I’m surprised, specifically, that a WeakAura for this is not easier to find. I’m color blind and struggle with identifying classes/healers by class color (DH/Sham/Lock, Hunter/Warr/Monk, all look painfully similar). Yes I already play in a properly adjusted Color blind mode.
I can’t find an addon to do this either. Ideally I just want class icons anchored to the left of the nameplate. even better would be an additional “+” icon for healers.
Blizzard specifically disabled the ability to modify friendly nameplates while in dungeons / raids back in 7.1.
If you’re after it for enemy nameplates and / or pvp it should be doable.
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ElvUI places a healer icon on appropriate enemy player nameplates by default.
I don’t know what UI you are using, but try ElvUI. It is a total customization UI that you can tailor to your preference, there are options to show the Class Icon you are looking for, for Leveling Solo, Dungeon Runs, Raids basically anything that is group content specific.
oof, I should have mentioned that I was an ElvUI user for years, but have recently weened myself off of it. In short, I like having the ability to more independently isolate the elements of my UI rather than relying on something that packages everything into one. But, ironically, that is one of the things about Elv that I would’ve liked to preserve because it’s exactly what I’m looking for.
Having said that, since Elv has the capability to do those things, I’d like to find other addons (ideally a weakaura) that can. And yes, I’m only interested in it for enemy plates, as I’m doing a lot of arena lately and playing around 2100 on my main.