Relay

A replacement for the default chat frame and whispers. One download for Retail, Classic Era, Burning Crusade Classic, Wrath Classic, Mists of Pandaria Classic and WoW Forever.

Relay keeps Blizzard's chat behaviour underneath: right-click player menus, item and quest links, Shift-click linking, the combat log, and /cast and other macro commands typed in chat all work as normal.

Chat

• Tabs: each tab shows only the message types and channels you choose
• Multiple windows: drag a tab out to make a new window, onto another window to move it, or along the tab bar to reorder
• Combat Log tab: uses Blizzard's combat log and its filters
• Search: filter the current tab by text or player name
• History: chat is saved between sessions, per character
• Missed guild chat: guild and officer messages sent while you were offline are added to your Guild tab on login
• Reply: click any message to reply in the same channel with an @mention
• Copy a message: click its timestamp
• Copy window: copy many messages at once, as plain text or Discord-formatted
• Web links: web addresses are clickable and open a copy box
• Wowhead: Alt-click an item, quest, spell or NPC link to get its Wowhead address for your game version
• Channel names: shortened, e.g. [2. Trade - City] shown as [2]
• Timestamps: several formats, or none
• Class icons: optional, next to names
• Guild ranks: Guild Master and officer crowns next to names
• Name tooltip: hover a name to see level, race, class and guild
• Input bar: channel buttons (Say, Party, Raid, Instance, Guild) and a character counter
• Keybinds: Page Up, Page Down and Scroll to Bottom scroll Relay
• Gear menu: Chat Channels, Social and Blizzard's chat colour settings

Whispers

• Layout: each conversation in its own window, or one window with a contact list
• Auto-open: for incoming whispers, outgoing whispers, both or neither
• Starting a whisper: /w, R to reply and clicking a name open the conversation window
• Header: shows the player's level, race, class and guild
• Minimap button: with an unread count
• Notifications: pop-up for new whispers, optional taskbar flash
• Combat: windows wait until combat ends to open, and open windows hide when combat starts
• Auto-reply: optional reply when you are whispered in combat
• Movement: windows fade while your character is moving
• History browser: every conversation, with search
• Per-character history: optional
• Battle.net whispers: supported

Alerts and filters

• Mentions: highlight messages that mention your name or chosen keywords, with optional sound
• Tab marker: tabs show a red marker when they contain a mention
• Channel sounds: optional sound for Guild, Officer, Party, Raid, Instance or Say
• Repeats: hide repeated messages
• Gold spam: hide gold-seller spam in public channels
• Blocked words: hide public messages containing words you choose
• Mute: hide a player's messages

Guild

• Welcome message (off by default): posted when a player joins the guild. You write the lines and Relay picks one at random. It only triggers on "has joined the guild", never on logins, and only one Relay user in the guild sends it.

Appearance

• Themes: Midnight, Glass, Ember, Nord, Verdant, Rosé, Classic Gold, Minimal
• Colours: accent colour, background colour and background opacity
• Text: font, size, outline, text shadow and line spacing. Fonts from LibSharedMedia are listed when another addon provides them
• Layout: padding, tab bar height and window shadow
• Fading: optional fade when idle or in combat
• Profiles: chosen per character
• Sharing: export and import a theme or a full profile as a text string

Accessibility

• Read chat aloud (off by default): reads chosen tabs using the text-to-speech voices installed on your computer. Male and female characters can use different voices, and race adjusts speaking speed. Waits while the Spoken addon is narrating.

Commands

• /relay opens settings
• /relay history opens whisper history
• /relay mute <name> hides a player's messages
• /relay reset resets window positions
• /relay restore restores Blizzard's chat settings and disables Relay
• /relay help lists all commands

Notes

• Other chat addons: Relay replaces chat. Do not run it alongside other chat replacements such as Chattynator, Prat, ElvUI chat or WIM. Relay shows a warning at login if it finds one.
• Uninstalling: Relay changes some of Blizzard's chat settings to work. Type /relay restore before uninstalling to put them back.
• WoW Forever officer chat: not kept in history between sessions, because the game does not give addons its text.
• Text-to-speech: voices come from your operating system.
• Language: English only at the moment.