Comix — fun crit & combat feedback, ported to WoW: Forever

Comix turns ordinary combat into a bit of a show: big crit images, crit sounds, screen flashes, a crit streak reward, death stingers, zone sounds, a boing on every jump, Chuck Norris facts and more.

Comix: WoW Forever is a fork of Comix Reborn by frozn45, licensed under GPLv3.

Original Comix by Turaka and Nixxen, continued as Comix (Reloaded) by Darool (original CurseForge page, deleted by the owner on 8.7.2021).

WoW: Forever port by Aldraku.

Changes from Comix Reborn

• Reworked event handling, since the combat log is not accessible in WoW: Forever.
• Removed Classic support.

Requirements

• WoW: Forever (Interface 16001, flavor _classic_beta_).
• The game's built-in Damage Meter must be enabled. Comix's crit feedback is driven by the client's combat-text feed, and in practice that feed only starts up once the damage meter is on. Enable it once and it stays on — without it, crit images and crit sounds will not appear.

Features

Crit feedback

• Your damage crits pop a random crit image with a crit sound and a red screen flash.
• Your heal crits get a green flash, a holy image and a heal sound.
• Spell-school crit art — fire, frost, nature, shadow, arcane, holy and the combinations (frostfire, shadowflame, shadowfrost, spellstorm) each show their own image set. Physical damage uses the default set.
• Land several crits close together for the "Impressive" streak — the Iron Man image plus a special sound. How many it takes is configurable.
• A Crit Percent slider controls how often images appear at all.

Combat flavour

• Death — image and sound when you die.
• Zone and instance — a sound on every zone change, and the Dr. Evil "welcome to my underground lair" line when you enter an instance.
• Ready check and resurrect sounds.
• Jump — a boing on every jump, plus a jump counter you can report in chat.

Chuck Norris facts

A fact after you log in, and after every loading screen or instance load. /comix fact shows one on demand; /comix chuck turns them off.

Buddies

Keeps track of who you group up with the most, sorted by how often. The list shows the first name; hover a row to see the full name.

Jump sound picker

Not a fan of the boing? Pick any of the ~90 sounds shipped with the addon from the Advanced options window, or with /comix jumpsound <name>.

Options window

Open with /comix. A parchment-styled panel with a toggle for everything, plus sliders for image size, animation speed, crit chance, the streak threshold and more.

WoW: Forever

Forever runs on a modern engine that does not let addons read the combat log, so this port is rebuilt on the feeds that are still allowed:

• Damage and heal crits come from UNIT_COMBAT and COMBAT_TEXT_UPDATE. Your crits are told apart from a nearby player's by checking the victim and by preferring the player-centric combat-text feed.
• Spell-school crit images work again — UNIT_COMBAT reports the spell's school (schoolMask), so fire, frost, nature, shadow, arcane, holy and the combinations (frostfire, shadowflame, shadowfrost, spellstorm) each show their own art. Physical damage uses the default set.
• The addon deliberately does not register COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED. On this client that triggers "blocked from an action reserved for Blizzard addons".
• Removed, because the combat log is unavailable: the Overkill images, the minimum-damage "Crit Gap" setting and the kill-streak counter.

Slash commands

• /comix — options window
• /comix help — command list
• /comix about — version and credits
• /comix fact — show a Chuck Norris fact
• /comix chuck — toggle the login and loading facts
• /comix jumpsound — show the current jump sound
• /comix jumpsound <name> — pick a jump sound
• /comix buddies — who you group with most
• /comix clearbuddies — reset the buddy list
• /comix combattext — toggle crit feedback
• /comix diag — diagnostics, if something looks wrong
• /fail, /awesome — post a fail or awesome spell link to say, party, raid, guild or a whisper
• /drama, /badjoke — drama and bad-joke emotes
• /rl — reload the UI

Credits

• Original Comix by Turaka and Nixxen.
• Continued as Comix (Reloaded) by Darool.
• Comix Reborn by frozn45, licensed under GPLv3 — this addon is a fork of it.
• WoW: Forever port by Aldraku.
• Options window parchment art from DFLDungeonJournal. Changelog — 8.2.5.6-forever

8.2.5.6-forever — first WoW: Forever release

First release of the Forever port. Original Comix by Turaka and Nixxen, continued as Comix (Reloaded) by Darool, and Comix Reborn by frozn45; ported to WoW: Forever by Aldraku.

Ported to WoW: Forever (Interface 16001)

• Loads on the Forever client (previously targeted Retail 8.2.5 / Classic 1.13.2).
• The addon no longer registers COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED, which on this client pops "blocked from an action reserved for Blizzard addons". The whole combat-log path was removed.
• Options window updated for this client (OptionsButtonTemplate no longer exists, and the old backdrop element had to be replaced).
• Health values and unit names can be secret in combat; the checks that touched them now skip those instead of throwing errors.

Crit feedback rebuilt

Forever does not let addons read the combat log, so crit handling was rebuilt on the feeds that are still allowed:

• Crit images, crit sounds, screen flashes and the "Impressive" streak now come from UNIT_COMBAT and COMBAT_TEXT_UPDATE.
• Heal crits included.
• A nearby player's crits no longer trigger your graphics.
• Spell-school crit images are back. UNIT_COMBAT reports the spell's school (schoolMask), so fire, frost, nature, shadow, arcane, holy and the combinations (frostfire, shadowflame, shadowfrost, spellstorm) each show their own art again. Physical damage uses the default set.
• Requires the game's built-in Damage Meter to be enabled.

New

• Chuck Norris facts — one after logging in and after every loading screen or instance load (/comix fact, /comix chuck).
• Jump sound picker — choose any of the ~90 sounds shipped with the addon (Advanced options, or /comix jumpsound <name>).
• Buddies — tracks who you group up with the most; the list shows the first name and reveals the full name on hover.
• /comix diag for troubleshooting.

Fixed

• Crit images could freeze mid-animation on high frame rates. The animation loop's timer was reset every frame, so above ~125 fps it never advanced at all.

Options window

• Reskinned with parchment art (from DFLDungeonJournal): dark readable text, paper check boxes, buttons sized to their labels and a wider panel.

Removed

• The dead combat-log code path, and with it the features that only worked through it: Overkill images, the "Crit Gap" minimum-damage setting and the Kill Count. None of them can work on Forever, where the combat log is unavailable.
• The Overkill art, an orphan sound file, dead localization strings and other unused code left over from earlier versions.

Credits

• Original Comix by Turaka and Nixxen.
• Continued as Comix (Reloaded) by Darool.
• Comix Reborn by frozn45, licensed under GPLv3 — this addon is a fork of it.
• WoW: Forever port by Aldraku.