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Fury

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April 22, 2010
by Zardilann in ,

Fury was my first addon for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was aimed towards Warriors and it was discontinued after Blizzard removed the ability of addons to automate the selection and use of abilities. I had great fun making it though, and it lessened the hardships of getting up at 3 AM combined with running Molten Core for the millionth time.

The following is from the readme:

This addon is an attempt at simplifying the DPS aspect of Warrior combat.

To use Fury, simply set up a key in the keybindings menu or make a macro containing /fury, and press this repeatedly when in combat. Each keypres will attempt to activate a warrior ability, running though a list with different requirements for each ability.

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Fury covers the following Warrior abilities:

Battle Shout
Berserker Rage
Bloodrage
Bloodthirst
Cleave
Disarm
Demoralizing Shout
Execute
Hamstring
Heroic Strike
Mortal Strike
Overpower
Pummel
Rend
Shield Bash
Whirlwind

Furthermore it also covers the talent Tactical Mastery, the PvP Plate Gauntlets (Hamstring improvement) and the Troll racial Berserking.

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The current logic being used is outlined below:

Overpower
Execute
Pummel
Shield Bash
Hamstring
Rend (PvP only)
Berserker Rage
Bloodrage
Berserking (racial)
Disarm (PvP only)
Demoralizing Shout
Battle Shout
Mortal Strike / Bloodthirst
Whirlwind
Heroic Strike / Cleave

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Slash commands:

/fury – uses Fury
/fury help – prints help text
/fury toggle – toggles Fury
/fury debug – toggles debug mode
/fury attack – toggles the use of autoattack. Experimental.
/fury ability <name> – toggles the use of abilities. Must use correct names with capitalization, ie. Heroic Strike, Rend etc.
/fury dance <number> – sets rage allowed to be wasted when switching stance (“dancing”)
/fury rage <number> – sets maximum rage allowed when using abilities to gain rage
/fury bloodrage <number> – sets minimum percent of health required when using Bloodrage
/fury hamstring <number> – sets maximum percent of health allowed when using Hamstring on NPCs
/fury berserk – sets minimum percent of health required when using Berserk
/fury threat – enables Cleave or Heroic Strike based on current settings
/fury stance <name> – sets stance to return to after switching stance. If no stance is selected it will return to your last used one. Must use correct names with capitalization.

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I’d like to give a special thanks to sarf and Trimble Epic, my two mentors who put me on the road of addon-making. Also thanks to Shears of Emerald Dream for extensive testing.

This isn’t the most recent version (I believe 1.14 is) so if someone by some weird stroke of insanity should have that, don’t hesitate sending it my way. It’s about 4 years old, so I haven’t been able to track down much about it.

Download the addon

Zardilann.com

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April 18, 2010
by Zardilann in

At the start of year 2000 I had a website at bhaerau.com, the name based on my old screen name. It served the purpose of having a place where I could develop my skills at web design with ASP and Access, as well as maintain a place on the net, since everybody had to have a website. The status of the site was up and down during the time, but towards the end it served as the home of The Eonian Council as well as my fan page to King Diamond, neither which exists outside my hard disk’s junk-folder today (I tried uploading them to my domain, but seems it hates ASP).

The last year or so I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a website up and running once more (and joining all of those social networks) to establish an online presence. I was torn between starting up a blog and writing about World of Warcraft and other games, or setting up a portfolio and start writing more fiction and toil with some game design. I settled on the latter but decided against reinvention the wheel and grabbed the WordPress publishing platform and started the search for a suitable theme, as well as a good way to arrange the combination of pages, categories and tags that make up the site navigation. I decided on the Mystique theme from Digital Nature.

Mystique is very nicely setup where you can edit the CSS and add custom functions without touching the original files and thus not having to fear losing your modifications during theme updates. I decided upon a mainly black and white color scheme, with a logo to match, and the CSS and image files were easily modified to fit in (although there is something going on when trying to edit the CSS of some images). Additional icons were added above the top navigation with the help of Mark N Hewitt. While I’ve chosen to use several plugins, one that stands out is NuRelm Get Posts. It allows you to use shortcodes to display posts, which I’ve done liberally on the Portfolio pages. While it hasn’t been updated in a long time, it worked flawlessly out of the box, and only required small modifications to cover my needs.

So there you have it, zardilann.com is now online. I’d better go post on Twitter.

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