Nameplate config

[Catriona R]

Figured some here might find my nameplate fix compilation useful - I
just posted it on the official forums to a thread full of people
unhappy with the changes (yeah I hate them too), but I've got them
fairly functional now:

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I've mostly managed to get it working how I'm used to, with a lot of
tweaking. To stop them sticking at the top/bottom of the screen when
the mob is offscreen I used this, which certainly seems to have made
it behave fairly close to normal, I won't claim perfection but it's a
big improvement: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20747644788

" /run SetCVar("nameplateMaxDistance", 100)
SetCVar("nameplateOtherTopInset", -1)
SetCVar("nameplateOtherBottomInset", -1)ReloadUI()

Change the 100 to whatever you want, it's just a max distance
variable for healthplate visibility. I believe 40 is the default."



To show names on nameplates all the time (that really should've been
an option rather than just tied to display of names) I found
http://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/nameplatenames which seems to do
exactly what I wanted.

And to get mob lvls back on the nameplates (why on earth remove useful
information??), I'm using
http://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/improved-nameplates

So yeah, 2 addons and a script just to make it function vaguely
normally. I like much of this patch but the UI changes are a serious
downgrade.

[Lewis]

Post by Catriona R
Figured some here might find my nameplate fix compilation useful - I
just posted it on the official forums to a thread full of people
unhappy with the changes (yeah I hate them too), but I've got them

I cannot get the name plates to turn off. v, ctrl-v, and opt-v SAY they
are toggling name plates, but do nothing, all name plates are on all the
time.

[Catriona R]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 03:40:35 -0000 (UTC), Lewis

Post by Lewis

Post by Catriona R
Figured some here might find my nameplate fix compilation useful - I
just posted it on the official forums to a thread full of people
unhappy with the changes (yeah I hate them too), but I've got them

I cannot get the name plates to turn off. v, ctrl-v, and opt-v SAY they
are toggling name plates, but do nothing, all name plates are on all the
time.

Ouch, that'd drive me mad, maybe worth disabling some addons to see if
one of them's overruling you and forcing them to stay on somehow? If
you can narrow it down then you might be able to find the setting
that's broken it. Things like AdvancedInterfaceOptions can interact
with them, as well as regular nameplate addons, maybe one of them is
breaking it :-/

Mine certainly works as normal, I've just been toggling friendly
nameplates to confirm my suspicion that the script I posted for
positioning needs to be run per character, not per account, that's
going to be annoying! At least it does persist through logout; once
it's done it's done for good.

[Lewis]

Post by Catriona R
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 03:40:35 -0000 (UTC), Lewis

Post by Lewis

Post by Catriona R
Figured some here might find my nameplate fix compilation useful - I
just posted it on the official forums to a thread full of people
unhappy with the changes (yeah I hate them too), but I've got them

I cannot get the name plates to turn off. v, ctrl-v, and opt-v SAY they
are toggling name plates, but do nothing, all name plates are on all the
time.

Ouch, that'd drive me mad, maybe worth disabling some addons to see if
one of them's overruling you and forcing them to stay on somehow? If
you can narrow it down then you might be able to find the setting
that's broken it. Things like AdvancedInterfaceOptions can interact
with them, as well as regular nameplate addons, maybe one of them is
breaking it :-/

Yeah, I'll have to do that, though I don't have anything abvious (like
aloft, for example) that should be interfering.

OTOH, it's pretty hard to login to the game at all. First of all, it
crashes often and the only way to get it to work is to remove the
config.wtf file. Second, Battle.net now takes minutes to launch. Third,
the login process itself is very slow. Fourth, my BM hunter is now a
total face-roll class with zero (and I do mean ZERO) skill required. I
logged in, set my talents, and then simply hit 2, 3, 4, 5 at random and
threw in a 1 whenever my focus was at max.

(Dire beast, kill command, Beastial Wrath, Volley, and Cobra Shot on 1).

I was #5 in the raid on DPS. For the majority of the time, I was not
actually looking at the screen. If I had one of those game pads I could
trivially setup a repeating script and walk away, except the game no
longer switches targets.

[Lewis]

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[Catriona R]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 06:06:50 -0000 (UTC), Lewis

Post by Lewis

Post by Catriona R
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 03:40:35 -0000 (UTC), Lewis

Post by Lewis

Post by Catriona R
Figured some here might find my nameplate fix compilation useful - I
just posted it on the official forums to a thread full of people
unhappy with the changes (yeah I hate them too), but I've got them

I cannot get the name plates to turn off. v, ctrl-v, and opt-v SAY they
are toggling name plates, but do nothing, all name plates are on all the
time.

Ouch, that'd drive me mad, maybe worth disabling some addons to see if
one of them's overruling you and forcing them to stay on somehow?

Nope. It was as dumbass new setting in Interface options under Names
where a whole bunch of stupid useless shit was turned on. I turned it
all off.
Things are better.

Good to hear, didn't think that stuff would affect it but hey, the UI
is all a mess now so anything's possible. Not a fan of the changes
there, at least it's mostly fixable with addons but shouldn't need to
be.

Post by Lewis
They made Beastmaster about the most boring possible class to play. I
assume with Runestrike (Legion relic ability) I will have to add one
more button to the boring as fuck rotation.
Oh look, Kill COmmand. Dire Beast. Cobra shot. cobra shot. aspect of the
something. repeat, basically at random. Pick up loot.

I find talenting extra buttons can help with that, I don't know BM
well but played with it a bit on beta and took Murder of Crows, which
added a bit of interest, especially solo where it resets the cd pretty
much every time.

My little gnome hunter is BM but as she's only lvl 22 at present she's
in 2-shot territory anyway (with NO heirlooms, must be one-shot if you
use those, given a crit Cobra Shot is a one-shot kill even for me...),
I'm hoping it slows down a bit with time as killing stuff so fast is
just boring to me, I prefer fights to have some actual content rather
than just hitting a random button and watching the mob fall over.

Post by Lewis
The best is far dumber and dies all the damn time now, and you get ONE
spec that applies to all pets, so no more getting out a tank pet to save
the Raid.

Yeah that's irritating, seems like there's no actual point to having
more than one pet with that, just use the same one for everything. Ok,
kinda a return to vanilla where I always stuck with the same pet (he
was my "Best Friend", of course I used him!), but I liked the idea of
different pets having different strengths and switching pet to change
the toolset, rather than just changing talents.