SmartPlates

Threat-reactive nameplates that tell you how much aggro you have, not just whether you have it.

SmartPlates colours, sizes and fades every enemy nameplate by threat, the way Threat Plates does, and adds a number to each plate: your aggro percentage. Its look is flat and dark, with thin borders and a teal accent.

• Works on Classic Era, The Burning Crusade Classic, Mists of Pandaria Classic and Retail.
• No libraries and no dependencies.
• Settings are shared by all your characters. Your role, window position and minimap button are saved per character.

The aggro percentage

100% is the point where aggro changes hands. Everyone reads the same scale.

The number takes the colour of the threat state. By default it shows only in a group or with a pet out, since solo it would always say MAX. You can set it to always or never, and move it left of, right of, or above the healthbar.

Threat colours

Plates also grow or shrink and fade by threat state, and a warning glow appears when the state is bad for your role. Everything can be changed on the Threat and Threat Look pages.

Role detection. On Mists and Retail your role comes from your spec. On Classic, SmartPlates looks at:

• Warrior: Defensive Stance.
• Druid: Bear or Dire Bear Form.
• Paladin: Righteous Fury.
• Season of Discovery: tank runes.

You can force it with /sp role tank or /sp role dps.

Everything else on a plate

• Healthbar with health text, level, name, target border, mouseover highlight and absorbs. The health text shows the actual value by default (12k); switch it to a percent, both, the missing amount or off under General > Health text. It keeps working in combat on clients that hide health from addons (WoW Forever, Midnight).
• Castbar with spell icon and name. It's grey when the cast can't be interrupted, and flashes red when interrupted.
• Auras: your debuffs, crowd control from anyone, and buffs you can steal or purge. Spell whitelist and blacklist.
• Raid target marker, plus elite and rare icons.
• Combo points under your target. Holy Power, Chi, Soul Shards, Arcane Charges and Essence where they exist.
• Your target's power as a thin strip.
• Arena numbers and spec icons.
• Enemy healer marker.
• Totem icons.
• Class icons.
• Friend and guild markers.
• Quest mob marker.
• Optional XP bar.
• Boss ability icons and timers from DBM or BigWigs, if you use either.
• Custom plates: recolour, resize or hide mobs by name.
• View distance and stacking: plates show up to 41 yards away (the game's maximum) and stack instead of overlapping. Your previous game settings come back if you turn this off.
• Unit-type filters: enemy pets and guardians and minor mobs get small plates. Friendly pets are hidden. Each type can be set to show, small or hide.
• Interrupt ready: enemy castbars turn green while your interrupt (Kick, Pummel, Counterspell, Earth Shock...) is off cooldown.
• Execute range: enemies under 20% health (adjustable) change colour, with a marker on the bar.
• Mob's target: who each mob is attacking ("YOU" in red), inside its healthbar.
• Focus: an orange border on your focus target. Your target gets teal arrows (or a border or glow).
• Big crowd-control icon: stuns, fears and polymorphs as one large icon with a countdown. Aura icons show seconds left.
• Bar textures: Flat, Blizzard, Raid or Smooth.
• Sizes by kind: separate sizes for enemy players, NPCs, friendly units and small plates.
• Profiles: named profiles shared by your characters, with export to one line of text and import.
• Friendly units show just their name by default.

Commands

The window also opens from the minimap button, the addon compartment and Options > AddOns > SmartPlates.

Credits

Inspired by Threat Plates (Suicidal Katt, Blacksalsify) and Tidy Plates (danltiger). SmartPlates is written from scratch and shares no code with them.