Omen Threatmeter

[Kevin]

I know it's been mentioned in gchat a few times, but I was reading the LJ community worldofwarcraft and came across a link to the WoW forums with further links to the WoWAce site for Omen.

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It can track threat on multiple mobs at the same time. It also handles aggro wipes correctly (according to the notes). It is still in Beta, but I think I'd trust an Ace Beta better than most other mods' Release.

I know that on some of the raid content, aggro management is paramount. In Heroics, if you pull aggro as a clothy, you get hit; you die. If someone over aggros Prince in Kara, he won't pull, but he might enfeeble the tank; then everybody dies. I have a lot of dislikes about KLH, and the author's response that everyone who wants him to improve it can bugger off is near the top of that list. I think I'll be switching over to this when I get home tonight.

Terenas leaders, what do you think about this for the guild as a whole? I know no one is required to have a threatmeter, although it is highly recommended for any instancing. Should we change over the recommended mod to this one? Omen will show what KLH reports as someone's threat level, but KLH doesn't reciprocate. Say I have Omen for Shim, and Sham has KLH. Omen will show me what KLH thinks Sham's aggro is and what Omen says mine is. But if I have KLH and Sham's updated to Omen, I can't see the threat he has as tank. Should we maybe put together a run of some instance with an aggro-wiping boss and test out Omen before recommending it?

I'm just putting the info out there and wanting to see what everyone thinks.

Most of us have actually been running Omen for a couple of weeks now.

As you mentioned since we don't require people to have mods we haven't really pushed it, but we talk about it in the raids a fair bit and I think Treesh even went and got Omen which for those that know her and her attitude towards mods should attest to it's quality and value. And you can run KLH and Omen side by side with no ill effects as well which is what I've been doing. But we've been recommending Omen a fair bit. Most of it happens during the beginning of the raids though and since your job is very mean to your WoW schedule you end up missing a lot of that.

That being said I'm not a fan of relying on anything listed as beta even something that is as promising as Omen so I won't even make it the official unofficial mod till a release version hits. I also tend to avoid the beta versions of KTM if things were going to be sensative even though they were always rock stable. That's just me. Like I said I'm running Omen and if everyone else is, even though it's beta I'll have it. :)