GTFO: Stop standing in fire!
Supported Versions: Retail, Classic
GTFO provides an audible alert when you're standing in something you're not supposed to be standing in. In some cases, you'll be warned before you start taking damage. This mod improves your situational awareness and is recommended for dungeon divers and raiders of all skill levels as even the most seasoned veteran sometimes needs a reminder to GTFO.
It's particularly useful for individuals that play with their spell graphics turned down as well as assisting with PvP when you can't tell who's casting the AOE.
Important Announcement: As with any new expansion or content patch, there may be alerts that are untested as well as encounter changes from Beta/PTR. Bug reports are highly appreciated!
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Features
- 4 distinct audible alerts for different types of damage
- High Alert - Dungeon/raid encounter AOE that you want to get out of it ASAP
- Low Alert - PvP and low damage AOE, use your best judgment whether or not to move
- Fail Alert - AOE you should have moved out of the way of, but it's too late (e.g. KZ void zone, Sindragosa bomb)
- Friendly Fire Alert - AOE radiating from a teammate's body, one of you needs to move
- Tuned for dungeons and raids in original vanilla WoW, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria
- Alert you before you start taking damage (when possible, in some cases)
- Alert you during vehicle fights when your vehicle is in danger (e.g. Malygos, Flame Leviathan)
- Tank and non-tank specific alerts
- Visual alerts available when used with Weak Auras or Power Auras Classic (optional)
- Statistical information of alerts when used with Recount or Skada (optional)
- GTFO-specific volume slider
- Small memory footprint and very little CPU usage
- Option to ignore alerts for trivial content
- Option to auto-unmute sounds if you play without sound on
Slash Commands
/gtfo - Help menu
/gtfo options - Set configuration options
/gtfo standby - Suspend/Resume addon
/gtfo version - Show version numbers for your party/raid
/gtfo test - Simulate a high damage alert
/gtfo test2 - Simulate a low damage alert
/gtfo test3 - Simulate a fail alert
/gtfo test4 - Simulate a friendly fire alert
Usage
Install and you're ready to go.
You can configure the mod by typing "/gtfo options" or by navigating to Options->Interface->AddOns->GTFO.
To use the "Play sounds when muted" option and still hear GTFO sounds, your "Master Volume" slider must be set to a value higher than 0%.
Weak Auras Integration
GTFO can be set up with Weak Auras to provide visual alerts in addition to (or in lieu of) the audible alerts.
- Install the Weak Auras addon
- Type "/wa" in game to bring up the Weak Auras menu
- Click "Texture", "Text", or "Icon"
- Click the "Trigger" tab
- Change the "Type" to "Event"
- Change the "Event" to "GTFO Alert"
- Check "Alert Type" and select a GTFO alert type
- Set a short number (like .1) in Duration
- Use the other configuration options to fine-tune your alert
Power Auras Integration
GTFO can be set up with Power Auras to provide visual alerts in addition to (or in lieu of) the audible alerts.
- Install the Power Auras Classic addon
- Type "/powa" in game to bring up the Power Auras menu
- Click "Page 1" to create a character-only alert or "Global 1" to create an account-wide alert
- Click "new" to create a new alert
- Change the dropdown value for "Activation By:" to "GTFO Alert"
- Select your alert type: High/Low/Fail/Friendly Fire
- Use the other configuration options to fine-tune your alert
Recount/Skada Integration
GTFO can be set up with Recount or Skada to provide detailed statistical information of alerts.
A word of caution: the damage amount displayed on GTFO Alerts may not be fully indicative of the total damage done, especially with fail alerts. For example: if you're hit by a tornado, the damage and fail alert from the tornado picking you up could be 5k, but the fall damage when you hit the ground afterwards is 100k. The amount recorded by Recount/Skada will be 5k.
Right now, the Eye of Corruption alert is on by default. I don't know if people will find this annoying or unnecessary though, so I need some feedback on it.
If you find it being simply annoying, you can turn off the alert in the settings under "Special Alerts" and uncheck "Eye of Corruption" and let me know in the comments that you found it annoying.
