Loot Toast Mover

# LootToastMover

Blizzard decides where your loot toasts appear. This lets you decide instead.

Drag a box to the spot you want and that's where alerts show up. The box is the exact size and shape of a real loot toast, sitting precisely where the next one will land — so you're not guessing at an offset or farming a drop to see whether you got it right. Type `/ltm test` and a genuine toast fires on the spot to confirm it.

Your position is saved account-wide and restored every login.

## Getting started

1. Type `/ltm`, or click the bag icon on your minimap
2. Drag the box where you want alerts to appear
3. Click or type `/ltm` again to hide it

That's it. Nothing to configure.

## Commands

| Command | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `/ltm` | Show or hide the anchor box |
| `/ltm test` | Fire a sample loot toast to check placement |
| `/ltm reset` | Move the anchor back to its default position |
| `/ltm config` | Open the options panel |
| `/ltm minimap` | Show or hide the minimap button |

`/loottoastpos` is the original command and still works. `/ltm` is a shorter alias for it.

## Four ways in

However your UI is set up, the addon is somewhere you'll find it:

- **Minimap button** — the bag icon on the minimap ring. Left-click toggles the anchor box, right-click opens the options panel, and you can drag it anywhere around the ring.
- **Options panel** — Game Menu → Options → AddOns → **LootToastMover**. Buttons for showing the anchor, firing a sample toast and resetting the position, plus a checkbox to hide the minimap button.
- **Broker plugin** — if you run Titan Panel, Bazooka, ChocolateBar, ElvUI datatexts or any other broker display, LootToastMover appears in its plugin list as a launcher.
- **Addon Compartment** — the addon-list button next to the minimap, in retail and Forever. The Classic games don't have one.

## What it moves

The anchor controls Blizzard's whole alert frame, so it repositions every pop-up alert that uses it, not just loot:

- Loot received, and loot upgrades
- Achievements and achievement criteria
- Money won
- New recipes learned
- Honor awarded
- Monthly activities
- Guild renames
- Specialization unlocks

Alerts stack upward from the anchor, the same way they always have. Forever uses the same alert frame, so whichever of these alerts Forever shows land on the anchor too.

The Classic games send far fewer alerts through this frame. Loot never goes through it there, so what the anchor moves is mostly achievement toasts, in the games that have achievements. Classic Era has none, so very little appears there at all. `/ltm test` fires a real loot toast in every game, so you can always check the position.

## Languages

The anchor box, tooltips, options panel and chat messages appear in your game's language: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, Русский, 한국어, 简体中文 and 繁體中文. Slash commands like `/ltm test` stay the same in every language.

Spot a clumsy translation? Suggest a better one on [GitHub](https://github.com/SteveWeed79/loot-toast-mover/issues).

## Requirements

One download works in every version of World of Warcraft that Blizzard runs:

- **Retail**, built for patch 12.1 (Midnight)
- **World of Warcraft: Forever**
- **Mists of Pandaria Classic**
- **Classic Era**
- **TBC Anniversary**
- **Titan Reforged Classic** (China)

Installing by hand for the Forever beta? Put the `LootToastMover` folder in `World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/Interface/AddOns/`.

**No dependencies.** The addon is two small Lua files: its code and its translations. The minimap button is written directly against the game's widget API, and the broker plugin uses the LibDataBroker your broker display already loads, so nothing is bundled and nothing is duplicated.

## Upgrading from an older version

Your saved position carries over automatically — toasts stay exactly where you had them, including across the change that made the anchor box the toast's real footprint.

If you used 4.9.0 or 4.10.0 and wondered where the addon went: the minimap button and the broker plugin were removed in 4.9.0 and are back as of 4.11.0.

## Source and bug reports

[github.com/SteveWeed79/loot-toast-mover](https://github.com/SteveWeed79/loot-toast-mover)

MIT licensed.