Nameplate Objectives

Every enemy that advances one of your quest objectives gets an icon and a counter next to its health bar., so you can tell at a glance which mobs you still need.

Nameplate Objectives

Quest objective counters on enemy nameplates, for World of Warcraft Retail and WoW Forever.

Status: alpha. Tested in game in the open world on WoW Forever and on Retail (a world quest). Not confirmed yet: the third-party nameplate addons, quests in instances, and a group member's quests.

An icon and a counter (3/8, or what is left) on every enemy that advances one of your quest objectives: kill, loot and progress objectives each have their own icon and colour. Works on Blizzard's nameplates, and anchors to Plater, Platynator, ElvUI, Kui and Threat Plates when they replace them.

Commands

Command What it does
/npo config Open the options (also in Options > AddOns)
/npo test Sample objectives on every enemy nameplate, to set the position
/npo toggle Enable or disable the indicators

Troubleshooting

An enemy shows no counter, or the wrong one? Target it, type /npo dump, and open an issue on GitHub with what it printed: its tooltip lines, your matching quests and objectives, and its nameplate frames.

The dump is also saved in WTF\Account\<account>\SavedVariables\NameplateObjectives.lua after a /reload or logout, which is easier to attach than a chat screenshot. Secret values are never stored, only a <secret type> marker in their place. /npo help lists the other diagnostic commands.

License

MIT

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