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Compatibility:	Cataclysm Classic (4.4.0)
Updated:	05-04-24 10:47 AM
Created:	01-20-10 11:40 AM
Downloads:	292,973
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Categories:	Unit Mods, Buff, Debuff, Spell, DPS, Healers, Tank

Threat Plates

Version: 11.2.6, Classic: 11.2.6

by: suicidalkatt, Blacksalsify

Threat Plates (TP for short) is a addon for customizing your nameplates. It offers a high amount of customization and tweaks to how your nameplates react and look. It also offers some unique features that are not available with any other nameplate addon. I've spent a considerable amount of time improving this addon and any comments or concerns about this addon are appreciated. I'm always looking for ways to improve this addon.

Features:

SharedMedia support and many, many, options for name, health, level, and spell text. As well as all of the standard nameplate features such as castbar and icon, elite icons / textures, skull icons / textures, raid marks, and healthbar coloring/alpha/scale.
Ace3 profiling.
Low memory footprint.
Threat system management.
Automatic talent detection and role assigning for an easy out of the box setup.
Customizable widgets.
Customizable totem nameplates.
Customizable nameplates for extra customization for specifically named units.

Commands:

/tptp - Displays options.
/tptptoggle - Toggle Role from one to the other.
/tptpdps - Toggles DPS/Healing threat plates.
/tptptank - Toggles Tank threat plates.
/tptpol - Toggles nameplate overlapping.
/tptpverbose - Toggles addon feedback text.

Additional Information:

A considerable amount of information about options and its internal priorities are not gone into details. Most options that are enable or disable based will toggle off options that are no longer changeable once enabled or disabled. If you have any questions about options and what they do, feel free to leave a comment or PM me here for more information.

Threat Plates In Action

Please feel free to leave feedback in the comments!

11.2.6 (2024-05-04)

Fixed a bug that resulted in Blizzard nameplates and Threat Plates being shown at the same time and overlapping each other [GH-516].

