Tracker

A modular class HUD for World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (WotLK)

One tiny core, one config per class. Stop watching your action bars — watch the fight.

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What is this?

Tracker is a lightweight, class-specific heads-up display for WotLK 3.3.5a. It puts the handful of things you actually react to — procs, DoTs, cooldowns, resources — into one compact cluster near the center of your screen, and gets out of the way when nothing is happening.

It is built as one shared engine plus a small config file per class:

• TrackerCore — always loaded. Owns spellbook scanning, aura lookup, the icon factory, the glow driver, layout, the 10 Hz refresh loop, events and the shared /tracker command.
• <Class>Tracker — a LoadOnDemand module that only declares what to track. The core loads the one matching your class at login, so rogue code never runs on a death knight.

Add a new class by dropping in a single table — no engine changes required.

                        ┌───────────────────────────┐
                        │        TrackerCore        │
                        │  engine · layout · auras  │
                        │  icons · glow · /tracker  │
                        └─────────────┬─────────────┘
                                      │ LoadAddOn(class)
        ┌──────────┬──────────┬───────┼───────┬──────────┬──────────┐
        ▼          ▼          ▼       ▼       ▼          ▼          ▼
      Rogue       DK       Hunter   Mage   Priest    Warrior    Warlock   Druid
      (config)  (config)  (config) (config)(config)  (config)   (config) (config)

Screenshots

In the world — resource bar, secondary row and cooldowns at a glance

Close up — runes, runic power and grayscale upkeep reminders

Cooldowns with proc glow and remaining time

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Features

• Class-aware, talent-aware. Every entry is filtered through IsSpellKnown, so talents you never specced simply never appear — and the list survives a respec. One Fire/Arcane mage module, one Affliction/Destro/Demo warlock module.
• Smart auras. DoTs and debuffs show on the target with a top-to-bottom cooldown sweep (ElvUI nameplate style). playerOnly entries only count your copy, so another caster's Corruption, Serpent Sting or Rupture never reads as yours.
• Cross-class buffs. Hand of Freedom / Protection / Salvation / Sacrifice, Power Infusion and Hysteria are watched by every tracker, whatever class you play — Hysteria is drawn at the larger icon size.
• Upkeep reminders. Maintained effects (alwaysVisible) stay in the row and desaturate while missing — a glanceable "you forgot to refresh this" cue.
• Exclusive groups. One curse at a time? Only the active curse is drawn.
• Proc glow. Cooldowns with glowWhenReady light up the moment they become available again — a clean glow, with no flashing icons.
• Resource & secondary bars. Rage, mana, energy, runic power — plus combo points and color-coded death knight runes.
• Draggable & scalable. Unlock, drag anywhere, lock for click-through, and scale from 0.5 to 2.0. Position and scale are saved per character.
• Shared command. One /tracker entry point for every class.

Supported classes

Class	Spec focus	Resource	Secondary	Extra
Rogue	Combat / Assassination	Energy	Combo points	Missing poison warning
Death Knight	Unholy	Runic Power	6 runes (typed)	Missing Horn of Winter
Hunter	Marksmanship	Mana	—	Missing Trueshot / Dragonhawk
Mage	Fire & Arcane	—	—	Arcane Blast stacks, procs
Priest	Shadow	—	—	Shadow Weaving stacks, DoTs
Warrior	Fury	Rage	—	Flurry / Sunder stacks
Warlock	Affliction / Destro / Demo	—	—	Curse group, DoT upkeep
Druid	Balance	—	—	Eclipse (Solar/Lunar), DoTs

Installation

1. Copy the addon folders into your client: World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/
2. Make sure the entire folder is copied (each addon is its own directory, with a .toc inside).
3. Restart the client (or /reload) and log in.

Folders to install:

Interface/AddOns/
├── TrackerCore/          (required)
├── RogueTracker/         (one or more class modules)
├── DKTracker/
├── DruidTracker/
├── HunterTracker/
├── MageTracker/
├── PriestTracker/
├── WarriorTracker/
└── WarlockTracker/

Only your class module loads at runtime — the rest sit idle on disk.

Commands

Everything is under the single /tracker command:

Command	What it does
/tracker unlock	Unlock the HUD and drag it where you want
/tracker lock	Lock it in place and enable click-through
/tracker reset	Snap back to the default center position
/tracker	Show the command help

Adding a class

A class tracker is a single RegisterModule call. The core does the rest:

TrackerCore:RegisterModule({
    addonName  = "RogueTracker",
    dbName     = "RogueTrackerDB",
    className  = "ROGUE",
    printColor = "|cff00ff00",

    cooldowns = {
        { name = "Kick", icon = "Interface\\Icons\\Ability_Kick", glowWhenReady = true },
        -- ...
    },
    abilities = {
        { name = "Rupture", icon = "Interface\\Icons\\Ability_Rogue_Rupture",
          size = 46, alwaysVisible = true, playerOnly = true },
        -- ...
    },

    resource = { powerType = 3, max = 100, color = { 1, 0.8, 0.2 }, height = 18 },
    secondary = { type = "combo", count = 5, height = 18 },

    point = { "CENTER", 0, -100 },
    scale = 1.0,
})

Useful per-entry options:

Option	Effect
spellID	Match the aura by ID (more reliable than name)
size	Draw this icon larger
alwaysShow	Build the icon for a proc that is not in the spellbook
alwaysVisible	Keep the slot visible and grayscale while missing
showCount	Print the aura stack count on the icon
playerOnly	Only count auras you cast
group	Mutually-exclusive auras (only the active one shows)
altAuras	Match another class's aura with the same effect
glowWhenReady	Glow the cooldown when it is available

Register the class token in the MODULES table in TrackerCore.lua and add a .toc with ## LoadOnDemand: 1 and ## Dependencies: TrackerCore.

Notes

• Built and tuned for WotLK 3.3.5a, Interface: 30300.
• Each module behaves the same on every class thanks to the shared /tracker.
• The core owns TrackerCoreDB; per-class saved variables are adopted on first run so existing layouts are preserved.

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Made for the 3.3.5a community.