I am looking for an addon that displays an arrow much like TomTom's waypoint arrow, always pointing towards my current target in combat (unless targeting myself, ofcourse), with color change to represent out of range or facing away from target (red) and in range/right direction (green). This is needed because in melee combat (in raids) things can be extremely confusing, and I loose my target more than often. Does this addon exist, or can somebody make it?

@Arlyn

Didn't you ask this before or am I just thinking of the other posts similar to this? Hmmm.... Well to answer your question this is not possible with what is provided via the WoW API. What I mean is that the API does not provide for a means to track a moving target. If you could convince your target to sit still in one spot then we could make an addon to handle this. SRY :(

wow excelent idea, as a tank. u can lose ur direction in the aoe [:'(] and i can think of a lot more situations where this would b usefull. somebody plz make this addon

I don't remember if I asked something alike this before, I don't think I did. Maybe somebody else asked similar. Well, knowing it is possible to replace blp files, how about replacing the red ground circle with something more visible?

I made such an addon some time ago during 3.08 but lost the code for it. I guess i can go make a new one since i've started to play actively again.

Checked all my harddrives for that addon, but i can't find it. Im pretty sure it got lost when my previous pc crashed.

Anyway. I sat down and wrote some code with inspiration in TomTomPing and im quite sure i can manage to replicate that behaviour with a target as long as that person is in same group or raid as you. I will post here if i get something working.

Btw im pretty sure you can't get MapLocation for an NPC, but it will probably work for PC's.

I dont know if this has been shown to you or not.  But their is a neat little option in the interface in the game menu.  I think its called sticky targets or something like that.  It will make it to where if you target something.  The only thing u can do to stop targeting that thing is A) Press the Esc key.  B)  Click on a different mob  C) kill the mob.  

So that will solve your losing your target.  and to be honest.  if your raiding.  and you loose your target.  It should be marked for a kill order.  Just spam the tab key will you get back to the correct mob you are supposed to be fighting.

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Originally Posted by TwistedSoulShard

Just spam the tab key will you get back to the correct mob you are supposed to be fighting.

But also don't forget that if your party members are attacking the right target you can target their target from their portrait.

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Checked all my harddrives for that addon, but i can't find it. Im pretty sure it got lost when my previous pc crashed.

Anyway. I sat down and wrote some code with inspiration in TomTomPing and im quite sure i can manage to replicate that behaviour with a target as long as that person is in same group or raid as you. I will post here if i get something working.

Btw im pretty sure you can't get MapLocation for an NPC, but it will probably work for PC's.

What good would it do to replicate a party member.. They want to use this for their target in combat (ie: mob). Mob information, location, proximity, etc I do not believe is provided by Blizzard and they are always in motion (not stationary).

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Originally Posted by Arlyn

I am looking for an addon that displays an arrow much like TomTom's waypoint arrow, always pointing towards my current target in combat (unless targeting myself, ofcourse), with color change to represent out of range or facing away from target (red) and in range/right direction (green). This is needed because in melee combat (in raids) things can be extremely confusing, and I loose my target more than often. Does this addon exist, or can somebody make it?

Oh if missed that you needed this for targetting mobs, which is not possible with the current api interface (and probably never will). It does however work with people in same party/raid. I'll upload what i put together soon. Name to look for will be TomTomTargetArrow (as it hijacks TomTom to show direction and distance).

Uploaded project in beta version and will update the next coming days with more... I still do find it usefull for 25m raids where it can get confusing where people are.

Anyway, take a look at it here : http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/tomtomtargetarrow.aspx