Classic has been better than I thought in terms of addons, most of them are alright and not game-breaking but there’s one that should be eradicated asap. It’s SPY and it detects enemy players as soon as they show in your rendering distance, it even detects rogues that are in stealth even they are invisible to you in game. You can easily just click a name on list and go hunt a person even tho that player is behind a big wall/rock/anything. Addon has a cool feature to mark kill-on-sight on enemy players and that’s prty cool almost as NPC scanner but it’s still broken as an addon itself because it just detects enemy players. That is really game breaking and should be restricted asap.
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No, it doesn’t do anything like that.
Addons only check combat logs for actions performed by players nearby. It will only list any players using abilities. You’ll never know a rogue or druid is coming to you unless they break stealth and do something logs can show.
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then how it’s possible that a player that’s just pressing W and running is being detected on my screen
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Install it, took me 2 min.
There are a few too many API options open, some are intended for the functions in DBM etc. but perhaps need to only work whilst in a PvE instance.
Being able to request coordinates of an opposing faction player just shouldn’t be a thing, for example.
It’s not. That’s not how it works.
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No and no, it just relays whatever the combat log picks up.
Likewise with Rogues it won’t detect stealthed Rogues unless they activate stealth close enough for the combat log to pick it up.
Is it unfair? Perhaps, but it’s no more unfair than not having DBM, Questie, GatherMate, TellMeWhen, WeakAuras or any of the numerous UI addons that improve on the dated and frankly terrible default UI.
It’s a tool that’s accessible to everyone.
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Was like this on classic. Lots of people used it, throughout TBC, Wrath and so fourth. No changes.
Soft wallhack. But I don’t know if blizzard can do anything, making this go away will probably destroy a lot of other addons
why is it a problem its good for detecting coward rogues that spam stun abilities
Another day another thread and a lie Elsei,or should i name your charchters you keep making these?
No sutch thing the addon does those things.Ether use the addon to your advantge or stop making threads where you have to lie.Everyone is fine with the addon just you have to whine about something.
Here’s another “wallhack” - target someone with /target and then raidmark them.
Except it doesn’t.
Just stand by an enemy flight path, and ping - ping - ping, as players doing nothing in your combat log, not being moused over or targeted get detected…
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It isn’t. In Classic you can’t even get your target on the minimap (which is possible in retail, although not with players)
I use spy and I have to say I agree with you.
I like that I can have a list of players to kill on sight and that it tracks how many times I’ve won and lost vs them. But the alert feature is completely broken. It’s saved me many times from players I would have never seen coming.
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This addon makes the otherwise useless human racial somehwat useful. I am sold. Also I understand how it works, if it would be banned would make a new one next day. And no, it doesn’t detect players who don’t do anything.
I dont know how it works, but then it might detect nameplates being created/updated (there are 2 separate events for this) and computing if the respective characters are players and then whether they are hostile or friendly, and finally return the info accordingly.
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