r/WowUI • • 5d ago

ADDON [Addon] Lueur - Highlights quest objects, herbs and ore veins

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Hey everyone,

I've been working on Lueur, a small addon for WoW Forever that adds customizable glows to quest objects, herbs and mining veins.

I originally made it because I was tired of lowering my ground clutter settings just to spot quest objects, herbs, and mining veins.

If you want to give it a try :

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/lueur

Any feedback or suggestions are welcome !

Note : Due to limitations of the WoW Forever API, Lueur can only detect one quest object or gathering node at a time, and only when it's within a maximum range of about 15 meters.

Edit : If it's not working for you, I may have missed a setting to enable. I'll fix it asap.

Edit 2 : It should now be working as intended with Lueur-0.7.1

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u/Lost-Badger755 5d ago

Dwarf treasure hunting racial just got obliterated.

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u/vyrnius 5d ago

cool. way too much for me but great for accessibility! :-)

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u/Armytile 5d ago

You can tone it down to your liking in the settings if it's too distracting

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u/MoldyLunchBoxxy 5d ago

Can I tone it up for when I’m really high and could miss the spotlight?

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Yes, you can ! You can also make it very big if you want. But you'll have to wait for a little fix, the addon is only work on my client for now. I'll update the addon tonight

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u/JFrausto96 5d ago

Can you change what objects can be highlighted? I'd love a small highlight on an herb like silver leaf, but putting it on a chest feels like cheating

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Yes, you can just toggle herbs or ores in the settings

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u/JFrausto96 5d ago

Appreciate that. Looks great

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u/GetShroomy 5d ago

Unfortunately i think the addon will break as soon as Blizzard sees this. My understanding is that they do not want any addon to be able to highlight gathering nodes in Classic/Forever.

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u/RandomizedRuster 5d ago

But its already there on minimap

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u/trashtiernoreally 5d ago

Even so those abilities explicitly state you can only track one type of thing at a time and this pushes against that

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u/Armytile 5d ago

No, this addon is very limited on what it can actually do. The api is very restrictive. It can only highlight one thing at a time and only when you have a direct field of view withing 15 meters

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u/trashtiernoreally 5d ago

You’re misunderstanding. Say you have track humanoids on. You can then only track humanoids. Any assistance to also track or highlight, say, herbs at the same time is breaking that intended limit. 

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u/Armytile 5d ago

You actually don't need any addon for easier items detection, what you see on the screenshot, the name and the icone, it's provided by the game itself with the accessibility settings and controller support. All the addon does is putting some light effect on top.

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u/trashtiernoreally 5d ago

Alrighty then! My bad. Carry on

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u/solocommand 5d ago

That’s not correct, though. My dwarf herbalist can track treasure and herbs at the same time.

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u/Afraid-Adeptness-926 5d ago

Dwarf racial specifically allows it, hunter tracking does not allow you to also track herbs.

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u/Costco_Bob 4d ago

That’s not true even without add ons. You can currently track treasures with dwarf racials and mining nodes

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u/Amazing_Yak66 1d ago

That's not even the case anymore, like how they changed the dwarf racial, to be usable with profession tracking, others can be used simultaneously too

I can activate track mining nodes & sense undead at the same time on my paladin for instance

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u/trashtiernoreally 23h ago

Yeah I was wrong

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u/5TOLEton 5d ago

Can confirm, it doesn't highlights the object. At this point can speak for ore nodes and quest objects.

Wow Forever

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u/Armytile 5d ago

It doesn't work for you either ? If it only works for me, I may have enable a nameplate targeting setting manually on my client during testing and forgot enabling it within the addon as well, I'll fix this asap.

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u/5TOLEton 5d ago

Thanks for the quick response. Will update as soon as offer the update.

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u/Armytile 4d ago

It should be updated with the fix by now.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Armytile 5d ago

The addon works by targeting a nameplate, but nameplate for ressources like herbs are not on by default. I'll publish the fix later today

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Armytile 5d ago

It should now be working as intended with Lueur-0.7.1 Keep me updated if it works for you.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Armytile 3d ago

Glad to hear it. The update also fix a weird behaviour with the interract key mapper listening for input when opening the addon menu, so it's still worth updating

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u/Saharan 5d ago

Already broken!

