Shuklock's Scrolling Battle Text

SSBT: Shuklock’s Scrolling Battle Text

Scrolling combat text for WoW Forever, in the style of MSBT.

Forever doesn’t give addons the combat log, so the old combat text addons can’t tell your hits from anyone else’s. SSBT figures it out so it shows (mostly) your own hits. It shows your damage on every enemy you hit, with the icon of the spell that did it floating up beside the number.

What it shows

• Your hits: On your target and on every enemy with a nameplate showing, with other players’ hits left out (mostly). 
• Spell and Attack icons on your numbers: Every class's spell and attack abilities show next to the damage number.
• Damage and heals on you: See hp you gain from all sources, including other people healing you.
• Your pet: Its spells and its attacks, with icons.
• Notices: Loot (with how many you now have), money, experience, reputation, skill-ups, level-ups, combo points and Soul Shards, cooldowns coming back, low health and mana, and entering or leaving combat.
• Short numbers (12.3K) and bigger crits.

Make it yours

• Scroll areas you drag into place: /ssbt move shows a grid over your screen. Drag an area to move it and pull its corner to resize it. Areas snap to the grid, the middle of your screen and each other; hold Shift to place one freely.
• As many areas as you want, each scrolling up, down, in an arc, or staying put, with its own speed, text size and side.
• Every event is one line in settings: on or off, its colour, and which area it goes to.
• Turn off Blizzard’s combat text in one click, so only SSBT’s shows.
• One clean settings window in the Kits style, from the minimap button or /ssbt.

How it tells your hits apart

Forever hides who dealt each hit. SSBT pairs every hit with the Combat Log’s My actions lines, which it keeps running quietly in the background, and with your casts and swings. Keep the Combat Log on “My actions”, which is the default. SSBT changes nothing in your Combat Log and leaves damage meters alone.

Spell and Attack icons are worked out from your casts and how each spell hits. When two spells fit a hit equally, SSBT leaves the icon off rather than guess wrong.

Commands

• /ssbt: settings
• /ssbt move: place your scroll areas
• /ssbt test: show sample text
• /ssbt blizz off (or on): the game’s own combat text
• /ssbt status: whether your hits are being told apart right now

Part of the Kits family

From the maker of First Aid Kit, Camping Kit, Fishing Kit and Warlock Kit.