SBF 2026.10.09.4

SBF 2026.10.09.4: The Wardrobe Malfunction Patch

Your pants come back now.

On WoW: Forever, going back to your normal gear used to be more of a suggestion. SBF would ask the game to dress you, the game would get distracted halfway through, and you'd walk off the dock in waders and one boot. Now SBF checks that every piece actually made it back and keeps at it until you're dressed. A weapon you sold, banked or mailed to an alt in a fit of optimism no longer holds up the rest of your outfit, and anything that truly can't come back gets named in chat, so you know who to blame. Retail gets the same follow-through.

Taking things off counts too.

Some fishing sets don't add anything, they just take your gloves off so you can feel the line. Very professional. On Forever, SBF never noticed a slot your set saves as empty, decided the set was already on, and went fishing with gloves on. Fixed. Slots saved empty get emptied into your regular bags, ignored slots get ignored, and nothing gets jammed into your herb bag. A goblin tried. The herbs objected. If your bags are full, that piece just stays on.

The pole box listens to your gear set (Forever).

If your fishing set has a pole in it, an empty Fishing pole box picks it up, even if you cleared the box earlier. Your gear set is the boss here. A pole you're already holding counts as yours. Want to fish without that pole? Take it out of the set, or set its main hand to ignored. If the set names a pole you don't have, SBF says which one. On retail nothing changed: clear the box and it stays clear.

No pole, no cast (Forever).

Pressing your fishing key with no pole in your hands and nothing set up to put one on used to cast straight into the game's own "you need a fishing pole" error. Now SBF stops first and tells you how to fix it: a popup the first time (with a button straight to the Profile page), then a short line on screen after that. Drag a pole into the Fishing pole box, or give the profile a gear set with a pole in it. Your combat action still swings if something jumps you. A custom Cast Fishing macro is left alone, and you can switch the warning off under Settings, Fishing behavior.

SBF asks before your work walks off.

Close the SBF window with unsaved changes and SBF now taps you on the shoulder: Save, Discard, or Keep editing. Reopening the window counts as Keep editing. A /reload no longer quietly throws away the pole or gear set you just picked (another character logging in still gets their own saved gear). And the "you changed zones with unsaved changes" prompt no longer eats your edits when it pops up a second time. Settings has an off switch, for goblins who like living dangerously.

One switch to hush the bobber alert.

jesk__2115 asked us to make the "bobber out of reach" message go away, and the goblins don't argue with paying customers. Or with nonpaying ones, honestly. The Out of reach checkbox now silences the message along with the sound. Want the message without the noise? Pick "No sound (message only)".

Cast Fishing has a safety catch.

Turning off the Cast Fishing button now takes a Shift+click on its name. One stray click used to turn your fishing key into a punching key, and we lost an embarrassing afternoon finding that out. Turning it back on is still one click.

Two new keys for the impatient.

jesk__2115 told us the idle timer took too long to take the fishing gear off. The idle timer was five seconds. We timed it twice, because we couldn't believe it either. Five seconds is apparently an eternity when you're standing around in waders, so "Restore normal gear" now has its own key: press it and your real weapon is back right now. While we were in there we added "Equip profile gear" too, for suiting up before you even look at the water. Both are on the Keybinds page. On Forever the Equip key finishes the job over a moment or two: pole first, then the rest. Your fishing and loot keys always stay fishing and loot, so a gear key can't take one over.

One flash, not two.

On Forever, putting your fishing gear on flashed your profile's name twice: once for the pole, once for the rest of the set. You only needed telling once. Now the flash waits for the set, same as retail.

Hands off the camera.

The automatic zoom-out on Forever is gone, and so is "Point the camera straight ahead". Players told us a camera that moves on its own every cast is more annoying than helpful, and they were right. SBF no longer touches your camera unless you ask it to. If you want a fishing camera, set it up the way you like, then go to Settings, Bobber reach, and click Save current camera. Tick "Use my saved camera when I start fishing" and SBF switches to it once when you start fishing, then leaves it alone. Pick which of WoW's saved camera views it uses (2 to 5), in case another addon already has one. Tip: the interact key only grabs a bobber your camera can see, so look out over the water, not at your boots.