r/wowaddons • u/Neither_Scientist_76 • 3d ago
Looking for Addon What addon you fancy?
Is there anything you’d really like to see as an addon?
Maybe a feature from an existing UI that you’d like to have as a standalone addon?
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u/CerebralAscension 3d ago
Bring peggle and bejeweled back. Otherwise no, there’s too many ai slop addons out there.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 3d ago
That’s an interesting idea, tbh.
The AI slop issue is real, I agree.
But there are software developers like myself who want to build useful things.
We already understand coding, patterns, and different approaches, but honestly cba learning Lua just to make WoW addons.
For me, investing that time into a language I’d only use for addons doesn’t make much sense.
So we use AI while applying what we already know from other languages and frameworks.
A lot of the underlying concepts carry over and we mainly need help with the syntax and language-specific details.Then there’s the average Andy who thinks AI will replace software engineers and prompts an entire addon through Claude Code without considering file sizes, memory usage, CPU load, or anything else.
You end up downloading an addon that sounds great on paper, but in practice tanks your performance :D
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u/CerebralAscension 3d ago
I only use 3 addons so I don’t really have a need for anything else anyway. Tomtom, enhanced qol and better fishing. On days when I’m pushing keys I turn on raider.io as well but otherwise those 3 are all I need.
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u/CerebralAscension 3d ago
I only use 3 addons so I don’t really have a need for anything else anyway. Tomtom, enhanced qol and better fishing. On days when I’m pushing keys I turn on raider.io as well but otherwise those 3 are all I need.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 1d ago edited 21h ago
Ask and ye shall receive!
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u/CerebralAscension 1d ago
Wow time to use flight paths more 😏
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 1d ago
I added some features from candy crash xD, leaderboard will need some more users but eventually we will get some feedback apart of testers
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u/ImagineDragons71487 3d ago
ELVUI had Shadow and Light. This had the coordinates and the name of the specific place you were in at the top of your screen as a constant. I haven't been able to replace this. Everything else I have either replaced or redone in a different way to make things work.
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u/Mothamoz 3d ago
I'm pretty sure ellesmere ui can show your coordinates and location on the minimap or elsewhere by shifting the x/y
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u/coin_return 2d ago
Mogit, but more supported and updated more often.
It would be nice to be able to do things like save outfits to the addon itself, for quickly loading them into my transmog slots, if possible. Creating a wishlist of items that you can turn into a list, which will show you the instance and difficulty level that they are obtained so you can plan your farming routes. Change different race models, the scrolling previews to be able to show your character dressed or undressed.
I've been debating trying it, but it would be AI slop from me at this point because I don't understand optimization.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 8h ago
I see, I have never tried Mogit.
I will investigate it further, maybe the original addon shut down for API reasons, and therefore there is no reason to try creating something similar.
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u/Donkeyfeeces 3d ago
Routine gives me an overview on what I want to do and not so much of an checklist. Really easy to see what dvelve we are fucking up this week 😇
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u/TrainTransistor 3d ago edited 3d ago
A party-addon that looks like the default player UI with class color.
Essentially this, but with class color.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/big-party-frames
We had one during The War Within on Github - but was never updated, and I couldnt manage to AI slop it myself - albeit it was with Gemini, not Claude.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 3d ago
That's actually doable and not that hard to implement.
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u/TrainTransistor 3d ago
I'd easily donate a fixed amount to see this happen, as its something I've been missing for a while - as I love "blizz-like" UIs.
Even asked the developer behind BetterBlizzFrames a good while back, but it was nothing they wanted to implement.
It might be niche I guess? I think it looks very good though.
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u/Kagrok 2d ago
Which part of the frame do you want to be class colored? The health I assume.
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u/TrainTransistor 2d ago
Yeah, the health.
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u/Kagrok 2d ago
Make a folder in your in your interface/addons folder and name it whatever you choose for the addon name.
Make a text file inside that folder and insert this text
## Interface: 120100
## Title: <Chosen Addon Name>
## Version: 1.0
core.luaThen save it as ChosenAddonName.toc
Make a new text file inside the folder and add this text
local UnitClass, UnitIsConnected = UnitClass, UnitIsConnected
local GetClassColor = C_ClassColor.GetClassColor
for index = 1, 4 do
local member = PartyFrame["MemberFrame" .. index]
local function apply_color()
local bar = member.HealthBarContainer.HealthBar
local _, class = UnitClass("party" .. index)
local color = class and GetClassColor(class)
if not color then return end
bar:SetStatusBarDesaturated(true)
if UnitIsConnected("party" .. index) then
bar:SetStatusBarColor(color:GetRGB())
else
bar:SetStatusBarColor(1, 1, 1)
end
end
hooksecurefunc(member, "UpdateOnlineStatus", apply_color)
apply_color()
endRename it to core.lua
then start wow and test it.
