Changelog

4.6.3 — 2026-08-10

• Fixed: a friend's line jumped off their head and into the corner of your interface the moment they moved out of view. World mode is meant to put a line over the character or not at all, and it did — but only when the line first arrived. If the speaker then ran behind you, rounded a corner or moved out of range, their nameplate went away and the bubble fell back to the stacked on-screen position mid-sentence. Somebody out of sight now shows nothing at all. Their line is still in your chat frame.

Friendly names in world mode stay as the client draws them — white, or green. Making them class coloured was attempted and does not work on 2.5.6: the game hides a friendly nameplate's frame and draws the name itself, so there is no name for an addon to colour. Nothing about it changed in this release; it is noted here only so it is not filed as a new bug.

4.6.2 — 2026-08-10

• RPVox is now off entirely inside dungeons, raids, battlegrounds and arenas — no lines and no bubbles until you step back out. It used to cap the chance at 1% in a five-man; a rare line in a dungeon is still a line in a dungeon. Related, and the root of a long night of debugging: Blizzard forbids addons from using friendly nameplates in instanced content at all, so bubbles could never have floated over characters in there. World mode now suspends itself at the instance door — your own nameplate settings come back — and resumes when you leave.

• Fixed: two ways the suspension leaked. Cancelling the sweep at the instance door was not enough on its own — a nameplate appearing fires an event straight into the hiding code, which only knew whether world mode was enabled, not that it was suspended. And zoning in during combat returned before the sweep was cancelled, leaving it running inside. Both closed. Separately, the one restore path that forgot a saved setting whether or not it had actually been put back now keeps it until it verifiably has.

• Fixed: the bars came back on friendly nameplates in world mode. Hiding them once was not enough — the client re-shows a plate's frame every time it reuses it, which quietly undid the hide. They are now kept hidden for as long as world mode is on.

• Fixed: every nameplate count read zero. The API that lists nameplates returns nothing on this client, silently, and several diagnostics and the bar-hiding were built on it. Plates are now found directly.

• Fixed: RPVox could break the game's own nameplates. With world mode on, the addon reached into Blizzard's nameplate frames to hide the health bars, and in 4.6.1 it also called their nameplate driver directly to force a refresh. Both are insecure code touching a secure system: the client marks some nameplates forbidden, and an addon touching one makes Blizzard's own setup fail with "calling 'SetHeight' on bad self" — which can stop nameplates appearing at all, and so stop bubbles anchoring.

  The driver call is gone entirely; if a setting needs a refresh to take hold, the answer is a reload, not reaching into their frames. Hiding the bars now skips any frame the client marks forbidden, and so does anchoring, so a bubble is never hung on one.

4.6.1 — 2026-08-10

• Fixed: an error every time a bubble had nowhere to go. With /rpvox bubble world on, a line from somebody you could not see -- behind you, round a corner, out of range -- threw a Lua error instead of quietly doing nothing. The bubble file called a logging function that only exists inside the main file, so the call reached a global that was never there. It parsed cleanly and only failed when that exact line ran.

4.6 — 2026-08-10

Speech bubbles that other people can see

Lines used to be yours alone: they arrived in a nearby player's chat frame and nothing more. Now a line raises a speech bubble for whoever said it, on everybody's screen, floating above their character and following them as they move.

This needs friendly nameplates. There is no way for an addon to work out where a character is on screen — the client will not tell it — so the only handle on a character's position is their nameplate. Turn it on with:

/rpvox bubble world

That switches friendly player nameplates on for you, switches them on out of combat as well, and hides the health bars and names they would otherwise draw, so all you see is the bubble. Turning it off puts every setting back exactly as it was, and refuses to run mid-fight, because the client locks those settings during combat.

Enemy nameplates and friendly NPC nameplates are never touched. Your enemy health bars stay exactly as you have them.

Without world mode, bubbles still work — they stack in the corner of the screen, labelled with the speaker's name. With it on, a line from someone you cannot see is not shown at all rather than falling back to the corner; it is still in your chat frame.

Your own bubble stays on screen: this client draws no nameplate above your own head, so there is nowhere in the world to put it. /rpvox bubble mine hides it if you would rather see nothing — your lines still appear above your character on everyone else's screen.

Combat is moments, not one trigger per spell

A profile used to carry over a hundred triggers, and three quarters of them meant the same thing — "I pressed a button", written out once per spell. They are replaced by seven moments: a spell hits, crits or misses, a swing, a heal, a buff, and something being held down.

One set of lines now covers your whole spellbook, including spells you have not learned yet, and it keeps covering them when you learn more. A fresh profile is about twenty entries worth writing rather than a hundred and nine.

A spell can still have its own lines when it earns them: drag it in from your spellbook under Spells Override and it takes priority over the general set.

