Party Frame Enhanced

Party frames show you everyone's health. They don't show you what the healer is halfway through casting, or which mob the tank actually has targeted. Party Frame Enhanced puts that next to each party member's frame: a cast bar, a small frame for whatever they're targeting, and one for their pet.

It works with Blizzard's party frames (classic or raid-style) and with EllesmereUI's. It figures out which one you're using and attaches to it. If you'd rather not tie anything to your party frames, any of the three can live in its own movable stack instead.

• Cast bars change color with the kind of cast. They show a small shield when the cast can't be interrupted, and flash red when someone interrupts it.
• Target frames show the target's name, health and raid marker. Players are colored by class and everything else by hostility. Click one to target that unit.
• Pet frames show the pet's name, health and raid marker, and clicking one targets the pet.

Screenshots

Live (in a party)

Unlocked (preview, in a party)

Unlocked (preview, solo)

Usage

Install it and join a party. Each member gets a cast bar across the top of their frame, a target frame just to the right, and their pet's frame below that. Everything starts locked. Type /pfe unlock, or untick Lock frame on the General page, and every bar and frame fills with made-up data so you can see what you're arranging. Solo, you get a stand-in party frame to hang them on. /pfe lock brings the real data back. It won't unlock in combat, and a pull locks it for you.

Setting it up the way you like takes three steps. The Cast Bars, Target Frames and Pet Frames pages are laid out the same way, so you do each step once per feature.

• Pick what you want. The first box on each page's General tab turns that feature on or off, so switch off anything you don't need. The General page decides whether you get a row for yourself too (Include my own row) and which party frames to attach to. Leave Frame system on Automatic unless you run both Blizzard's frames and EllesmereUI's.
• Place each feature on its Size & Position tab. Attached, it sits on each party frame, and the anchor points and X and Y offsets nudge it into place. Switch Anchor mode to Free placement and all five go in one stack you drag wherever you want, with a growth direction and spacing. The tab only shows the settings for the mode you picked.
• Make it look right. The Bar, Border and Text tabs hold the textures, colors and fonts. Cast bars get a color for each kind of cast, target frames can color NPCs by how they feel about you, and target and pet frames have a Marker tab for the raid marker.

When someone wanders out of range, their cast bar, target frame and pet frame dim with their party frame. The minimap button opens the settings on a left click, and a right click gives you Enabled and Locked switches. You can hide it on the General page.

Everything else is under Settings → AddOns → Ka0s Party Frame Enhanced, which /pfe opens, and /pfe help (or /partyframeenhanced help) lists every command.

How it works

In Midnight, a lot of what a party member is doing is secret to addons, a cast's name and timing included. An addon can hand those values to the game to draw, but it can't read them. Party Frame Enhanced is built around that, so a pull can't break it.

• When your group or your layout changes, the addon checks the party frames on screen and works out which frame shows which party member. It only reads them. It never moves, hides or restyles them.
• Each cast bar, target frame and pet frame gets pinned to the frame showing its party member, or put in its feature's stack if that feature is in free placement.
• Cast bars start and stop on the game's own cast events. The bar gets the game's cast timer as it is and the game runs the countdown, so the addon never reads the time left. Target frames update the moment a member switches target, and their health refreshes a few times a second while they're visible. Pet frames follow the pet's health events.

FAQ

Troubleshooting

Reporting a bug

• Type /pfe debug on and reproduce the bug.
• Type /pfe diagnostics.
• If the debug window isn't open, open it with /pfe 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

I track bugs and feature requests at https://github.com/tusharsaxena/PartyFrameEnhanced/issues. Please file them there rather than in comments. That list is the addon's whole backlog, so anything you file there gets seen.

Version History

Credits

The debug console uses JetBrains Mono, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. It ships inside the bundled LibKa0s payload, with its license text beside it.