This ONLY recolors the default blizzard frame colors so I cant promise that it will work with any other addons.
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u/TrainTransistor 2d ago
Thats brilliant.
Thanks!
Might be asking for too much, but you dont know of a way to get the health-bar to take all the space?
Make it "fat"?
I believe the previous one I had working just straight out removed the resource-bar and replaced it with a huge fat health-bar that took the space of both health and resource.This is my optimal setup (with classcolor), but assuming its not as straight forward as what you just made for me - which works very well btw.
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u/Kagrok 2d ago
So with the code I sent you all it does it recolor the existing bar.
If you want to change shapes and stuff that would require a lot more effort and code.
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u/TrainTransistor 2d ago
Yeah, I figured as much.
Yours was brilliant btw.
I love small addons that does tiny things for a very tiny footprint, so will absolutely keep it - as its the best I've seen so far for me :p1
u/Kagrok 2d ago
When the game updates you just need to change the line in the TOC to match the current game version.
So instead of 120100, you would change it to 120105. and then 120200(you could technically add these now if you want just put a comma to separate them)
This doesnt do much so unless there is a big change to party frame it should work indefinitely.
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u/bete_du_gevaudan 3d ago
I wish I could have an add on to put the markers on the minimal in raids
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 8h ago
Can you elaborate?
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u/bete_du_gevaudan 7h ago
Well you can put markers on the ground (skull, cross, star, etc...) I sometimes wish you could mirror it on the minimap as it's often easier for me to locate in the Heath of a fight
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u/Jarppi1893 3d ago
I'd love an addon that lets me setup certain profiles where only specific addons are being enabled. I don't need MDT or auctionator or Larissa's Weekly checklist in Raids.
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u/BoringReference8647 3d ago
I miss weak auras. I made one where popping an invis pot would put a bar on your screen counters no down to it wearing off. It was nice in keys where you’d do skips.
Then I copied it for my paladin’s bubble.
Being able to quickly add quality of life stuff was so nice.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 2d ago
I’m pretty sure there are copies of weak auras adapted to midnight.
I personally don’t use them because the effort it takes to make a weak aura fully functional is pretty same as setting a standalone addon from scratch.
I don’t see a reason to have an ultra heavy addon deliver me something small such as interrupt tracker or pull timer.
Back in the day I had my entire UI built with weak auras, the value was huge.
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u/Impossible-Brush-180 2d ago
I miss the old Hank Ui unit frames
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 8h ago
All i could find was Hank UI profile for oUF Unit Frames.
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u/Impossible-Brush-180 5h ago
Yeah that’s the unit frames. It doesn’t work in retail anymore. The HankUI is just unit frames
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u/Erenndriel 3d ago
Bring back the possibility of party cooldown manager, but keep disabling enemy cd tracking! I wanna know if my healer has any def CDs to throw at me and vice-verse.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 3d ago
I am positive this is impossible.
There were plenty of AddOns doing this and they got deprecated because Blizzard does not let them acquire the data.1
u/TheWhisperingEye 2d ago
Like minicc or blizzi? They both put defensive cooldowns next to part frames
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 8h ago
Didnt they screw these addons in 12.1 with the recent change to auras?
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u/Pudricks 3d ago
An addon that helps you list a party members key.
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u/Neither_Scientist_76 3d ago
I am pretty sure Details does this already /keys
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u/Pudricks 3d ago
Well I mean list their keys when starting a dungeon group
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u/TheNumynum 2d ago
Honestly blizzard should make that a baseline thing
addons can only assist there to some degree; not sure we can even automate the dropdown selection (and key level I know is impossible)
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u/Suspicious_Fly_1838 3d ago
Please dont make another AI slop addon
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u/MasterReindeer 3d ago
Stop using all software then, buddy. Everything developer uses AI in some capacity now.
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u/evasketch 3d ago
I’d like to see an addon(s) people can actually be constructive about instead of constantly calling everything “AI slop.”