BoxTrack

A spell and macro tracker built specifically for dual/multi-boxing on WoW Classic Era, including Hardcore. Two independent, freely-positioned fading bars per character, plus a live status panel showing your other boxed toon's health, resources, and warnings at a glance — so you can actually see what both characters need without tabbing between them.

Why BoxTrack

Standard action bars don't tell you anything about your other character, and most range/cooldown addons weren't built with a second toon in mind. BoxTrack was, from the ground up: everything from macro generation to alerts to the party panel assumes you're watching two (or more) characters at once and need the important stuff to surface itself.

Core features

Two independent bars — separate position, anchor mode, icon size, and slot list per bar. Pin one above your character for offense, fix the other to a static screen spot for cooldowns and utility.

Smart fading — bars stay invisible until you have a target, then show only what's actually usable: in-range spells, friend/foe-appropriate spells (no melee attacks showing on a friendly target, no heals showing on a hostile one), buffs you're actually missing.

One-command macro generation — /bt genmacro writes real macros directly through the game's macro API and tracks them in one step. Built-in templates for attack-follow (with dead-target-safe retargeting), heal self, heal other, clear target, and follow-player. Scans your existing macros first so it never creates duplicates.

Buff, CC, and totem tracking — self-buff reminders that pulse when they drop, target-buff checks that hide once your target already has the buff, live countdown timers on crowd control and shaman totems.

Alerts that matter for boxing — low health/resource warnings (party and optional raid-wide), interrupt-ready flash, lost-follow detection, off-target warning when your two characters aren't hitting the same thing, low durability, low bag space, missing weapon enchant, reagent stock tracking.

Party status panel — a compact strip showing health, resource, XP, durability, gold, and professions for every tracked character side by side, including secondary professions (First Aid, Fishing, Cooking).

Economy automation — auto-sell junk and auto-repair at vendors with a gold reserve floor, auto-pass on loot rolls below a quality threshold you choose.

Full in-game options GUI — no config files to hand-edit. Includes a setup wizard for common role combinations (DPS+DPS, DPS+Healer, Tank+Healer, etc.), a clickable interactive tour that highlights each control on the actual panel and explains what it does, a complete color-coded commands reference and feature guide, and a console box for running commands without typing the /bt prefix.

Profiles — save and load complete bar layouts, and export/import a slot layout as a string to copy your setup onto another boxed character in seconds.

Built to survive Hardcore — dead-target-safe macro patterns throughout, an error log with full tracebacks for anything that goes wrong, and diagnostic commands (/bt syncdebug, /bt rangedebug, /bt status) for when something doesn't look right.

Quick start

/bt unlock                      -- everything shows at full opacity for editing
/bt add Power Word: Shield      -- adds to bar 1 ("Main")
/bt addmacro MyTrinket          -- tracks a macro's #showtooltip spell
/bt bar 2                       -- switch to bar 2 ("Utility")
/bt add Fear Ward
/bt opacity 60                  -- 0-100, applies to both bars and the party panel
/bt lock                        -- invisible until you select a target

Drag any icon anywhere while unlocked. No grid, no snapping — each icon remembers its own free position, independently per bar.

Or just type /bt gui and use the Setup Wizard.

Requirements

WoW Classic Era. Install the addon on every account/character you're boxing — BoxTrack syncs status between grouped characters over the standard party channel, so both sides need it running.

Commands

/bt or /bt help for a condensed in-game list. /bt gui for the full options panel. /bt tutorial for the setup guide. See the bundled COMMANDS.md for the complete reference with full explanations of every command.

Feedback and bugs

This addon is under active development. If something breaks, /bt errors last will print a full traceback — please include it when reporting an issue.