Omen Threat Meter
| Last Update: | July 8, 2008 (1 month ago) |
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| Category: | Raids & Encounters |
| Tags: | meter, omen, threat, threatmeter, and wow |
| Project Manager: | Antiarc |
| Current Version: | Omen Threat Meter r75456.8 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.2) |
| Downloads Today: | 3,707 |
| Downloads Total: | 4,811,718 |
| Favorites: | 10,740 |
| Comments: | 556 |
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| Created On: | Sept. 9, 2007 |
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- About Omen Threat Meter
Omen is a threat meter. Basically, enemies in WoW decide who to attack by deciding who is the most threatening based on the abilities you use. What Omen attempts to do is provide reasonably accurate estimates of your group's relative threat level on individual enemies, so that you can see when you're in danger of pulling aggro (or, if you're next on the snack list if your tank bites it). This info is usually only critical in raids, where only tanks can survive aggro, but it's useful for any multi-player situation.
Omen is an interface for the Threat-2.0 library, and comed bundled with it.
The latest updates are always available at files.wowace.com, or through the WowAceUpdater.
- Do other people need Omen installed for it to work?
Short answer: yes
Long answer: kinda
To get fully accurate data, your groupmates must have Threat-2.0 (or an addon that uses it) installed and running. Any addon that uses Threat-2.0 will satisfy this requirement and will provide full and accurate threat data to Omen.
If you or your groupmates have any of these addons installed, or have Threat-2.0 installed as a standalone, then they are capable of sending and receiving threat data.
Please note that unlike Threat-1.0, Threat-2.0 DOES NOT have KLH Threat Meter interoperability.
- Do I need to install Threat-2.0 to use Omen?
No. Threat-2.0 comes bundled with Omen as an embedded library. You only need to install Threat-2.0 if you want to provide your group with threat information without a GUI. As a user, you can think of Threat-2.0 as a stripped down tank version of Omen.
- How does Omen handle multiple targets with the same name?
Joyous news! Thanks to upgrades Blizzard made in 2.4, Omen can now tell every mob apart. You should have accurate threat information for every mob you engage, regardless of its name.
- What else has changed?
- Omen has a number of display modes now. You have:
- The "Single Target" mode. This is your standard threat meter mode.
- The "AOE" mode. This shows your relative threat on all targets you are in combat with. Useful for seeing your relative threat on multiple targets.
- The "Overview" mode. Shows people who are currently high on threat on any enemy you're in combat with.
- The "Healer/Tank" mode. Shows each of your tanks' targets (pulled from oRA2 or the Blizzard tank settings) and their threat lists.
- Single-bar customization is not in yet. This is coming.
- Pullout bars are not implemented yet. This is coming.
- Omen has a number of display modes now. You have:
- Where do a report a bug?
(todo, for now, use the message board here, the wowace forums or #wowace on irc.freenode.net)
- Where do I make a feature request?
(todo, for now, use the message board here, the wowace forums or #wowace on irc.freenode.net)
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Pericles said@dcwarpath
Sorry you are just plain wrong. Wowace.com is where a vast number of addon authors maintain their addons. IT IS NOT JUST A BETA SITE.
The key point is that using WowAceUpdater from http://www.wowace.com/wiki/WowAceUpdater you can update not just your addons but very very importantly the embeded libraries. What causes most problems is people downloading out of date versions from sites like Curse where the addons are not maintained. These old old versions on Curse have out of date libraries.
What happens is you can have something stable and working then install a completely different addon that uses the same library and suddenly things break. As your old version of Omen from Curse relied on the library that it shipped with. Your new addon loads a different version and suddenly Omen breaks.
If you use WowAceUpdater you get the very latests fixes and ALL your acemod libraries are updated to the latest versions. Authors tend to be very quick to update addons and so you can find that a vast number of problems are fixed very very quickly.
Anyway the basic point is use WowAceUpdater to update your addons from the OFFICIAL site of wowace addons ie: wowace.com, don't rely on old out of date versions of addons and libraries from Curse.
If you like doing things manually you can download the files from http://files.wowace.com
You can see the history of all versions of an addon at http://files.wowace.com/AddonName
The latest version of any addon is always at http://files.wowace.com/AddonName/AddonName.zip
Naturally substitute the name of the addon for AddonName eg:
http://files.wowace.com/Omen/Omen.zip for Omen.
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MattB180 saidyeeeaa wtfs up it aint lettin me install via curse client its sayin i need psyn or somethin like that..