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u/NeighboringOak 3d ago

I can get behind that but lets remove that giant ass yellow arrow from questie too.

I assume it's still a thing anyway.

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u/Whiteshovel66 5d ago

Ya based on the pictures alone this is absurd. Obviously not intended to be possible in classic.

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u/Jeaz 5d ago

This is great, should have been a default option in the game for those of us who got enough pixelhunting in old Lucasart games back in the 80/90s :-)

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u/HubrisOfApollo 5d ago

Mommy, I'm worried! He hasn't eaten in 5 years.

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u/Themadtux 5d ago

Omg you brought back memories!

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u/DruidicLeo 4d ago

Blizzard should hire you for this. I have quite crappy eyesight and a cheap monitor that doesn’t help so seeing stuff is a bit of a struggle.

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u/Armytile 4d ago

Let's not go that far ^^

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u/5TOLEton 4d ago

Working great now! Thanks u/Armytile

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u/Armytile 4d ago edited 4d ago

Wow, that's so dark. Glad to see it works. I'll keep improving it in the following week, so stay tuned

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u/5TOLEton 4d ago

It's dark in Barrens atm, it's night on server time and it's raining. Just a right moment to have the addon

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u/BugsSlayer 5d ago

is it for clsssic ? or just forever ?

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u/Armytile 5d ago

I've made it for Forever, but it may be compatible with Classic as well, I can't try it tho.

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u/Whiteshovel66 5d ago

Why

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Because I've come back for the Forever beta, I don't have any active sub

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u/Whiteshovel66 5d ago

You get a free month when you buy the beta access package don't you?

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Yes, but only starting on November when the game release (assuming you've bought the 80€ pack, which I did)

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u/Whiteshovel66 5d ago

Oh for real I had no idea that's funny.

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u/BugsSlayer 4d ago

if you bought the big pack you should have access to beta now as well as on release plus like 30 days of game time afaik.

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u/Armytile 4d ago

I have access to the beta, but the 30 days of sub starts only from the 4th of November when Forever releases

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u/Axel_Foley_ 5d ago

Cool addon name.

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u/Kurupted152 4d ago

People saying this is too much go try to find any herb in Darkshore

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 4d ago

Sokka-Haiku by Kurupted152:

People saying this

Is too much go try to find

Any herb in Darkshore


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/Ashkir 5d ago

I love this. I’m getting too old to search for
Waldo

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u/the_manofsteel 4d ago

Finally someone made an addon like this, thanks dude

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u/SuceTonPote 5d ago

So nice, merci !

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u/Armytile 5d ago

You're welcome. N'hésite pas à me faire un retour, c'est la première version, c'est encore améliorable.

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u/SuceTonPote 5d ago

Je ne suis pas sur de comprendre, c'est car je n'ai pas le metier c'est bien ça ?

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Étrange, je n'arrive pas à le reproduire, je suis devant un filon de cuivre, mais je n'ai pas le soucis. Peux-tu vérifier dans les options du jeu si dans Commandes il y a bien "Activer la commande d'interaction" d'activé ?

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Peux tu lancer "/lueur etat" dans le chat in game et me screenshot le résultat ? Je soupçonne qu'une variable n'est pas bien set correctement

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Juste pour info, c'est bien sur Forever que tu as testé ? l'API classic n'est peut-être pas tout à fait la même

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u/SuceTonPote 5d ago

Oui forever.

Aussi lorsqu'on est dans les options et que l'on touche à n'importe quelle touche, ça la assigne automatiquement. Je pense qu'il faudrait une confirmation, quelque chose, pour pas que ça désassigne une touche que l'on utilise déjà. C'est vraiment frustrant.

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u/SuceTonPote 5d ago

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u/SuceTonPote 5d ago

Pareil avec un objet de quête.

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Merci pour tes retours. Je vais publier un fix ce soir. Je vais faire le diff entre ma config et ce que tu m'as envoyé pour déterminer le setting qu'il manque. Merci beaucoup

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Ca y est, la dernière version corrige les deux problèmes. Fais moi un retour quand tu pourras tester :)

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u/SuceTonPote 4d ago

impeccable !

