[Phinix]

What at first glance seemed like it would be a major loss has turned out to be a gain for 90% of modding purposes. Thanks Chip, for taking the time to listen to our concerns and for making the stuff that matters work even better.

Since these changes are still "in the oven" so to speak, I thought it pertinent to revisit a request I posted on the ZOS forums some months back. Specifically, might it be possible to return persistent, unique, non-player unitID information to EVENT_RETICLE_TARGET_CHANGED?

Right now for Srendarr I am using a table built on the fly based on the NAME of the target, to keep track of debuffs not returned by GetUnitBuffInfo().

Starting at line 353 in AuraControl.lua:

Warning: Spoiler

local function ActiveFakes() -- Check for active fake debuffs
	local total = 0
	for k,v in pairs(fakeTargetDebuffs) do
		currentTime = GetGameTimeMillis() / 1000
		if trackTargets[k] ~= nil and trackTargets[k][unitName] ~= nil then
			if trackTargets[k][unitName] < currentTime then
				trackTargets[k][unitName] = nil -- Clear expired targets from cache
			else
				total = total + 1
			end
		end
	end
	return total
end

numAuras = GetNumBuffs('reticleover') + ActiveFakes()

if (numAuras > 0) then -- target has auras, scan and send to handler

	for k,v in pairs(fakeTargetDebuffs) do -- Reassign still-existing fake debuffs on target
		currentTime = GetGameTimeMillis() / 1000
		if trackTargets[k] ~= nil and trackTargets[k][unitName] ~= nil then
			if trackTargets[k][unitName] > currentTime then
				AuraHandler(
					false,
					GetAbilityName(k),
					'reticleover',
					currentTime,
					trackTargets[k][unitName],
					fakeTargetDebuffs[k].icon,
					BUFF_EFFECT_TYPE_DEBUFF,
					ABILITY_TYPE_NONE,
					k
				)
			end
		end
	end

	...

However this is obviously limited as mobs will frequently be in packs where they all share the same name (Vicious Mudcrab, Crazy Cultist, etc.)

Having a unique identifier that is semi-persistent (phase/shard-specific until death?) would allow proper multi-unit debuff tracking. I could easily enough code a cleanup function based on timestamps, so anything that didn't have any buff info within say a 30sec window would be purged on reticle target change.

Thanks again!

EDIT:

I see that EVENT_EFFECT_CHANGED already has a unitId interger but it always returns nil is that correct? Also EVENT_COMBAT_EVENT seems to return an actual value. Is this actionable? How is persistence determined for example for the unitId returned for the player?