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yamamoto114 saidAs a Hunter, I can't tell you how bloody annoying the soup cooking noise is and how often it occurs during solo PvP. I also hate the screen flash being RED of all colors, it interferes with the default screen flash. Please make it yellow or something...
Seriously though! SOUP COOKING NOISE! It's loud, interferes with my music, and happens 5 times every 10 seconds!
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Pericles said@yamamoto114
If you go into the options, under single mode from memory. There is an option to disable the aggro pull sound.
The reason you are getting the sound of course is that you are pulling aggro from your pet.
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Jaxsur saidI couldn't agree more. I have both a warlock and a hunter, and it's so annoying that I just plain don't use Omen unless I'm grouping. Which is too bad, because I find the addon very useful for soloing with my pet, I just don't want my ears blasted out every time I get a little bit of aggro. FIX THIS! I'll pay you money if you put in a feature to turn off the noise, it's that important to me. Is that enough incentive?
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Pericles saidThere is an option in there to disable the sound.
The first version that added the sound also included the option to turn it off so you have ALWAYS been able to disable it. Just look in the options menu - under single mode if memory serves.
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jp_kopaka saidHow do you turn off the screen flash? I can't find the setting in the options......
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cyrusn01 saidIs there a way to import sounds for your warnings?
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Lightz39 saidYes, curse is normally for the current "stable" or non-beta version. However if people do not download from wowace and test the addons then how will they improve?
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Pericles saidNope these days is Curse is "oh well suppose I better stick a version on Curse as well". It used to be you visited Curse and there were dozens of updated addons a day now days go by with only 1 or 2 updates. Curse is where addon authors update because some people don't know where else to look.
Wowace.com is where addons are usually maintained these days. When Blizzard releases a patch addon authors rapidly update their addon to fix things Blizzard broke. People that still rely on Curse will have broken addons potentially for months after everone else has got fixed versions from wowace.com.
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Filinn saidHaving the exact same problem as AspectX. Anyone ever found a solution to that?
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Bareno saidhttp://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8557249604&sid=2000
On the beta servers, the new 8719 there is an new BUILT IN THREAT METER! From the link above..
select(5, UnitDetailedThreatSituation("party1", "target"))
We (addon authors) have FULL THREAT INFORMATION.
YAY! No more guessing!
(also more information @ Mmo-champion.com .
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dcwarpath saidI disagree. Our guild upgraded to OMEN 75456.8 and tried to raid BT.
All members were on the same version. We experienced many issues with threat no displaying correctly during the Gurtogg fight (Among others)
After deleting this version and going back to 72207.1 threat showed up correctly.
WOWACE is not for stable builds. If you speak to the developer of the add on he will tell you the same thing. Once upon a time Curse only published the version approved by the developer. Something has changed....
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hymntastic saidwhere can i find OMEn?
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Lightz39 saidAt dcwarpath...the version at Wowace is as stable as it gets. Haven't had a single problem with it.
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AspectX saidOk, have tried the new version from wowace, on the last post information, went back to 72207.1
Still having the exact same problem I was with the other versions...
AddOns at character select says the mod is installed... Khaos says the mod is installed in-game... however, there is no minimap icon (yes I have moved all the others to see if its hiding behind one and no omen icon)... and ALL omen commands such as /omen toggle etc return the exact same invalid command text of :
Type /help for a listing of a few commands.
Is there an author or someone watching this post forum?!?!? I have talked with countless others in game, they dont seem to be having this problem, I have completely wiped the WTF, Cache, and Interface folders, and completely reinstalled, exact same issues... HELP! Loved this mod, and its commonly used by most of my server for end game raiding.... Any help at all regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated...
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dcwarpath saidPLEASE STOP UPDATING CURSE WITH VERSIONS FROM WOWACE.com !!!!
WoWAce is a Beta site used for developers to test their add ons.
Although it is ok to do this with some add ons, OMEN is more complicated.
The author was publishing only STABLE versions on curse. Someone has changed that.
I would ask that the person who is updating to WOWACE please stop doing this unless the author of this add approves the build as stable.
The last STABLE version is Omen Threat Meter r72207.1
Please have ALL your guild members install this version and you will be very happy with this add on.
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Lightz39 saidhttp://files.wowace.com/Omen/Omen-r79015.zip
Newest version of Omen from Wowace
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Lightz39 saidSorry, that was the best I had. I'm new to Omen.
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AspectX saidJust tried it, same result :( Any other suggestions perhaps?