Basic Action Update

Basic Action Update is a lightweight, non-intrusive updater for World of Warcraft: Forever that automatically keeps your action bars synced with the highest spell ranks you know without messing up your custom layouts or changing extra intentionally downranked spells on the action bars.

When you visit a class trainer or change talents, the addon silently upgrades your abilities on the action bars in the background.

Key Features

• Downrank Protection: The addon only upgrades the highest rank of a spell already on your bars. If you keep a lower rank on the bar alongside the higher rank, the lower rank are left completely untouched.
• Zero Layout Disruption: It updates spells directly in their existing slots. It will never add new buttons, clear your bars, or alter your button order.
• Safe Combat Deferral: If you learn a spell during combat, the addon gracefully waits until you drop combat before making any bar modifications to prevent UI errors or lockups.

Slash Commands

Type /bau in-game to manage the addon:

• /bau status – View current addon status.
• /bau scan – Manually force a bar upgrade scan.
• /bau on – Enable automatic background scanning.
• /bau off – Disable automatic background scanning.
• /bau debug – Displays a detailed diagnostic breakdown of your current bars and upgrade paths.

Limitations

• Adding: Does not add new spells, only updates current spells on the action bar. Need to add new spells manually when you learn, once they are placed it will update as you learn them. (This is by design for the zero layout disruption).
• Macros: Does not automatically edit spell ranks written inside custom macros.