Archived Files (130)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
Threat Plates	11.2.5	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-04-24 05:18 AM
Threat Plates	11.2.4	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-04-24 01:42 AM
Threat Plates	11.2.3	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-02-24 10:57 AM
Threat Plates	11.2.2	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-01-24 04:55 AM
Threat Plates	11.2.1	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-01-24 12:49 AM
Threat Plates	11.2.0	4MB	suicidalkatt	04-30-24 11:02 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.44	4MB	suicidalkatt	04-13-24 02:01 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.43	4MB	suicidalkatt	04-13-24 12:12 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.42	4MB	suicidalkatt	04-01-24 07:06 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.42	4MB	suicidalkatt	04-01-24 07:06 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.41	4MB	suicidalkatt	03-22-24 02:06 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.40	4MB	suicidalkatt	03-08-24 01:12 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.39	4MB	suicidalkatt	02-26-24 12:21 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.39	4MB	suicidalkatt	02-26-24 12:21 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.38	4MB	suicidalkatt	02-09-24 09:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.37	5MB	suicidalkatt	01-28-24 09:05 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.36	5MB	suicidalkatt	12-22-23 11:51 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.36	5MB	suicidalkatt	12-22-23 11:51 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.36	5MB	suicidalkatt	12-22-23 11:51 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.35	5MB	suicidalkatt	12-11-23 11:50 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.34	5MB	suicidalkatt	12-08-23 06:30 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.33	5MB	suicidalkatt	12-01-23 09:29 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.32	5MB	suicidalkatt	11-27-23 02:59 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.31	5MB	suicidalkatt	11-26-23 05:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.31	5MB	suicidalkatt	11-26-23 05:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.31	5MB	suicidalkatt	11-26-23 05:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.30	5MB	suicidalkatt	11-09-23 11:09 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.29	5MB	suicidalkatt	10-03-23 12:45 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.29	5MB	suicidalkatt	10-03-23 12:45 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.29	5MB	suicidalkatt	10-03-23 12:45 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.28	5MB	suicidalkatt	09-15-23 07:36 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.28	5MB	suicidalkatt	09-15-23 07:36 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.28	5MB	suicidalkatt	09-15-23 07:36 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.27	5MB	suicidalkatt	09-06-23 09:07 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.27	5MB	suicidalkatt	09-06-23 09:07 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.26	5MB	suicidalkatt	08-27-23 01:00 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.25	4MB	suicidalkatt	07-15-23 06:02 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.24	4MB	suicidalkatt	07-12-23 11:41 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.24	4MB	suicidalkatt	07-12-23 11:41 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.24	4MB	suicidalkatt	07-12-23 11:41 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.23	4MB	suicidalkatt	06-24-23 12:02 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.22	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-21-23 08:35 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.21	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-19-23 12:35 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.20	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-18-23 07:17 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.19	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-03-23 10:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.19	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-03-23 10:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.19	4MB	suicidalkatt	05-03-23 10:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.18	4MB	suicidalkatt	04-16-23 07:50 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.17	4MB	suicidalkatt	03-22-23 10:57 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.16	4MB	suicidalkatt	03-17-23 11:31 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.15	4MB	suicidalkatt	02-26-23 07:19 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.14	4MB	suicidalkatt	02-10-23 11:54 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.14	4MB	suicidalkatt	02-10-23 11:54 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.13	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-29-23 04:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.13	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-29-23 04:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.13	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-29-23 04:46 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.12	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-28-23 06:19 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.12	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-28-23 06:19 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.11	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-25-23 01:21 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.10	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-24-23 02:16 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.10	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-24-23 02:16 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.10	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-24-23 02:16 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.9	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-10-23 12:18 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.8	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-08-23 04:24 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.8	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-08-23 04:24 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.8	4MB	suicidalkatt	01-08-23 04:24 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.7	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-28-22 04:06 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.6	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-22-22 05:02 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.6	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-22-22 05:02 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.5	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-22-22 12:08 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.4	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-03-22 05:20 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.4	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-03-22 05:20 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.4	4MB	suicidalkatt	12-03-22 05:20 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.3	4MB	suicidalkatt	11-28-22 10:57 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.2	4MB	suicidalkatt	11-26-22 09:40 AM
Threat Plates	11.1.1	4MB	suicidalkatt	11-16-22 12:30 PM
Threat Plates	11.1.0	4MB	suicidalkatt	11-15-22 04:38 AM
Threat Plates	11.0.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-04-22 03:07 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-04-22 03:07 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-04-22 03:07 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.5	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-02-22 12:27 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-31-22 05:09 AM
Threat Plates	11.0.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-31-22 05:09 AM
Threat Plates	11.0.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-31-22 05:09 AM
Threat Plates	11.0.3	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-27-22 01:14 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.3	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-27-22 01:14 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.3	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-27-22 01:14 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.2	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-27-22 12:00 PM
Threat Plates	11.0.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-26-22 11:35 AM
Threat Plates	11.0.0	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-25-22 11:55 PM
Threat Plates	10.5.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-19-22 10:07 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.5	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-16-22 12:34 PM
Threat Plates	10.5.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-07-22 02:53 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-07-22 02:53 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-07-22 02:53 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.3	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-01-22 04:42 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.2	3MB	suicidalkatt	09-09-22 11:08 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	09-04-22 04:19 AM
Threat Plates	10.5.0	3MB	suicidalkatt	09-03-22 01:16 AM
Threat Plates	10.4.2	3MB	suicidalkatt	08-19-22 01:41 PM
Threat Plates	10.4.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-05-22 11:24 AM
Threat Plates	10.4.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-05-22 11:24 AM
Threat Plates	10.4.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-05-22 11:24 AM
Threat Plates	10.4.0	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-01-22 01:00 PM
Threat Plates	10.3.8	3MB	suicidalkatt	06-01-22 11:17 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.7	3MB	suicidalkatt	05-18-22 01:26 PM
Threat Plates	10.3.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	05-08-22 03:18 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.5	3MB	suicidalkatt	04-22-22 11:32 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.4	3MB	suicidalkatt	03-28-22 11:16 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.3	3MB	suicidalkatt	03-12-22 07:16 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.2	3MB	suicidalkatt	02-27-22 04:29 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	02-25-22 10:53 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.1	3MB	suicidalkatt	02-25-22 10:53 AM
Threat Plates	10.3.0	3MB	suicidalkatt	02-23-22 08:49 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.14	3MB	suicidalkatt	12-17-21 11:51 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.13	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-01-21 12:58 PM
Threat Plates	10.2.13	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-01-21 12:58 PM
Threat Plates	10.2.13	3MB	suicidalkatt	11-01-21 12:58 PM
Threat Plates	10.2.12	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-23-21 02:32 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.12	3MB	suicidalkatt	10-23-21 02:32 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.11	3MB	suicidalkatt	08-10-21 11:55 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.10	3MB	suicidalkatt	08-08-21 07:37 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.9	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-28-21 11:57 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.8	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-24-21 10:59 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.7	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-21-21 10:19 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-18-21 07:47 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-18-21 07:47 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.6	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-18-21 07:47 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.5	3MB	suicidalkatt	07-02-21 02:30 AM
Threat Plates	10.2.3	3MB	suicidalkatt	06-12-21 09:04 AM

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12-21-17, 02:51 AM
MysticalOS A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 54 File comments: 319 Uploads: 10	Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon One last request, maybe finally redo global TidyPlatesThreat to something else, to resolve conflict with the other tidy plates threat fork. alternatively as a shortcut, just throw some extra global in mod somewhere i can use for my check that only you have and Tidy Plates: Threat does not something like TidyPlatesThreatOfficial = "Yo" just so I can change my check to TidyPlatesThreatOfficial instead of using TidyPlatesThreat which would pass callbacks to the poorly maintained other fork that wouldn't work.

