Threat Plates (Classic)
This is a classic port of Threat Plates. For more details, see https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tidy-plates-threat-plates.
Threat Plates (Classic) supports Real Mob Health, an addon that records damage taken by a mob. This is used to estimate its max health when in combat and stores it for better accuracy in the future. Without it, all units will show with 100 HP health as WoW Classic does not provide accurate HP information via its API.
FAQs
Q: Every time I try to increase the max distance up to which nameplates are shown, it reverts back down to 20..
In Classic, 20 is the hardcapped maximum value for max distance. There is no way to increase it beyond that.
Q: Quest icons are shown on all nameplates, not only on quest mobs.
In the Classic version of Threat Plates, the Quest widget is disabled (in the sourcecode) and the ! icon was not shown by ThreatPlates in all reported cases, but by some other addons like Questie, Azeroth Auto Pilot or ClassicCodex, as they added their icon to the Threat Plates frame. Version 1.1.4 fixes this issue.
Q: Durations off buffs and debuffs on nameplates are missing or not correct.
In WoW Classic, the game does not provide information about the (maximum and current) duration of buffs and debuffs. The library LibClassicDurations helps with that by providing an internal database of aura durations and monitoring the environment for newly applied auras. For long-running buffs and debuffs this does not work as they are applied outside of the range of LibClassicDurations so that their reminaing duration is unknown. For this reason, auras with a runtime with more than 30min are always shown without duration.
is there an option to set the threat plates to the BASE rather than floating at top ?
I've got it set up how I like it, but when I'm in instances the default Blizzard nameplates take over for my party/friendly units. Is there a way to fix this?
Is there a way to shift Floating Combat Text above the name plates, and also increase the font size?; I also have real mob health, but it is displaying a percentage instead of the mob's health, is there a workaround for this?; Thanks in advance.
In reply to userxj:
As far as I know, there is no way to show the floating combat text above nameplates. At least for the default combat text, the layer at which it is shown is fixed. Which font size do you want to increase? There are several options for names, status/health text and so on.
If you want to show absolute health values, you can configure that under General - Status Text - Health Text. RealMobHealth is no longer required for that (since last hotfix, I think). RealMobHealth has been discontinued because of that as far as I know.
In reply to Backupiseasy:
Last week, Blizz hotfixed Classic's API to allow UnitHealth and UnitHealthMax to return health values for NPCs. RealMobHealth was discontinued cause it is no longer necessary.
Is there option for class colored nameplates instead of class icon? If no would love to see that feature in future
In reply to no_ware:
Yes, I think that should be enabled by default. See General - Healthbar. There you can enable that friendly/enamy player nameplates are colored by class. If you want to keep it that way even in combat, you have to disable threat-based coloring.
Hi just checking if there is an update in the pipeline since Blizzard now supports showing mob health values via the API. Thanks!
In reply to data3:
I read that yesterday and it should work out of the box, I think, but I need to test it.
hi I'm playing on classic wow! how do I move my characters bar and the enemy's bar because they are both currently tiny and in the top left on my screen!
In reply to nikogoodwin123:
You need a UnitFrame addon for that like Pitbull or Shadowed Unit Frames. Threat Plates only modifies nameplates (the bars above mobs or players).
Is there a way to show title in Headline mode?
In reply to Herturn:
No, currently there is no option for that.
Hey is it possible to set the strata behind combat floating text or is that not a thing?
In reply to FlynnZeke:
No, there is now way to do that as far as I know.
how do I go about aligning all this stuff for mobs that aren’t targeted? For some reason the only the one that is targeted by me has everything correct now for the castbar and icon. Otherwise the untargeted mobs have the castbar behind the health bar.
In reply to Nekator:
There is an option to offset the castbar's target compared to other units. Maybe you changed that? Best is to first configure the castbar for non-target units and then - if wanted - adjust the castbar of the target unit. To check if it's a configuration issue - and not a bug - try setting the x/y offset to 0/-15 and 0/0 (for target). That's the default values. Or create a new profile with default values and see if it is ok afterwards. There is currently no bug regarding castbar placement as far as I know that could cause that.
On a PVE server, is there a way to make the opposite faction not show nameplates/health bars and just be the name instead?
In reply to Nekator:
You can enable headline view for enemy players. You find the option under General - Headline View. That should work.
by default, the cast spell icon is in a weird spot. and i cant figure out how to anchor it to the castbar itself.