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:
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,
This addon is really great but i have some problems. While it perfroms overwhelmingly well in RBG's it doesnt work for me in Arenas (yes i have checked mod on in arenas) I tried turning on/off different settings, debuffing, reinstalling and many different things. It still works in RBGS, doesnt in arenas.
Plx help
In reply to zarufa:
Do you get any lua errors in arenas? You might have them disabled, if so or you aren't sure, please type: /console scriptErrors 1
and then queue into an arena and see if anything pops up during it.
If nothing happens, you should try deleting the SavedVariables for GSA2 by going to ...\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\(Youraccountname)\SavedVariables\ and deleting GladiatorlosSA2.lua and GladiatorlosSA2.bak while the game is completely closed. It's possible your uninstalls/reinstalls did not correctly reset this file, which might be causing some issues.
If neither of those provide any insight or solve the problem, let me know and we can look into this further!
Is anyone still maintaining this add on or answering questions?
NO MATTER WHAT I CHECK THE BUFF DOWN REFUSES TO TURN OFF
In reply to Agincourt1:
There was a typo in the logic. It's fixed for the next version which I will be posting to Curse shortly.
As for your other post, it has been less than 2 weeks since I was last active here. Yes, the addon is still being maintained, but I do not currently have an active subscription so I am only checking back periodically to fix issues that slipped through the cracks such as this one.
Really great add-on Thank you. Is there any way for me to make the sound of the callouts louder? I can not hear them over the sound of combat.
In reply to FirstTimeLongTime69:
Sound alerts play directly into the Master sound channel, which almost none of the actual game sounds play through. You can increase the Master volume and decrease all of the other sliders proportionately, but note that this will also turn up the volume on other addon noises as well.
Outside of that, your best bet is going to be to manually increase the volume on all the files yourself. If you're crazy enough to do this, I recommend backing them up so they aren't lost after an update.
Hey there,
Thanks for this great addon!
I'm getting a voice alert for Primordial Wave in arenas, though I can't see the option anywhere to uncheck it. Any advice?
It would also be awesome to add Hunter's Trueshot and Double Tap to track their new burst a bit!
Thanks!
In reply to balanceplay:
Good catch on Primordial Wave. Fixed its missing option for the next version.
Not sure what happened to Trueshot, but that will also be fixed in the next version. It should still be calling out as "Trueshot" for the other hunter specs' major CDs (to make it easier to understand that hunter CDs = scary), but now the ACTUAL Trueshot for Marksman should work as expected. Another good catch, I missed this too.
...And Double Tap will also be in the next version!
Thank you for pointing out so many of my mistakes, lol
Hey,
would it be possible to also add options to alert when teammates land CCs on enemies? It would help tremendously when having to setup cross CCs in no-comm pugs.
Or maybe it already has that option and I am unable to find it?
I think I'll have to resort to self made Weak auras for now.
In reply to wuzzled:
I've considered it. It's something I might do eventually, but it's not a priority for me currently, sorry!
In reply to xGrit:
no worries :) If it's the back of your mind or somewhere on a (maybe) todo list it's fine.
I'm not one to demand things like that. ^^
hi, can please add warlock talent spells Dark Soul:Misery and Dark Soul: Instability
In reply to vejpl:
Both of these are already in.
In reply to xGrit:
Hi, where is it? I cannot find either of them in buff up, I can only find one of them in buff down. Am I missing something?
In reply to supababam:
They both use the same Dark Soul setting in the options panel but will alert for either Dark Soul cast.
There really isn't a reason to track and call them out separately. Aside from which stat they provide, they're the exact same ability and you are going to play around or against them the same.
That said, investigating this did reveal to me that the option for these abilities is incorrectly listed as Soul Harvest. I'll fix that in the next release, but the setting for "Soul Harvest" in Buff Applied and "Dark Soul: Instability" in Buff Down does correctly function for both versions of Dark Soul. Sorry for the confusion.
In reply to xGrit:
Ahhh, I got it now, I feel safer against warlocks now, thanks for clarifying, love your addon! Thank you for your work!
In reply to xGrit:
They are not in, like he said only one of them in debuff
In reply to TV_Wheels:
They both use the same Dark Soul setting in the options panel but will alert for either Dark Soul cast.
There really isn't a reason to track and call them out separately. Aside from which stat they provide, they're the exact same ability and you are going to play around or against them the same.
That said, investigating this did reveal to me that the option for these abilities is incorrectly listed as Soul Harvest. I'll fix that in the next release, but the setting for "Soul Harvest" in Buff Applied and "Dark Soul: Instability" in Buff Down does correctly function for both versions of Dark Soul. Sorry for the confusion.
Hi, I changed a sound from colossusSmash
from: Super Smash
to: Warbreaker (since fury is not pvp viable and every warrior is using only warbringer in pvp)
colossusSmash
if you would be so kind to implement it in future versions :)