Can we please consider increasing nameplate distance to 41 yards. If not please give an explanation as to why you prefer not to do this.
I think its safe to all classes would appreciate this change. Especially, all ranged classes.
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I also find this highly annoying.
Was the distance this short in 2019 classic? Because it seems like it wasn’t.
It was
I don’t know how people forget this
Probably because you could manually change it for a month after Classic released before they patched it, and then it was allowed again once BC dropped.
It’s an arbitrary restriction that has no value being capped at 20.
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Watch out you’re going to incur the wrath of the “no changes” people even tho we are way beyond no changes. Classic was never “no changes” there have been so many changes from the start. God forbid we add some QoL.
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Yeah, that’s why I am hoping and pushing for this change, since we are in season of discovery and technically a glorified beta for “classic plus”, that nameplate distance increase is a really good QoL change for all classes.
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No. 41yd is the original distance. It was changed in 2019 Classic due to people using the Spy addon. Instead of breaking the addon, they broke our nameplates instead. It needs to be fixed.
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Oh, well then, revert it!
so what, its a pvp addon, that tells you how many people are in the area. Who cares? Good for WPvP. Spy does jack all.
No, there were script commands that increased it.
NGL I miss the addon that let you see ungrouped player hp as well.
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In 2019 Classic the initial range was 40 yards, although Blizzard changed it to 20 a few weeks later because that was the original max distance in Vanilla. After that, it was discovered you could change the distance via script command with hex numbers to go farther than 20 yards. I’m not sure how it was discovered or if it was a bug or an oversight, but if you had put “2A” instead of a decimal number your nameplates would increase to 42 yards. I’m assuming 40 and 41 didn’t work because the hex codes are “28” and “29” which can be read as decimal numbers, but the max for decimal numbers was 20. I never tested any other hex numbers, but I suspect the max range would have been “FF” which is 255, the highest two-digit hex number. Shortly after that was discovered, Blizzard removed the ability to do so.
I’m a fountain of useless knowledge. 
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Yeah I have to say, I just started a hunter alt, and not being able to see the nameplates when i’m at optimal range for attacking is kinda troll. I can’t imagine pvp like this later on.
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I support this change. It’s extremely frustrating. There is sufficient deviation in SoS from “Vanilla” to warrant this quality of life improvement. There are no technical limitations that once existed in Vanilla.
They cant change game mechanics like that because then it would change classic era. That’s why they will only change items, new bosses, and runes.
untrue, they did it in the 2019 classic, the initial range was 40 yards. They only reduced it because of the purist outcry. Season of discovery is the perfect situation to bring the 40 yard nameplate to stay as a quality of life improvement.
I actually like the short nameplates and I play a Warlock and Mage.
It lets you hide in world PVP and I think that interaction is really cool.
If they increased the distance inside of raid/dungeons I wouldn’t really care tho.
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Accessibility options fixed this, so now there’s no reason to keep the bars nerfed they way they are.
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It’s literally not untrue. Season of discovery is directly tied to classic era. A change to the mechanics of sod will change the mechanics of era.
You can’t just cover your ears and say “untrue” when someone states a fact.
I’ve heard smatterings about this from both sides, but the fact that Hunter pets are scaling with stats without needing a rune to do it doesn’t that mean this is false?
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It literally is untrue, you cannot simply cover your ears and say “untrue” when I state a fact, that it was literally in 2019 classic, but was later removed to the purist crying.
You cannot bark about a change to the mechanics of era, when we literally have abilities/runes from retail wow. Sit.