Windrunner Motivator

The Banshee Queen is watching. Try not to disappoint her.

Windrunner Motivator is a cosmetic addon for World of Warcraft Classic Era / WoW Forever that places Sylvanas Windrunner directly on your UI as your personal, sharp-tongued and occasionally approving companion.

Sylvanas remains visible on your screen and reacts to what you are doing in the game with Forsaken-inspired comments, dry remarks and the occasional bit of praise.

She may approve of your efficiency.

She may tolerate your mistakes.

She will almost certainly notice them.

“Another obstacle removed!”
“The weak have been culled!”
“You cannot afford that? How disappointing!”
“Not ready? You test my patience!”
“Gravity claims fools as readily as arrows do!”

Messages appear in a WoW-style speech bubble using red text.

Whenever Sylvanas speaks, her character performs a short bounce / squash-and-stretch animation, giving the otherwise static character a little more life.

Situational Reactions

Windrunner Motivator does not simply throw out random messages every few seconds. Instead, Sylvanas reacts to events happening around your character.

Current reactions include:

• Player death
• Resurrection
• Enemy player kills
• Mounting and dismounting
• Hunter and Warlock pets being summoned, including the pet's name where available
• Eating and drinking
• Resting at a campfire
• Entering capital cities, with city-specific dialogue
• Starting and finishing a flight path
• Completing quests
• Resetting talents
• Receiving party or raid invitations
• Entering Battlegrounds
• Battleground victories and defeats
• Profession skill increases
• Occasional critical hits
• Joining or leaving a guild
• Visiting the barber
• Opening the bank
• Entering stealth
• Using a Paladin immunity/protection ability
• Attempting to use a Hearthstone
• Attempting to Hearthstone during combat
• Repairing equipment
• Equipment reaching zero durability
• Collecting mail
• Going AFK and returning
• Going DND and returning
• Entering a dungeon or raid
• Leaving a dungeon or raid
• Successful instance runs versus leaving without defeating a boss
• Special reactions when entering the Scarlet Monastery
• Attacking Sylvanas herself
• Opening a trade window
• Destroying items
• Destroying valuable items
• Critical healing
• Healing severely injured players when the WoW API allows the relevant health information
• Entering a rested area
• Logging out
• Filling your inventory
• Trying to buy something without enough gold
• Ready Checks
• Being marked Not Ready
• Opening the Auction House
• Fall damage

Most situations contain at least three different lines, so the same event does not always produce the same response.

Sylvanas' general attitude is intentionally:

• calculating
• confident
• sarcastic
• demanding
• pragmatic
• occasionally approving
• rarely impressed
• thoroughly unimpressed by incompetence

Features

• Permanently displays Sylvanas on your UI
• Drag her anywhere using the left mouse button
• Can be positioned partially or completely beyond the screen edge
• Resize her using the mouse wheel
• Scale range from approximately 50% to 175%
• Position and scale are automatically saved
• Optional screen-edge clamping
• Situational dialogue instead of periodic random quotes
• Multiple dialogue variants for each situation
• Character-specific Forsaken and Banshee Queen-themed dialogue
• Short bounce / squash-and-stretch animation when speaking
• WoW-style speech bubbles
• Adjustable speech-bubble height
• No configuration window required
• Completely cosmetic
• Does not perform combat actions or automate gameplay

Controls

Move Sylvanas

Hold the left mouse button on Sylvanas and drag her to the desired position.

She can be moved partially or completely outside the visible screen area, allowing her to function like a desktop-style character overlay.

Resize Sylvanas

Hover your mouse over Sylvanas and use the mouse wheel:

• Mouse wheel up → larger
• Mouse wheel down → smaller

The scale ranges from approximately 50% to 175%.

Adjust Speech Bubble Height

The vertical position of the speech bubble can be adjusted manually.

Example:

/windrunner bubbleoffset -45

Less negative values move the bubble upward.

More negative values move the bubble downward.

Slash Commands

Saved Settings

Windrunner Motivator automatically remembers:

• screen position
• character scale
• whether screen-edge clamping is enabled
• custom speech-bubble offset

No configuration window is required.

Compatibility Notes

The addon is designed for the current WoW Classic Era / Forever client.

Recent WoW API changes restrict access to certain combat, aura and unit information. For that reason, some reactions such as low-health healing and aura-based activities are implemented on a best-effort basis.

The addon also treats temporarily unavailable or secret aura information as an unknown state instead of assuming that an eating or drinking buff disappeared. This prevents false food or drink reactions after combat.

These restrictions do not affect Sylvanas' normal display, movement, scaling or the majority of situational reactions.

Important

Windrunner Motivator is a purely cosmetic addon.

It does not:

• cast spells
• select targets
• perform combat actions
• automate rotations
• automate movement
• make gameplay decisions

It merely observes permitted game events and comments on your performance.

The Dark Lady watches over you.

Whether that is reassuring is entirely up to you.