Troll The Bones (Roll The Bones Tracker)

1 Troll The Bones

Were you ever struck by bad luck, rolling the bones like twelve times in a row to get more than one buff? Now you’ve got a tool to let everybody know how unlucky you are!
All statistics are saved account-wide between sessions. Type in /ttb to see most options.

See also Roll The Bones Statistics for a Roll The Bones statistics tracker.

2 Commands Telling Your Bad Luck

/ttb threshold <number>
Sets the number of single rolls you have to experience painfully before the addon starts yelling. For example, set this to 3 via /ttb threshold 3 and the addon will send out a message if you receive two or more buffs and rolled three or more times for this to happen.

Standard: 5

/ttb finally <text>
The message to yell into the world after ending a bad luck streak of single buff rolls.
{n} represents the amount of rerolls you needed to get two or more buffs.

Standard: I was just trolled by the bones {n} times.

/ttb record
Outputs your reroll record of not getting two buffs and your longest dry spell of not getting all five buffs.

/ttb ham <text>
The message to yell into the world if you roll all five buffs.
{n} represents the amount of rolls you did between your last destruction mode and this one.

Standard: I rolled ’em all. Pulling Azeroth NOW!

/ttb lastfive
Outputs the number of rolls you did since your last ham mode. This number can be accessed via {n} in the /ttb ham message. It also shows the date of your last five roll.

/ttb playsound true/false
Whether to play a short sound (“one” to “five”) after gaining bones buffs.

Standard: false

/ttb leeroy true/false
Find out for yourself! Not affected by playsound.

Standard: false.

3 Commands Helping Your Buff Management

3.1 Textbox Output

/ttb textboxmode true/false

When in combat, this option displays a little textbox showing the six buffs line by line. If you have Roll The Bones up, the active buffs are shown in green color. The others are a bit transparent. This is an alternative for the icon output.

/ttb textbox pin/unpin

Pinning the textbox makes it always visible, even after you leave combat and all buffs run out.

/ttb textbox lock/unlock

After showing the textbox with /ttb textbox pin you can use this command (with the parameter unlock) to make it movable. lock activates the ability to click through the textbox again.

/ttb textboxbackground true/false

This shows or hides the black, transparent background on the text box frame.

3.2 Icon Output

/ttb iconmode true/false

When in combat, this will display a bar with icons for your six buffs showing which are active. The WoW cooldown animation is placed on them so you can see how long they are still running.

/ttb icons pin/unpin

Pinning the icons makes the icon bar always visible, even after you leave combat and all buffs run out.

/ttb icons lock/unlock

After showing the icons with /ttb icons pin you can use this command (with the parameter unlock) to make them movable. lock activates the ability to click through the icons again.

/ttb iconscaling [0.5 – 2]

Changes the size of the icons in icon mode. The standard is 1.0 which is equivalent to an icon size of 40×40. So changing this to 0.5 will result in 20×20 icons, 2.0 will result in 80×80 icons.

/ttb iconbackground true/false

This shows or hides the black, transparent background on the icon frames.

/ttb icondir h/v

Changes the orientation of the icon bar to horizontal (h) or vertical (v).

4 Other Commands

/ttb output <channel>

This will let you choose your desired output channel for the addon’s messages. Currently there are two messages available: For ending a bad luck streak and for having a five buff roll. Your options here are none, say, yell, guild, party and raid.

/ttb resetpos

This command will reset the text and icon frames to the center of the screen. Useful if they got lost somehow.

/ttb center h/v

This centers the text and icon frames horizontally (h) or vertically (v) on the screen. You can also right click on the individual frames to center them horizontally and ctrl right click on them to center them vertically. The frames have to be unlocked.

/ttb reset

Resets statistics.

5 In The Future

• Support multiple languages.
• Rethink the roll advisor.
• Add a bar display mode.
• New mode: Only show buffs which are running.
• Group the /ttb options menu. It’s starting to fill.

6 Plans On A Roll Advisor

I thought a long time about a roll advisor and came up with the following thoughts.
Determining which rolls you should keep and when you should reroll depends on some criterias:

• Which legendaries are equipped? Especially the bracers and the shoulders have a huge impact on your rerolling strategy, combined even more.
• When does the fight end? Can I immediately continue fighting afterwards?
• Which and how many buffs did I roll?
• Is Adrenaline Rush/Curse of the Dreadblades up?
• How is the fight structured (damage+ phases, immunity phases, add cleave…)?

A few examples:

• During Adrenaline Rush the value of True Bearing (cooldown reduce) is high, even higher with Dreadblades up and with the right legendaries equipped.
• During your Dreadblades a double buff of Jolly Roger and Broadsides (chance for an extra Saber Slash/extra combo point) is almost useless because they are both combo point related and the Dreadblades give you max combo points anyway. So having both of these buffs up during the Dreadblades is like fighting without a buff.
• Having your shoulder legendary buff up (+100% crit) makes Shark infested Waters (+25% crit) useless, at least for those six seconds. But if at the same time your cooldowns are running
  and Shark Infested Waters is lasting long enough you should probably keep the buff until your cooldowns run out and reroll after. But you probably won’t reroll if the remaining boss fight length is only 10 seconds.

There are so many different situations in which the different buffs have completely different values that the result of a reroll advisor will probably never be satisfying.
In addition to that many of those situations cannot be taken into account because they are not visible to the addon, such as the remaining length of the boss fight or general mythic+ instance, actions to come (how long until the next trash pack, immune phases in boss fights like in Vault of the Wardens).
You wouldn’t be able to completely rely on the addon, in some cases it would give the right advice, in most cases it wouldn’t.

