Marelo Battle Text

An addon for custom battle text animations (anchored to nameplates) inspired by NameplateSCT. Since Blizzard removed access to a lot of APIs needed to actually understand combat in real time, addons can't really get details of who cast what. This addon attempts to identify what is being cast by making educated guesses while checking your buffs, the expected tick rate of dots, etc.

This addon is by no means meant to be accurate, it is for players who like to see big numbers go brrrrr

NOTE: This addon is not guaranteed or expected to work in dungeons/raids/bg since the API restrictions are even stricter. It is intended for usage while leveling. (It auto disables on instances by default unless changed on settings)

AI Usage Disclaimer

While I have coded addons in the past, this was not something worth spending the limited time I get to play, so this was almost exclusively built by Claude while I quested.

Usage

Either access options, minimap button or type /mbt to tweak the addon. You can enable preview combat text to see how the actual text will look in combat.

Support

Only WoW Forever support is planned ATM, no retail or classic. (This may change in the future)

Feedback

If you find errors, or any ability being mislabeled report it on the comments on curseforge.

Features

Looks

• Numbers anchored to enemy nameplates, coloured by damage school, with crits drawn bigger. Healing shows with a +.
• Nine animations: Impact Slam, Arcade Pop, Wobble Drop, Fountain Arc, Shatter, Float Up, Float Down, Nordic Tree and Elemental.
• A separate animation for each kind of event: damage dealt, critical hits dealt, damage taken, critical hits taken, and heals / shields / attacks that missed you.
• Elemental plays the game's own spell impact effect behind the number: fire bursts, frost explosions, shadow, holy, arcane, nature, physical hits, plus bleeds and poisons. It uses a small effect budget and can be switched off.
• Nordic Tree is a red spiky burst behind a yellow number that slams in, inspired by classic MMO critical hits.
• Optional scatter, chosen per animation, so numbers do not pile on one spot.
• Choose the font of the numbers and a different one for the spell names.

Information

• Spell icon and spell name next to the number, when the addon can work out which spell it was.
• Damage taken and heals on you at a position you choose, with misses, dodges, parries and blocks shown in your client language.
• Shield absorbs shown as a label, or as the before and after of the shield.
• Pet damage can be marked with "(Pet)", with your pet's name, or not at all.
• Hide the damage and healing numbers you do not want, or the small ones.

Setup

• Preview button with a mock enemy and a mock player, so you can tune positions and animations without a fight.
• Native options page with sub-pages, minimap button, /mbt command.
• Can hide the game's own floating combat text so you do not get two sets of numbers.
• Stays quiet in dungeons and raids by default.
• No libraries and no other addons required.