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As many (most?) of you already know, I've been working together with Malazee on the RaidChecklist addon, which is intended to help the raiding hunter/huntress bring a suitable pet to the party. Well, that was the original intent at least, the scope of the addon grew a bit... Full story over in this thread.

While RaidChecklist does a pretty good job at spotting missing buffs and abilities and list which pets can bring it, it isn't a comprehensive list of pet family abilities. So, since today was a public holiday where I am I sat down and created a new addon to be precisely that. It is my pleasure to present the Pet Ability List!

Here's a screenshot of Pet Abilities List in action, just to tempt you all!


The usual caveat of this being a beta quality release applies, but if you want to give it a spin and tell me all the things that I've gotten wrong, that would be appreciated.

Edit: Now available from Curse!

Wow, this looks incredibly useful! I shall definitely be grabbing this and giving it a test run! Thanks so much to you and Malazee and everyone else for all the hard work.

Sticky request! Will check this mod out asap. You should totally post about all your hunter-related mods here!

Eee, this looks wonderful from the screenshot!

Anyia. You are a hunter addon Goddess... just to let you know.

Malazee wrote:You should totally post about all your hunter-related mods here!

I'm not sure this would be the right place for it? Then again, who am I to deny an (ego boosting) request?

With 4.0.1 my two "flagship" addons Ammo-matique and Track-o-Matique became obsolete, so the only other hunter related add-on I've got currently is MisInformation (for tracking misdirection usage and cooldowns in raid), which was my first ever addon and isn't as shiny as the others (though I still use it).

On the non-hunter front there's Out-of-Date Minder which is there to re-enable the "Load out-of-date addons" option after patches (provided I've noticed it earlier and made it aware of the new patch). Then there's the tiny No Sticky Whispers which brings back the old chat behavior so only channels are "sticky".

Gimlion wrote:Anyia. You are a hunter addon Goddess... just to let you know.

D'awww, thank you.

Zangor wrote:the chimaera ablility tooltips are messed up.....just thought id say something

Not on Wow atm so can't check for myself - messed up in what way?

When I checked mine it didn't seem to be incorrect, but I could very well be wrong, or it might have fixed itself b/c I had a Chimaera out? (Dunno if it can do that or not)

Gimlion wrote:When I checked mine it didn't seem to be incorrect, but I could very well be wrong, or it might have fixed itself b/c I had a Chimaera out? (Dunno if it can do that or not)

There shouldn't be any difference whether the pet has been seen or not, I'm using absolute spell IDs for all the abilities. The characters I was using when I was building PAL weren't even hunters. Possibly there could be information missing if the client hasn't been fully downloaded?

Zangor wrote:the chimaera ablility tooltips are messed up.....just thought id say something

I can't seem to see anything wrong with the tooltip handling, sorry. Need more information!
If you're referring to the "24 damage" bit, go talk to Blizzard - it's their tooltip information, I only ask the client to display the tooltip for spell number so-and-so!

After going over the abilities again (and adding in the Beetle special), it would seem that Burrow and Froststorm Breath are getting new versions in Cataclysm (different damage scaling). Not sure if that was what was meant by the "messed up" comment? Either way, I've added a note about it on the addon description page.

Corrosive Spit looks like it might be getting a new spell ID too, though the effect seems to be identical. I'm somewhat puzzled over this, but oh well.

Oh, and you can now shift-click to link abilities in Pet Ability List into chat.

I dl'd this (first I think XD) and have been using it as a reference point in-game. Am I wrong in thinking it's "only" a list? Don't get me wrong, mind, I'd keep it for that alone--it's a VERY useful reference. But, a suggestion I'd add would be to be able to sort the pets by ability type. For example, the new addon (posted here on Petopia) that shows you which raid buffs & debuffs are available in your raid, and which pet provides each.

Together the two addons have lovely synergy, so it isn't an issue in the slightest. Just a thought

I doubt I'd be able to get sorting in there sensibly. What I possibly could do is make a note on the tooltips for the abilities which have the same effect as another (e.g. Devilsaurs + Wolves, Fox + Tallstriders, etc). Would that be of use?

That sounds like a great idea, Anyia! Sometimes, it's hard to remember all that offhand.

Okay, I've added cross references in the tooltips to the 4.0.1beta1 version. Let me know if there's anything else you think of.

Wow! This looks fantastic! I'm going to DL this mod and try it out- I'll report any bugs I come across, and otherwise I'll be enjoying not having to tab out to Petopia constantly!

Thank you SO much, the hunter community here has been looking for something like this for a while!! <3 <3

Anyia wrote:

Zangor wrote:the chimaera ablility tooltips are messed up.....just thought id say something

I can't seem to see anything wrong with the tooltip handling, sorry. Need more information!
If you're referring to the "24 damage" bit, go talk to Blizzard - it's their tooltip information, I only ask the client to display the tooltip for spell number so-and-so!

actually the description sounds odd for frost it says that its a combination of lightning and frost but for froststorm it just says its an icy breath.....might be blizzard's fault on this one

OK.. Downloaded it and so far <3 Thank you..! Now the question... Would it be possible to have some check on it to see if a particular buff/debuff was missing from a raid?