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Druid GuardianHelper

Guardian Druid tank assistant for Classic & TBC. Rage bar, Maul-queue, cooldown tracker, Faerie Fire/Demo Roar uptime — auto-updates action bars on level-up.
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Description

GuardianHelper — Guardian Druid Tank Assistant

GuardianHelper is a compact, feature-rich addon for Guardian Druid tanks in TBC Classic Anniversary Edition. Designed to give you everything you need to hold aggro, track your cooldowns, and keep your group alive — all in one clean, dark gaming UI.


Features

🐻 Bear Form Panel

  • Rage bar with color coding (low / medium / high)
  • Bear Form indicator — turns red when you shift out
  • Maul / Krallenhieb queue tracker
  • Auto-attack monitor — alerts you when auto-attack drops in combat (with configurable sound)

💚 Buff Checker

  • Tracks Mark of the Wild and Thorns with real spell icons
  • Level-gated: only shows buffs you can actually have
  • Sound alert on pull if a buff is missing

🎯 Debuff Timers

  • Faerie Fire (Feral) — shows remaining duration on target
  • Demoralizing Roar — shows remaining duration on target
  • Detected via SpellID for maximum reliability

⚔️ Cooldown Panel

  • 7 slots: Bash, Growl, Enrage, Frenzied Regen, Barkskin, Mangle, Lacerate
  • Real in-game spell icons
  • Click-to-cast (no UI taint, works in combat)
  • Bindable via WoW's native keybinding menu (ESC → Key Bindings → AddOns)

📊 Aggro Monitor (new panel, /gh aggro)

  • Always shows your own aggro at the top with mob count
  • Tracks all group/raid members being attacked in real time
  • Color-coded mob count: white = 1, orange = 2, red = 3+
  • Healer highlighting: red background + [H] badge when a healer has aggro
  • Click-to-target: click any row to target one of their mobs (works in combat, no taint)
  • Hover tooltip shows attacker names
  • Configurable: show always or only during combat

⚙️ Config Panel (right-click minimap icon)

  • Toggle sounds per category with preview buttons (6 Blizzard sounds)
  • Show main panel in combat only
  • Show aggro monitor in combat only
  • Reset aggro monitor position
  • Opacity slider

Slash Commands

/gh · /gh config · /gh aggro · /gh lock · /gh hide · /gh show · /gh reset · /gh status


Compatibility

  • ✅ TBC Classic Anniversary Edition (2.5.5)
  • ✅ TBC Classic (2.4.3)
  • ✅ German and English clients
  • ✅ Works solo, in party, and in raids (up to 40 players)

Lightweight — no dependencies, no libraries. Pure Lua.


Mitmachen

Das Addon ist Open Source! Bugmeldungen, Feature-Wünsche und Pull Requests sind herzlich willkommen.

GitHub: https://github.com/flexisticker/guardian-helper-wow

The Druid GuardianHelper Team

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Hey, I'm Micha — a hobby developer from Germany. 🐻 I'm not a professional coder, but with a passion for gaming and a little help from AI, I build things that actually work. GuardianHelper started because I needed a proper tank H