SpellTips shows Blizzard-style spell information for hostile casts, curated abilities for supported targets, and active dispellable party debuffs in World of Warcraft Retail.
This is an early alpha targeting Retail Patch 12.1.
- Stacks up to eight recent cast tooltips using Blizzard's native tooltip appearance.
- Keeps completed or interrupted casts visible for a configurable 2–20 seconds.
- Tracks target, focus, boss, and visible nameplate casts.
- Shows curated target abilities for the Season 2 dungeon pool and The Venomous Abyss while no recent casts are active.
- Shows active harmful auras on you and party members that your current specialization can dispel, including the affected player, icon, name, duration, stacks, and dispel type.
- Provides separate addon-owned previews for the cast stack and party debuff grid that can be dragged while Blizzard Edit Mode is open.
- Uses restricted-data-safe cast listeners without combat-log inference.
Hover a party debuff card for Blizzard's complete aura description. Exact after-the-fact removed-effect tracking is still not included because Retail 12.1 does not expose the required removed aura identity to addons in restricted combat.
Copy the SpellTips folder into:
World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/
Restart the client or reload the interface. Use /spelltips to open settings. The legacy /abilitytooltip and /atip commands remain available.
Enable Lua errors with /console scriptErrors 1, then test normal casts, channels, empowered casts, interruptions, rapid back-to-back casts, target previews, dispellable party debuffs, specialization changes, and both Edit Mode positions.
See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt for curated creature and spell identifier provenance.