Lines can also be written for how a blow landed, using <crit>, <miss>, <resist> and the rest as a tag at the front of the line. Melee, heals and crowd control use these; the three spell moments have a trigger each instead.

One chance number for the whole character

Per-trigger chance is gone, replaced by a single Speaks on N% of the moments slider running from 1% to 100%.

The old number could not keep its promise. Dozens of combat triggers competed for one quiet gap, so a spell set to 100% still missed most of its casts — and the scale ran down to 0.01%, which is one line in ten thousand swings and indistinguishable from switched off.

Rare moments now count for more than common ones automatically, because a swing happens twenty-five times a minute and a level-up once an evening and they were never going to want the same percentage. A crit is three times likelier to be spoken than an ordinary hit, for the same reason.

Existing profiles carry over on the average of their old combat settings, so a talkative character stays talkative.

A new voice: Priest-Dirge

A priest who speaks only in verse, and only ever grimly. Every line is a self-contained rhyming couplet — lines fire independently and in any order, so a rhyme can never depend on the next one arriving.

The prayer is finished. The mace is not. A blunt amen for everything you brought.

Written for the moment triggers, so one set of lines covers the whole spellbook.

Mage-Animated has been rewritten for the new moments in its own song-lyric voice, with crit, miss, resist and immune lines throughout.

Tidier line lists

Every set used to be given target-free variants by copying a line and deleting the name off the end, so half of most lists read as the same thing twice. Those copies are removed — except that two are always kept per set, because a set with none goes silent whenever you have nothing targeted, which is why they existed. Your saved profiles are swept once and told how many lines went.

New lines written for the stock voices can now reach a profile you already have, rather than only new ones.

The bubble is silent

The typewriter tick and the coloured accent sounds are gone, along with /rpvox bubble sound. They were assembled from whatever sound kits happened to exist on this client rather than anything that suited the character speaking — every race, class and spell school made the same noise. A tick that says nothing about who is talking is worse than no tick.

Working out why a line did or did not fire

• /rpvox why — counts what happened to every trigger and names the reason: the quiet gap, the chance roll, the flood ceiling, no eligible line.
• /rpvox trace — prints the line every swing and cast would have said, and which set it came from, without sending anything and without waiting on the chance roll.
• /rpvox bubble test — with a player targeted, walks the whole bubble chain and names the link that broke.
• /rpvox bubble client and /rpvox bubble cvars — what your client is and which nameplate settings it actually has.

Also

• The addon no longer touches keyboard, gamepad or mouse input at all. It used to hold every line until the next keypress, because sending to public chat needs one; lines have travelled as addon messages since 4.4 and cannot be refused, so the whole input gate was watching your keyboard for nothing.
• The settings window is grouped into Spells Override · Moments · Reactions · Idle, and only the first can add or remove entries.
• Fixed: the drag hint sat underneath the category tabs and was unreadable.
• Fixed: the last row of the trigger list was drawn across the bottom border.
• /rpvox autotest is gone with the problem it existed to diagnose.

4.5 — 2026-08-09

• Five new voices, as alternative class packs. Pick them from the class list in the settings window, the same place you pick Mage or Priest:
  • Mage-Lyrics and Priest-Lyrics — every line bends a well-known rock, hip hop or R&B hook into the spell being cast. Frostbolt opens on "Ice, ice, %t", Greater Heal on "And I will always love you, %t, but you have to stop standing in things."
  • Priest-Rhyming — a priest who speaks only in verse, and never once breaks. Holy spells get measured hymnal couplets, Shadow spells get manic doggerel, so he sounds like a different man the moment he specs.
  • Hunter-ValleyGirl — Feign Death is "I'm literally dead. Like. Literally dead." Revive Pet is a genuine meltdown.
  • Warrior-Barbarian — a barbarian who mostly wants to hit things, written the way Arnold would say it. "It's naht a tumah. It is chust anger."
• These sit alongside the existing voices rather than replacing them. The stock Mage, Priest, Hunter and Warrior packs are untouched, so switching is a dropdown away and switching back costs nothing.
• Each new pack covers its class's full spellbook — 54 to 75 abilities — plus every reaction and idle trigger, at around a dozen lines each.
• Fixed: an alternate pack claimed its spells would never fire. A profile built on one of the new packs warned at login that it was on the wrong class, and said its spells were dead. Both were wrong — the check compared the pack's key against your class, and PRIEST_RHYMING is not the string PRIEST. Lines fired perfectly well throughout; the warning was the only broken part. The same comparison also stopped a new pack ever being auto-selected for the right character. A pack now states which class it serves, and both checks ask it.
• RP lines are parchment, not cyan. Cyan was distinct but cold and the eye slid past it. Cream turned out no better: on a dark chat background it is brightness, not hue, that separates one colour from another, so a warm near-white just read as /say. The new colour drops brightness as well as blue, and stays clear of yellow.
• The addon stopped advertising a command it is not called. Ten places — the whole /rpvox help listing among them — told you to type /rpcry. That still works and always will, but it is the old name, and nothing should be teaching it to new players.

