Addons not displaying enemy abilities. Help!

Gameplay Pet Battles
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Hi,
I love PVP pet battles and seeing the possible abilities and cooldowns of enemy pets is a huge quality of life addon feature.

While it works properly in PVE pet battles, it doesn’t in PVP pet battles. The abilities and cooldowns do not display. If I move my mouse over where they should be, I see the mouseover text showing it is there, but I have no visual of the ability and its cooldown. If I /reload once my opponent and I have picked a starting pet, it will show it correctly like it use to back in Legion.

Having to /reload every single battle is a huge pain though, does anyone else have this issue or know how to solve it?

My list of pet addons is as follows:
Pet tracker
Rematch
Pet leash
Derangement’s Pet Battle Cooldowns (no longer updated for years)
Battle Pet Breed ID

Please help, I have been trying to figure this out since BFA and I am at my wits end.

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Are you looking for the ones that show up on the top UI bar (Derangement’s) or right above your pet’s abilities (Pet Tracker). I know we have an update file for the Derangement’s addon in the WCP forums in the pins in the addon section:

(Link expires in 7 days)

However, I think Pet Tracker was updated for Dragonflight, so I’m assuming it’s the upper UI ability issue?

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Have you tried the addon Battle Pet Battle UI Tweaks?

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I have the exact same issue. So there is a fix?

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If you are talking about derangements, then there isn’t a fix I know of. The addon was abandoned. I got some help here on the forums (a lot from Gello) to update it just enough to work in PvE but never tested it in PvP. The version posted on WCP forums has those PvE fixes. We’d need to find someone who can update addons (I program, but not in Lua) probably willing to take it up to keep it updated.

You might take up Mackx’s suggestion of Battle Pet Battle UI tweaks. It’s a different visual but it might give you what you need.

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I can’t take on another for full time maintenance, but if something is broken by a patch I can take a look. Just need to know which addon is broken.

Both PetTracker (buttons at bottom of screen above pet action bar) and Derangement’s (integrated into top part of screen alongside health bars etc) display enemy cooldowns.

You may want to confirm the addon is enabled too. If you don’t load out of date addons then they will be disabled until they’re updated.

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It’s pet tracker that isn’t working correctly for me. It works in PVE, but not in PVP.

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To get PetTracker to work in pvp:

Low-tech but not permanent method: /reload once in battle (and after you’ve chosen a pet) and it should work from then on until you logout.

or

More permanent way: If you’re comfortable editing text files, open PetTracker\addons\battle\enemyBar.lua. At line 69 change this:

	for i, b in ipairs(self.Buttons) do
		b:Display(enemy:GetAbility(i), target)
	end

to this (adding the b:SetAlpha(1) line):

	for i, b in ipairs(self.Buttons) do
		b:SetAlpha(1)
		b:Display(enemy:GetAbility(i), target)
	end

edit: Tomorrow is 10.1 and the addon may be updated this week. Any change you make to that file will be lost when you update. Hopefully the author has the bug fixed with that update. If not, you’ll need to go back in and make that edit again.

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This worked! Thanks =)

Also I missed the link @Amayita. COuld you post again? Sorry.

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Here you go ^^

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This is the one that shows enemy pet abilities and cooldowns. They have to use the ability to get it to show which one they have chosen otherwise you see all 6 attacks.