7 Known Bugs/Oddities

Nothing here at the moment.

8 Contact

If you stumble across any error messages or would like to have a new feature, write a comment here, ingame to Armak-Frostwolf (EU) or via Michi#2174.

9 Changelog History

v10.0.5 build 1 (Jan 26, 2023)

• Updated for patch 10.0.5.

v10.0.0 build 1 (Nov 12, 2022)

• Getting ready for Dragonflight!
• The config menu was fixed and should do its work again. Due to the removal of the cancel button in the addon control panel, the changes you make in the GUI (/ttb) are effective immediately. You can also manually set configuration settings, e. g. via /ttb icons pin while having the GUI opened and you’ll see the checkbox being ticked automatically.

v9.2.0 build 1 (Mar 4, 2022)

• Updated for patch 9.2.0.

v9.1.0 build 1 (Aug 10, 2021)

• Updated for patch 9.1.0.

v9.0.5 build 1 (May 21, 2021)

• Updated for patch 9.0.5.
• Fixed an issue where the buffs received by ‘Count The Odds’ sometimes counted as rolled buffs.
• Added an RTB cooldown bar to the icons. This is currently only displayed when the icon background is shown. Check your /ttb settings.

v9.0.1 build 2 (Oct 14, 2020)

• Removed debug outputs.
  

v9.0.1 build 1 (Oct 14, 2020)

• Some quick fixes to achieve compatibility with patch 9.0.1.

v8.3.0 build 1 (Jan 15, 2020)

• Updated for patch 8.3.0.

v8.2.5 build 2 (Dec 12, 2019)

• Saying and yelling outside of instanced content does not cause LUA errors any more. This means that being outside and setting the output channel to either say or yell does not do anything. Inside instances everything is as it always was.

v8.2.5 build 1 (Sep 26, 2019)

• Updated for patch 8.2.5.

v8.2.0 build 1 (Jun 26, 2019)

• Updated for patch 8.2.0.

v8.1.0 build 1 (Dec 14, 2018)

• Updated for patch 8.1.0.

v8.0.1 build 16 (Nov 05, 2018)

• Introducing a new “philosophy”: The addon is now partially loaded on other classes and specs than Outlaw. You can type all commands and also access the GUI configuration via /ttb. The event listeners that watch for a Roll The Bones cast are not active, though. But if you seek for maximum tidiness and performance, you should disable the addon on every class except Rogue anyway.
• Due to this change, there is no longer a LUA error showing up when you are on another class than Rogue and open the interface menu.
• Turning on the icon mode during a fight now correctly shows the cooldown timer and animation without having to do a roll first.
• The text box and the icon bar now always show during /ttb to preview the changes you make.
• Disabling the icon mode/text box mode while the corresponding frames are pinned (i.e. always shown) now results in the frames resetting correctly. Before, they still showed the active buffs until reloading the UI.

v8.0.1 build 15 (Nov 03, 2018)

v8.0.1 build 14 (Sep 05, 2018)

v8.0.1 build 13 (Jul 31, 2018)

• Fixed a bug in the command line interface (/ttb <command>). Some commands did not get executed properly and changed other settings instead.

v8.0.1 build 12 (Jul 31, 2018)

v8.0.1 build 11 (Jul 27, 2018)

• The beautification of the text box has begun! I’ll add more features to it in the next versions, to make it so nice you can actually show it to your friends 🙂
• Added the possibility to hide/show the background of the text box via /ttb GUI or CLI: /ttb textboxbackground true/false
• “Renamed” textbox to text box in the GUI (not in the commands).
• ALT + Y (hide all UI elements) now correctly hides the text box.
• Minor improvements under the hood.

v8.0.1 build 10 (Jul 23, 2018)

• Adapted the buff order to the current meta, following http://www.ravenholdt.net/battle-for-azeroth-quickstart-guides/.
• The icon bar is now always shown during /ttb to make customisation easier.
• Added a /ttb help output.

v8.0.1 build 9 (Jul 23, 2018)

• Switching to other specs now correctly disables the addon’s functionality. Switching back to Outlaw makes everything run again!

v8.0.1 build 8 (Jul 22, 2018)

v1.4.1 (Jul 22, 2018)

v1.4 (Jul 21, 2018)

v1.3.12 (Jul 20, 2018)

• Fixed an issue where in rare occasions the /ttb options *might* have been empty. This is probably related to the issues of some people who stated their addon settings got reset.
• The icon box now preview-scales while adjusting the slider in the settings.
• You can now show or hide the background of the icon box.

v1.3.11 (Jul 20, 2018)

• The text box and the icons are now shown after login/reload, if showtextbox or showicons were previously enabled.
• You can now scale the size of the icons from 0.5 to 2.0 (default is 1).

v1.3.10 (Jul 20, 2018)

• The cooldown numbers of the icon mode should not overlap the world map (and other UI elements) any more.

v1.3.9 (Jul 18, 2018)

• Should now work again; adapted to the latest API changes. Please let me know if you’ve got problems with saving your settings between sessions.

v1.3.8 (Jul 18, 2018)

• BFA prepatch day – yay!! Updated for patch 8.0.1.

v1.3.7 (Aug 30, 2017)

• Updated for patch 7.3.0.

v1.3.6 (Jul 25, 2017)

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