4.4.1 - 2026-08-09

• Fixed: every popup button did nothing. New profile, Copy, Rename, Add spell and New mood all read the dialog's edit box as self.editBox. The anniversary client rebuilt StaticPopup and renamed it self.EditBox, so every one of those handlers threw an error the moment it ran -- and because WoW hides Lua errors by default, the buttons simply looked dead. Resolved whichever way the client spells it, and the enter-to-accept handlers no longer assume the edit box's parent is the dialog.
• Added /rpvox copy <name> as a route that avoids the popup entirely.

4.4 — 2026-08-07

• Silent in raids, nearly silent in dungeons. In a raid group, or inside a raid, RPVox says nothing at all until you leave. In a five-man the chance is capped at 1% however high you have set it. Neither is a setting: group content is not the place for it, and nobody should have to remember to turn it down on the way in.
• No more output choice. Every line goes to nearby RPVox users, always. Having two answers to "who can hear me" was worse than having one, so the checkbox and /rpvox output are gone.
• Make your own moods. A mood is just a tag in front of a line, and any name works. Pick "New mood..." at the bottom of the mood list or run /rpvox mood add brooding, then tag lines with [brooding]. Previously a mood could not be selected until something was already tagged with it, which made your own impossible to start.
• Instructions button in the settings window: what the addon does, who can hear it, how the two frequency controls differ, how %t and moods work, and every command.
• Received lines are cyan, not purple. Purple sat too close to whispers. Nothing else in the default chat uses cyan.

4.3 — 2026-08-07

• Emotes are now stripped from saved profiles too. Removing them from the packs in 4.2.1 was not enough: a profile seeded before that still had hundreds sitting in saved variables, and any list you had edited yourself was never reseeded at all. They are removed on load now, edited or not.
• Stale triggers are cleared out. A profile kept every trigger it had ever been seeded with — spells from older builds, triggers that no longer belong to your class — each one still full of lines nothing would ever refresh. Anything the addon no longer defines for your class is dropped. Triggers you created yourself are always kept.
• New: /rpvox rebuild. Throws away every stock line in the current profile and seeds it again from scratch, then reports the before and after counts. The only way to be certain a profile holds exactly what the addon defines today.
• Received lines are now coloured. White text reading "Name says: ..." was indistinguishable from real /say. The whole line is purple and tagged [RP], so it is obvious at a glance that it came from RPVox.

4.2.1 — 2026-08-07

• Received lines now carry an [RP] tag so they are never mistaken for something a player actually typed in /say.
• All emote lines removed — 1,144 of them across every pack. Faking emote formatting over a message channel read badly; emotes need their own mechanism, which is not built yet. A /em line you write yourself in the line editor still works.
• Added /rpvox nettest for diagnosing whether lines are reaching other players.

4.2 — 2026-08-07

• Lines no longer go into public chat. RPVox now sends each line to the players around you who are also running RPVox, using an addon message at say range. The server limits the distance exactly as it does for /say, so only people genuinely nearby receive it — but nothing appears in public chat, so a talkative character no longer fills the screen for everybody else. Speech and actions are rendered locally in the usual colours. The trade is that only RPVox users see anything. Untick the box in /rpvox, or run /rpvox output say, to go back to real /say and /em that everybody nearby can read.
• Every class now has its own melee lines. Melee was falling back to the generic set for all nine classes, which meant a paladin swinging a hammer spoke in the voice of a Forsaken shadow priest. Nine new sets.
• Priest: 32 missing spells added. The pack covered ten abilities and the priest has far more. Added the full healing ladder including Greater Heal, the blessings, Inner Fire, the dispels and cures, Shackle Undead, Mind Control, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, Shadow Word: Death, the vampiric line, Shadowform, Silence, Shadowfiend, and the Forsaken racials.
• Content pass. Removed lines that read as sexual coercion when seen without the context of which ability fired — chiefly two Mind Flay sets that worked line by line but not read together. Same menace, moved firmly into the mental and magical register.
• Fixed lines that made no sense out of context, two emotes that rendered ungrammatically, and all remaining raid jargon.

4.1.1 — 2026-08-07

• Fixed: updating RPVox reset your settings. Any release that re-applied stock chances overwrote every trigger's chance with the built-in value, so a player who had tuned their sliders lost the lot on update. A chance you set yourself is now marked as yours and is never overwritten again — the same way an edited line list already was. The old migration that capped hand-made triggers at 0.5% no longer touches them either.
• The quiet gap now defaults to 5 seconds instead of 3 minutes. Existing profiles keep whatever you have set; this only changes what a new profile starts with.

