MidnightTooltip

MidnightTooltip is a World of Warcraft addon that provides cursor-following tooltips with extensive customization options for appearance, behavior, and player information display.

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Features

Cursor Following

Anchor tooltips to cursor - Tooltips follow your mouse cursor with configurable anchor points
Customizable offset - Adjust X and Y offset to position tooltips exactly where you want them
Configurable fade delay - Control how quickly tooltips fade out (0-2 seconds)
Tooltip scale - Adjust tooltip size from 50% to 200%

Player Information

Class-colored names - Player names displayed in their class colors
Guild information - Shows guild names with customizable colors for your guild vs other guilds
Player status - Displays AFK/DND status
Item level display - Shows player item levels (target a player to inspect them, then hover for cached data)
Faction display - Shows player faction (Horde/Alliance)
Mount information - Shows what mount a player is riding and if you have it collected
Role icons - Displays player role (Tank/Healer/DPS)
Mythic+ rating - Shows player's Mythic+ score
Target of target - Displays who the unit is targeting

Item Tooltips

Quality border colors - Colors tooltip borders based on item quality (including upgraded items)
Shopping tooltip positioning - Intelligently positions comparison tooltips

Combat & Instances

Hide tooltips in combat - Option to hide tooltips during combat in dungeons/raids
Taint-safe - Designed to avoid tainting secure frames in restricted content

Inspection System

Smart inspect caching - Caches player inspect data for 5 minutes
Target-based inspection - Only sends inspect requests when you target a player
Throttled requests - Prevents API rate limiting with 1.5-second cooldown
GUID-based storage - Stores item level data by player GUID for reliable retrieval

Installation

Download the MidnightTooltip addon files
Extract the contents into your World of Warcraft Interface/AddOns directory
Ensure the folder structure is:

   Interface/AddOns/MidnightTooltip/
   ├── MidnightTooltip.lua
   ├── MidnightTooltip.toc
   ├── config.lua
   ├── README.md
   ├── CHANGES.txt
   ├── core/
   ├── locales/
   └── modules/

Launch World of Warcraft and enable the addon from the AddOns menu

Usage

Slash Commands

/midnighttooltip or /mtt - Open the options panel
/mttr - Reload the UI to apply changes

Options Panel

Access the options through the in-game Interface Options menu or by typing /mtt.

General Settings:

Enable/disable cursor anchor
Cursor-only mode (disables most customizations)
Hide tooltips in combat during dungeons/raids
Enable quality borders

Player Information:

Toggle class colors
Toggle guild colors (with custom color pickers)
Show/hide player status, mount info, item level, faction, role icons, Mythic+ rating, target of target

Positioning:

Tooltip anchor point (9 positions available)
X/Y offset sliders (-200 to 200)

Appearance:

Fade out delay (0-2 seconds)
Tooltip scale (50%-200%)

Item Level Feature

Target a player to send an inspect request
Wait for data to load (usually 1-2 seconds)
Hover over the player anytime in the next 5 minutes to see their cached item level
Players you haven't inspected will show "Target player to get ilvl" in gray

Configuration

Settings are automatically saved in SavedVariables/MidnightTooltipDB.lua and persist across sessions, per character. ```

Known Limitations

Item level inspection only works for players you can normally inspect
Inspect data is limited by Blizzard's API throttling
Some features are automatically disabled in restricted instances (dungeons/raids) to prevent lua errors

Localization

Currently supports:

English (US/UK)
German (DE)
Russian (RU)
French (FR)
Spanish (ES/MX)
Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)
Korean (KR)
Italian (IT)
Portuguese (BR)

Midnight Tooltip