Bigwigs, Deadly Boss Mods, AVR, AVR Encounters, Ora2

Bigwigs, Deadly Boss Mods, AVR, AVR Encounters, Ora2 are all current raiding mods. Lets take a quick look at them.

 

Bigwigs Mod:

Description from Author:

BigWigs is a boss alert mod. It consists of many individual "boss modules", mini addons that are designed to trigger alert messages and timer bars for one specific raid boss each. Modules are activated when you target or mouseover a Boss, or if any other BigWigs use in your raid does. In most cases only one module will be running at any given time.

Available from:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/big-wigs.aspx

 

Deadly Boss Mods:

Description from Author:

  • Boss mods for all raid bosses
  • Colored raid warnings (players will be colored according to their class) with icons - so you will know what's going on without even reading the message
  • Auto-respond during boss fights. DBM will inform anyone who whispers you during a boss fight that you are busy. These messages contain the name and health of the boss as well as the raid's status
  • HealthFrame: you can enable a simple frame that shows a health bar for all active bosses. This is enabled by default for multi-mob bosses like Four Horsemen
  • Bars can be enlarged with decent effects when they are about to expire
  • Crash recovery: you had a disconnect or crash during a boss fight? No problem for DBM! It will request the timer and combat status information from other DBM users in your raid group and you get your timers back
  • Synchronization system for accurate timers
  • No dependencies, no embedded libraries (except for the optional LibDataBroker plugin that embeds LibDataBroker)
  • Modular design - all boss mods are plugins and can be exchanged, removed or updated separately
  • Load on demand - all boss mods are separate AddOns and they will be loaded when they are needed. So they don't use memory or cpu until you enter the corresponding instance
  • Efficient code: DBM uses less than 250 kb memory and the cpu usage is also very low
  • Special effects like the screen flash effect, huge warning messages and sounds will draw your attention to critical events
  • Bars can change their color over time and flash before they expire
  • There are many bar designs to choose from, all designs are are customizable: you can change the color, size, icon position etc.
  • Support for SharedMedia, so you can use any texture for your bars
  • Option to create custom timers, so-called "Pizza Timers" for your pizza or whatever you prefer to eat while raiding. You can also send those timers to your raid group
  • Powerful object-oriented API - you can use it to write your own boss mods!

Available from:

http://www.deadlybossmods.com/

 

AVR Mod:

AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) allows you to draw and add lines, circles and other markings on the 3D world itself. All markings may also be shared with others. Suitable for example to mark locations when explaining raid tactics. These marks can even be left visible for the fight itself.

Other things you can do with AVR:

  • Draw range circles around you or someone else at any range
  • Clearly mark players close to you
  • Mark any location relative to player position and rotation, for example mage blink landing spot
  • Measure distances
  • Boss encounter warnings (using a separate addon)

Available from:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/avr.aspx

Get in now and use it while you can. Blizzard have announced that in 3.5.0 it will disable a part of its API that will stop this mod from working. It's pretty amazing though using it in boss encounters. Makes the many hard modes quite trivial.

 

AVR-Encounters Mod:

Description from Author:

AVR Encounters (AVRE) is a boss mod agnostic add-on that integrates with AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) to provide visual effects in 3D that highlight various boss mechanics.

Available from:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/avr-encounters.aspx

 

Ora2 Mod:

A CT_RaidAssist alternative.

Available from:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/ora2.aspx

This is the raid assist mod that our guild uses. The main thing it does is lets you have tank boxes and raid cool downs.

 

Most people usually pick one boss mod or another though there are some that use both. If you do, you'll have to go in and turn off functions so you don't get overwhealmed.

 

 

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