4.1 — 2026-08-07

• Every class now has a pack. Druid, Rogue, Warlock, Paladin and Shaman join Priest, Mage, Warrior and Hunter. 2,056 new hand-written lines across 136 abilities, each class with its own voice:
  • Druid — a Kaldorei only half returned from the Emerald Dream, speaking slightly out of step with the present and unsure which war this is.
  • Rogue — a guild-trained professional who regards killing as skilled trade work. Rates, tools, standards, and no cruelty whatsoever.
  • Warlock — a contract lawyer who deals in souls. Everything is terms, clauses and arrears, and his demons are difficult staff.
  • Paladin — a Blood Knight who takes the Light by force and resents needing it. He does not pray and he will not kneel.
  • Shaman — an old orc who negotiates with elements that are frequently in a mood, and gets better conversation from the wind than from people.
• Fixed: your character addressed herself when self-targeted. Healing, shielding or buffing yourself leaves you as your own target, and the target token was filling in your own name — so a line meant for an enemy came out aimed at you. You no longer count as a target: lines that name one become ineligible while you are self-targeted, and the untargeted lines in each set are used instead. Every healing set has plenty of those, so self-healing still speaks; it simply stops saying your name.
• Line clean-up pass. Fixed lines that read as nonsense to anyone who only sees the chat text and not the ability that fired — "Hands will do." on a melee swing now reads "I do not need a weapon for you." Two emotes began with an article, so they rendered as "Name the body settles into the dirt"; both now begin with a verb. Removed all game-mechanics vocabulary, most of it a Fade set written entirely in raid jargon ("Dropping threat", "That should hold the pull"), now rewritten in character.
• Combat ability chance raised to 10%. Every class ability and melee now rolls at 10% rather than the old 0.05–5% spread. The single global gap still governs everything, so this changes how promptly a character speaks once the gap has elapsed, not how often they speak overall.

4.0.2 — 2026-08-07

• Fixed: mashing a key bought extra chance rolls. Every press of an ability rolled separately, including the dead presses players make while waiting on a cooldown. Anyone who taps quickly triggered lines far more often than their setting implied — at 20%, four rapid presses fired 59% of the time. There is now at most one roll per 1.5 seconds, whatever is pressed, so the frequency you set is the frequency you get. No roll is lost for an action you actually took.

4.0.1 — 2026-08-07

• Fixed: RPVox blocked mouse wheel camera zoom. The addon watched the mouse wheel as one of its input surfaces, which consumed the event before the camera zoom bindings could see it. There is no API to propagate a handled wheel event, so the wheel is now left alone entirely. Clicks, keys and gamepad buttons still serve as flush triggers.

4.0 — 2026-08-07

First public release.

What is in it

• Speaks roleplay lines in /say and /em for combat, reactions and everyday life. Never yells, and there is no setting to make it.
• Combat — a line set per ability, matched on spell name so every rank works.
• Reactions — low health, death, resurrection, killing blow, entering and leaving combat, being interrupted, levelling, falling, drowning, and gear falling apart.
• Idle — eating, drinking, healthstones, mana potions, fishing, mining, herbalism, skinning, mounting, accepting and completing quests, discovering an area, and crafting across ten professions.
• Moods — four for the priest: grim, weary, serious, happy. The same character on four different days rather than four different characters.
• Profiles — one per character, each with its own class, mood, lines and frequency, bound to whoever you log in as.
• Line editor — every trigger is editable in the settings window. A trigger you have touched is marked as yours and is never overwritten by an update.
• One global gap governs all speech, so RPVox never talks over itself. The frequency slider is logarithmic, because the useful range is the bottom of it.

Included voices

• Priest — a Forsaken shadow priest, in four moods.
• Mage — an arcanist, single voice.
• Hunter — a Sin'dorei noblewoman, single voice.
• Warrior — single voice.
• Druid, Rogue, Warlock, Paladin and Shaman fall back to the generic set.

Recent work leading up to this release

• Hunter pack added. 666 lines: 27 abilities including the full pet suite, traps, Feign Death and Arcane Torrent; all seven core reactions at 40 lines each; the four newer reactions at 20; seven idle sets at 12.
• Targeting pass. Combat lines now name what you are fighting. 5,355 of 5,528 combat lines carry the target token — 97%, or every single one excluding emotes, which read as stage directions and are deliberately left untargeted. A line that names a target will not fire when you have none, so each set keeps untargeted fallbacks.
• Non-combat triggers are deliberately not targeted. There is no enemy to name while you are fishing.

Known gaps

• Mage and warrior have no mood packs yet; both speak in a single voice.
• Druid, rogue, warlock, paladin and shaman have no class pack.
• The priest's newer reactions and all idle triggers have base lines only, with no mood variation.