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.
Could you add a sound for the AoE ground that the new M+ affix Blob boss (The Blood of the Corruptor) leaves? Here's the spell, I think: https://www.wowhead.com/spell=314565/defiled-ground
It really hurts and it's really hard to see. The effect is purple, and quite literally everything else in the Awakened "realm" is also purple. I've actually died to it when I played it first time, and I see people in pugs taking ticks from it all the time. Given the popularity of this addon, it'd help a lot if there was a warning for it here imo.
In reply to MikleTV:
Yes, I can! Thank you for the bug report!
Hey guys, for whatever reason this isn't showing up as an update in the Twitch client. It shows 4.5.2 as up to date, but then I get in-game notices saying I'm out of date, and the latest you're showing on the files page is 4.5.4. I've got auto-updates on, I've restarted Twitch, and I've got it set to alpha releases... tried all various of those and it still won't grab latest via Twitch client.
Would you consider adding a way to disable certain abilities? Even if it was just a slash command by the spell ID. Right now I just go into the lua and comment out what I don't want tracked but that of course goes away when there's an update.
In reply to theycallmez:
I can do that. The issue I have is that if I implement this, people who know things like the spell ID won't tell me the alert is buggy and I can't fix it (like the Valentine's Day event bug).
Which ones are you disabling? If you're taking them out, the alert is probably implemented wrong.
In reply to Zensunim:
It's mostly just an issue of laziness on my part :) I comment out Tectus' alert for Crystalline Barrage in GTFO_Spells_WOD. When is content considered "Trivial" by the addon? I solo WoD on 120s so I would assume the addon would say that's trivial.
In reply to theycallmez:
This is more of a "my bad" situation than you being lazy. Typically content is trivial after 2 xpacs (so WoD and earlier is trivial), however... Blizzard sneaks in abilities where the damage is % based on your HP and not a straight "X amount" or they did so much damage (near instant kills) that some of the "trivial" abilities are still very deadly. Mythic encounters are where I encountered this the most.
There's a built-in system that automatically ignores any damage alerts that hit you for less than 2% (default, can be changed in options) of your HP but this doesn't account for alerts that go off when you get a debuff applied instead of damage.
Normally I go back to the trivial content to test and farm it, but I've been admittedly a little lazy about doing it because I don't need anything from there right now. I'll run Highmaul this week so I can evaluate and fix it.
In reply to theycallmez:
I've updated the WOD content so it won't alert with annoying things so much. If there are any other bosses on old content that aren't respective the trivial settings, let me know.
Can you please change the "great worm's foul stench" to a less annoying sound in GTFO?
Same thing with the wrong perfume damage in the Valentine's day content.
The major raid damage sound is EXTREMELY intrusive, which is fine, that's the point of GTFO, but it should only be used for truly dangerous situations!
In reply to Carnitaas:
The perfume damage used to be deadly...not anymore though. I need to get rid of it for the holiday stuff.
And I'll change the great worm one too.
Should be fixed tonight!
In reply to Zensunim:
Thank you! Really appreciate it.
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