Blizz Nameplates+ enhances the original Blizzard nameplates for Vanilla WoW / WoW 1.12 while preserving their classic look and feel.
It adds reliable multi-target aura tracking, Crowd Control, PvP immunities, castbars, Combo Points, Personal Nameplates, quest indicators, totem icons, Raid Marks and extensive customization — without replacing the original Blizzard nameplate system.
Current version: v2.0.1
Required: SuperWoW.dll + ClassicAPI.dll
- Adjustable Scale, Y Offset and Non-Target Alpha
- Enemy Class Colors
- Tank Mode with custom Aggro / No Aggro colors
- Optional Hide Player Names, NPC Names, Level and Border
- Optional Dark Border
- Adjustable name font size and position
- Black Health Background
- Neutral grey healthbar for foreign-tagged mobs
- Improved nameplate detection and recycling
Customize your own Personal Nameplate independently from enemy nameplates.
- Enable / disable Personal Nameplate
- Optional Combat Only display
- Optional Class Color
- Optional Hide Level
- Custom Health Text
- Adjustable Scale
- Adjustable Y Offset
- Optional Buffs
- Optional Debuffs
- Independent Buff X / Y Offset
- Independent Debuff X / Y Offset
- Customizable Target Glow
- Customizable Target Arrows
- Shared Glow / Arrow Color
- Adjustable Glow scale and opacity
- Multiple Arrow styles and sizes
- Custom Target Border Color
- Optional Bold Target Border
- Adjustable Target Scale
- Target Plate on Top
Display health directly on the nameplate:
Off • Percent • HP • HP + Percent
Includes adjustable font size and outline options.
- GUID-based multi-target tracking
- Numeric timers and stack counters
- Optional smooth Cooldown Spiral
- Independent Aura font and icon size
- Multiple positioning options
- Independent X / Y Offset
- Improved miss, resist and projectile handling
- Reliable cleanup on dispels, deaths and invalid states
- Improved refresh handling for supported abilities and talents
- Dedicated CC tracking
- Optional CCs from other players
- Independent icon size and position
- Adjustable positioning
- Optional separate CC row
- Improved pet-nameplate handling
- Event-driven ClassicAPI tracking
- Improved CC refresh and cleanup behavior
Tracks important effects such as:
Divine Shield, Divine Protection, Blessing of Protection, Ice Block, Berserker Rage, Death Wish, Recklessness, Fear Ward and Will of the Forsaken
Includes independent size and positioning.
- Automatic Shaman totem detection
- Ranked totem support
- Displays clean spell icons instead of full nameplates
- Adjustable icon size
QuestPlatesOcto functionality is integrated directly into BNP.
- Quest mob and item indicators
- Remaining objective count
- Adjustable Icon Size
- Adjustable X / Y Offset
- Supports Questie-Octo and pfQuest
No separate QuestPlatesOcto addon is required.
- Displays Raid Mark icons directly on nameplates
- Multiple positioning options
- Adjustable X / Y Offset
- Integrated into the BNP Icons settings
For Rogue and Druid:
- Combo Points displayed above the target nameplate
- Adjustable Y Offset
- Optional Dark Combo Point Border
- Previous-target point retention
- Enemy castbars with spell icons
- Classic / Modern styling
- Adjustable height and spacing
- Adjustable X / Y Offset
- Interruptibility support
- ClassicAPI-based enemy cast detection
- Automatic positioning around bottom auras
- Successful-cast completion effect
v2.0.0 introduces a completely redesigned configuration menu.
- Modern dark Blizzard-inspired design
- Clean left-side navigation
- Dedicated Personal settings page
- Clearly separated option categories
- Improved Aura settings layout
- Consistent dropdown and color-selection styling
- Visible scrollbars for longer pages
- Scrollbars support both mouse wheel and dragging
- Fully resizable options window
- Window size stored per character
- Dedicated resize handle
- Layout automatically adapts to different UI scales
The new menu keeps BNP compact while making the growing number of customization options much easier to navigate.
Blizz Nameplates+ is designed to remain lightweight even with many visible nameplates.
- Reliable nameplate-to-unit resolution through ClassicAPI
- Event-driven aura updates
- Improved multi-target accuracy
- Efficient cast handling
- Reduced unnecessary scanning
- Improved recycled-nameplate handling
- Mouseover tooltip and macro support
- Improved compatibility with UI addons
- Settings stored per character
The goal remains the same:
Enhance the original Blizzard nameplates without replacing them.
Open:
BNP Settings → Tools → Missing Spell / Aura
The recorder can collect:
- Spell IDs
- Aura durations
- Expiration times
- Refresh events
- Target information
- Aura state changes
This makes reporting missing or custom-server effects much easier.
Provides GUID, combat, cast and unit information.
Provides reliable nameplate, aura and spell information.
Both DLLs are required and should be kept up to date.
- Install
SuperWoW.dllandClassicAPI.dll - Delete any older
BlizzNameplatesPlusfolder - Extract the addon into:
Interface\AddOns\
Final path:
Interface\AddOns\BlizzNameplatesPlus\BlizzNameplatesPlus.toc
- Start the game through your DLL-enabled launcher
- Enable enemy nameplates
Created by Wurmschwanz.
Classic Blizzard nameplates, refined.
Thanks to everyone testing Blizz Nameplates+, reporting bugs, suggesting features and providing recorder data. ❤️