On my main Character (My Paladin) I was doing layer 8 in the twisting corridors, so I switched to Prot. because it’s easier. Once I did that, my nameplates became 1/4 of the size they normally are.
I thought It was because I was using Kui Nameplates, so I just changed the frame size to as large as I could make it in the addon interface for the Kui Nameplates.
I noticed though, that all my other characters have larger nameplates that are normal. I disabled Kui Nameplates (and all my addons) and to my surprise the Blizzard nameplates are super tiny now too! (But only for my Paladin They’re normal on every other guy)
So now, on my Main character, the blizzard UI Nameplates are 1/4 the size they used to be.
It’s only affected Harsh my main Character. Every other character I have is normal.
I have gone into the interface options and yes “larger nameplates” is checked. If I uncheck it, then the nameplates become so tiny I can barley see them!
I have deleted my WTF and Interface folders, but the problem persists… ON ONLY MY MAIN!
I am sorry to hear you have been having this issue. Thank you for providing the troubleshooting steps you have gone through. Since you have both deleted your WTF folder and Reinstalled the game this leads me to believe it will be in your ingame options.
I have been able to replicate your issue by using:
Options -> Interface-> Names - > Larger Nameplates
Yes, I did try this, and mentioned it in my post. When I disable “Larger Nameplates” it makes it so small I can barley see the power bars.
It’s not the ingame settings. I’ve checked, and re-checked between characters. Even going so far as to open my nephews account in another window of the game and checking setting by setting.
Nothing has fixed it. I believe there is a broken server side issue. I’ve un-installed the game, deleted all wow traces re-installed the game, started without mods of any kind, and it’s still doing this but ONLY on my Paladin.
EDIT:
For clarification, I understand that it seems like the screen shot of Harsh vs my alt, shows what looks to be the unchecked “Larger Nameplates”, but this isn’t the case. Both Characters in those screen shots have IDENTICAL Settings. If I uncheck the “Larger Nameplates” on my paladin the bars become even smaller than they’re shown in that screen shot.
It’s not something stupid, like a setting or a mod. WTF folder or Interface setting. I’ve checked/removed, deleted everything. It still persists, again only on Harsh!!
It’s the only reason I made this post. I’m at a loss
The only nameplate mod I used was Kui Nameplats. If that changes CVars, I don’t know. I didn’t adjust any settings in Kui or the Blizzard UI. I simply changed specs to tank a few times back and fourth then it messed up my main and didn’t fix the issue no matter what I did.
I don’t know how it got screwed up, and why deleting the game running without mods, and matching all settings to my other characters isn’t doing anything.
Really irritating! LOL, I did open up an in-game support ticket.
Yes this addon will make changes to CVars to obtain the UI looks and aesthetics of the game. I just dont know off the top of my head which ones it changes, I am quite familiar with how to view/edit them though back to default if you want to give that a shot.
Yeah, well it’s got to be something it did. Bugged out when I switched specs or something.
Its now a server side setting it changed, because it’s doing it on another computer. I just checked. (which was pretty much ruled out when I re-installed).
I’m just hoping the blizzard response will tell me what I can do to fix it.
I understand if you want to wait for Blizzards response.
If you want to keep troubleshooting I would download the Addon “AdvancedInterfaceOptions” here you can use the “CVar Browser”. Now I wouldn’t recommend changing to many things in the CVar Browser, but the great thing about this addon is it will show you any CVars that are NOT Default in RED.
You can then sort all the CVars by name using the filter “nameplate” then make sure that nothing is showing up in Red. If it is Red you can hover over it and it will tell you what the default is for that CVar.
Now after all of this you are unable to resolve the issue. I would make a forum post in the UI and Macro boards. That is where you will find someone who knows more about this then I do.
This was so unbelievably healpful.
Thanks for looking into this.
I’ve had one of my alts stuck in this same situation and I literally just couldn’t play him because it was so hard to deal with.
You have saved my alts life!!!
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