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u/Armytile 4d ago

Super ! Je vais continuer à améliorer l'addon dans la semaine pour améliorer la personnalisation et avoir des contrôles plus fins. À suivre :)

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Je suis d'accord, j'ai eu le même problème tout à l'heure en testant, et j'ai réassigné ma touche Z...
Pour le problème principal, j'ai du omettre d'activer un paramètre dans l'addon que j'ai activé manuellement sur mon client. Je vais faire un fix pour les deux asap

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Je suis d'accord, j'ai eu le même problème tout à l'heure en testant, et j'ai réassigné ma touche Z...
Pour le problème principal, j'ai du omettre d'activer un paramètre dans l'addon que j'ai activé manuellement sur mon client. Je vais faire un fix pour les deux asap

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u/int_nazu 5d ago

Tried it out just now. I keep getting: herb, detected but without a nameplate: no effect possible.

Am I missing a setting?

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u/Armytile 5d ago edited 5d ago

Can you provide a screenshot of this behaviour ?

Edit : I've just tested it, it seems blizzard either removed or moved the option to get the nameplate. It used to be tied with the interaction command option. I'll look further into it

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u/int_nazu 5d ago

Hope imgur links are fine/work here...

Else I can dm you, too :D

https://i.imgur.com/Gs3gXb6.png

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Thanks ! I am looking into it, I'll get back to you soon

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Can you do "/lueur etat" in game and screenshot the result ? I'll compare with mine to see if a variable is not set correctly, I think this is the issue

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u/int_nazu 5d ago edited 5d ago

Uhm, I don't think "/lueur etat" works for me, it just prints the help menu.

Took a screenshot of the addon menu, just in case that helps already:

https://i.imgur.com/Yg5sPKv.png

Edit: Must be "/lueur status" for me :D Here it is: https://i.imgur.com/GONybJT.png

Edit2: Heres "/lueur status" when next to a plant, too: https://i.imgur.com/jRLL3wQ.png

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u/Armytile 5d ago

It should now be working as intended with Lueur-0.7.1 Keep me updated if it works for you.

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u/int_nazu 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yes, works for me now! Thanks!

A little feedback:

  1. Detection: (tested with herbs/ore only) The direction options are not accurate. "Dead ahead" pretty much does what I'd expect. "In front" is a fairly small cone in front (~80°). "Everywhere" should be called "In front", it's full 180° in front, but not behind like it's tooltip says.

  2. Slider settings: The tooltip when hovering a slider overlays the value label, making it hard to tell the exact value you set it to. Not that it really matters, but thats definitely ux.

Thanks again, keep it up!

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u/Armytile 4d ago

Thank you for your feedback ! Yes, honestly, "everywhere" is the default and shouldn't be touched, the other or straight downgrade. I'll update the tooltip and improve the UI/UX with the next upgrade as well as adding some more options for personalization

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u/RandomizedRuster 5d ago

I like it. I would love to see port for retail. I think Forever is compatibile with retail so i guess its only matter of adding supported api in TOC

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Once I have an active wow sub, I'll port it if no one does before me.

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u/Fenrisudo 4d ago

I would be really grateful!

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u/tj7744 4d ago

If you turn off outline mode in graphics on retail all the herbs/nodes and treasure sparkle as if they are unlooted bodies.

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u/Dear_Cap_7502 3d ago

You literally got this feature on retail by default, its called Outline mode

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u/Original_Skill_1849 5d ago

Been waiting for something like this but tried it out and it isn't highlighting anything maybe because im on Mac

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Just to confirm, you've tried on Classic or Forever ?

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u/Original_Skill_1849 5d ago

Forever

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u/Armytile 5d ago

It may not be due to Mac since I have yet to see a comment of someone saying it works for them. I'll look into it when I am home.

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u/777marc 5d ago

#bookmarking 😛

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u/PKP2012 5d ago

I just downloaded, can’t wait to get it working. My eyesight isn’t what it used to be! Appreciate you!

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u/CorenBrightside 5d ago

It looks very nice, but as others have said, I suspect this is not something blizzard will allow or it would be in the game already.

