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Credits

- Sinsthar (base & original concept) - Garstiger (continued) - Dridtz (continued)

Background

This addon was created to provide visual cues (auras) when you gain buffs, debuffs and many more. Very useful for shorts buffs or debuffs, it allows you to draw in the center of the screen, or around your character, very customizable visual effects, rather than having to look at or mouseover buff/debuff icons/actionbars.

Initially created to give visual cues for short duration procs like "clear casting" or some boost trinket you activate, many more aura triggers have been added since. It now works with debuffs (whatever their name), debuff types (like Magic or Curse), combo points, harmful area spells, weapon enchants, Health, Mana, Rage or Energy thresholds, action cooldowns, aggro, pvp status and stance or shapeshift form.

Check-out the Wiki for help/tutorials/exports

You are encouraged to go and add some content there!

Animation Issues

  1. Text grows and grows - Cause = Wow bug - Solution = turn off animation on Text auras
  2. Animations flicker/seem choppy - Cause = Wow bug (with resize) - Solution = Check Use Old animations

Common Fixes

  1. If you're experiencing errors when starting up after 4.17 and are unable to edit any auras we recommend exporting all of the auras on that character, saving them to a text file, deleting the saved variables for that specific character and re-importing the auras.

>> Crashes on Loading WoW <<

Some of the auto installers don't work very well. You may need to delete the PowerAuras directory in Interface/Addons don't worry this will not reset your auras or settings

How to use

  1. Type /powa, to open the effect browser
  2. Click on the button "New" to create a new effect
  3. On the effect editor, you can choose the texture to apply to the effect, the position, the size, the symmetry, be creative :P
  4. Below, select the activator of the effect (like a buff, debuff, etc...)
  5. Enter the name of the buff, debuff... just below (or a part of the buff, like "clear" for activation with the buff "clear cast"). Don't forget to read the tooltips for more help on ways to enter the names
  6. It's ready ! Close all windows, when you gain the buff/debuff, the effect appears

You can easily add new textures by adding them in the "Custom" Directory, or dropping sequentially numbered Auraxx.tga files in the Auras subfolder inside the addon directory.

Help! My Aura Won't Show Up

  • Sometimes WoW doesn't load all textures properly (especially if you have lots of addons). To fix this do a /reload
  • Auras will not show by default when you are resting (i.e. in a city) unless you are in combat (with a target dummy). So either uncheck the Hide when resting flag or do your testing outside the city limits.
  • If you CTRL-LEFT-CLICK the aura in the options screen it will inform you if the aura will show and if not why not.
  • You can export the aura and post it in the comments and someone will analyse it for you.
  • Buffs/Debuffs that do not stack have a stack value of 0 (not 1) so you must set the stacks check to something like >=0 Or =0 NOT =1
  • Focusing yourself does not count as a proper focus for testing
  • Use the /powa showbuffs and /powa showdebuffs to list-out your buffs/debuffs (or any target) this should help you choose the match strings or Spell-Id

Reporting Issues

Go to the CurseForge site and Submit a Ticket

Feature Requests

There is a UserVoice forum for adding and discussing new features Vote Here

Known Issues

  • Sometimes WoW doesn't load all textures properly (especially if you have lots of addons). To fix this do a /reload
  • Buffs/Debuffs cast when in vehicles may not show properly with "Cast by Me"
  • High memory usage / garbage collection rate reported sometimes
  • A rare bug may occur while exporting auras which results in there being little to no actual text being output, a fix for this is planned in the 4.17 release.

Specifying Spells (buffs/debuffs/spell-alerts/own spells)

  • By Name e.g. Holy Concentration
  • By Partial name e.g. Seal of
  • By Texture e.g. Ability_Druid_EclipseOrange
  • By Global Spell-id e.g. [34860] (you can get these ids from Wowhead http:www.wowhead.com/?spell=34860 use the number in the URL)
  • Use the /powa showbuffs and /powa showdebuffs to list-out your buffs/debuffs (or any target) this will show Spell-Ids
  • Multiple matches of the above e.g. Seal/[12435]/Ability_Druid_EclipseOrange (the / is treated as an OR)

Matching Multiple Conditions

You can do this currently by chaining auras together e.g.

  1. Set-up Aura1 with the first condition (e.g. Greatness) (you will probably need to disable this one, hint SHIFT-click)
  2. Mouse-over Aura1 to get its ID number
  3. Set-up Aura2 with the aura/animation you want and the second condition (e.g. Unholy Strength)
  4. Put Aura1's ID into the second textbox
  5. Now Aura2 will only trigger if Aura1 & Aura2's conditions are met
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