⚔️ 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 percentages, class colors and Tank Mode without replacing the original Blizzard nameplate design.
Current Version: v1.0.3
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 Percentage
Optionally display the enemy's current Health % directly inside the Blizzard healthbar.
Designed to remain simple and readable while preserving the original nameplate style.
🔮 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 %
- Target Glow
- Target Glow Color
- Target Plate on Top
Changes are applied immediately.
🔎 Missing Spell Reporting
Playing on a server with custom spells or noticed that BNP is missing a debuff?
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
⚡ 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 v1.0.3
🎯 Target Glow
Added a configurable target highlight with six color presets.
⚔️ Foreign Tagged Mobs
Mobs tagged outside your party or raid now use a grey healthbar.
🏹 Shared Hunter's Mark
Hunter's Mark from other Hunters can now be displayed.
🛡️ Debuff Stacks
Added stack counters for genuinely stacking debuffs.
🩸 Improved Debuff Reliability
Improved handling of Miss, Dodge, Resist, Immune and Evade.
💀 Same-Name Death Fix
Killing one mob no longer removes tracked debuffs from surviving mobs with the same name.
🔍 GUID Stability
Added protection against brief ghost debuffs caused by nameplate recycling and line-of-sight changes.
❤️ Health %
Added optional health percentage text inside the healthbar.
⬆️ Target Plate on Top
Your current target can optionally be raised above overlapping nameplates.
🔮 Castbar Improvements
Improved castbar layout and performance.
❤️ 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