Castborn
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A lightweight castbar, cooldown and dot tracker for World of Warcraft: Forever & The Burning Crusade Classic.
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Castborn ships with a comprehensive introduction tutorial walking you through module enabling and pointing out what is available.
Track major class cooldowns as well as your currently equipped trinkets.
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Track absorbs from your class or a powerword shield.
The totem tracker shows Shaman at a glance cooldowns and helps track who is in range of their totems or not. All green? All good! Amber dots alert you to the fact that some party members are out of range.
Track class armour and be alerted to when it has fallen off.
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Description
Castbars, cooldowns and combat tracking in one addon. One download that runs on both WoW Forever and TBC Anniversary.
Castborn replaces a handful of addons with one: castbars, a GCD sweep, a swing timer, cooldown and item tracking, cooldown numbers on your action bars, and reminders for the buffs you forget. It sets itself up for your class, walks you through everything on first login, and then stays out of the way.
The same files run on WoW Forever and TBC Anniversary. Forever hides some combat data from addons, so a few modules are TBC only, and some work slightly differently.
| Module | TBC | Forever | Notes on Forever |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castbars (player, target, focus, target of target) | Yes | Yes | No spark or latency overlay when the game hides a cast's timing |
| GCD Indicator | Yes | Yes | |
| Swing Timer | Yes | Yes | Main hand, off hand and ranged, with an out-of-range dim |
| Cooldown Tracker | Yes | Yes | Short cooldowns can also get the ready glow |
| Cooldown Text | Yes | Styled numbers on your action bars (including Bartender4) and Castborn's icons | |
| Interrupt Tracker | Yes | Yes | Cooldown only, no lockout timer |
| Item Tracker | Yes | Yes | |
| Armour Reminder | Yes | Yes | Checks your buffs out of combat; clears straight away when you rebuff in combat |
| Seal Tracker | Yes | Yes | |
| Five Second Rule | Yes | ||
| DoT and Multi-DoT Trackers | Yes | ||
| Proc Tracker | Yes | ||
| Totem Tracker | Yes | ||
| Absorb Tracker | Yes |
A book of settings
The options window allows you to configure every module on its own page, a bookmark ribbon for the page you're on, and live previews as you change things.
Castbars
Player, target, focus and target-of-target castbars with latency, class colours, spell icons and a shield for casts you can't interrupt. Size, colour and anchor each one separately.
Cooldowns, at a glance
Track the abilities and trinkets that matter, with a ready glow when they come back. On Forever, Castborn also puts countdown numbers on your action bars, colour-coded by time left (white, then yellow under a minute, red under five seconds), and plays a pulse, burst or flash when a cooldown finishes. It works with Blizzard's bars and Bartender4.
Swing timer
Main hand, off hand and ranged swing bars with a glowing spark, a flash when each swing lands, and a dimmed bar when your target is out of range. Haste changes and weapon swaps are handled mid-swing.
Reminders
The Armour Reminder flags a missing self-buff (mage and warlock armours, Inner Fire, paladin blessings, auras and Righteous Fury), and the Seal Tracker shows your active seal with its time left.
More from TBC Anniversary
Proc tracking: live icons with remaining duration.
Absorb tracking: remaining shield amount and time left.
Totem tracking: durations, pulse pips and party range checks.
Getting started
- Install from CurseForge, or extract to
Interface/AddOns/Castborn. - Log in. A short guided tour starts automatically.
- Type
/cbto open the options at any time.
Castborn comes set up for your class, so most people never need to change much.
Commands
/cb- open the options/cb test- preview every module so you can position them/cb unlockand/cb lock- drag frames into place, then lock them/cb grid- show an alignment grid/cb reset- put every frame back in its default place/cb tutorial- replay the guided tour
Features
- Guided tour: a step-by-step introduction to each module on first login.
- Test mode: see and move everything without being in combat.
- Alignment grid and anchoring: snap frames into place, or attach modules to your castbar.
- Profiles: save, copy and share your setup between characters.
- Masque support for Castborn's icons.
- LibSharedMedia textures and fonts.
- Bartender4 support for cooldown numbers on Forever.
Feedback and support
Found a bug or have an idea? Use the Issues tab here, or GitHub issues.
Credits
Castborn ships two typefaces under the SIL Open Font License: Cormorant Garamond by Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts) and Source Sans 3 by Adobe.
Castborn Team