34 MILLION downloads!
I'm sorry but this has to be said. I installed this add-on believing that I could install it and be "good to go". It says it's useful for all skill levels. I've raided for years, surely I fit into that spectum, why not give it a shot?
Well it turns out this addon blares a fucking horn at you for the most benign things, most recently by getting fatigued in flight. Prompting me to write this scathing, angry review. Like seriously, why would anyone ever need to be concerned about fatigue in flight. It's ticks down for like, 5 minutes.
You also get obnoxious horn noises triggered by seemingly everything in a M+ even when you aren't in any kind of danger.
By the time I finished configuring it, I had disabled nearly all the obnoxious horns. Then I realized that having no obnoxious horns enabled is just as good as not having the addon installed, so I got rid of it immediately. I was going to get rid of it anyways because it blared a horn at me for a fucking fatigue warning in flight.
0/10.
In reply to n00bspanker:
You can turn off the alert for fatigue zones in the options. It only goes off once when the fatigue bar appears and doesn't alert you until you leave and re-enter a fatigue zone. This was added as a request from players, actually. Sometimes people would either alt-tab while flying somewhere or get distracted by a family member talking to them, and before they know it, they flew off the map resulting in a very expensive repair bill.
The M+ alerts going off when you're not in danger shouldn't be happening and specifics about this would be helpful so I can make improvements. The default setting is if you're losing more than 2% of your HP per tick. You can adjust the trivial alert slider in options to make it so it'll only alert you of things taking away 5%+ or as high as 10% of your HP...
I made changes to GTFO so if Twitch (or you) accidentally installs the wrong version (Classic on Retail or Retail on Classic), it will still work. The only thing that will be messed up is that GTFO will be classified as an "Out-Of-Date" addon in the WoW addon list.
Here lately in retail WoW GTFO has been giving me the message that there is a new version 4.50 and tells me to update. Anyone else having this issue?
In reply to hellrazor696:
This is probably because you got grouped with someone who installed the WoW Classic version of GTFO on Retail by mistake.
I'm going to be adding a fix that not only doesn't cause update version mis-match issues like this, but also warn someone when they installed the wrong version on the wrong client.
In reply to Zensunim:
thx! i was wondering why i can't get the 4.50 version. maybe you sould rename it to cx.xx and rx.xx for classic and retail?
but thx for the classic version *installing*
i get this in my chat each time i log since the latest Classic update :) ,
[GTFO] Duplicate spell Whirlwind from ID #15576
[GTFO] Duplicate spell Cleave from ID #15284
In reply to reaper666735:
and using the correct 4.50 classic version btw :p
In reply to reaper666735:
Thanks for the heads up! Will post a fix soon.
Twitch keeps downloading the classic version of this addon, for retail WoW....I noticed this afew days ago
In reply to KrysSeriken:
I tried to replicate this, but haven't been successful. It seems to download the correct versions for each. :( The website appears to be defaulting to WoW Retail instead of Classic as well.
In reply to KrysSeriken:
Mine has started doing this also, not just on GTFO but other addons that are also on classic.
In reply to goreunga:
Are you manually downloading or using the Twitch client?
In reply to Zensunim:
Hi Zensunim, I used the twitch client, I found if I deleted the all the effected addons through twitch, then deleted all the folders in wow, reinstalled them all again with the twitch client it fixed the problem for now, still not sure why it decided to keep changing them at first, even when I reloaded them they would be ok, refresh and it would swap them back to classic files.
hope that make sense to you and it helps you out, I am thinking it's more a twitch problem than an individual addon.
Regards.
465x GTFO\GTFO-4.49.1.lua:1090: GTFOSpellTooltip:SetHyperlink(): Unknown link type [C]: in function
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Got this playing classic
ATM triggering the popup asking for disabling addons due many errors.
Waiting for a fix in a future update.
In reply to juparan:
That might be related to another addon, I'm not aware of any errors being thrown by GTFO. How many other addons are you trying to run as well?
In reply to Zensunim:
I get the same error message with GTFO. A friend also.