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.
REGARDING CLASSIC WOW
I have no interest whatsoever in Classic WoW, and even less in participating in PvP in what was easily one of the least fun, least balanced, least strategic eras the game had ever seen. Not only that, but there won't be arenas at all - which is the main reason why this addon exists.
From what I have been told, there are a few changes to the API that require more than a handful of Spell ID changes to fix. Given that WoW is no longer a priority and Classic WoW even less so, I have no intention of creating a version to support Classic WoW in the foreseeable future.
I have been informed that there are some people working on a port to Classic, which I am in full support of and have offered some assistance. I will provide links to alternatives as I am made aware of them.
If things change, I will let you know.
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.
Hi man, so is this version working on german client? it doesnt matter if the voice is in english.
Cause i had so many problems to get gsa original version getting to work for me..
Greetings.
In reply to Raop:
You'll have to test it yourself, unfortunately I have no idea. I haven't changed anything that should affect other languages as far as I know, but translations are likely broken or in English. Voice is definitely in English.
Hi, firstly thank you for the addon!
I keep getting the alert "Feint down" but I don't have this ability checked for alert. In fact, it doesn't even appear under rogue's list of abilities.
Anyone else having the same issue? I've checked all the alerts I enabled and it's not there!
In reply to fjban:
Whoops!
Sorry, Feint and Feint Down were added in almost literally last minute before I uploaded the build. Looks like I forgot to add in the options for them.
Will post a fix shortly.
Hey, you might think this and the other about Classic but maybe you could look past your personal feelings and help out a few million people in need of a Classic version of this AddOn. Thanks in advance for your consideration <3
:)
Would really love a port for Classic!
Yo ! This is the most important addon for me, can you please update this addon for classic wow :)
thx
Hello! In the addon when you hover over abilities there is no description of them. How to fix?
In reply to Noxvius:
In the settings?
This was a bug that appeared I think in 8.0, and I never got around to looking at how to fix it. It should contain most of the information, but lacking certain details such as damage values and cooldown durations.
EDIT 9/7/2019: I was wrong, I hadn't actually looked at GSA2's options after 8.2. Something broke, will look into it, but no ETA.
Unfortunately, Blizzard's neglectful approach toward PvP this expansion coupled with numerous decisions across the game that killed any enjoyment I've derived out of it, I haven't been subscribed for about a month. It is very unlikely I will return at least until 9.0, but even then that seems increasingly unlikely as playing other games, and creating my own, have taken precedence. Beyond this, the current team has destroyed my faith and trust in them with the past three expansions, especially Battle for Azeroth, and I've grown tired of ridiculously low expectations somehow still being too high of a bar to pass. Most of what has kept me playing since Warlords is my circle of friends, but they've thrown in the towel too, and I'm not interested in looking for new PvP circles and raid guilds in a game I only barely enjoy.
I have created a GitHub repository which should now be linked somewhere on this page, and I will continue to keep an eye on DMs, comments on this page, and any pull requests that get made on GitHub for the foreseeable future.
GSA2 is not dead, but it's basically in maintenance mode until Blizzard wins me over, or someone else takes over full-time development.
I still don't have any interest in Classic and so the Classic version remains exceptionally low priority for me. As mentioned before, if someone does the dirty work of creating a Classic version, I would happily implement a Classic branch. If I do end up playing it, I will end up making a Classic version myself. If it turns out that the mod is fully functional and I only need to update the spell IDs though, I'll do that regardless of whether or not I play.
EDIT 9/7/2019: Despite what I said, I guess I'm back at least casually. We'll see what happens.
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.