12-20-17, 10:15 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Originally Posted by Blacksalsify

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

I figured it'd be done by now, but now I'm getting antorus users complaining DBM no longer works with tidy plates, so I might disable the pass on for now and use internal handling again until it's properly implimented

Ok, finally the new version 8.6.0 with the boss mods functionality is released. It took me a lot of time as there was a bug that I just could not fix (not related to the boss mod part).

Was slow to read this, I'll make sure to enable pass on in next update. I JUST did one few min ago so it's not in that update. I'll put it in alpha versions for testing though.

Thanks, that's absolutely fine. I enabled it locally by changing DBM and it seems to work without any issues.

12-19-17, 02:42 PM

MysticalOS

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by Blacksalsify

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Ok, finally the new version 8.6.0 with the boss mods functionality is released. It took me a lot of time as there was a bug that I just could not fix (not related to the boss mod part).

Was slow to read this, I'll make sure to enable pass on in next update. I JUST did one few min ago so it's not in that update. I'll put it in alpha versions for testing though.

12-17-17, 10:10 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Ok, finally the new version 8.6.0 with the boss mods functionality is released. It took me a lot of time as there was a bug that I just could not fix (not related to the boss mod part).

Last edited by Blacksalsify : 12-17-17 at 10:10 AM.

12-01-17, 11:33 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Yeah, I released an alpha where it's working already, but I did not find the time to finsh it. v8.6. which will contain it will probably take two more weeks to finish. So, I think it's best to disable it until v8.6. is release. Sorry for that.

11-30-17, 09:39 PM
MysticalOS A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 54 File comments: 319 Uploads: 10	Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon I figured it'd be done by now, but now I'm getting antorus users complaining DBM no longer works with tidy plates, so I might disable the pass on for now and use internal handling again until it's properly implimented

10-30-17, 05:41 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Originally Posted by Blacksalsify

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

its still worth supporting for hostile namplates, like kui does (which is preferred way because then user can configure it a lot more like size, etc. DBMs "backup" code for non kui users is not feature rich as DBM isn't actually a nameplate mod).

dbm right now simply does basic and more limited version of it if user isn't using kui, but if they are using kui it just passes it on to KUI to handle. you can look at DBM-Nameplates to see what's going on.

If you add proper support then I can simply update DBM to pass request to threat plates.

This is still used and quite helpful on a LOT of fights (most notable this tier is showing what mobs have bone armor on Desolate Host

You will note that DBM still supports friendly nameplate auras while Bigwigs version of it stripped that out. My thought on this was that world bosses have no restrictions and you just never know.

I started to working on supporting this feature now. Is there any easy way to test it (like a button for showing test icons like there is for other DMB UI elements)? Going into LFR to test it is to really fun

Edit: Ah, found it: /run DBM.Nameplate:Show(true, UnitGUID("target"), 227723)

Glad I checked this, so I should go ahead and add TPTP global to DBM so DBM passes it to you and doesn't double up and run internal code as well.

and done, now if you use latest alpha, DBM will trust you to handle it, and not run any of it's internal nameplate code at all. Now you get to do all fun stuff, test the enable/disable call backs, etc.

Great. I'll do that. It's basically working right now, even in raids (with some local changes to DBM). Still have to improve the performance though. Plan is to integrate it into the 8.6 release (with ETA currently).

10-29-17, 02:39 PM

MysticalOS

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by Blacksalsify

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Edit: Ah, found it: /run DBM.Nameplate:Show(true, UnitGUID("target"), 227723)

Last edited by MysticalOS : 10-29-17 at 02:45 PM.

10-18-17, 11:56 AM

Blacksalsify

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Originally Posted by MakeVio

I have disabled all addons except for this in hopes to get it to work. So I can see the initial difference of the health bar. Red fill in, bubble art style type, whatever. But then from there it seems no changes I make in my settings are applied. I can't even get the level to come up. I have it all enabled but still will not dispaly level, or any other changes for that matter. I change the art style detection, so it looks like the lines with dots, and that doesn't work either. Any idea what might be going on? I have this installed, but I also have the original tidy plates installed too, because I can't use this without that(Dependency missing). And I can't change any of those settings either, none of the drop down menus work, can't change from graphite or anything.

