Ka0s Absorb Tracker

Ka0s Absorb Tracker shows your absorb shields as a movable bar. It adds every shield on the unit into one number, so a glance tells you how much damage you can eat before your health starts moving.

There are three bars: Player, Target and Focus. Target and Focus ship switched off. You can put each bar anywhere on screen and restyle it down to the texture, the border and the font, or link it to the Player bar and let it follow along. The fill, background, border and absorb number can each take a class color if you prefer, and the class is always that bar's own unit's.

Screenshots

Absorb Tracker in Action

Usage

The first time you log in, the Player bar shows up in the middle of the screen, unlocked. An unlocked bar draws a partial fill and a small handle strip with the unit's name, so there's something to grab even with no shield up. That is the whole preview. There's no separate test mode. /at lock pins the bars and /at unlock frees them again. Entering combat locks them for you, and you can't unlock in the middle of a fight.

Setting up takes four steps.

• Place the Player bar. Drag the bar or its handle strip where you want it, then type /at lock. If a bar ever ends up somewhere you can't reach, /at resetposition puts every bar back in the middle. The small X on the strip turns that bar off. Tick its box on General → Bars, or type /at toggle player, to bring it back.
• Turn on Target and Focus. Both ship switched off. Tick Enable Target Bar or Enable Focus Bar on General → Bars. A Target or Focus bar only draws while you have that unit, but it shows while unlocked even with nothing targeted, so you can drag it into place. Each bar keeps its own position.
• Style the bars. The Unit picker at the top of the Appearance page picks the bar you're editing, and the Size, Bar, Background, Border and Text tabs sit under it. The bar fill, background, border and text can each take a class color, and it's always the class of that bar's own unit, so the Target bar wears your target's. Target and Focus start with Use same styling as Player ticked and follow the Player bar live. Untick it to style one yourself, or press Copy styling from Player for a one-time copy.
• Decide when the bars show. General → Master controls covers all three at once. General visibility picks always, only in combat, only out of combat or never, and master scale and master alpha sit next to it. Master alpha multiplies with each bar's own Bar opacity, so 50% under a master alpha of 50% draws at 25%.

To see how a real number looks, /at debug hold 50000 puts a 50K absorb on every visible bar for five seconds (add a second number for anywhere from half a second to a minute). The minimap button opens the settings on a left-click, and a right-click gives you a small menu to turn the addon on or off (the same as /at enable and /at disable) and lock or unlock the bars. You can hide it with Minimap button on General → Master controls.

Everything else is on the addon's page under Settings → AddOns, and /at (or /absorbtracker) on its own opens it. /at help prints the full command list.

How the bar works

The number comes from the game's UnitGetTotalAbsorbs, which adds up every absorb shield on a unit. In combat the game can hand that number back as a secret: an addon can pass it to a bar or format it for display, but it can't read it or compare it to anything. So Absorb Tracker never does math on your shield. It gives the game's number straight to the bar and lets the game draw it.

• A tracked unit gains or loses a shield (Power Word: Shield, Ice Barrier, a trinket proc, whatever else is up), and the game reports the new total.
• The bar fills to that total, measured against the unit's maximum health, with the number written across it in short form (1.2M).
• Damage and expiry drain it toward 0.
• With nothing up, the bar reads 0 and sits empty.

At any moment, then, the bar shows how much a unit can take before its health starts dropping.

FAQ

Troubleshooting

Reporting a bug

• Type /at debug on and reproduce the bug.
• Type /at diagnostics.
• If the debug window isn't open, open it with /at debug. Press Copy, copy the entire output, and include it with your bug report.

The report is added after the debug trace in the same window, so one copy carries both.

Issues and feature requests

Bugs, feature requests, and planned work are all tracked on GitHub: https://github.com/tusharsaxena/absorbtracker/issues. Please file new reports there rather than in comments, so nothing gets lost.

Version History

Credits

The debug console uses JetBrains Mono, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the ? and X on the bar's drag handle are drawn from Open Iconic (MIT). Both ship inside the bundled LibKa0s payload, with their license text beside them.