Proto Core

The Proto Suite

Core core + shared libraries

LFG + Chat

ServiceShop

Threat

Tools

Roadmap

Rebuild Proto Suite

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UI + Usability

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Threat + Tools

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Expanded Suite

The shared code of the Proto addons: Proto LFG + Chat, Proto ServiceShop, Proto Threat and Proto Tools. No need to install it yourself: the CurseForge app adds it with them.

New in 1.1.0

• Its own download: Proto LFG + Chat, ServiceShop, Proto Tools and Proto Threat need it; the CurseForge app installs it for you (open the app and click Update)
• Switch Proto addons on and off: Settings > Proto Core
• Your settings are kept in Proto Core: they survive updates and reinstalls (on by default)
• Threat sharing: your threat goes to your group's Proto Threat meters (on by default, not in boss fights)
• Boss fights: chat lines and messages wait until the fight ends, then go (on by default)
• One minimap button for every Proto addon: right-click opens Settings

What it gives them

• One minimap button for every Proto addon: right-click opens Settings
• Switch Proto addons on and off without leaving the game (Settings > Proto Core)
• Your settings kept safe: every Proto addon's settings survive updates and reinstalls
• Find other Proto users and get a notice when a new version is out (Settings > Proto Core)
• Threat sharing: your threat goes to your group's Proto Threat meters, where the game hides it (on by default, not in boss fights)
• Boss fights: chat lines and messages wait until the fight ends, then go
• Shared pop-ups and settings: every Proto addon's settings in Esc > Options > AddOns
• Keep Proto Core [Core] and Proto Core [Shared Libraries] ticked in your AddOns list

Developer's Notes

ServiceShop started as EnchantShop, a simple enchanting assistant. I added a trade chat filter so I could find people looking for enchants, kept building, and it became ServiceShop. Then the chat side grew into a full LFG tool, and I wanted it to be useful for players who don't enchant or sell services, so I split it into ServiceShop and Proto LFG + Chat.

While naming LFG + Chat I came up with Proto: short for protocol, and the proto-drake. That's the name for everything going forward. You'll see a lot of changes as I go. I'm building it out based on what works for me.

The suite is now five addons: Proto Core (the core and shared libraries), Proto LFG + Chat, ServiceShop, Proto Threat and Proto Tools. The foundation is rebuilt, and more addons will be built on it.

Underneath is a message bus, Proto Link. It lets shops talk to each other, gives players with the addon extra information, and handles addon messages globally, to your party or raid, or to one player.

Any new addon built on Proto Core can use it. That means someone running Proto Link for the LFG tool can add value for someone using it for something completely different.

New with this release: Proto Threat and Proto Tools.

Proto Threat combines threat plates (without replacing your favourite nameplates) with a threat meter. I've tanked for a long time using damage meters, threat meters, threat plates and ElvUI, so I'm building it around what simplifies and improves on what every good threat meter already does, not another copy of Details. Group members running it share their threat and big moves: taunts, Feign Death and the like, including resists. Blizzard locks addon messages during boss fights, so sharing works on trash and in the open world, not on bosses.

Proto Tools is a set of tweaks and tests too small for their own addon, for now. For example: auto-tracking that switches between herbs, ore and humanoids.