Forever Rangefinder

How far your enemy target is, in yard bands from the game's own range checks, with a loud warning when you stand in a hunter's dead zone.

v0.2.1 Free WoW Forever

Screenshots

What it does

How far your enemy is, and a loud warning in a hunter's dead zone. A hunter's Auto Shot reaches from 8 to 35 yards and melee reaches about 5, so between 5 and 8 yards the hunter can hit you with neither of them. Forever Rangefinder shows how far your enemy target is and tells you when you stand in that gap.

  • Works on every class. You need no special spells: the range comes from the game's own item and interact range checks, in and out of combat.
  • The range at a glance. A small panel with the target's portrait or class icon, the band, such as 10-20 yd, and a ruler from 5 to 40 yards with your band lit.
  • Hunter zones. On a hunter the ruler is coloured and the panel names the zone: Melee range, DEAD ZONE, Auto Shot reaches you, Out of Auto Shot range.
  • The dead zone warning. A red glow fading in from the screen edges, big words, a line saying why you are safe, and a raid warning sound when you enter, at most once in 3 seconds. The checks run ten times a second, because a runner crosses the zone in less than half a second.
  • No false alarms. The warning needs both borders to answer: the 5 yard check says no and the 8 yard check says yes. If the game gives no answer, you get no warning.

Commands

Command What it does
/frf show the version and the commands
/frf test show the warning for a few seconds, also without a target
/frf all warn on every target, not only hunters, for practice on NPCs
/frf sound turn the sound on or off
/frf check list what each range check answers right now
/frf reset put the panel back in its place

Hold Shift and drag to move the panel.

Good to know

  • It covers your current target only, not a hunter on a nameplate.
  • These are bands, not exact yards. The checks were measured on hostile NPCs. Enemy players have not been measured yet, so the checks may behave differently on them, and the 8 yard border can be about a yard off.
  • If you try it against a real hunter, /frf check shows what the game answers. Tell me in the comments.

Made for the WoW Forever client.

Changelog

0.2.1 current

Features

  • First release on CurseForge. How far your enemy target is, in yard bands from the game's own range checks, in and out of combat, on every class: a panel with the target's portrait or class icon, the band and a ruler from 5 to 40 yards. On a hunter the ruler is coloured by zone, and in the dead zone you get a red screen edge, big words and a sound. /frf test shows the warning. Measured on hostile NPCs; enemy players are not measured yet.
  • The painted icon, a brass rangefinder with a blue lens, in the AddOns list.
0.2.0

Features

  • A new look. A dark panel with the target's class icon or portrait and a ruler of the range bands, coloured by hunter zone with your band lit. The warning is a red glow fading in from the screen edges, with bigger words and a line saying why you are safe.
0.1.0

Features

  • How far your enemy target is, in yard bands from the game's own range checks, in and out of combat. On a hunter it names the zone and warns with a red screen edge, big words and a sound while you stand in the dead zone (5-8 yd). /frf all does this on every target, /frf test shows the warning.

Help and feedback

Questions, bugs and ideas are welcome on the Forever Addons Discord: #help for setting it up, #bug-reports when something is broken (the addon version and the error text help a lot), #feature-requests for ideas.