Showing posts with label PowerAuras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PowerAuras. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Power Auras: Eclipse ICD Tracking!

So I hadn't really been questing to figure this out, since I rarely find myself in the situation where enough time has passed for me to consider switching which type of Eclipse that I was trying to proc, but I know it is considered one of the shortcomings of Power Auras when compared to Squawk and Awe.

Enter Mooni of Rand des Wahnsinns, a friendly German Shroomkin over at TMR. He devised a clever way around tracking the ICD. Instead of actually accessing the ICD information, he formed an inverted aura to detect the lack of a certain type of Eclipse. Now here's the brilliance: by setting the animation time to 15 seconds, he effectively created an aura that appears at the end of an Eclipse and vanishes 15 seconds later. A perfect ICD tracker (assuming you let Eclipse expire naturally). You can find his original post here. I've lightly modified his work, changing the graphics from the Faerie Fire graphic into the a fireball. Crash and burn, baby. Crash and burn.

Solar ICD Tracking


Lunar ICD Tracking



Full Druid Export

Since I have added a few extra auras, I decided to just repost my exported set as well. This will overwrite everything on Page 1 of your character effects in Power Auras. Don't do this if you've added your own auras to that page. Copy those auras to another page first, then import the set.
  1. Copy the following code
  2. Open Power Auras in WoW by typing /powa.
  3. Click Import Set.
  4. Paste the code into the box that appears and click Accept.
  5. Congratulations! You're now set up. Right click on any aura in Power Auras to adjust the settings, position, or graphic.
Posted by Maestro at 6:27 PM 0 comments
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Power Auras: Omen of Doom/Owlkin Frenzy

I wanted to put out an update to the original Power Auras set that I was using. I now have a very light purple aura under my character to show when I have Omen of Doom (for attempting to time DoTs etc) and I put an indicator above the Nature's Grace aura to show when Owlkin Frenzy was active.

Owlkin Frenzy


Omen of Doom



Hope this is still proving useful for people. I keep seeing screenshots using Power Auras, and that makes me happy! Keep on keepin on!
Posted by Maestro at 7:53 PM 2 comments
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Moving Past Squawk and Awe - Power Auras Classic

EDIT: There is a new version of the export posted below. Please replace your old import with this. I have changed the lunar proc color to be more inline with what Blizzard uses. I tinkered with the FF aura to show out of combat as well, since its typically the first spell cast. I fixed the references for the innervate auras, which should eliminate some of the ghost auras that folks have seen. Standardized font on all of the timers. Each aura will be available individually as well.

Squawk and Awe has been a great mod for Moonkins. A staple of the raiding Moonkin's arsenal. However, Adoriele, the developer, no longer plays WoW. Mass panic struck the Moonkin community when the Eclipse change seemed to break SAA. So I'm going to offer an alternative that is based off of a video I saw not too long ago. I am no longer using SAA, but now I use Power Auras Classic. The following is an export of all of my Moonkin related auras.

I have the following auras:
  • Faerie Fire - This aura displays a little pink symbol to the right of my character if it detects the absence of my Faerie Fire on the target.

  • Nature's Grace - The Nature's Grace aura displays white sidebars around my character for the duration of the buff. I find this useful for both timing Hurricanes and simply as a heads up while casting normal nukes. There is no timer or animation with this aura.

  • Insect Swarm - This aura detects my Insect Swarm on an enemy target and provides a visual marker along with a timer that counts down. This is located towards the bottom left of my character.

  • Moonfire - Much like the Insect Swarm aura, this aura detect my Moonfire on an enemy target. It does adjust to the proper time if you are using the Glyph of Starfire. This aura also provides a timer and is located adjacent to the Insect Swarm aura.

  • Eclipse - There are actually two Eclipse auras, a bluish one for a Lunar Eclipse and an orange one for a Solar Eclipse. They appear as a halo around my characters head and have a timer in the middle counting down till the end of Eclipse.


  • Innervate - My Innervate aura is composed of two auras working together conditionally. The first aura checks the cooldown of Innervate. The second aura checks my mana. If my mana is below 56% and my Innervate is available, a blue arrow appears in the middle of my character telling me that I can (and should) Innervate. If either condition is not met, this aura does not show. It is important to make sure that each aura references the other. In the import, they are auras 1 and 2. If you imported the auras individually, mouse over each aura to find the aura ID and type it in the reference box across from the Exact Name checkbox.



Easy Mass Install

  1. Copy the following code and then open Power Auras in WoW by typing /powa.
  2. Click Import Set.
  3. Paste the code into the box that appears and click Accept.
  4. Congratulations! You're now set up. Right click on any aura in Power Auras to adjust the settings, position, or graphic.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like with a Lunar Eclipse, Nature's Grace, and both DoTs up (click to enlarge).
Posted by Maestro at 6:17 PM 24 comments
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

T10 Datamined

The new tier 10 sets were datamined recently so I will provide a link to mmo so that you can check em out!

Tier 10 Druid!

I couldn't be happier with the itemization of the pieces. Notice the distinct lack of spirit on the gear. Since, in the world of itemization, spirit was taking up the place of a better offensive stat, we are looking at gear that is better tuned to our unique dietary gear needs. It's like moonkin baby formula! Two of the pieces contain hit and I'm guessing that given the solid nature of the three non-hit pieces, we may just pick up a fourth (or fifth) piece for the set bonuses. I'm not prepared to offer an analysis of the set bonuses yet, but I will say that I currently feel that the 4 piece is relatively weak, but that may be part of a progressive nerf to set bonuses as a whole (which I think is needed).

Did I mention the sockets? All red sockets except for two yellow. I must say, I'd be infinitely happier if the two yellows were both blues, single handedly offering us our metagem activation and the socket bonus, but I dream big dreams. Oh, and on the topic of socket bonuses, these are not that great. Most are the outdated 5 SP socket bonus, which was decent when we had blue gems, but now that we are in Epic gems, 5 SP for a socket bonus is a joke. Luckily, those are all red sockets so we will get them regardless. The two double socket pieces offer +7, making it possible to consider putting in something other than a Runed Cardinal Ruby.

Food for thought, no?


I'd also like to give a shout out to Smo, who posted a great little tidbit on how to set up PowerAuras for the Anub fight, but even more than that, how to create logic statements and multiple conditionals through it. Godd job Smo, and keep it up!
Posted by Maestro at 8:45 AM 0 comments
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