Hello everyone,
I was curious if anyone is aware of an add-on that allows you to simply click a button and it scans for any enemy players within range? I have Spy, and am using AB CalloutBar with WA2, and the two work in conjunction pretty well together. But it got me wondering if there’s a mod that you can use in any BG and in the world to simply scan for any enemy player within range. I tried a bunch of google searches but haven’t found one. If there is, pls lmk. Thanks!
This seems like it would suck for rogues.
/targetenemyplayer
Works, I believe.
There’s a rogue macro for Classic that uses it:
#show sap
/cleartarget
/targetenemyplayer
/cast sap
Why? If they are detectable then they are targetable like anyone else. If they are not detectable then they are not targetable.
Thank you for the reply, after testing it out in a BG however it seems to only target enemy players that are very close, I’m having instances where I can see the enemy players but the macro doesnt pick them up until they are almost on top of me.
There’s pretty much no way to pick up enemies past a certain distance. Even Spy can’t do that because of how Blizzard nerfed the combat log.
RatBG shows all the enemies and highlights them when they are close, but I don’t know if that’s any better than what you’re using now.
If such a thing exists, you would be swiftly banned for using it, and it would not work for long.
I heavily advise you to discontinue your search for such a thing, quickly.
lol, banned for targeting alliance that are within range? I think not sir/madam.
No ones getting banned for using an addon which uses the provided blizz apis. Having said that, no such addon exists, all the useful targeting apis were made protected (ie not usable by addons) a long time ago. Unitscan kind of works but only if you give it a specific enemy name.
So in theory, an add-on that simply tried to /target like 1,000,000,000 different names would probably be the closest one could come? I wonder how the “count” button works in AB callout bar… it scans/detects nearby targetable enemies, but it’s imperfect and sometimes it misses some.
No, you don’t understand.
Such mods have been made in the past, and they were very swiftly disabled, and players who used them did suffer consequences.
For whatever reason, the current dev team seems to be of the opinion that such things are against the spirit of the game, and have punished them harshly.
My own opinion does not matter.
It wouldn’t really work since its not possible to determine whether the unit is an enemy/player/npc. The unitscan addon only knows the unit exists because it calls one of the protected targetbyname functions which will throw an error from the blizz api if the unit is in range (if its not in range nothing happens). So it basically knows a specified unit is in range if an error happens when its doing the scan.
have you tried the addon Unitscan?
Working by failing? Interesting concept.
Yep. Back in vanilla it used to ACTUALLY work, but you could do a lot more cool stuff with addons and macros back then.
Actually now that I’m thinking about it, you could actually have an addon that just built up a database of all enemy player names you encountered in the world / bg and constantly scan for them similar to what unitscan does. I’m guessing performance would be fairly abysmal though since it’d have a lot of names to scan
False, Blizzard API allows for even the modification to specific character frames to be enlarged or seen easier by class so you can target them easier. Shadow UF does this and a lot more, it even adds functionality for focus frames. It even displays enemy player buffs without the need for detect magic.
Basically blizzards intended for us to have API functionality that gave us more power. They didn’t say anything about it to keep the illusion of “no changes”
IMO these API work around should be nerfed into the dirt, but blizzard will not touch it because the devs that play are dependent on these features and that’s why the features exist.
I’m not talking a standalone add-on that can determine if they are alliance, im talking an add-on that basically does /target of a billion different name combos, then clears your target, but anything you have targeted will now show up on spy. I’m literally talking like an add-on for an add-on.
So like battlegrounds targets for the world
All these add-ons people are mentioning are good. But none fit what I’m looking for sadly. I literally just want a “scanner” button, that tries to target ANY enemy within range, so that spy picks them up. I’m not looking for an addon that has it’s own list or features other than 1 click = scans your visible/clickable range for enemies, but doesn’t DO anything with it, spy will do the rest.