Can/will this be increased from OG classic values when TBC goes fully live?
During classic I was unable to maintain interest as my hunter’s abilities outranged the visibility of enemy nameplates hard capped by the game. There was a workaround using cvars, but Blizzard quickly disabled it.
Now that we have a client in TBC classic that supports 40 debuffs and other enhancements, can we PLEASE get an increase on nameplate distance AT LEAST to the maximum castable ranged spell distance?
This is why I cancelled my sub after a month last time. It was simply unplayable to not have nameplates within attack range.
EDIT:
@Rykke-grobbulus
Wirtt was correct, the problem was the quotes when copy/pasting the command.
/script SetCVar("nameplateMaxDistance", 41)
The above works for copy/pasting without the unsupported unicode italic quotes…
The Advanced Interface Options addon didn’t actually have anything to do with it, although it does have an option to set this through a GUI in the cvars browser section.
Thanks (all) for the heads-up, and here’s hoping they don’t change it again.
Just confirming that works. Only have to do it once and it stays. Can even make a macro containing that and use it on each character, or add different values if you like to change it on the fly for different characters or whatever. Realoading UI was not needed for it to take effect:
What possible exploit can you use to support bots/multiboxers by allowing FRIENDLY nameplate add-ons?
The only way this could be exploited is if it’s compromised because of poor design or security on Blizzard’s part. In which case they obviously need to fix it and not punish players.
Sounds like just an excuse to not spend money fixing things.
Its already increased. Max I have been able to set it to is 41 yards. Just get the advanced interface options addon to set it in the cvar browser or run the set cvar command in chat to change it.
You can see the healing spells I highlight both have a 40 yard range. So, when they come in range of a target, that target should be showing a nameplate, as using /script SetCVar(“nameplateMaxDistance”, 41) would set the max distance to 41 or 1 yard beyond the reach of the spell. I tried it with 41 and 40 both just to be sure it wasn’t capped at 40 (so 41 was just being ignored) and the results were the same.
As you can see even after using this, the nameplate doesn’t appear until about half again the range of a 40 yard spell. This tells me that command is a placebo.
Using /script SetCVar(“nameplateMaxDistance”, 41) doesn’t seem to work if you have the AdvancedInterfaceOptions addon installed. However, if you use the cvars browser in that addon to manually set this variable, it does indeed go as high as 41.
Thanks for the heads-up, and here’s hoping they don’t change it again.
Works for me too, can even change it to 20, 30, whatever on the fly. Notes: on your video. It’s a friendly target? Maybe only works on yellow/red? You have an addon changing nameplates…maybe that interferes or has it’s own settings over-riding??
Here, I am toggling between 30 and 40 on the fly with macros containing the script command.
