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Wanderingfox
I'm pretty sure you can only see the threat values of something you or a raid member is targeting, or can indirectly target (target of target, etc.) That means that something like Omen2's AoE mode simply would not function using the Blizzard API, and would have to 'guess' threat values.
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Well, how it works is that when you change targets (and periodically while you have a mob targeted) Omen makes an API call that returns a table containing the entire threat list for that given mob. The issue is that this API call can only be called on a valid 'unitID' These unitIDs are the same things that you use in the target= part of a macro, so you can only access stuff like target, targettarget, etc.
Even though the threat is being recorded, you can only gain threat information on a single unitID at a time, which means if you have an AoE pull with 20 mobs, and only 6 of those mobs are targeted by someone in your raid, there is no way to get the threat information on the other 14 using the API. Omen could, in theory, still use the old system of guessing, but Omen's guesses were almost
always
wrong in AoE mode.
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