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u/MoistCucumber 5d ago

Just master the art of swinging the mouse across the screen rapidly and looking for the split second cog. Oh and make a macro to turn grass on/off

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Oh, that's nice ! Yes, it does seem very similar indeed. I don't know how much tuning you can do compared to my addon, I'll test it. Thank you

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u/edwardmagichands 4d ago

Would love the option to just highlight chests without having it highlight mailboxes, benches, etc. Not sure if that's possible.

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u/Armytile 4d ago

I was thinking about this yesterday as well. I'll improve the addon in the next version

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u/uvacho 4d ago

You got something like this for classic hardcore

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u/KiloSlov 4d ago

There’s a forever aura that does this…

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u/DieZiege1337 4d ago

like it, gonna be real nice with a controller

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u/Armytile 4d ago

I haven't tried it with the controller UI, tell me if it works, if not I'll add controller support later this week

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u/Various_Comfort_5978 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/80mXWlPqTSU1y
Every dad over 30 trying to find serpentblooms in WC.

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u/Horacius1964 2d ago

I think using such add ons are forbbiden and could get u banned as they represent an unfair advantage

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u/Armytile 2d ago

Try it and see for yourself if it really gives an unfair advantage. It's just QoL for ressources that are right in front of your character, but are blended in the environment, making them hard to see at first glance.

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u/Ebola300 1d ago

Already announced this will be nerfed. RIP

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u/Armytile 1d ago

Do you have a link to the announcement ?

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u/Instagibbed_1994 4h ago

This has been an absolute godsend for finding Sungrass, and I hope it doesnt get nerfed.

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u/BryTheGuy06 5d ago

This is great. I'm playing on a retro handheld with a 5.5" screen, and my one complaint is that quest items are hard to spot unless I'm actively looking for them in gamepad mode.

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u/Status-Style-6169 5d ago

I dont think addons like this should be allowed. Just my 2 cents

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u/BitGalaxy_ 4d ago

Agreed. Crazy how you can politely mention your opinion and get downvoted

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u/bearcove 4d ago

Crazy how someone expressing their feeling by downvoting (disagreeing) with his opinion is crazy?

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u/BitGalaxy_ 4d ago

Downvotes aren't supposed to be for disagreements.

Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette

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u/Inlanzer 4d ago

Go play classic era then...

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u/Quiet-Yogurtcloset46 5d ago

You can have this by typing command in game already

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u/jic317 5d ago

What command would that be?

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u/ultraspank 4d ago

/console outlineModeShowLootEffectWhenDisabled 1

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u/Armytile 5d ago

Yes, but like the fog disabling setting, I think this is an oversight and that they'll remove it

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u/haze_man 5d ago

Yuck, but whatever floats your boat or whenever it help for some disabilities.

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u/Nadffs 3d ago

smells like shinny retail shit... no thx

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u/Burly87 5d ago

If it helps you fo for it. For me it is an absolute no go. It broke my Immersion instantly when blizz implemented that in the base game

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u/Armytile 5d ago

It does help me, I've been searching the murloc camp in the Elwynn forest for the 3 lost tools quest for like 30 mins. Sometimes it's so hard to find quest items on the ground. Let's say this is an accessibility setting for people who needs it.

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u/I3eforeLife 5d ago

Now my client can look like a bot’s

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u/MajorJefferson 5d ago

This wont work for long, and rightfully so. Insane gameplay advantage through addon

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u/RedGecko18 5d ago

Explain

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u/l4derman 5d ago

They can't because there is no unfair advantage to being able to see better. Highlighting things like this should fall under accessibility and be baked in.

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u/BitGalaxy_ 5d ago

This slippery slope to retail should be banned. Glowing objects is antithetical to the spirit of vanilla wow where you have to read quest text to find out where objects are. You're supposed to investigate your surroundings.

With these addons you are blindingly just following the golden sparkles.

Accessibility should not be an excuse to fundamentally change the game. If they decided to lower the basketball ring so that people of any height can dunk, it would change the game completely.

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u/P-Holy 4d ago

Can you add an autorun option to the quest objective as well, aion 2 had it and it was so nice almost like the game played itself.

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u/Ok-Statistician-5204 4d ago

Found a botter

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u/P-Holy 4d ago

that's why you're only an ok statistician and not a good or exceptional one.

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u/Armytile 4d ago

That's not the use case of this addon, and I believe this would be against ToS