MagePortalAnnouncer

3.0.0

Everything since 2.1.0. A big one: portal timers grew into a full portal board, and the addon now reads the room.

Portal board

• One compact stack that shows your portal cast, your open portals, other mages' portals and portal requests from chat
• Only shows while you're casting a portal, one is open or someone is asking, then fades away
• Flat 2D bars with a raid icon per city; text is light over the empty track and dark over the fill, so it stays readable wherever the fill edge is
• Your cast bar fills up and turns straight into the 60 second portal timer when the cast lands
• Recasting a city refreshes its bar in place; rows never reshuffle and slide up smoothly when one closes
• Light sweep when a portal opens, quick ones in its final seconds; the fill gently pulses in the last 10 seconds and the timer turns red at 5
• READY follows the real Portal cooldown, with a dim countdown if the spell is still cooling down when the portal closes
• Rune row joins the board only when you're low: orange under 10, red under 5, a loud red NO RUNES if you try to cast with none

Chat requests

• Reads party, raid, instance and whisper chat for asks like "port sw pls", "can i get IF" or "anyone going darn?"
• Understands "+1", "me too" and "same", plus take-backs like "nvm" and "hearthing"
• Requests show as dim rows sorted by most asked; hover one to see who asked, in class colors
• Ignores other mages' announces, lines aimed at another mage, "if we wipe" style sentences and anything naming two cities
• Requests clear when a portal for that city opens, and expire after a minute

Other mages

• Other mages in your group show on your board, dimmed with their name
• Mage sync: mages running this addon see each other's portal casts the moment they start
• Double-up warning: start a portal another mage already has covered and you get a private "KELVA'S IRONFORGE IS UP" or "KELVA IS OPENING IRONFORGE" heads-up, and your announce is skipped
• If two mages start the same city within half a second, both addons agree on who keeps it

Announces

• Built-in rotation of 8 short lines worded for the moment you start casting, shuffled so every line gets used before any repeats
• Write your own lines per city, or one set for every city through Default; several lines rotate the same shuffled way
• One-click tokens: , , , and all eight raid icons
• Live preview with real raid icons, plus a TOO LONG flag past the 255 character chat limit
• Announces also fire in combat (switchable) and an interrupted cast doesn't announce twice on the recast
• Solo stays silent: nothing ever posts outside party, raid or instance chat, and the Say button is gone

Horde and other clients

• Horde support: Orgrimmar, Undercity and Thunder Bluff portals, teleports and bars
• Works on non-English clients: spells are matched by ID and text uses your client's city names

Settings

• New /mpa panel: messages, switches, rune warning threshold, move bars and a Bars column for colors, sweep, pulse, chat requests, mage sync and a soft sound at 5 seconds
• Preview bars and Test alerts buttons, plus an entry in the game's AddOns options
• Draggable, closes with ESC, remembers its spot
• Settings save per account

Changed

• Teleport warning uses its own on-screen alert, so your raid leader's real raid warnings keep their normal spot and timing
• Rune warning is a private note with an adjustable threshold