LotusResourceTick

A minimal, non-intrusive tick indicator built directly into your standard Blizzard UI power bar. No custom frames, no extra windows — just a thin line that tells you exactly when your next Energy or Mana regeneration tick lands.

Why?

Classic's Energy and Mana regeneration both happen in fixed ticks roughly every 2 seconds. Knowing precisely when the next tick lands lets Rogues and Cat Form Druids time their openers and ability usage for maximum resource efficiency — without cluttering your interface with a whole new resource-tracking addon.

Features

• Standard UI integration — draws directly on top of the existing Energy/Mana bar on the default PlayerFrame. No repositioning, no separate frame to manage.
• Energy & Mana support — automatically detects your active resource and tracks the correct one. Switches seamlessly when a Druid shifts between Cat Form (Energy) and Caster Form (Mana).
• Self-correcting sync — the indicator anchors itself to real, observed regeneration events rather than a fixed guess, so it stays accurate over time instead of drifting.
• Honest confidence display — when your resource pool is full (and a tick can't be observed directly), the indicator keeps running on its last known timing but dims slightly to show it's now an estimate rather than a confirmed sync.
• Zero configuration — install and go. No settings panel, no slash commands, no setup.
• Featherlight footprint — a single small Lua file, no external libraries.

Supported Resources

How It Works

The addon watches your power value every frame. Whenever it detects a real increase (a genuine tick), it re-anchors its internal timer to that exact moment. Between ticks — or when your pool is capped and no increase is observable — it keeps looping on a fixed interval based on the last confirmed tick, dimming slightly the longer it's been running on an estimate.

Compatibility

Built for WoW Classic Era. Touches only the existing PlayerFrameManaBar — no UI replacements, no Taint-prone hooks into secure frames.

Part of the Lotus Addon Family

LotusResourceTick is one of several small, focused addons built for a tight-knit guild — each one solving a single specific problem without bloating the interface.