Ended up disabling everything but tidy plates, the widget, and then the threat platess. Works fine now :P I am also able to load all my other addons.

That's really weird, but good that it works again.

10-17-17, 02:17 PM
MakeVio A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 18 File comments: 11 Uploads: 0	I have disabled all addons except for this in hopes to get it to work. So I can see the initial difference of the health bar. Red fill in, bubble art style type, whatever. But then from there it seems no changes I make in my settings are applied. I can't even get the level to come up. I have it all enabled but still will not dispaly level, or any other changes for that matter. I change the art style detection, so it looks like the lines with dots, and that doesn't work either. Any idea what might be going on? I have this installed, but I also have the original tidy plates installed too, because I can't use this without that(Dependency missing). And I can't change any of those settings either, none of the drop down menus work, can't change from graphite or anything. Ended up disabling everything but tidy plates, the widget, and then the threat platess. Works fine now :P I am also able to load all my other addons. Last edited by MakeVio : 10-17-17 at 02:38 PM.

10-08-17, 02:42 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Edit: Ah, found it: /run DBM.Nameplate:Show(true, UnitGUID("target"), 227723)

Last edited by Blacksalsify : 10-08-17 at 09:24 AM.

08-08-17, 11:47 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Ok, that sounds interesting. I'll have a look at it.

08-07-17, 01:55 AM
MysticalOS A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 54 File comments: 319 Uploads: 10	Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon its still worth supporting for hostile namplates, like kui does (which is preferred way because then user can configure it a lot more like size, etc. DBMs "backup" code for non kui users is not feature rich as DBM isn't actually a nameplate mod). dbm right now simply does basic and more limited version of it if user isn't using kui, but if they are using kui it just passes it on to KUI to handle. you can look at DBM-Nameplates to see what's going on. If you add proper support then I can simply update DBM to pass request to threat plates. This is still used and quite helpful on a LOT of fights (most notable this tier is showing what mobs have bone armor on Desolate Host You will note that DBM still supports friendly nameplate auras while Bigwigs version of it stripped that out. My thought on this was that world bosses have no restrictions and you just never know. Last edited by MysticalOS : 08-07-17 at 01:58 AM.

08-05-17, 01:46 AM

Blacksalsify

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon

Originally Posted by MysticalOS

Just to chime in, DBM didn't use any arrows on nameplates. Just debuffs. Blizzard didn't actually care about anchoring debuffs to nameplates either (it's why they still allow DBM and BW to do it on hostile targets).

What got the feature removed was exorsus using nameplates to calculate player positions. Because you get position of any namplate on screen, and because friendly nameplates existed, exorsus created tools that allows them to write a HUD using nameplates even though blizzard went out of their way to kill huds by gutting UnitPosition. It was pretty complex too and even enabled them to use radars again because you can stll use spells to check ranges, so checking ranges AND nameplates combined let you approximate unit positions without UnitPosition(). The end result is, now blizzard gutted nameplates too. Blizzard wasn't mad at bigwigs and DBM for what they did, and would have left nameplates alone if Exorsus hadn't tried to get clever and use them to bring back a feature blizzard intentionally removed.

I did not know that. There were some requests to implement these features (anchoring DMB/BW stuff) some time ago, but before I had the time to look into it, Blizzard removed the possibility

. Still, interesting to know what was possible.

I still think Blizzard should have found another solution than to disable all nameplate addons in raid environments for friendly units. But it was the easiest solution, I guess.

08-01-17, 03:43 PM
MysticalOS A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 54 File comments: 319 Uploads: 10	Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Party nameplates in a dungeon Just to chime in, DBM didn't use any arrows on nameplates. Just debuffs. Blizzard didn't actually care about anchoring debuffs to nameplates either (it's why they still allow DBM and BW to do it on hostile targets). What got the feature removed was exorsus using nameplates to calculate player positions. Because you get position of any namplate on screen, and because friendly nameplates existed, exorsus created tools that allows them to write a HUD using nameplates even though blizzard went out of their way to kill huds by gutting UnitPosition. It was pretty complex too and even enabled them to use radars again because you can stll use spells to check ranges, so checking ranges AND nameplates combined let you approximate unit positions without UnitPosition(). The end result is, now blizzard gutted nameplates too. Blizzard wasn't mad at bigwigs and DBM for what they did, and would have left nameplates alone if Exorsus hadn't tried to get clever and use them to bring back a feature blizzard intentionally removed.

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