Prat 3.0
In loving memory of Jon Akthar (Sylvanaar)
Hello WoW community, I'm LuciferCatnip, Sylvanaar was my coworker and my mentor. It goes without saying that Jon was an amazingly talented individual. He always seemed to know everything… but he once said to me "It's not about knowing the answers, it's about asking the right questions", he always challenged me to ask me the right questions until I would arrive at the answer on my own terms. Jon was also a champion of the open source movement, and so with special thanks to Gil from Curseforge as well as Sylvanaar's family, there's no better way to honor Sylvanaar's legacy than to keep his project going strong in the community.
If you'd like to help maintain Prat, please reach out to MysticalOS or LuciferCatnip directly. Thank you so much.
About
Prat-3.0 is a chat enhancement addon for World of Warcraft.
It is made up of 30+ smaller "modules" which each provide additional functionality, and can be enabled or disabled individually.
In game, type /prat for a menu. Or use the icon on one of the many data broker hosts.
Prat has just about every feature you can think of, and then some. Really. When I get some more time, I'll try and put together a full list (Even I have lost count)
(Thanks to Dreamsight for this partial list)
- Sync your chat settings across your account (Beta)
- Machine learning powered spam filter (Beta)
- Change arrows, buttons, mouse scroll for chat scroll, scroll speed
- you can add player color per channel, color per level, color per class
- timestamps (styled)
- Whether to show timestamp (what format the timestamp should be in)
- Whether to show players level
- You can select the option for channel "stickys" (last channel you used you auto use when hitting enter, that sort of thing – or last thing someone said)
- Change the looks of the chat's editbox - as well as where it appears (you can even undock it and move it to where you'd like it to be)
- Chat fading, fading delay
- You can change the font to a list of fonts, add an outline to it, monochrome it (if you don’t mind messing with files a bit you could probably even add other fonts to that list)
- Change the chat frame/chat box appearance
- Keep chat history between game sessions
- Set channel abbreviations
- Set brackets and color(or something instead of brackets)round player/lvl
- Alt invite option (press keyboard “alt” button and click on the player’s name to auto inv them)
- Raid icon
- Invite links - click them to invite the person
- URL copying
- Full chat copying + copy button
- Click timestamp to copy line
- Configurable alerts when your name or other word is mentioned
- Enables tell target /tt which whispers your target
- Alias options - make macros into short commands
- See names of players Alt characters
- Change chat sounds (incoming and outgoing as well as per channel)
- Achievements info and grats
- Full chat search and search box
- Customizable filters for advanced users
- Show item icon next to item links and player class icon next to player names
- Icon-only options for newcomers chat
- Optional flashing or font color change for chat tabs when a new message comes in.
You can enable/disable all Prat modules - don't have to have the ones you don't use running
While trying to reduce resource utilization, it is also important to note that some people prefer the features, and don't care that an addon uses 500k more.

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Posted Mar 12, 2026In reply to Silmachoute: Were you in an encounter/instance at the time?
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Posted Mar 12, 2026In reply to QTartemis: No, it is consistently happening, even in town or out of combat.
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Posted Mar 13, 2026In reply to Silmachoute: Can you try with the latest alpha version, and see if you can replicate this. I am unable to produce it on my side.
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Posted Mar 13, 2026In reply to Silmachoute: I managed to track down the issue, which was occuring in both cases such as "Death Knight" (spaces in the class name), and if you're on a non-english locale. A fix has been pushed to the latest alpha for this (with a release coming later).
