r/classicwow • u/BrTarolg • 5h ago
Forever | Add-On Top Forever streamers run a custom “custom GCD” addon for the $100k Open. Here’s a free public one before qualifiers
If you watch Ziqo or Hydramist, you’ve seen it: an icon pops beside the enemy plate every time they press something. I asked on stream and the answer was “custom GCD addon”. Forever Open qualifiers are soon, there’s $100k on the line, and that shouldn’t come down to gatekept addons. This is the *only* public addon on curseforge that has the same functionality the streamer "custom addons" have
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/forever-simple-gcd
There’s a reason nobody had put one out. On Forever, enemy spells reach addons as secret values. UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED still fires for an enemy plate, but you can’t read, compare or filter the spell ID, so normal last-spell addons throw the event away and show nothing. You can still draw it, though. Pass the secret ID into C_Spell.GetSpellName and GetSpellTexture, hand the answers straight to the icon and text, and the client draws the real spell without the addon ever knowing what it was.
Most enemy instants send no cast event at all, which is where the rest of the trick comes in. Buffs go through Blizzard’s secure aura container (CustomAuraContainerTemplate), which reads auras itself and plays an animation you give it when one is new, so Blood Fury or a shield flashes by name mid-fight. Debuffs new on you show on your opponent’s plate, since in a duel only they could have put them there.
It shows at action-button size beside their plate, with a GCD sweep like Blizzard’s buttons. No polling, no pcall, nothing reads a secret. /fgcd to set it up, and Show on screen puts samples on every plate so you can place it before your match.
Made with AI help. I designed it and tested it in duels myself.
If you're interested in my actual work where I put real time and effort into maintaining and polishing, and not just some one off custom thing for a tournament I'm not even participating in, check out my other stuff https://www.curseforge.com/members/tarolg/projects
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u/TenshiBR 1h ago
Damn, all your addons look useful and with no bloat
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u/Suckmyballs2009 4h ago
Any one else not give two shits about this tourney or is it just me
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u/bird-man-guy 3h ago
Its cool and all but i think this would have been better done like a month after launch, and $100,000 prize pool just made it a toxic shit show. Whole point of the beta is to report bugs and fix the game but everyone is concealing exploits and bugs to give them an advantage. And the balance updates have without a doubt been affected by the endless complaining from streamers.
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u/Character_Today6160 4h ago
Please tell us more how much you don't care about them minutes after someone posts about it.
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u/Suckmyballs2009 4h ago
Nah I think I summed it it up just fine
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u/itzpiiz 3h ago
Why do you think anyone gives any more of a fuck that you don't care?
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u/Zweimancer 4h ago
Most of this sub hates the tournament. So no, not just you. You're in the default majority.
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u/FionaSilberpfeil 4h ago
I would rather say, we dont "hate" it, we simply dont care at all.
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u/Zweimancer 4h ago
That's just not true. The "haters" care the most because they think Blizzard is balancing the game around these PvP streamers.
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u/IGargleGarlic 2h ago
yeah, but who cares? Let people have their own fun. why do we even need to comment on it?
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u/Fondant-Resident 3h ago
I'll say that the hardcore tournament they did a few years back was probably some of the best WoW PVP I've ever seen. Was very cool to watch. This tournament I personally have like 0 hype for. The whole thing just seems so uninteresting between the 30 cap, all the drama surrounding it, the scuminess from streamers, etc.
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u/Olivr_A 4h ago
Good shit man 👍