MDHelper

A no-frills, taint-free Misdirection helper for Hunters on WoW Classic Anniversary Edition (TBC 2.5.5).

Pick a raid member. Cast Misdirection on them in any of five different ways. Switch targets mid-fight without breaking your rotation.

No combat log scraping. No tank auto-guessing that fights you over the right call. No bloated config. You decide who gets the threat.

How you cast

Features

• List window with class-colored names, online status, tank flag, and pinned-on-top ordering. Opens with /md or by right-clicking the floating button. ESC closes it
• Floating button that follows you between sessions, draggable with the middle mouse button. Left-click casts. Right-click opens the list
• Favorite slot buttons that appear in a column below the floating button. The addon automatically treats tanks (Main Tank assignment or role = TANK) as favorites; you can pin anyone else manually by right-clicking their name in the list. Each slot is its own secure cast button — clicks work in combat because each one has its own fixed cast attribute, no taint
• Auto-created macro named MDHelper (Misdirection icon, ready to drag onto your action bar) — created on first load with the live /cast body, kept in sync with your selection out of combat
• Bindable under Options > Key Bindings > MDHelper for keyboard play
• Locale-aware spell name via GetSpellInfo(34477) — works on French (Détournement), English (Misdirection), and any other locale. Fallback table for the rare case GetSpellInfo returns nil at load
• Strict targeting — every clause in the cast macro has [help,nodead], so MD never fires on a dead, hostile, or invalid target. Important: MD has a 30 s cooldown, you don't want to waste it on yourself

The macro it builds

When you select someone, the addon keeps both the in-game macro and the secure buttons in sync with:

/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@,help,nodead] Misdirection

@mouseover is checked first (hover-cast on raid frames), then @<unit> (the raid/party slot of the selected target). If neither matches a friendly alive unit, the cast doesn't fire — by design.

The favorite slot buttons use a tighter macro pinned to the specific person:

/cast [@,help,nodead][@,help,nodead] Misdirection

Why a "favorite slot" per tank?

Blizzard's combat lockdown forbids changing a secure button's cast target during combat. Any single button can only cast on whatever target it was configured for before combat started. Mouseover macros work around this for raid-frame users, but if you'd rather click a dedicated button per tank, MDHelper auto-creates one per pinned member — each one is its own secure cast, set up out of combat.

So in a fight:

1. Press the bind → MD on your selected target
2. Tank switch? Click the second tank's slot button → MD lands immediately, even mid-cast
3. Or hover a raid frame and press the bind for the same effect

Installation

1. Drop the MDHelper folder into World of Warcraft/_anniversary_/Interface/AddOns/
2. /reload or restart the client
3. The MDHelper macro appears in your macros — drag it onto your bar (or bind a key in Options > Key Bindings > MDHelper)
4. /md to open the list, click a name to set the default target, right-click anyone to pin them as a favorite

Slash commands

Compatibility

• Built for WoW Classic Anniversary Edition (Burning Crusade, 2.5.5), Interface 20505
• No library dependencies, single Main.lua, fits in a few KB
• Works alongside any raid frame addon (Blizzard, Grid, Cell, ElvUI, …) — the mouseover feature is independent of MDHelper's own UI

Feedback

Bug reports and feature requests welcome on the GitHub repo or the CurseForge comment section.