ManaRise

Watch your mana rise. Cast the moment you're ready.

ManaRise shows you, directly on your action bars, which spells you can't afford yet and how close you are to casting them. An unaffordable spell darkens and fills with liquid in its resource color as your mana, rage, energy or focus regenerates. The moment the spell becomes castable, the fill clears and the button flashes.

Gameplay captured in-game.

Compatible with WoW: Forever 1.60.1 and Retail (12.x).

Features

• Liquid fill: a rolling wave surface, a second wave behind it, depth shading and rising bubbles. A flat style is available.
• Ready flash: a short flash in the resource color when the spell becomes affordable.
• Four resources: mana, rage, energy and focus, each with its own configurable color.
• Non-intrusive: works with the default bars, Bartender4, Dominos, ElvUI and EllesmereUI. Cooldowns, keybinds, charges and borders stay on top.
• Efficient and safe: updates only when your resource or bars change, never every frame, and creates nothing during combat.
• Configurable: color presets (including a colorblind-friendly one), per-class settings, an options panel and a minimap button with a right-click menu.
• 10 languages.

Chapter I: Watch your mana rise

Spend your mana and the spells you can't afford turn into small vials that fill up from the bottom as you regenerate.

• A rolling wave on the surface, with a dimmer wave drifting the other way behind it.
• Darker liquid at the bottom, brighter near the surface, small bubbles rising through it.
• A flash in the liquid's color the moment you can cast.
• Prefer it plain? /mr style flat gives a flat fill with a bright edge line.

Chapter II: Every resource, its own color

Mage, Priest, Paladin, Shaman, Warlock and Hunter (mana), Warrior (rage), Rogue (energy) and Druid (mana, energy in cat form, rage in bear form).

• Mana blue, rage red, energy yellow, focus orange. Change any of them.
• A druid's buttons switch color as you change form.
• Rage draining out of combat lowers the fill smoothly instead of flickering.
• Prefer mana only? /mr resource mana.

Chapter III: Works with your bars

• All default bars: Main, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Right, Right 2 and Bars 5 to 7.
• Bartender4, Dominos, ElvUI and EllesmereUI. ElvUI's square icons get a square fill.
• Cooldown swipes, keybinds, charges and borders still draw on top. Clicking, tooltips and drag-and-drop work as before.
• It follows paging, stances, forms and Edit Mode.
• Light on performance: it only updates when your resource or your bars change, never every frame.
• Combat safe: it never touches secure button settings and creates nothing new during combat.
• Only spells that cost something fill. Items, non-spell macros and free spells are left alone.

Chapter IV: Make it yours

Open Game Menu → Options → AddOns → ManaRise, or type /mr options.

• Style: liquid or flat.
• Colors: one per resource, with a reset button.
• Color presets: Classic, Fel, Frost, or a colorblind-friendly palette.
• Sliders for fill opacity and empty-part darkness.
• Wave intensity: calm, normal or lively. Bubbles on or off.
• Ready flash, smooth fill and edge pulse on or off.
• Separate settings for each class, if you want them.
• A Preview button to see your changes on your bars.

Chapter V: The minimap button

A small ManaRise button on your minimap.

• Left-click: open the options.
• Right-click: a menu styled like the game's tooltips: Open ManaRise, Options, Unlock Position of Icon, Reset Position and Hide Minimap Button.
• The icon stays locked until you unlock it, then you can drag it around the minimap.
• /mr minimap on brings a hidden button back.

Also included

• /mr test: preview the effect with made-up mana on your visible buttons. Good to try first.
• /mr report: a window with a copyable report for bug reports.
• /mr status and /mr scan: what ManaRise is tracking, and why a button is or isn't filling.
• A short message after installing or updating.
• Languages: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Русский, Português (Brasil), 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文 and Italiano (Italian is partial). ManaRise follows your game language. The translations are machine-made, so please comment with better wording if something reads oddly.

Commands

Type /mr (or /manarise) in chat. The command words are the same in every language.

Good to know

• Tracks mana, rage, energy and focus. Combo points and other secondary resources aren't tracked, and neither are spells that cost health.
• In some situations the game hides your exact resource value from addons. ManaRise then lets the game draw the fill and asks the game whether the spell is affordable. It never tries to work around this.
• Settings are saved for the whole account. /mr profile class gives each class its own.
• ManaRise has not been tested in-game yet, including with the bar addons. Reports from your own play are a big help.

Installation

Install with the CurseForge app, or put the ManaRise folder in your WoW Forever Interface\AddOns folder and restart the game. If you have an older ManaRise, delete the old folder first. Then type /mr test.

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment with what you saw, your class and the output of /mr status.

Changelog

1.6.1

• EllesmereUI action bars supported.
• Also works on Retail (12.x).
• Minimap right-click menu restyled like the game's tooltips: Open ManaRise, Options, Unlock/Lock Position of Icon, Reset Position, Hide Minimap Button.
• New minimap icon.
• "Casts left" removed.
• Right-click on the minimap button no longer turns ManaRise on or off (use /mr on / /mr off).

1.6.0

• Minimap button (left-click options, drag to move).
• Casts-left number on buttons (removed again in 1.6.1).
• Color presets: Classic, Fel, Frost, colorblind-friendly.
• Settings per class (/mr profile class).
• /mr report opens a copyable report for bug reports.
• One-time message after installing or updating.
• Traditional Chinese and Italian (partial) added; machine-made.

1.5.0

• Translations: German, French, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Simplified Chinese (machine-made). Slash commands are unchanged.
• The download now includes a player guide (README) and a CHANGELOG.

1.4.0

• Bartender4, Dominos and ElvUI support. ElvUI's square icons get a square fill.