Forever Simple Battleground Timers

Forever Simple Battleground Timers puts every battleground countdown on screen as a thin bar: bases being taken, dropped flags, the gates opening and your next resurrection. Each bar says what it counts and how long is left, in the colour of the side it belongs to. In game it is listed as Forever Battleground Timers.

What it times

• Bases. Shipwreck Cove · Horde from the moment a base, tower or graveyard is assaulted until it changes hands. Red for the Horde, blue for the Alliance. Assaulted back, the bar starts over in the new colour; captured or defended, it goes.
• Flags. A dropped flag counts the seconds until it returns home, and Flag resets counts until a captured flag is back.
• Battle start. Battle begins counts down to the gates.
• Resurrection. While you wait at a spirit healer, the time to its next wave. With Keep counting on, it carries on as an estimate after you leave, so you can see when teammates who died there come back.

The soonest bar to end sits nearest the anchor. Locked, the bars are click-through and only show in a battleground while something counts down.

How to use it

• Settings are in Options → AddOns → Forever Battleground Timers (or /ftimers), with a live preview of the bars at the top.
• At the top of the settings page, Unlock to move shows the bars so you can place them any time, and Show on screen plays samples on them.
• Out of the box the bars are unlocked: drag the grey bar on top to place them, then turn on Lock position.
• Ctrl+click the bars to lock or unlock them. While unlocked, drag the dotted corner to resize; double-click it for the default size.
• Turn each kind of bar on or off, grow the stack upwards, and set width, bar height, scale and background opacity.
• Commands: /ftimers lock, /ftimers unlock, /ftimers reset, /ftimers options, /ftimers help.

Base and flag bars read the battleground's announcements, so they need an English game client.

Works better with

These addons are optional. The Forever Simple PvP addons are made to run side by side in battlegrounds:

• Forever Simple Targets: Every enemy and ally in a battleground in class colours, with health bars and the flag carrier; click a name to target that player.
• Forever Simple Spy: Enemy players near you, with alerts, a Nearby list and kill-on-sight watchlists.
• Forever Simple DR: How far each crowd-control category has diminished on enemy players, on your target and their nameplates.
• Forever Simple Cooldowns: Enemy cooldowns from what hits you: one timer per use.
• Forever Simple Battle Map: Your battle map key opens a flat, resizable battle map with flags, graveyards and your group.
• Forever Simple Enemy Buffs: Enemy buffs as a row of icons on their nameplates, in fights too, with presets and a filter for every kind of buff.

Feedback

We appreciate all feedback and comments, and we regularly update and change our addons based on them.