Highground Nearby — Open-World Enemy List

Highground Nearby keeps a list of the hostile players you have seen in the open world, most recent first. The rogue who walked past a minute ago, the mage on the hill: they're on the list, one click away. It runs on Retail, WoW Forever and Cataclysm Classic.

Features

👀 Who's around

• Name, class, level, guild, zone and how long ago, newest first.
• Spotted from nameplates, your target and mouseover. On Cataclysm Classic the combat log adds enemies hitting you without a visible nameplate.
• A sound when a new enemy shows up (at most one every ten seconds).
• Rows fade once an enemy is out of sight and drop off the list later.

🥷 Stealth alerts

• A chat line when a nearby enemy uses Stealth, Prowl, Vanish, Invisibility, Shadowmeld or Camouflage, and another when it fades.
• The row shows the spell while they're hidden.

📖 Enemy history

• Every enemy you meet is remembered, across sessions: how many times you met, how often they killed you and how often you killed them.
• When someone you met before shows up, chat says so: seen 3 times before, last 2d ago; killed you 2, you killed 1. Their row shows met 3x K1 D2.
• /hgn forget or Forget history in settings wipes it.
• /hgn journal searches encounters by name, class, guild, area or note. Add notes, mute alerts or start a bounty. (new)

🎯 One click

• Left-click a row to target the enemy, right-click to focus and go back to your target.
• In combat the rows keep their enemy; newcomers show as +N new until it ends.

💰 Shared bounties (new)

• Open /hgn bounty shared and opt in to receiving and publishing separately. Both start off.
• Contributions from different account IDs stack on the exact target. Choose a duration from five minutes to thirty days; the alert threshold uses the combined reward with recent available-funds reports.
• The poster's addon checks carried gold against outstanding commitments and reports Funds reported available, Insufficient funds or Funds status unknown. These reports do not guarantee payment.
• Claims require the poster's review; players pay through the game. Works with Highground and Highground Bounties within the realm/faction chat boundary.
• The board also supports personal alerts and guild submissions. /hgn bounty claims opens the claims ledger.

⚙️ Your way

• How many enemies to list, when to fade and when to forget, sound, stealth alerts and history on or off: /hgn config.
• Drag the list anywhere, then /hgn lock it. Hidden in battlegrounds, arenas, dungeons and raids.
• Clearer text and focus indicators, text-size controls and Reduced motion are available in settings. (new)
• Highground (cool slate and teal), Ember (charcoal and copper), Parchment (muted linen and pine) or Azeroth (new) (obsidian, antique gold and Warcraft titles): /hgn theme NAME.

Supported game versions

Retail and WoW Forever hide most combat information from addons: stealth is caught only when you see the cast, and a kill counts only when the game names the enemy.

Getting started

• Keep both included folders installed and enabled: HighgroundNearby and HighgroundBountyData, which preserves shared contributions and account IDs. Restart the game after installation or updates.
• The list appears on its own when you spot an enemy. /hgn test shows a preview to drag into place; /hgn help lists every command.
• Already using Highground? It has the same list built in (/hg nearby). Install Highground Nearby on its own if you only want the list.
• When Highground Bounties is loaded, Nearby stays inactive and directs you to /hgb, because Bounties already includes the list.

Links

• Join the Highground Discord — addon discussions, help, bug reports and feature requests.
• Guides, source code and issues