I just tried out GladiatorlosSA yesterday, and I found that the audio warnings are about not only my enemies’ spells, but also my teammates’.
Is that correct?
If so, that is not what I need. I would like to config it to warn about ONLY enemies’ spells.
Could someone teach me how to do that?
Thx!
Play without LosSA, it’ll make your awareness much better.
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Losa will make your awareness a lot worse and eventually will become white noise in the background that you barely pay attention to. I highly suggest you to start looking for those abilities before they even happen, example:
Harry is a ret paladin and he plays with his friend jeff who plays warrior. Jeff used stormbolt on your healer!! Do you know what’s coming next? Hammer of Justice into wings into divine toll big dam on you or your friend!! So we need to use a defensive the moment jeff goes for the storm bolt or harry uses the hammer of justice.
You can do stop those setups by looking at omni bar and watching for their CDs
LOSA will narrate as it going so by the time the addon warns you about the spell its already too late!!
Use Weakauras, addons such bigdebuff and watch your temamates will make you a lot more aware than LOSa but you do you!
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how would playing without it make your awareness better. It opens up audio as a second data source. There is only so much visual bandwidth someone can handle, and you don’t see 360 degrees around you.
gladiatorlossa is a very powerful addon and is always worth using.
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Wish Blizz would disable add-ons, might as well let the game play for you. They just take skill required away from the game.
I find it super helpful when I hear chaos bolts and combustion.
Blah blah blah, losSA is good for some and bad for others. Let them play how they want, Weakauras are better but it’s okay.
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Thx for replying.
It makes sense. For instant spells, indeed it is too late when you already hear it.
But maybe I should have posted this thread in the RBG section as I will use GladiatorlosSA in RBG only. I think in RBG this addon is more useful.
Thx anyway!
Interface>addons>open config settings
If you’re mainly doing RBGs you most definitely are going to want to check the target and focus only boxes.
I think the main downfall of GladLossa is it promotes tunnel visioning. That’s bad because a lot of the time you can escape a set up using less if you can see it coming and reposition, LoS, etc. once the set up is starting and you hear COMBUSTION it’s probably too late.
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Lossa just lets people who are better with Qs instead of visual Qs do better. Some people do better with different media channels. Just like weak auras help with visual Qs. 6 one, half dozen another.
Weakauras have been developed for the weak. It says it in the name.
True men play with their UIs off.
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Pretty much, I’ve got some TBI/concussions in the past that kinda mess with my attention span or awareness. So having something like weakauras that can play a little clown horn when a ret pops all his nonsense goes a long way.
I am a healer, so my targets are always my teammates, but what I want to know is when my opponents use Convoke or Combustion or wings.
And I cannot set more than one focus target… So…
BTW, my understanding about LosSA reporting castings for both sides is correct, right?
To my knowledge it only reports your opponents. Unless there is a new feature I’m unaware of.
But reporting your own team would defeat the purpose of using the addon because your teammates should be telling you that information (voice), and if it reported your own teammates it would be confusing to tell which is which when it calls out.
Then just check enemy only and go class by class and uncheck anything you don’t want announced.
OK, that would be great.
Then how about the range? I mean, if an enemy is casting hundreds of yards away from me, will the addon still warn about it for me?
I am wondering because sometimes I heard warnings but no one around me was casting that spell…
For example, sometimes I heard Avenging Wrath, but there was no paladin anywhere near me…
If it’s happening in BG’s then yes, technically you can target your enemy across almost the entire map. Which means that you are still in range of “combat logs” or “events” like cooldowns, casts, etc for the addon to call.
Download BattleGroundEnemies and set it to only show a max of 10-15 man groups. This should be a default addon if you are serious about BG’s / RBG’s for seeing enemy positions / targeting the enemy. Click on the frames and you will see just how far you can target your enemy.
It also gives you small icons to see who people are targeting, including your teammates. Which is good to know as a healer because you will be able to follow who they are targeting to DPS and start healing them faster.
Hi, I’m the current maintainer of GSA2.
GSA only alerts for enemy abilities, but by default pretty much everything is enabled out of the box. You can limit the alerts to target and focus only, and is generally recommended for battlegrounds. There’s no way (to my knowledge) to limit alerts based on distance - and in a non-epic bg, all enemies are always rendered.
There are a few specific exceptions to bypass combat log limitations or reduce spam that technically check things on friendly targets, but that’s typically spells like Cheap Shot that you really don’t need to hear if the rogue is an idiot and cheap shot spamming.
It does alert drinks from both teams though.
GSA is a tool and improper use of it will yield disappointing results. It is intended to supplement visual informational mods, not replace them. Instead, it allows you to focus more on the battlefield without exhausting your eyes darting between several different frames for a multitude of different buttons. As someone else put it, it’s another channel that provides you with the exact same information that the other mods do.
Really if someone thinks GSA gives them the ability to slack off and play reactively, then the problem is with them, not the mod. If anything, with how telegraphed CC chains and bursts are, you only need to hear the first fraction of a second of a sound file to know its time to respond with what you were readying to press in exchange for the trade. If you weren’t prepared for it, it’s definitely not GSA’s fault that you couldn’t look at Gladius or whatever else to keep up with the current state of the map.
Honestly GSA should be considered an accessibility mod, allowing those who know how to use it to improve their awareness and improve their gameplay. If you understand the game but struggle to keep up with a bloated UI and lots of different visual inputs (like me), being able to use frames to see current game state and plan ahead while having a voice keep you informed moment to moment, it’s pretty helpful.
… also funny enough sometimes I have it off and don’t even realize it for a game or two, it’s definitely made me subconsciously more attentive since it familiarizes me with common combos. I only realize it when I am blindsided by something going on off-screen.
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Thank you!
I am using BGE, but don’t like its frame compared to ElvUI, which is why I am looking for another solution.
Years ago there was an addon named ArenaScreenshot that did this job, but it is no longer updated.