Name Drop

Drops the last name, not the person: in World of Warcraft: Forever, Frost Winterborn becomes Frost W., and you still know who is who.

🧭 Introduction

In WoW Forever every character has a first name and a last name (surname), and chat always shows both. That makes chat long. And a first name alone isn't enough either: there can be a hundred players called Frost.

Name Drop drops all but the shortest part of the last name that still tells people apart:

Hover over any name in chat to see the full name. Whispering, inviting, right-clicking and /r work exactly like before.

✨ Features

• 💬 Short names for everyone who talks: say, yell, party, raid, guild, whispers, channels and emotes
• 🎲 Also in roll, loot and group lines: Frost B. rolls 42 (1-100)
• 🔍 Hover a name in chat to see the full name, plus the other people with that first name you've met
• 🧠 Tags only grow when they have to: one letter for most people, more only when two names would look the same
• 🖼️ Short names on the target, focus, party and raid frames and on nameplates
• 🙋 Your own name follows the game's My Secondary Name option
• 🛡️ Harder to impersonate someone: a stranger called Frost Winterbom doesn't show up as your guildmate's Frost W.
• 🔒 Only what you see changes: the full name stays behind every name, and what players type is never touched

🏷️ Why letters and not numbers?

A number would be handed out by your own computer, so your "Frost 2" could be someone else's "Frost 7". Letters come from the real surname, so Frost Win. means the same person for everyone, with or without the addon.

🚀 How to Use

1. Download the addon. If you're not using an addon manager, place the NameDrop folder in World of Warcraft/_forever_/Interface/AddOns.
2. Log in to World of Warcraft: Forever. Names are shortened right away.
3. Type /namedrop test to see an example, or /namedrop to pick another style.

🎨 Name styles

⚙️ Options

Type /namedrop (or /nd) to open the options, or go to Options → AddOns → Name Drop.

❓ Good to know

• In dungeons, raids and battlegrounds the game doesn't let addons read chat, so names there stay as the game shows them.
• With nameplates turned off, the names above characters are drawn by the game itself and can't be shortened.
• A line that is already in chat keeps the tag it was shown with. Hover it to see who it was.
• With EllesmereUI, chat works as usual. EllesmereUI's own unit frames, raid frames and nameplates use its Name Format option instead.
• Name Drop remembers the names you've seen (chat, group, guild, friends, /who, target and mouseover) and forgets people you haven't seen for 90 days.

Thanks for checking out the addon.