YaHT Forever – Auto Shot timer for WoW Forever hunters

Know exactly when to stop moving. YaHT Forever is a lightweight Auto Shot bar built for WoW Forever's client, tuned against real in-game shot timings, including while kiting. Around the bar it warns you about the things that get hunters killed: the deadzone, a resisted Feign Death, the wrong aspect, a pet that is low or dead. It also times your procs and your Summon Hawk hawks.

A port of Aviana's classic YaHT (Yet another Hunter Timer). Original project: github.com/Aviana/YaHT

Why it's accurate on Forever

• Uses the game's own shot signal, plus a wind-up that scales with your ranged haste.
• Learns your connection: it works out the small extra delay between your shots and remembers it.
• Smooths network jitter: shots are evenly spaced, but the game's messages aren't. The bar keeps a steady rhythm instead of twitching.
• Kiting-aware: when moving makes a shot fail, Forever retries every 0.5s. YaHT follows that rhythm, so after you stop the red part ends exactly as the arrow leaves.

Warnings that save you

• Deadzone and too far: yellow caution stripes when your target is too close to shoot and too far to hit, red arrows pointing you closer when it's out of range.
• Feign Death resist: a movable icon with RESIST and a warning sound. It notices a resist in a little over a second even when the game shows no "Resisted" message.
• Aspect badge: your current aspect next to the bar. Red when a fight starts in Cheetah or Pack, and a reminder when you have no aspect at all.
• Pet alerts: small movable text for PET LOW, PET DEAD, NO PET and PET NOT ATTACKING.
• Ammo counter: invisible while you have plenty, fades in as you run low, then flashes yellow and red with a warning sound.

Proc and cooldown icons

• Mongoose Bite: pops in after you dodge, with a gold timer for the window and its cooldown.
• Quick Shots: with Deadly Aspects talented, shows while the haste lasts.
• Rapid Fire and your racial: show while they last. Your race's active is recognised automatically.
• Summon Hawk: each hawk that is out, with its 18 seconds running down and the seconds left. It turns red under 6 seconds: time to summon again before you spend the shared cooldown on Arcane Shot. One icon per hawk, or one with a count.
• Place each icon above, left or right of the bar, or drag it anywhere. Give them one shared look (size, glow, pulse, sound) or give any icon its own.
• Round or square: a round icon sits in a ring that runs down as its timer, a square one has its timer line under it. One switch changes every icon.
• Polished look: bevelled frames, a soft light and a shadow, if you like it richer. Off to start with; one switch for everything.

The bar

• Swing bar: reload, then the red "stand still" wind-up.
• Countdown: time to the shot, or to when you must stand still, to one decimal.
• Glow, sparks and light sweep: the glow builds as the reload runs out and is full while you must stand still; sparks mark the moving edge. Uses WeakAuras glow effects if you have WeakAuras.
• Ready pulse: moving with the shot ready? Lines pulse in the middle until you stop.
• Melee swing line: a thin line under the bar that fills with your melee swing, only while you're in melee. Turns gold while Raptor Strike is queued.
• Three looks: Minimal (just the bar), Clean (the bar with its icons) or Flashy (everything). Click one to see it in the live preview, then keep it with one more click.
• Tranquilizing Shot announce to Say, Party, Raid, Raid Warning, Whisper or a channel.

An options window that explains itself

• Live preview: your bar and icons, drawn from your settings as you change them.
• Help beside the settings: point at a setting and the panel on the right says what it does.
• Search, a page list on the left, and a Home page with the main switches, each with a small picture so you find it at a glance.
• Exact placement: X and Y sliders with single-step arrows, type-in values, and an alignment grid.
• Lock bar always in reach at the top, a minimap button with a quick menu, profiles, and a reset button on every page.

Lightweight

• Hidden and doing nothing when you're not shooting.
• Well under 1% of a frame when you are, with no memory build-up.
• The options window is only built when you open it, and only runs while it's open.

Getting started

1. Install, log in. The bar starts unlocked so you can place it.
2. Drag it where you want it, then switch on Lock bar at the top of the options (or type /yaht lock).
3. /yaht opens the options. So does the minimap button.

Notes

• WoW Forever only (interface 16001).
• Forever hides some things from addons. Pet health is one: PET LOW still works because the game draws it, but it can't play a sound. The combat log is another: Tranquilizing Shot is announced when you cast it, and a miss can't be detected.
• Say/Yell announcements from addons only work inside instances, and addon chat is paused during boss fights. That's a game rule.
• Languages: English, German, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Translation fixes are welcome!

Bug reports: type /yaht selftest and tell me what it says. For timing problems, turn on /yaht debug, play until it happens, then /yaht copy and paste the log in a comment.

Original YaHT by Aviana (public domain). WoW Forever port, improved by Tk Deadeye.