- About BigWigs Bossmods
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.
Table of Contents
Features
Plugins
- Messages: Can be moved, re-coloured & locked.
- Bars: Can be moved, skinned to different textures(SharedMedia compatible), resized & also have an 'emphasis' feature to flash when they are about to expire.
- RaidIcon: Target painting (put an icon over a player that has been singled out by the boss).
- RaidWarn: Sending alerts to RaidWarning, tells & chat.
- BossBlock: Suppress "spam" sent by other player's bossmods.
- Comm: Syncing via the addon channel (so that the player don't have to be in combat range to trigger a message)
- Target Monitor: For enabling boss modules when you see them, instead of having them constantly enabled.
- Sound: Plays various sounds on different events(SharedMedia compatible).
- FuBar/Minimap: Button for easy access to the configuration menu, resetting running modules, and seeing what modules are active.
Extras
- Tranq: For keep track of hunters Tranq cooldowns, vital for some bosses.
- Proximity: For displaying players within a certain range on certain boss encounters.
- Test: Test your bars and warnings, and move them around.
- CustomBar: For 'PizzaTimers', create your own custom bars.
- Version: A query for not only the core BigWigs version, but also the instance version numbers.
- Flash'N'Shake: Shake and/or Flash the screen blue when something important happens that directly affects you, such as a debuff. (Off by default)
Documentation
The creation
BigWigs is a boss timer and warning mod. Tekkub, the original BigWigs1 for Ace1 author, was inspired to write this after his very first raid run. He was horrified by the massive amount of spam his raid leader was creating with his boss mod. He was getting messages all over the place for things he didn't care about (Hunters can't dispell a curse or interrupt a heal). He also found that the "60 seconds until painful doom" timer messages were such a waste. Why not use a nice simple timerbar to show this?
The aim
BigWigs aims to be as efficient as possible (creating a lower memory per second footprint and using a lower amount of CPU than any other boss mod), as effectively as possible. When modules are written every aspect of the encounter is revised. Is syncing required? Is target scanning required? What events are really to be warned for. It also aims to have the latest boss modules out asap, that means that not long after the first few attempts of a brand new boss, it usually has a working boss mod.
Unique
BigWigs has a many things that make it unique to other boss mods, one is the 'Emphasis' feature for bars to grab your attention. Others include SharedMedia support so you can customize the look of your bars and choose different sounds for warnings. BigWigs can identify when you have wiped on a boss and reset the bars and timers. It is also the only addon to keep all events unregistered until you mouse over a boss, instead of registering all the boss events when entering an instance.
Credits
Current Developers: Ammo, Rabbit, Funkydude
Boss Modules: Tekkub (BigWigs 1), Ammo, Rabbit, Funkydude, Shyva, Wiebbe, Lucen, Moonsorrow, Tsigo
Translations: ckknight (Babble), Pettigrow (frFR), Neriak (deDE), Gamefaq (deDE), sayclub (koKR), fenlis (koKR), handdol (koKR), cwdg (zhCN), hk2717 (zhCN) and many others
General Help: Daemona, Saroz & everyone else submitting logs!
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LordDrago saidKathemiria have you tried /bw options /bw gui options /bw settings or /bw gui settings any of those may work.
I have a question about auto answering whispers during boss encounters? Does big wigs have this function like dbm or is there a plugin to add this type of function? May even a possibly feature to be added in, in a future release if there already isn't one? I find it a great help when I get whispers during a boss encounter to have them auto answered that I'm busy with so & so boss.
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Kathemiria saidi at one point in haveing big wigs made it so i couldnt see the minimap button for it and now i cant change any setting for bigwigs how can i get to the menu to change the settings?
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poohbah saidAs of patch 2.4.3, Bigwigs seems to be working with the Void Reaver orbs in TK. It announces when you are the target, and spams a message in the say channel so people close to you know where the orb is headed.
You'll need build 78093 or later from the SVN or wowaceupdater. Curse isn't showing this release yet.
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funkydude saidWolf173: You shouldn't have that folder in your addons folder unless you use some kind of updater.
Erlynn: They lied.
Zannhart: Yep, he never does it exactly, it's more of an estimate by showing hes cooldown.
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Zannhart saidWhenever I'm doing the second boss in ZA, Akil'Zon, the timers for when he does his Electrical Storm are always off. It seems the first storm is pretty accurate but after that it's been off from anywhere from 5-20 seconds. Is this because he doesn't always do the move exactly every 60 seconds or is this a bug in the mod?
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Erlynn saidAbout the voidreaver obrs
Copie of a part of the 2.4.2 patch note
Tempest Keep: The Eye
* Void Reaver’s Arcane orbs now generate combat log entries.
would just have to see how exactly the log is made and might be able to have that part working up again.
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Wolf173 saidWhat is Libbabble-boss-3.0 and how can I delete it? Tried everything so far and tells me the directory is not empty. Or it asks me if I want to reformat my C drive. Have nothing in my addons folder but this file from Bigwigs.
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funkydude saidtripnip360: That's a mod called LittleWigs
hansibub2: This is a blizzard problem, we can't fix it.
thefinn: Try deleting bigwigs and it's saved variables and installing it again.
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tripnip360 saidI've seen someone use Bigwigs to help with Heroic bosses, Can someone tell me how you do this. I thought it was just the level 70 raids.
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hansibub2 saidCould you please add again the arcane orbs from void reaver so that it says who is the target of the next orb.
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thefinn saidI seem to have broken mine... Any help appreciated >.<
I can hear the sounds of BigWigs, but I'm getting zero timers and bars on the screen and no popup messages.
I'm pretty computer literate and have checked the config - but cannot find the problem.
I have had this installed with DBM at the same time in the past - I wonder if this has created some issue.
Any help ? :)
Thanks
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Gumurak saidMost likely it is. There are still a few kinks in bigwigs. But they arent that bad.
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sethhman saidI just want to let the authors know that this mod is Amazing. I've used DBM since I joined a raiding guild, and this mod is so many times better than DBM I can't stress it enough. Keep up the mod going Excellent job on it!
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funkydude saidrustyshrapnel: Should be fixed in the latest CommonAuras update.
Jeffken: Not currently.
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rustyshrapnel saidFor the life of me, I cannot figure out where or how to get the heroism timers to hide or turn off. It's driving me nuts. o_O
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Jeffken saidis it possible to add a warning of who gets the aggro of the little adds on Eredar Twins?
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funkydude saidI removed r70552 and uploaded r70600 which fixes a bug in tranq.
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toddrose saidUninstalling via the client, deleting the BigWigs folders in Addons and using the "install via curse client" on this page worked for me. It was not working on the prior version. It never installed the base BigWigs portion. Anyway, it shows up on the addons list in WoW.. I have not tested it ingame.
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funkydude saidCan the people having problems with loading BigWigs please delete it completely and try the latest r70552.
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snowden saidI just updated big wigs today, through the wowace updater, and it seems the reporting dispel targets for felmyst is broken, was working yesterday.