World of Wokecraft

Your interface, but pink. Aggressively pink.

A rainbow overlay layer for the World of Warcraft interface. Action bars pulse in travelling colour waves, health bars fill with scrolling gradients, the screen edges flare when you crit, confetti rains on level ups, and a Nyan Cat orbits your minimap while another one chases your mouse.

It is exactly as sensible as it sounds, and it has an off switch.

It does not replace your UI

This is not a UI overhaul. Nothing is moved, nothing is rebuilt, and none of Blizzard's textures are recoloured. Every effect is drawn as a separate overlay on top of whatever you already run.

Three things follow from that:

• It works with ElvUI and other skins instead of fighting them. If ElvUI is loaded, the addon detects it and attaches to ElvUI's frames automatically.
• Turning a module off restores nothing, because nothing was ever changed. No leftovers, no "reset to default" button, no broken frames if you uninstall.
• Your layout stays yours. Move things wherever you like; the colours follow.

Photosensitivity

Read this before installing if flashing imagery is a problem for you.

This addon can flash and pulse across the entire screen. It is off by default in the Subtle preset, but on in the others.

Turn on Reduced motion in the settings, or type /wok motion. It freezes the colours in place, disables every flash, pulse and confetti burst, and stops the combat log from being scanned at all. Everything stays colourful; nothing moves.

/wok off kills every effect instantly.

Modules

Each one can be switched on or off independently.

Presets

Three starting points, each one a single click in the settings panel.

• Subtle — slow, desaturated, low intensity, reduced motion already on. For people who want a hint of colour and nothing else.
• Pride — the default. Everything visible, nothing overwhelming.
• Retina — every module on, maximum speed, maximum intensity, 60 fps. Named honestly.

Every preset is just a starting point. Speed, intensity, saturation and colour spread are all sliders, and each module has its own toggle.

Commands

Performance

One ticker drives every effect in the addon. Elements register themselves with a hue offset instead of each running its own timer, so lighting up 150 elements costs a single pass per tick, not 150 timers.

• Tick rate is 20–60 fps depending on preset, and can be lowered further.
• The confetti runs on the client's animation system, not in Lua.
• Combat log scanning only happens when the screen edge module is on, is filtered to your own damage, and is disabled entirely by reduced motion.
• If an effect ever errors, it is dropped and reported once, rather than throwing an error every frame.

/wok debug shows exactly what is attached if you want to see the cost.

Things it deliberately does not do

It cannot replace your mouse cursor. WoW exposes no API for the cursor; it belongs to the client, not to the interface. Every "cursor mod" on this site works the same way this one does: by drawing something that follows the pointer. The cat runs next to your cursor, it does not become it.

Chat colouring is display-only and local. The filter runs when a message is printed to your chat frame, long after it has left your client. Nothing you send is modified, and nobody else sees any of it. Lines containing item links or existing colour codes are left alone so links never break.

It does not touch anything protected. No frames are moved, no attributes are set, nothing is done in combat that could taint the interface.

Compatibility

• Retail only, interface 120007.
• ElvUI — detected automatically, attaches to ElvUI's frames.
• Other skins and unit frame addons generally work, since the addon only adds overlays. If a module finds nothing to attach to, it reports that in /wok debug instead of erroring.

Known limitations

This is an early release and honest about it:

• The Blizzard default UI path has had far less testing than the ElvUI path.
• Raid-scale performance has not been measured under load.
• Nameplate health bar detection tries several known layouts and falls back gracefully; /wok debug reports which one it found.

Bug reports are genuinely useful. Please include the output of /wok debug and /wok test, and say whether you run ElvUI.

Feedback

Issues and suggestions are welcome. If something looks wrong, /wok debug is almost always the fastest way to tell me why.

Licensed MIT.