WoW Forever Paladin Toolkit
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A Retribution Paladin bar for WoW Forever that shows your Seal and cooldowns in priority order, rings the next ability to press, and adds a mana bar, a swing timer, buff and cleanse reminders and a one-button rotation macro.
A missing weapon stone, the Seal with its time left, the ring on the next press, the cooldowns, mana and the swing timer. Rendered from the addon's own layout with the game's art.
The ring sits on your next press while it still cools, so you see it coming: Judgement in 8 seconds, then Holy Strike. Rendered from the addon's own layout with the game's art.
While you press the one-button macro the ring shows what its next press casts. A gold ring asks for Consecration, which no macro can time, by its own key: here with two enemies in reach. Rendered from the addon's own layout with the game's art.
The small icon at the Seal's corner names the Seal to cast next, the stored echoes show at the end of the bar, and the swing timer marks when a Seal cast still lands before your next swing. Rendered from the addon's own layout with the game's art.
A debuff that Purify or Cleanse removes shows above the bar with its time left and, at its corner, the spell to press: here a poison and Cleanse. Rendered from the addon's own layout with the game's art.
Description
A bar for Retribution Paladins in World of Warcraft: Forever. It shows the Seal you have up, your cooldowns in the order you press them, and a ring on the ability to press next. It follows the character from level 1 to 60 and is built on the game's own cooldown and aura widgets, so it keeps working in combat, where Forever hides aura and resource numbers from addons.
Forever rebuilt the paladin: Judgement is off the global cooldown and no longer uses up the Seal, Holy Strike is new, and the Unsealed Wrath talent rewards switching Seals. The spell data in this addon is generated from the Forever client's own tables, not carried over from Classic.
What is on the bar
- Your Seal with its time left, and a faint placeholder when none is up.
- Cooldown icons in priority order: Judgement, Hammer of Wrath, Holy Strike, Consecration. Holy Shock, Repentance, Hammer of Justice and Exorcism can be switched on. An icon joins the bar when you learn its ability.
- Seal echoes with their stack counts once you have Unsealed Wrath.
- A mana bar under the icons, and a swing timer with the stretch in which a Seal cast still lands before your next swing.
- The icons use Blizzard's Cooldown Manager look and sit on whole pixels at any UI scale.
The next press
A ring marks the ability to press next, before it is ready, so there is time to react. A fainter ring marks the one after. The order is the default Retribution priority of the community simulator for Forever (wowsims), checked against this build's spell data:
- your damage Seal when none is up (Command with a slow weapon, otherwise Righteousness), with a small badge naming the Seal to cast
- Judgement, Hammer of Wrath below 20% health, Holy Strike, Consecration against two or more enemies or with mana to spare
- against elites and bosses, an opener: Seal of the Crusader, Judgement, then your damage Seal
- with Unsealed Wrath, the Seal swap, only against elites, bosses and players unless you ask for it everywhere
The one-button macro
/pally macro writes a character macro called PallyNext. Drag it from the macro window to an action bar. Each press casts the first ability of the rotation that is ready, and the macro keeps your Seal up through one of the game's own cast sequences, which counts your Holy Strikes to the next Seal. A Seal that runs out or is dispelled comes back by itself within three Holy Strikes, also when you are low on mana.
The addon writes the macro's text only out of combat. In a fight every decision is made by the game's macro system at the moment you press; the addon never picks or casts a spell for you. While you press the macro, the ring shows what the next press will cast. One thing the macro cannot cast by itself is Consecration, because no macro can count enemies or read mana: when it is worth pressing (two or more enemies in reach, or one enemy with nothing else ready and mana to spare), the ring moves to it in a second colour, gold beside the usual cyan, for you to press by its own key.
A press also silences the red error text and the "not ready" sounds a priority macro would otherwise cause, and gives them back half a second after you stop.
Reminders
- A missing Blessing, a missing Aura of your own, and a main-hand weapon with no sharpening stone or oil. The stone reminder shows the best stone in your bags.
- A cleanse alert when you or a party member has a debuff that Purify or Cleanse removes, with the debuff's icon and time left.
Settings
/pally opens the settings: Esc > Options > AddOns > Paladin Toolkit. Every option has a control there, on five pages (the bar, abilities, suggestions, reminders, the macro). The same options exist as chat commands; /pally help lists them. A few to start with:
/pally locklocks or unlocks the bar; unlocked, drag it by any icon./pally combatshows the bar only in combat./pally suggest offturns the ring off./pally macro strikes offmakes the macro count Judgements instead of Holy Strikes./pally suggest macro offkeeps the ring on its own priority while you press the macro./pally suggest own offstops the gold ring on Consecration while you press the macro;/pally suggest consecration 80asks for it on a single enemy only near full mana./pally statusprints what the addon currently sees, for bug reports.
Settings are saved per account.
Good to know
- Built for the Retribution rotation. On another class the addon stands down and shows nothing.
- The suggestions follow a simulator's priority. Mana, a boss mechanic or your own judgement can call for something else; the ring is advice.
- Out of melee range or disarmed, the macro's Seal sequence stands still, because no Holy Strike is cast. Your own Seal key is quicker there.
- A macro holds 255 characters. With every optional ability switched on, the addon drops the least important lines first and
/pally macrotells you which had no room. - WoW Forever only (interface 16001).
Install
Copy the PaladinToolkit folder into World of Warcraft\_forever_\Interface\AddOns. A new addon is picked up at the character selection screen, not by /reload.
Found a problem? Leave a comment here with the lines /pally status prints.
WoW Forever Paladin Toolkit Team
