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04-05-13, 05:41 PM   #1
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Patch 5.3 PTR Note Regarding Nameplates

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/913...e-3_22_2013#ui

When using name plates, castbars will now display for all NPCs.
I am wondering if this implies that Blizzard will be providing events more reliably to tell us when units are casting, or is this a bug fix for the castbar of NPC nameplates when targeted?
 
04-05-13, 06:14 PM   #2
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I believe they're referring to the fact that currently, the cast bar only shows up for the target, not for all units that are casting.

I wouldn't rely on any events being added for this considering nameplates are mostly handled C-side as it is and thus far we already need to use polling to find out when nameplates are created or their health bar colour changes.
 
04-05-13, 06:50 PM   #3
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Well, currently any AddOn that adds castbars to non-target nameplates has a lot of work to do, monitoring combat log events, caching units in several different ways, etc.

Hopefully this will be one step closer to removing the currently necessary bloat of nameplate AddOns.
 
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I fear they will go the easy route and simply call the Show/Hide on the castbar and update it properly, all from the C-side, so nothing new regarding lua events or API I reckon, sadly.
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Back in the old days of WoW this was already in place. But they removed it to only show the castbar on the current target. Good that they added it back in.
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04-06-13, 02:16 PM   #6
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Oh, I wasn't aware of that Zork. Neat.

Hoping this is one step in the right direction for Nameplate AddOns
 
 

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