1.7.0
What's new
1.7.0
New
- Missing stats when comparing: stats your item has and the hovered one doesn't are listed, struck through in red (-1 Agility).
- Invite remembers the player: the invite key still works for 2 seconds after your mouse leaves a player, in combat too.
- Set how long on the Invite page.
- New version alert: you're told when someone in your guild or group has a newer version.
- Turn it off on the General page.
Changes
- New tooltip look: magenta edge and stripe, the size of the game's own tooltips, with the icon and a badge on its top edge, at the right.
- Fades in smoothly.
- Text keeps the game's colours: the coloured text is gone.
- Spell tooltips: Spells and Buffs' look: the rank as a badge, numbers that stand out, and the cost's Mana / Rage / Energy / Focus in its colour.
- Comparisons: the changes light up one after another, and the game's "If you replace this item" block is left out.
Fixes
- Tooltip icons: always the same size, and never cover or move the text.
- Comparisons: bag and vendor items no longer flicker or swap sides while compared.
- Invite key: now works on unit frames and nameplates, and when the tooltip is hidden.
1.6.0
New
- Nokkan's tooltip look: every tooltip in the game gets a dark, edged look in the colour of what it shows: class colour, NPC reaction or item quality.
- Turn it off on the Tooltip page.
- Coloured text: class-coloured names, guilds in green, levels in their difficulty colour, damage and its school (Fire, Nature, Physical...) in the school's colour, Magic / Curse / Poison / Disease in theirs, healing green and other numbers gold.
- Icon and badge: the icon (or NPC portrait) in the tooltip's top-right corner, and Boss / Elite / Rare / Epic / Guild on its top edge.
- Stat differences: while comparing items, each stat of the hovered item shows how much better or worse it is than yours.
- Plays nice with other tooltip addons: with TipTac, TinyTooltip, ElvUI and the like, the look starts off.
- Turn it on again on the Tooltip page.
Fixes
- WoW: Forever: removed a texture setting that could crash the Forever client.
1.5.2
New
/nwcw perf: shows which addons cause frame spikes (stutter), from the game's own addon profiler.
Fixes
- Stutter when someone targets you:
- Finding the party / raid frame to glow no longer searches your whole interface at once. The frames are found in the background, a little each frame, after group changes, and reused, so the game no longer freezes for a moment, especially with many addons loaded or in a raid.
- Nameplates coming and going while someone targets you no longer trigger that search either.
- Smoother tooltips:
- The mount-copy and invite keys are no longer re-bound every time the tooltip of the player you're hovering refreshes (e.g. when someone in the group changes target).
- Endless inspects:
- Inspecting a player could make the game report a gear change for them, which queued another inspect, and so on, every 1.5 seconds. Those echoes are now ignored.
- A player whose item level can't be read is tried again after 30 seconds, not every time you hover them.
- Nameplate underline:
- Now found on nameplates that are still being set up when they appear, and on nameplate addons that name their parts differently.
- When a nameplate shows no name, its health bar glows instead.
- With
/nwcw debugon, chat says why a nameplate wasn't marked (e.g. friendly player nameplates are off).
1.5.1
Fixes
- Item level on WoW: Forever:
- Now counts every class's gear the vanilla way: the melee weapon (one-hand and off-hand, or a two-hand counted twice) plus the ranged slot.
- Fixes hunters, warriors and rogues (bows, guns, thrown), priests, mages and warlocks (wands), and paladins, druids and shamans (librams, idols, totems).
1.5.0
New
- New settings window:
- A sidebar with a page for each part of the addon: Tooltip, Mount copy, Invite, When targeted and General.
- Each setting has its own card with an on/off switch or a number picker, and a tooltip explaining it.
- The window remembers where you put it.
- Invite the hovered player:
- Hover a player and press Ctrl + Middle-click (or your own key) to invite them to your group, without targeting them.
- The key is only taken over while you hover a player you can invite, out of combat. Set it on the new Invite page.
- Animations. The window pops open and fades out, pages fade in when you switch, and the target glows fade in and out instead of popping.
- Animation options. Animation speed (1 to 5) and Reduce animations, on the General page.
Changes
- The Changelog window has a new look, to match the settings window.
- When your mount key clashes with one of your WoW keybinds, you're asked inside the settings window.
- The addon's page in Options > AddOns shows the commands that open the settings window.
- The party / raid frame glow now fits each frame exactly: a crisp ring right on the frame's edge, at any frame size or UI scale.
- On nameplates, the glow is now a pulsing underline right under the player's name, sized to the name's text.
Fixes
- Glow stuck on a frame:
- A party / raid frame could keep glowing after that player stopped targeting you (e.g. out of range or offline). Everyone glowing is now re-checked twice a second.
1.4.1
Fixes
- Lua errors when someone targets you: the party / raid frame glow could throw "secret value" errors (from Blizzard's aura frames). It now skips those frames safely.
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