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Posted Mar 13, 2026In reply to QTartemis: Can confirm the classcolor is back with the latest alpha version (i am indeed using a french client), but the toon level is still missing :)
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Posted Mar 11, 2026Hello, regarding the TBC version at least, the setting in "Display Settings > Font > Set Shadow Color" doesn't seem to be doing anything. I tried to troubleshoot it (Reinstall, only having prat enabled, different fonts, etc), but I just can't seem to change the Shadow Color of the font. (Also, no Alpha options are available for it, don't know if it's intended, but it would be nice to be able to have Alpha option for it)
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Posted Mar 10, 20261x Prat-3.0/modules/PlayerNames.lua:1321: attempt to index local 'name' (a secret string value tainted by 'Prat-3.0')
[Prat-3.0/modules/PlayerNames.lua]:1321: in function 'UpdateBG'
[Prat-3.0/modules/PlayerNames.lua]:1209: in function 'UpdateAll'
[Prat-3.0/modules/PlayerNames.lua]:1599: in function '?'
[Ace3/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua]:109: in function <...Ons/Ace3/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:109>
[C]: ?
[Ace3/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua]:19: in function <...Ons/Ace3/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:15>
[Ace3/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua]:54: in function 'Fire'
[Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua]:591: in function <Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua:523>
[tail call]: ?
[Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Shared/ChatFrame.lua]:14: in function 'OnEvent'
[Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Mainline/FloatingChatFrame.lua]:127: in function <...lizzard_ChatFrameBase/Mainline/FloatingChatFrame.lua:126>
Locals:
self = <table> {
modules = <table> {
}
appIcons = <table> {
}
Classes = <table> {
}
defaultModuleState = true
Subgroups = <table> {
}
hooks = <table> {
}
db = <table> {
}
enabledState = true
PL = <table> {
}
baseName = "Prat-3.0"
defaultModuleLibraries = <table> {
}
pluginopts = <table> {
}
name = "Prat_PlayerNames"
orderedModules = <table> {
}
Levels = <table> {
}
moduleName = "PlayerNames"
}
(for index) = 1
(for limit) = 30
(for step) = 1
i = 1
name = <no value>
_ = <no value>
_ = <no value>
_ = <no value>
_ = <no value>
_ = 0
_ = "Dracthyr"
_ = "Mage"
class = "MAGE"
(*temporary) = "Dracthyr"
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = "MAGE"
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = <no value>
(*temporary) = "attempt to index local 'name' (a secret string value tainted by 'Prat-3.0')"
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Posted Mar 10, 2026In reply to sicariusgaming87: Fixed in latest alpha :)
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Posted Mar 9, 2026Whenever an NPC says something in a dungeon or raid, I only get the dialogue in the chatbox, rather than the name with the dialogue
e.g.
[01:00:00] Hello.
rather than
[01:00:00] Unknown says: Hello.
What is the setting to make it so I can see who is talking during instances?
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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to DeirdreSquirrel: Hi there. With the release of WoW midnight, a lot of things became what's known as "Secrets". We're still updating a huge chunk of our code to support these and handle edge cases like you have described. Could you let me know which instance you were in and experiencing this issue so I can look to replicate and hopefully narrow down a fix :)
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Posted Mar 8, 20261x [ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN] AddOn 'Prat-3.0' tried to call the protected function 'UNKNOWN()'.
[!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua]:477: in function '?'
[!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua]:401: in function <!BugGrabber/BugGrabber.lua:401>
[C]: ?
