sort of voice-recording or even TTS recording despite multiple offerings. If I could find a reliable way to get some TTS done without spending money I don't have, I wouldn't mind too much, but that search has never gone too well hence why BfA GSA is still missing numerous alerts.
So I suppose I'll change my stance - I'll probably do a GSA for Classic , but it won't be a Day-1 priority (honor system won't be out then anyway), and it's a big ? as to what the deal is with new VO.
I definitely won't if there's a lot I have to rewrite though. I have several other programming tasks that keep me occupied from academic to modding and even an indie RPG project, and GSA's code is a disaster at this point. I took over someone else's work which was already starting to get a bit messy, and was using it as a learning experience into programming so my own additions are... not that great. (It's honestly embarrassing knowing people are going through the mod's code because it's so sloppy. I've learned so much since then.)
In reply to xGrit:
Thanks a lot for reconsidering this! I understand why you're skeptical about this and I understand that developing addons is not as easy as it may sound. But I just want you to know that a lot of people, including myself, would be grateful for having this addon in Classic! With that said, it's totally fine if the addon isn't there right with the launch of Classic. Even though it is really nice to have in world PvP it doesn't matter too much in the first few months where people are still leveling and stuff. However later on, along with the release of battlegrounds, that's when GSA really starts to shine :-)
Regarding the recording of sounds and what abilities that are worth alerting, I'd suggest that you take a look at the Rank14LosSA: https://github.com/Fiskehatt/Rank14losSA
It has more or less all the sounds that is needed, and in case that a sound is missing I guess you could probably find it in the older version of the original GSE addon. However throughout my time of using the Rank14LosSa I've never stumbled across an worthy ability that the addon didn't take account for.
Anyway, if there's anything I can help with to make this addon happen I'd be happy to do that. Once again, even though its still just a 'maybe' I really appreciate that you at least consider it now.
Cheers!
What's with the old timey bell sound? I have no idea what this is and it's kind of annoying.
In reply to solidus0079:
It's Gladiator's Maledict.
In reply to NorktheOrc:
Gotcha, right on thanks
B9 posted to fix a typo that broke Buff Applied abilities that I noticed right after B8 got published.
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If you were one of the like 100 people that downloaded B8, please update to B9 or you won't have a good time.
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Really sorry about that.
GSA2_B8 was just posted and approved. It contains support for Gladiator's Maledict finally, now that there is an accurate way to track the target of the debuff.
I had to fix up some old weakaura's myself when they changed this and I found the new way is to use "AuraUtil.FindAuraByName". Just google that and you should be good to go.
In reply to Lorthadin1667:
Thank you! This looks to be exactly what I was looking for.
Posting a fix shortly. Bear in mind that I don't have time to actually test this in an arena environment so if it isn't working, let me know. Seemed to test fine out in the world before I added arena checks, at least.
can u add gladiator maledict the the addon?