⚔️ Blizz Nameplates+
Blizz Nameplates+ enhances the original Blizzard nameplates for Vanilla WoW / 1.12 while keeping their classic look and feel.
It adds modern quality-of-life features such as multi-target debuff tracking, castbars, target highlighting, health information, class colors and Tank Mode without replacing the original Blizzard nameplate design.
Current Version: v1.0.4
Required: SuperWoW
✨ Features
🩸 Debuff Tracking
Track your own debuffs directly above enemy nameplates.
- GUID-based multi-target tracking
- Up to 8 active debuffs per nameplate
- DoTs, curses, CC, roots, traps, stuns and other supported effects
- Numeric countdown timers
- Compact minute timers for long effects
- Stack counters for genuinely stacking debuffs
- Debuffs stay attached to the correct enemy when switching targets
- Same-name enemies are tracked independently
- Early removal when supported effects are dispelled or broken
Failed attacks are handled correctly:
Miss • Dodge • Resist • Immune • Evade
They will not create false debuff timers.
🎯 Target Glow
Make your current target immediately recognizable with a clearly visible glow around the complete nameplate.
Choose between:
White • Gold • Blue • Green • Red • Purple
The glow is centered around the entire visible nameplate, including the level area.
❤️ Health Text
Optionally display health information directly inside the Blizzard healthbar.
Choose between:
Off • Percent • HP • HP + Percent
Examples:
- Percent:
73% - HP:
3.5k - HP + Percent:
3.5k | 73%
Large health values are displayed in a compact format to keep the original nameplates readable.
🔮 Nameplate Castbars
See enemy casts directly underneath their nameplates.
- Normal casts fill from left to right
- Channels drain from right to left
- Active spell icon
- Smooth animation
- Compact full-width layout
- Adjustable castbar height
Only active castbars are animated every rendered frame.
🎨 Player Class Colors
Player nameplates can automatically use their corresponding class color.
Resolved class colors are protected from Blizzard temporarily overwriting them during combat or nameplate recycling.
NPC colors remain untouched unless another BNP feature intentionally changes them.
🛡️ Tank Mode
Optional Tank Mode provides additional visual information for hostile NPC nameplates.
Nameplate state is safely reset when Blizzard recycles frames, preventing old Tank Mode colors from appearing on unrelated enemies.
⚔️ Foreign Tagged Mobs
Immediately recognize mobs already tagged by players outside your party or raid.
Their healthbar is displayed in neutral grey.
Your own mobs and mobs tagged by your party or raid remain unchanged.
This feature works automatically and independently from Tank Mode.
⬆️ Target Plate on Top
Overlapping nameplates?
Enable Target Plate on Top to raise your current target above surrounding plates.
Debuffs, castbars and health information remain clearly readable.
🏹 Shared Hunter's Mark
Hunter's Mark is supported as a special shared debuff.
A Hunter's Mark applied by another Hunter can also be displayed on the nameplate.
Other debuffs continue to follow the normal tracking rules.
📏 Nameplate Scaling
Adjust the size of your Blizzard nameplates directly through BNP.
Range: 0.5 – 1.5
Default: 1.0
🔍 Reliable Multi-Target Tracking
Vanilla nameplates can behave unpredictably when units disappear, die or move in and out of visibility.
BNP includes several safeguards for this:
- GUID-based aura tracking
- Same-name enemies remain separated
- Killing one mob does not remove debuffs from another mob with the same name
- Conservative DoT and curse removal
- Protection against temporary incomplete aura information
- GUID stability checks during nameplate recycling
- Protection against brief ghost debuffs when units move behind walls or out of line of sight
📦 Requirements
⚠️ SuperWoW is Required
Blizz Nameplates+ requires SuperWoW.
SuperWoW provides the additional GUID and unit information required for reliable:
- Multi-target debuff tracking
- Nameplate identification
- Castbars
- Aura confirmation
- Nameplate state handling
Without SuperWoW, Blizz Nameplates+ is not supported.
📥 Installation
- Download the latest Blizz Nameplates+ release.
- Delete any existing
BlizzNameplatesPlusfolder. - Extract the downloaded archive.
- Copy the new folder into:
Interface\AddOns\
Your final installation should look like:
Interface\AddOns\BlizzNameplatesPlus\BlizzNameplatesPlus.toc
Start the game afterwards.
⚙️ Configuration
Open the configuration menu using the BN+ minimap button or type:
/bnp
Available Options
- Nameplate Scale
- Debuff Icon Size
- Class Colors
- Castbars
- Castbar Height
- Tank Mode
- Health Text
- Target Glow
- Target Glow Color
- Target Plate on Top
Both Health Text and Target Glow Color use compact dropdown menus.
Changes are applied immediately.
🔎 Missing Spell & Aura Reporting
Playing on a server with custom spells or noticed that BNP is missing a debuff?
BNP includes diagnostic tools to make missing effects easy to identify.
🧪 Unknown Spell Collector
Use:
/bnp unknown
BNP will display collected unknown negative aura/effect information.
A screenshot of the output is usually enough to report the missing spell.
For additional information when requested by the developer:
/bnp unknown verbose
To clear the collected information:
/bnp unknown reset
🔬 Target Aura Scan
If a missing debuff is currently active on your target, use:
/bnp auras
BNP will scan the target's currently active negative auras and display:
- Spell ID
- Aura name
- Stack count
- Debuff type
For best results, use /bnp auras while the missing debuff is still active and send a screenshot of the chat output.
This is especially useful for talent procs, custom server abilities and effects that are not detected by the normal unknown spell collector.
⚡ Performance
Blizz Nameplates+ is designed to keep permanent background work low.
- Aura confirmation work runs only when required
- No additional permanent scan for Target Glow
- Foreign-tag detection uses existing nameplate information
- Only active castbars animate every rendered frame
- Cast discovery is throttled
- Timer text updates only when the displayed value changes
- GUID stability protection does not add additional aura scans
The goal is to provide additional nameplate information while keeping the addon suitable for raids, battlegrounds and other situations with many visible units.
🚀 What's New in v1.0.4
🌑 Shadow Vulnerability
Added support for the Warlock talent proc Shadow Vulnerability.
- Correct 10-second duration
- Detects the actual Shadow Vulnerability aura
- Supports refreshes when the effect procs again while already active
❤️ Health Text
Expanded the original Health % feature with multiple display modes:
Off • Percent • HP • HP + Percent
Large health values are automatically displayed in a compact format.
🎛️ Cleaner Configuration
Improved the configuration menu with compact dropdown selectors for:
- Health Text
- Target Glow Color
This keeps the configuration panel smaller and easier to navigate.
🔬 Target Aura Scanner
Added the new diagnostic command:
/bnp auras
It displays all currently detected negative auras on your target together with their Spell ID, name, stack count and debuff type.
This makes identifying missing custom spells and talent procs significantly easier.
❤️ Special Thanks
A huge thank you to everyone who helped test Blizz Nameplates+, reported bugs, shared feedback and helped improve the addon!
Your testing has been incredibly helpful in making BNP more reliable and polished. ❤️
👤 Author
Wurmschwanz