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Post by
Dalvoron
Hi all!
As an enchanter, I normally end up sharding stuff in instances, and then handing them out at the end. I'm looking for an addon to help with this. Ideally it would do the following:
1. Keep track of how many Dream Shards / Abyss Crystals (perhaps for lower level materials too) that are added to my inventory during an instance.
2. Pop ups for resetting the counter at the start of the instance (a la Recount).
3. Auto-rolling macro that will also print the names of those who win shards to the chat interface in /party or /raid, depending on which I'm in. Also, should be able to tell (or let me define) how many people are actually in the group if some are missing.
Does anyone know if such an addon exists?
Post by
Vlet
Wish I could help out... I would appreciate such an addon as well.
Post by
Kiwiblue
I've never seen an addon that does the first two and to be honest if your going to be the run DEer shouldn't you just clear your bags of mats before the run? If you forgot to just write down how many shards/crystals you had before you start DEing and then slice them out before you divide up the loot. The third would be kind of tricky as people don't like others auto rolling for them but there is a couple roll addons out there to let you track and announce winners of rolls. Rolltracker seems to be close to what you would want to do.
Post by
Dalvoron
If your going to be the run DEer shouldn't you just clear your bags of mats before the run? If you forgot to just write down how many shards/crystals you had before you start DEing and then slice them out before you divide up the loot.
I don't think I've ever used AddOns for necessity. Technically, I could comb the combat log myself instead of using Recount or Minna Stats. I could just emote my characters' descriptions instead of using Flag AddOns. Instead of Grid, I could use the core party panels. Why should I bother with Titan Panel? All the information it shows me is available to me by using the core game intelligently. The reason I use AddOns is for convenience, and that's the case here too.
Post by
Kiwiblue
If your going to be the run DEer shouldn't you just clear your bags of mats before the run? If you forgot to just write down how many shards/crystals you had before you start DEing and then slice them out before you divide up the loot.
I don't think I've ever used AddOns for necessity. Technically, I could comb the combat log myself instead of using Recount or Minna Stats. I could just emote my characters' descriptions instead of using Flag AddOns. Instead of Grid, I could use the core party panels. Why should I bother with Titan Panel? All the information it shows me is available to me by using the core game intelligently. The reason I use AddOns is for convenience, and that's the case here too.
Noted.
Post by
Dalvoron
Update:
I've been working with an author over the last few days to create this AddOn. I can proudly say that it will soon be in Beta! :D
Post by
Paolo
I normally don't DE items until I'm back in Dal. Instead I just count up the number of blues in my backpack at the end of the run and hand out that number of shards. (I can't recall the last time I didn't have more than 5 shards with me already. And my backpack is always emptied before a run, since it's the first place that loot gets dropped into.)
The other option: when I do my first DE in an instance, I'm move the shard into my backpack, creating a new stack (of one). Then subsequent shards will be placed onto that stack automagically, so I'll have a stack of shards just from that run.
One thing your addon should do (and this would be, to me, the most valuable benefit) would be to track who has won other things. Who won the frozen orb? Who got blue loot for their offset? Did someone roll need on the epic? Etc...those people are normally excluded from rolling, and it's up to the enchanter to remember all of this before asking people to roll for shards (or not).
Post by
Dalvoron
The other option: when I do my first DE in an instance, I'm move the shard into my backpack, creating a new stack (of one).
I'm looking into making this a feature of the AddOn. Probably won't be in the first open beta though.
One thing your addon should do (and this would be, to me, the most valuable benefit) would be to track who has won other things. Who won the frozen orb? Who got blue loot for their offset? Did someone roll need on the epic? Etc...those people are normally excluded from rolling, and it's up to the enchanter to remember all of this before asking people to roll for shards (or not).
I've never personally been a part of a group like that. Shards are unnecessary, but gear (even for offspec) isn't. Sometimes those people are nice enough to pass on getting shards, sometimes not. I am however planning to add system where everyone in the group will either /roll or pass. Again, that's probably far into the future.
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