[C]: in function 'SendChatMessage'
[Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Shared/ChatFrameEditBox.lua]:307: in function <...s/Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Shared/ChatFrameEditBox.lua:283>
[C]: in function 'SendText'
[Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Shared/ChatFrameEditBox.lua]:407: in function <...s/Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Shared/ChatFrameEditBox.lua:403>
Locals:
self = <table> {
}
event = "ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN"
addonName = "Prat-3.0"
addonFunc = "UNKNOWN()"
name = "Prat-3.0"
badAddons = <table> {
Prat-3.0 = true
}
L = <table> {
ADDON_CALL_PROTECTED_MATCH = "^%[(.*)%] (AddOn '.*' tried to call the protected function '.*'.)$"
NO_DISPLAY_2 = "|cffffff00The standard display is called BugSack, and can probably be found on the same site where you found !BugGrabber.|r"
ERROR_DETECTED = "%s |cffffff00captured, click the link for more information.|r"
USAGE = "|cffffff00Usage: /buggrabber <1-%d>.|r"
BUGGRABBER_STOPPED = "|cffffff00There are too many errors in your UI. As a result, your game experience may be degraded. Disable or update the failing addons if you don't want to see this message again.|r"
STOP_NAG = "|cffffff00!BugGrabber will not nag about missing a display addon again until next patch.|r"
ADDON_DISABLED = "|cffffff00!BugGrabber and %s cannot coexist; %s has been forcefully disabled. If you want to, you may log out, disable !BugGrabber, and enable %s.|r"
NO_DISPLAY_STOP = "|cffffff00If you don't want to be reminded about this again, run /stopnag.|r"
NO_DISPLAY_1 = "|cffffff00You seem to be running !BugGrabber with no display addon to go along with it. Although a slash command is provided for accessing error reports, a display can help you manage these errors in a more convenient way.|r"
ERROR_UNABLE = "|cffffff00!BugGrabber is unable to retrieve errors from other players by itself. Please install BugSack or a similar display addon that might give you this functionality.|r"
ADDON_CALL_PROTECTED = "[%s] AddOn '%s' tried to call the protected function '%s'."
}
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Posted Mar 8, 2026hello.. i just realized that with Prat enabled.. on WoW TBC i do not see the default "Quest Accepted" or Quest Completed messages in chat window. I thought it was questie at first but after disabling all my addons 1 by 1 I can confirm it is Prat. How do i get those yellow "Quest Accepted" messages to show while using prat?
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Posted Mar 7, 2026Hello friends! How do I disable the seemingly new Prat feature that is auto-completing slash commands? For example, when i try to type /camp, it autocompletes /cancelaura as soon as i hit the letter a; similarly for /logout, it puts /lean as soon as i hit the L. Cheers :)
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: Prat doesn't have any auto-complete logic. Are you able to replicate this with ONLY Prat enabled?
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to QTartemis: Haven't checked into that! I disabled Prat and it was resolved, so I've rolled my version back for the moment. The only other addon I updated this morning before it started happening was ElvUI, and disabling that didn't mitigate the issue.
I'll report back if i run into it again, though since Prat doesn't have auto-complete logic (my apologies for the assumption), I'll have to keep my eyes open for other potential causes.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: It is a native Blizzard feature, but that only triggers when you press tab. If you're able to replicate it with just Prat enabled, I can dig deeper.
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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to QTartemis: Following up here after some playing around:
Updated Prat to current again (Prat-3.0-3.9.93), disabled all other addons, things are still auto-completing. This is on a Mac, on macOS Tahoe 26.3
Restarted and updated macOS to Tahoe 26.3.1 just in case there's something weird going on with the keyboard (which is working nominally otherwise) just in case that would resolve, but no luck.
Rolled Prat back through various versions until the issue resolved, looks like the issue started in 3.9.92 for release versions, and 3.9.91-1-g885196c for non-release versions.
3.9.92 - issue present
3.9.91 - resolved
(continued backward anyway, for science)
3.9.90 - no issue
Reinstalled 3.9.92 - issue returned.
Rolled back to 3.9.91 again - issue resolved.
Then explored non-release versions:
3.9.91-1-g885196c - issue returned
3.9.91-3-g9c3d9dd - issue present
3.9.91-5-gf0d2ae7 - issue present.
Thanks for seeing if you can track this down. Cheers :)
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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to QTartemis: WoW retail w/Midnight. Indeed, disabling the Alias module resolves the issue. (But I LOVE the alias module XD).
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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: That does definately help narrow it down to a potential change in the Alias module... If you disable that in Prat, does it still do it? Which version of WoW are you running?
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Posted Mar 10, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: If you run `/listaliases`, do you have any in there? That could well be the likely cause of it is that you have aliased something, and the job of that module is to auto-replace the short alias with the long term macrod, e.g. `/zz` -> `/sleep`