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Splatter Combat Text

Customizable floating combat text with dynamic damage placement, color-coded schools, themes, profiles, and combat summaries
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Description

Splatter Combat Text

A customizable floating combat text addon for World of Warcraft. Replaces the default scrolling combat text with a clean, zone-based system that keeps your screen organized.

Features

Smart Placement | Outgoing damage splatters above center, incoming appears below, and buffs, debuffs, power changes, and rewards each have their own screen zone. The spread is dynamic: single target stays tight, AoE packs expand automatically.

Full Color Control | Damage is colored by school (Fire, Frost, Shadow, Arcane, etc). Incoming damage shows in red with a minus prefix. Every event type has a customizable color swatch. Left-click to pick, right-click to reset.

Combat Detail | Overkill amounts, DoT spell names, pet labels, melee swing distinction, and resist alerts are all built in and toggleable. Crits shake, scale up, and linger on screen longer.

Number Format | Choose between abbreviated numbers (2.1K, 1.3M) or full numbers with commas (2,100 or 1,300,000). Optional hit grouping merges rapid hits into a single number with a count (e.g. 8.4K x5).

Combat Summary | After each fight, a one-line summary prints to chat: total damage, DPS, healing, max hit, and kills. Only visible to you!

4 Themes | Dark, Light, Vivid, and Classic. Each reskins the config panel and all floating text colors. Hover to preview, click to apply.

Profiles | Save, load, rename, delete, export, and import your settings. Active profiles autosave when you make changes. Share with friends via a compact encoded string.

Minimap Button | Left-click opens config, right-click toggles the addon, drag to reposition.

Slash Commands

  • /sct : Show all commands
  • /sct toggle : Enable or disable
  • /sct config : Open configuration
  • /sct test : Fire test events
  • /sct cleanup : Force cleanup stuck text
  • /sct reset : Reset to defaults

Configuration

Five tabs: General, Combat Events, Themes, Profiles, and Tools. Over 40 toggleable events, per-section scale sliders, font size control (10 to 50), animation speed, and max floating numbers.

Installation

  1. Extract to Interface/AddOns/SplatterCombatText/
  2. Restart WoW or /reload
  3. Disable Blizzard's floating combat text in Interface > Combat for best results

Designed and tested on Classic Anniversary. Should also work with Classic Era and Cataclysm Classic.

Inspired by Better Combat Text by DarkAce.

The Splatter Combat Text Team

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