Info
Necrosis, the ultimate addon for Warlocks! Manage your spells, demons, stones & shards effectively.
- (c) 2005 - 2007 Lomig, Liadora et Nyx (Kael'Thas et Elune - EU/French)
- (c) 2008 ArPharazon (Nagrand - US/Oceanic)
- Licensed under the GPL v2
- Current release : v2.2 (for WoW patch 2.40)
- In progress : v3.0 (for WoW patch 3.02 & WoLK)
This addon is now hosted here on the CurseForge.com website, so please use the ticket system to report any bugs or to request enhancements.
Wiki: http://www.wowwiki.com/Necrosis_(addon)
History
Necrosis was originally created in 2005 by a Lomig, a player on the Kaelthas realm (EU/French). The original website - http://necrosis.larmes-cenarius.net - is still available, however Lomig retired sometime in 2007 so it is not supported there anymore.
The project has been taken over by ArPharazon, a player on the Nagrand realm (US/Oceanic) and is now actively supported here on the CurseForge.com website since January 2008.
Appearance
Necrosis UI is composed of several distinct parts :
* A main sphere which can show digital values (shard count, reagent count, soulstone cooldown...) and graphical informations thanks to a circular gauge (shard count, soulstone cooldown...)
* Buttons to create and use summoned objects
* Menus for castable spells
* Timers for DoTs and Cooldowns
Integration
The whole Necrosis is meant to be as harmonious as useful, so it is provided with several UI skins. Nearly everything in Necrosis can be put wherever you want on your screen.
Other Functionalities
Necrosis also provides some functionalities that does not appear on the UI. It is able to replace your macros for summoning players as demons or steeds. It provides a sound notification when your next Soul Stone is available. It can also notify you when entering the "Shadow Trance" or "Backlash" states. It can even let you know when a target cannot be feared!
Known Issues
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Languages
Necrosis is fully compatible with those clients :
* French (frFR)
* English (enGB)
* American (enUS)
* German (deDE)
Necrosis is experimental with those clients :
(I need your feedback !)
* Spanish (esES)
* Simplified Chinese (zhCN)
* Traditional Chinese (zhTW)
Furthermore, you can play in thoses languages even if it is not the one of your client :
* French: Full support
* English: Full support
* German : Full support
* Spanish : Full support
* Traditional Chinese : Full support
* Simplified Chinese
If you are able and willing to translate Necrosis in an other language, do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail. Reassure yourself, you do not need to know how to code an addon or whatsoever to translate this mod, you just need a little time and that is all !
How to contribute ?
Sometimes people ask me how they can be helpful. My development team is complete and effective, as my testing team. But if you have bugs to report, suggestions to make, you can contact us on our forum or by mail.
If you find a spelling mistake, or a sentence badly/not translated in the language you use, feel free to mail me a correction to be added the next release. You can also contribute to the wiki !
You changed a part of Necrosis because I am a dumb, and an incompetent butcher who does not know how to code ? You do not want to maintain yet another Necrosis fork ? I am not so proud of myself, you can send me your comments and improvements.
This description on curse and the wiki have to be translated in other languages too :)
About the Speech.lua file
These files contain the whole summoning messages for the languages availables.
You can edit this file with a simple text editor (as Notepad with Windows, or SimpleText / TextEdit with MacOS) to change it as you wish.
To know how to do so, just take a look at the wiki !
This update resolves the issue of missing Spell Stone & Soul Stone in the French language version.
At some point, Blizzard must have renamed those 2 spells from "Pierre" to "pierre" (lowercase 'p' !). Other stones are still uppercase - oO!
Many thanks to Jashugan and Andemion for discovering this and letting me know via the Necrosis forums:
-> http://forum.larmes-cenarius.net/viewtopic.php?id=2634
If you still have a missing spell stone / soulstone (or any other stone!) then please let me know!
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...