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.
Just did the update to 3.7.71, and am getting this error:
In reply to maccormaic:
Restart your game
In reply to sylvanaar:
That worked, thank you.
I've make an issue where some common names show up in guild chat and chat bubbles, still nobody answered it.
Having a guildie with the name "This" can be very annoying, he's a DK, so the word "this" in every conversation or chat will show up as red, so pls make a blocklist or something?
In reply to pawnzee:
Type this command:
In reply to sylvanaar:
oh thx! didnt know this was implemented, how did I not know this command!
I am not sure. I will just send a new one
i am confused with the files. the newest file is 3.7.56 on twitch, but is from (2020-05-12).
3.7.69 is from (2020-05-19), but older on twitch.
question about chat frame, im tryign to copy all chat show
eg. i have export alts player names and it give me the list, but was not be able to copy all of them as it show less in chat frame to copy
I'm doing it right or wrong?
In reply to oxed:
Try holding down the CTRL key when you click the copy button
In reply to sylvanaar:
there is no copy button, I open this frame from chat frame
can you explain where is the copy button plz?
In reply to oxed:
I will add a command /copychatfull to help you.
The copy button is in the top left corner of the chatframe - you have to hover over it to see it.
I am developing a brand new moduile. This module works sort of like slack or teams chat. You can @mention someone, and they will be notified about your message.
so if i am talking in guild and I say "Hey @person1 @person2 lets run an instance"
Each of those persons will get a message to alert them.
Its very experimental - but I think its going to be useful and I'd like to see what uses you can find for it and what improvements you will suggest.
I created a community so I can get in touch with people who can help test the addon. Please join if you are interested.
https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/invite/JrdvwEZuZKp?region=US&faction=Alliance
In reply to sylvanaar:
hi
i was trying to join the community not exist
In reply to oxed:
It is US/Alliance - maybe that is it
https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/invite/JrdvwEZuZKp?region=US&faction=Alliance
In reply to sylvanaar:
oh good luck then wish you all best in test :)
In reply to sylvanaar:
In reply to sylvanaar:
when i tried mentioned it type in guild chat but also it pop a whisper tab to the person that I mentioned! can I stop whisper and once I type @ it will list names of people who is online this channel?
In reply to oxed:
The whisper is the whole feature - but maybe you mean hide the whisper tabs
Having some issues with the logic to color character names:
We have a character named "Precisìon" with an ASCII character for the "i" in his name who is a Hunter, and a Mage named "On" in our guild.
It's coloring "Precisìon" name half green for the first part (Hunter) but right after the "i" it is burning Mage blue.
Screenshot here:

In reply to DomDashSix:
Well - one way to fix it is to blacklist "On"
That will stop his name from getting colored