DK Assist 2
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Death Knight combat alerts and trackers for Unholy, Frost, and Blood — Retail 12.1.0.
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Description
DK Assist 2
Configurable combat alerts and trackers for Unholy, Frost, and Blood Death Knights in World of Warcraft Retail / Midnight. Open the settings with /dka.
This community-maintained fork of DK Assist by ZachoWOW preserves the original MIT license and attribution.
Update 2.1.3
- Added optional Always Show mode for the Blood Shield tracker.
- Added optional countdown numbers beside the yellow duration bar, independent of the icon.
- Improved Blood Shield positioning, Total Absorbs readability, and bar behavior.
- Added Cooldown Manager duration fallback using the identified Blood Shield icon, plus an optional estimated Death Strike timer.
- Fixed the first Death Strike timer during combat entry and improved cleanup, mouse pass-through, and drag behavior.
New in 2.1.0
- Killing Machine and Rime text alerts: optional, independent, movable text alerts with custom text, font, outline, size, and colour controls.
- Optional timers below the text: enable them separately for each Frost proc alert.
- Choose your display: use Frost text with the icon or Cooldown Manager glow, or use text alone.
Features
- Frost: Killing Machine, Rime, Pillar of Frost, Breath of Sindragosa, timelines, movable icons, text alerts, timers, and configurable glows.
- Unholy: Festering Scythe, Sudden Doom, Putrefy, Summon Gargoyle, Dark Transformation, and Blightfall/Soul Reaper trackers with timelines, glows, text, and countdowns.
- Blood: Blood Shield, Bone Shield, Death and Decay, and Cleaving reminders with configurable display and glow controls.
- Customization: four glow styles, colours, presets, animation speed, opacity, themes, live previews, position locks, Rescan Bars, Test tools, minimap and addon-compartment access.
Installation
- Download the latest release ZIP.
- Extract the DKAssist folder into
World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/. - Restart WoW or run
/reload, then open/dka.
Credits and license
Original project: DK Assist (Death Knight QoL) by ZachoWOW. Maintained by FaneyQ8 and distributed under the MIT License.
DK Assist 2 Team
