Needing an addon to distinguish targets of different factions

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Hello there. I came back to WoW after a long long time. In the old days were you being at the BG you can see the platenames colors, and if the toon had a red colored nameplate (including the health bar) i easly knew that was an enemy target. But now a days the health bar from enemys and friendly target have the color of their class, and only the name of the characer it is red if it’s an enemy target.
I’m acostumbred to the old nameplates, and bacause of this nowdays distinguishing between friendly and enemy targets it’s confusing and dificult to me. So, i will like to know if there is some addon to get a more vissualy explicit way in order to distinguish enemys from friends. May be something that put an horde and alliance symbol on nameplates, or whatever. Thanks in advance my fellows.

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The class-specific health bar color thing isn’t a default UI option.

The default UI will show unit health bars like this:
Orange = Hostile, but not attackable
Yellow = Neutral or not currently hostile, but can still be attacked.
Red = Hostile
Blue = Friendly, can’t be attacked.
Gray = no credit for attacking
Green = Friendly NPC

There isn’t really a differentiation between a Hostile Horde character vs a Hostile animal, both will be red. The healthbar doesn’t change color based on class.

You may have an addon changing the healthbar colors or activated a really obscure Interface Option.

EDIT: The above is definitely for PVE. I think PVP may be different.

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Thanks, i’m going to check my addons and interface. I thought that would be some new thing that poped up in the latest expansions. And i’ll make some research with google about health bars colors at pvp to check if it’s diferent as you said.

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Pretty sure Blizz changed the default with Legion. That said, you can toggle it off via the CVar.

/run SetCVar("ShowClassColorInNameplate",0)

There’s a separate one for allies:

/run SetCVar("ShowClassColorInFriendlyNameplate",0)
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Thank you very much for that, anyway i obtained an addon that resolved my problem and also gave me a lot of toolls that i needed fot this kind of things. Cya!

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what is the addon?

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I don’t remember exactly, but the name of the file in my addons folder for that addon is TidyPlates_ThreatPlates. I think it’s a combination of two diferentes addons in one archive.

Edit: If someone wanted know, this addon allows me to make that every enemy target at pvp have the same health bar color instead of a class color, and same thing for friendly targets. Also allows me to have an icon class on their health bars, in order to keep indentifying wich class is every target.

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