SpellActivationOverlay

General

Options Panel

Players who opted out to disable the game's spell alerts can choose to ask the question again. If you would close the dialog box by mistake and would like to answer the question

• open the Options Panel, either by going to Options > AddOns > SpellActivationOverlay, or by typing /sao
• check the combo box named "Detect conflicts with the game's spell alerts"

Classes

Hunter

New Spell Alert

• Focus Fire (Mists of Pandaria)

Monk

New Spell Alert

• Vital Mists

Updated Spell Alerts

• Blackout Kick is now only displayed right
• Tiger Palm is now green-ish and displayed left

Paladin

Updated Spell Alerts

• Infusion of Light now uses Daybreak visuals
• Daybreak now uses Sun-like visuals

Infusion of Light now matches the reference client. The Daybreak effect needed other visuals to avoid confusion with Infusion of Light.

Developer's Note: Historically, the game has been inconsistent between texture names and effects, and Paladin is one of the most affected classes by this issue. Let's hope these new visuals will not cause too much confusion among our dearest purple plate wearers.

Removed Glowing Buttons

• Hammer of Wrath
• Holy Shock, during Daybreak
• Divine Light, during Infusion of Light
• Holy Light, during Infusion of Light
• Holy Radiance, during Infusion of Light
• Avenger's Shield, during Grand Crusader

Developer's Note: These buttons are already glowing by the game client. When players unchecked such buttons in the addon's options panel, it was confusing because the buttons were still glowing even though the player asked explicitly not to. Since the addon cannot prevent the game client from glowing buttons, the wise choice is to simply remove these buttons from the addon.

Rogue

New Glowing Button

• Dispatch, when the target has less than 35% health

Shaman

New Glowing Button

• Lava Burst, as combat-only counter

Bug Fixes

Text from the lower-right box of the Options Panel could display characters incorrectly, usually as small rectangles. This affected the so-called non-ASCII characters, such as:

• letters with accents or other diacritics: á, ê, ñ, ç...
• non-Latin characters: д, й, 일, 文...

Unknown effect detection could sometimes display reports for effects that were actually known.

In very rare cases, glowing a button could trigger a Lua error. The cause is not known for sure, but the Lua error should no longer happen, and a more explicit warning will be reported instead. As always, make sure to report errors and warning so we can investigate. Thank you :)

Ghostbusters

A ghost overlay is an overlay that fades out, then reappears out of nowhere, and fades out again later. This section lists which ghosts have been busted.

Shaman

• Fulmination
• Lava Surge

Miscellaneous

All checkboxes are now translated at the bottom of the Options Panel.

Contributors

Shout-out to our amazing contributors

• Jumpsuitpally for sending feedback about Paladin and Monk
• Krablord for sending feedback about Rogue and Shaman
• Krablord and Amanthuul for hunting ghosts
• Bruni for reporting an issue that triggered false positive unknown effects
• omeletteman91, Adal4 and Yume for reporting unsupported effects
• Fractale for helping on resolving an unsupported effect

Thanks!