KillOrder

KillOrderTBC — Changelog

v1.2 — Smart Auto-Classification & Elite Sub-Roles

Auto Role Detection (Major Rework)

The addon no longer relies on teaching it one mob at a time. A new classification engine runs automatically the moment a mob appears on your screen.

How it works — in plain terms:

• Mana bar present? → the mob is in the Caster bucket (Healer, Caster, or Ranged)
• No mana bar? → the mob is in the Melee bucket (Melee or Tank)
• Ranged weapon detected? → promoted to Ranged within the mana group
• Casts a heal spell? → upgraded to Healer (high confidence, saved permanently)
• Casts a damage spell? → confirmed Caster (high confidence, saved permanently)

This means walking into a dungeon and looking at the pull — most mobs already have the right color on their Role Bar with zero input from you.

Confidence System

Results are graded: Low (keyword/creature type) → Medium (mana bar scan) → High (cast observed). A higher-confidence result always wins. Once a mob is marked High confidence from a cast, it is never downgraded again — even across sessions.

Comprehensive Spell Database

250+ named TBC abilities are now classified across four tables:

• Healer spells — all ranked heals, HoTs, and NPC-specific mending abilities ("Dark Mending", "Shadowmend", "Nether Mend", "Fel Regeneration", and more)
• Caster spells — fire, frost, arcane, shadow, warlock, nature damage, holy damage, and NPC-specific abilities ("Nether Blast", "Void Bolt", "Fel Fireball", "Shadow Storm", and more)
• Ranged spells — physical shots and arrows (Auto Shot, Aimed Shot, Volley, Arrow Volley, Fire Arrow, and more) — ranged mobs now confirmed by cast, not just weapon check
• Melee / Tank spells — strike and taunt abilities used as fallback confirmation

Elite Sub-Roles (12-Role Priority System)

Every base role now has an Elite counterpart. The priority list expands from 8 to 12 slots:

An elite mob is automatically promoted to its Elite sub-role the moment it appears — no teaching required. Elite Casters show a brighter blue bar than regular Casters. Elite Melee show a brighter yellow. Each elite sub-role has its own distinct color and can be reordered or recolored independently in the Main Window.

Static NPC Database Expanded

All 200+ hand-curated dungeon NPCs have been updated to use elite sub-roles where appropriate. Bosses like Mennu the Betrayer, Moroes, Priestess Delrissa, and Kael'thas Sunstrider are now correctly tagged Elite Healer, Elite Melee, Boss, etc.

Keybinding — Fixed

The Assist Mode keybinding now correctly appears in WoW Menu → Key Bindings → scroll to AddOns → KillOrderTBC. Rebuilt using a SecureActionButton (the same pattern used by reliable TBC addons) instead of the previous Bindings.xml action block approach which was silently ignored by the TBC Anniversary client.

Spotlight Visual — Reworked

The spotlight is now a proper street-lamp cone of light: wide diffuse halo at the top (the lamp bloom), a tapered beam shaft descending toward the nameplate, and a soft light pool right at the health bar — like a dock lamp at night. The beam tints with the mob's role color; the hot core stays white.

Options Cleanup

• "Open Key Bindings" button removed from Options — bind it directly in WoW Key Bindings
• Assist Mode enable checkbox remains in Options

v1.1 — Polish & Interface Refinements

Visual

• Pill-shaped Role Bar — rounded ends using native cap textures; matches the health bar aesthetic
• Role Bar intensity slider — controls color vividness independently from dimming
• Role bar text color — four presets: White, Yellow, Cyan, Violet
• Spotlight cone — reworked from a flat line to a cone with outer halo, mid beam, and bright core
• Dim divider visual — dark band with center label and hover tooltip separating bright/dim zones
• Dimmed rows shown at reduced brightness in the Main Window as a live preview
• Options section headers — large colored accent bars clearly separate each settings group
• Options Tips box — green-highlighted block at top of Options reminding about Always Show Nameplates and /ko teach

Behavior

• Pulse is GUID-based — pulse and spotlight only trigger on the exact targeted mob, not all mobs sharing the same name
• Dim excludes current target — your target always shows at full brightness
• Enabling Nameplates in the Main Window now auto-enables Show Priority Numbers and Show Role Name
• All slider bars show their saved position immediately on open; settings remembered across reloads
• Renamed HUD Bar → Role Bar everywhere (options, main window, code)

Options Cleanup

• Role Colors section removed from Options — managed entirely in the Main Window
• Elite & Boss color checkboxes removed — always active, colors set in the Main Window
• Target Alert Bar enable/disable removed from Options — Role Bar toggle lives on the Main Window bottom bar
• Font picker removed — clean default font only
• High/Low intensity buttons replaced with a single intensity slider
• Dim amount slider removed — dim is fully transparent when enabled

Bug Fixes

• Priority numbers (Show Priority Numbers toggle) now correctly show and hide
• Role Bar now shows for all roles — a filter silently blocking Tank and Unknown was removed
• StaticPopup EditBox capitalization fixed for TBC Anniversary client (rename dialog opens correctly)
• Bindings.xml format corrected for TBC 2.5 client
• MTTick forward-reference crash on login fixed
• Font path backslash escaping corrected (was silently breaking font rendering)
• Duplicate role entries in saved variables auto-cleaned on load
• Main Window height is now dynamic — always fits all rows, divider, and toggle bar without clipping

v1.0 — Initial Release

Kill Priority System

• Nameplate role coloring — enemy nameplates colored by kill priority: Healer, Caster, Ranged, Melee, Tank, Unknown, Elite, Boss
• Kill Priority Order — drag rows in the Main Window to set your preferred kill order
• Role Bar — colored pill bar below each mob's health bar showing role name and kill order number
• Priority number badge — kill order number on the left side of the Role Bar
• Double-click a row to change its color; right-click to rename; names persist across reloads

Role Detection (4-Layer System)

1. Static database — 200+ TBC dungeon NPCs built in at load
2. Creature type and classification fallback
3. Mouseover scan — result cached per session
4. Cast observation — high-confidence role saved between sessions

Dungeons covered: Hellfire Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Shattered Halls, Slave Pens, Underbog, Steamvault, Mechanar, Botanica, Arcatraz, Mana-Tombs, Auchenai Crypts, Sethekk Halls, Shadow Labyrinth, Old Hillsbrad, Black Morass, Magister's Terrace, Karazhan trash

Dim System

• Dim divider — draggable line in the Main Window separating bright vs dimmed roles
• Roles below the divider go fully transparent
• Current target always stays fully visible regardless of dim setting

Effects

• Target pulse — Role Bar pulses on your current target only (GUID-based)
• Spotlight (Experimental) — cone of light above your targeted mob's nameplate

Role Bar HUD

• On-screen bar showing role name and kill priority when you target a hostile mob
• Moveable and scaleable; scale slider in Options
• Shows for all roles including Tank and Unknown

Assist Mode (Experimental)

• Keybinding to cycle through visible hostiles in kill-priority order
• Bind in WoW Menu → Key Bindings → KillOrderTBC

Group Sync

• /ko mt — toggle MT target broadcast; your target is highlighted on all group members' nameplates
• /ko sync — push your full priority order and dim threshold to the group instantly

Slash Commands