Print a target name, health and approximate co-ordinates to general chat. Perfect for world bosses.
** Massive changes to Swarm **
Don't worry the original addon is still here but there is now a whole new side to it.
You can now add and remove targets to a list; each time you target a listed target it displays a Swarm button.
Green means the target is in range. Red is if the target is out of range.
The button has a cooldown to ensure no spam messages.
If you target yourself the button can be positioned to where you want it.
You can add any target to your list; player, rare, elites, pets, critters and any other NPC.
For those that want to show their support.
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Great addon! Can you let it stay on whatever scale % we last had it as though? Personally would like to see it go up to 300% instead of 150%. Having to rescale after every log in gets quite annoying. I also had to change some of the lua to have the button stay shown (it stays hidden after changing target) when swapping targets.
Also, wouldn't hurt to remove the interact distance as some targets run out of interact distance but are still targettable and would like to mark them as they're running.
In reply to equalsthree_dcolon:
Hi equalsthree_dcolon
Thanks for letting me know that the sizing was broken; I had uploaded a draft version rather than the release version :(
I have now updated Swarm to the release version.
I also increased the scale size to 300% as you requested.
The range issue is a bit of an issue.
Bliz changed the way X and Y coordinates work in a way that prevents addons getting the location of the target itself; what I had to do was use the player X and Y location instead.
Due to this change, the range check needs to be there to ensure the player location is closer to the target location.
If the target keeps running once it is targeted you can still follow the skull and when the chat cooldown expires you can tap again to post your current X and Y location.
Thanks for your post, I love getting feedback from my users :)
In reply to Walkerbo:
Thanks for the fix!! I also lowered the cooldown from 30 seconds to 0.1 seconds incase i need to change a target quickly or spam raid chat for PVP.
In reply to equalsthree_dcolon:
Hi equalsthree_dcolon
Not a problem.
The cooldown is there as chat is throttled by bliz; if you post to general chat too quickly you will get a "you must wait to post again" message.
I do not know if chat in raid, dungeon and/or pvp instances so the cooldown may not be an issue.
I will test out in instances to see if it is not an issue I will add an option to turn off cooldown in instances.
Cheers