DK Never Overcap RP

DK Never Overcap RP draws a soft glow around your Death Knight as runic power nears the cap. It is faint when it first appears and at full strength at the cap, so you know to spend before it's wasted. There are no bars or numbers: you watch your character, and the glow tells you when.

Highlights

• Every Death Knight spec. Blood, Frost and Unholy, each on or off, each with its own color.
• Hand-drawn patterns. Five around your character and two across the screen, in any combination.
• Easy on the eyes. Soft by default. Opacity glides instead of flashing, and the near-cap pulse is a slow breath.
• Light by design. Nothing runs every frame, and on other classes the addon does nothing at all after login.
• Quiet. No chat messages and no slash commands.

Features

The overlay

• Builds with your runic power. It appears at the share of max runic power you choose (85% by default) and reaches full strength at the cap.
• Pulse near cap. An optional slow pulse from a second threshold (95% by default), for the last moment to spend.
• Smooth. Opacity changes glide with a short ease, so spending and gaining runic power never looks like a flash.
• Only in combat, if you'd rather not see it while you move around town.
• Works in Midnight combat, where the game can hide runic power from addons.

Patterns

Pick one pattern around your character, one across the screen, or one of each. Either can be off.

Group	Patterns
Around you	Rune circle · Halo · Arcs · Sigil · Embers
Screen	Edge glow · Corners

The patterns around you turn slowly and breathe. You can turn that motion off, and set their size and height.

Every spec, its own color

Blood, Frost and Unholy each have an on/off switch and a color. The overlay takes the color of the spec you're in, and so do the settings window's accents. The defaults are a muted blood red, frost blue and unholy green; click a color dot to pick your own.

Settings window

• A compact, flat window with a live Preview that shows the overlay at full strength.
• A status line: active in your spec, paused in a spec you turned off, or previewing.
• Opens in combat, and stays out of the way of other addons' settings skins.

Minimap button

• Left-click opens the settings, right-click turns the overlay on or off, drag moves the button.
• Gray while the overlay is off.
• Registers through LibDBIcon when another addon has loaded it, so minimap skins and button bars such as EllesmereUI handle it like any other launcher. Nothing is bundled for it.
• Shows only on Death Knights.

Installation

CurseForge and Wago

Install it with the CurseForge app or the Wago app, or download it from CurseForge or Wago.

Manual

1. Download DKNeverOvercapRP-<version>.zip from the latest release on GitHub.
2. Extract it into World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/, so that the .toc file ends up at Interface/AddOns/DKNeverOvercapRP/DKNeverOvercapRP.toc.
3. Restart the game and make sure DK Never Overcap RP is enabled in the AddOns list.

No other addons are required.

Usage

Where	Action
Minimap button, left-click	Open or close the settings window
Minimap button, right-click	Turn the overlay on or off
Minimap button, drag	Move the button around the minimap
Options → AddOns → DK Never Overcap RP	Open settings
Settings window, Esc or ×	Close it

Drag the settings window by any empty space to move it.

Settings

Section	Options	Default
General	Enable overlay	On
	Only in combat	Off
	Minimap button	Shown
Specializations	Blood, Frost, Unholy: on/off and color	All on
Trigger	Appear at	85%
	Pulse near cap, pulse at	On, 95%
Appearance	Around you	Rune circle
	Screen	None
	Max opacity	70%
	Size	100%
	Vertical offset	-20 px
	Motion	On
	Smooth fade	On

Reset in the settings window restores the defaults and keeps the minimap button where you put it. Settings are saved for your account.

Performance

• Not a Death Knight: after login the addon registers no events, builds no overlay and runs nothing.
• Spec turned off, or overlay off: it only listens for spec changes.
• Active: it reacts to your runic power changing, and nothing else. The only frame-by-frame work is a short fade, which stops when it reaches its target, plus the pattern animations, which the game runs only while the overlay is visible.
• Pattern textures load only when you pick them, and the settings window is built the first time you open it.

Compatibility

• Retail World of Warcraft 12.1.0, 12.1.5 and 12.1.7 (Interface: 120100, 120105, 120107). The addon doesn't load on Classic.
• Works with minimap button collectors and skins, such as EllesmereUI.
• The settings window uses the Inter font, which covers Latin and Cyrillic. Korean and Chinese clients use the game's own font.

Known limitations

• If the game hides runic power from addons in combat, opacity changes there are instant instead of eased. The game itself works out the opacity, so the overlay still follows your runic power.
• English only.

Reporting issues

Open an issue at github.com/powercover/DKNeverOvercapRP/issues and include:

• your game version (/dump GetBuildInfo());
• your spec and the patterns you picked;
• any Lua error, for example from BugSack;
• a screenshot or short clip, if the problem is visual.

Development

The addon is plain Lua with no libraries.

File	Purpose
Core.lua	Saved settings, defaults, spec and runic power helpers
Display.lua	The overlay: patterns, colors, eased fades, the pulse and the event handling
Options.lua	The settings window and its Options → AddOns entry
Minimap.lua	The minimap button, through LibDBIcon when it's loaded
Media/	The overlay's and the window's textures, and the Inter font

License

Copyright © 2026 powercover. All rights reserved.

DK Never Overcap RP is free to download and use, but it isn't open source. You may use it, unmodified, as an add-on for World of Warcraft. Redistributing it, publishing modified versions, or reusing its code or art requires the author's written permission. See LICENSE for the full terms.

The bundled Inter font is licensed separately under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (Media/Fonts/OFL.txt).

World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. This addon is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.

Author

Made by powercover.