RoleIcons

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RoleIcons is a tiny UI mod that adds Blizzard's party/raid role icons (tank/heal/dps) in several useful places in your UI, and provides several other related features.

Role icons are added to:

The Blizzard raid tab. The role icons replace the level field for max level players.
Game tooltip when you mouse over a player or raid frame
Target frame
HealBot unit frames
HealBot and Vuhdo tooltip when you mouse over a raid frame
Party/Raid chat (Blizzard chat frames, Prat, Chatter, WIM)
NEW in 4.2: System messages that mention group members
NEW in 4.3: Player popup context menus
NEW in 4.4: Group member tooltips on map and minimap

Other features:

Enhances the Blizzard Raid tab with role summary counts and class summary counts
Adds a role-check button to the Raid tab
Blizzard Raid tab can now be left-clicked to target a raid member
Blizzard Raid tab can now be middle-clicked to set a raid member's role
Automatically sets your role based on your spec when joining a raid or respeccing
Automatically replies to role checks from the raid leader based on your spec
Adds a tooltip showing the tier token breakdown for the current raid members
NEW in 4.0: Displays the "hosting" realm name while in cross-realm groups, showing when it changes and why
All features are optional and can be toggled using /ri

Basic Usage:

Install as usual
It Just Works! (tm)

Command Line Usage:

/ri help - Get info on command-line options
/ri check, /rolecheck - perform a Role Check (must be leader or raid assistant)

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Bug reports or feature requests
Forum thread for general discussion

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Forge_User_36275012
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Posted Oct 30, 2013
5.4.1 : RoleIcons has been blocked from an action only available to the Blizzard UI.

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Posted Oct 30, 2013
This is a Blizzard bug introduced in 5.4.1. The error message is completely harmless in itself and can be safely ignored. Addon version 4.3.3 adds a workaround that should prevent the harmless error in most cases.

There is no known fulling-working general solution on the addon side, this is something that Blizzard needs to fix. Please help complain on these forum threads:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10388659115
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10388639018

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Posted Oct 12, 2013
Recent new features:

NEW in 4.2: Role Icons added to system messages that mention group members
NEW in 4.3: Role Icons added to player popup context menus

Bug reports or feature requests: http://www.wowace.com/addons/roleicons/tickets

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Posted Oct 12, 2013
Recent new features:

NEW in 4.2: Role Icons added to system messages that mention group members
NEW in 4.3: Role Icons added to player popup context menus

Bug reports or feature requests: http://www.wowace.com/addons/roleicons/tickets

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Posted Oct 13, 2013
Thank you :)

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Posted Oct 12, 2013
I'm just blown away by the simplicity and ideas you put into this addon. Having role icons on system messages such as joined/left is just ... amazing.

However, there is a catch ;) In one of the previous alphas you displayed the full realm name. Now it's only the first three letters. Unfortunately, on deDE many realms share similar names, such as "Die Aldor" or "Die Nachtwache". To make matters worse, those are in the same realm pool. Some people (*whistles innocently*) have prejudices against player from certain realms and having an option to display the full realm name would be very much appreciated :)

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Posted Oct 12, 2013
Glad you like :-)
You can toggle the server abbreviations with the command:

/ri trimserver

Thanks for the info on the German servers, I'll look into making the trimming smarter for those.

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Posted Sep 14, 2013
Thanks for making some of the behaviours toggleable. I primarily want the bits that add the role icons to the raid tab (for arranging groups in LFR's Leishen and such), but *hate* automated role-setting.
That this can be easily toggled is wonderful.
That it can be toggled is not immediately apparent from reading the description because of the "it just works" part (and my not noticing the "command-line options" below.) It wasn't until I started mucking in the code that I saw the slash commands. :)

Anyway... THANKS!

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Posted Sep 1, 2013
I cannot convert to raid anymore. When I open raid window it is blank. I close it and open it again it is there. The convert to raid button will not work. Is it possible this addon is interfering with another?

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Posted Sep 1, 2013
I've had no reports of any such problem, but it's possible that some other addon you are running is involved. Please post a ticket with your complete list of addons here: http://www.wowace.com/addons/roleicons/tickets

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Posted Aug 7, 2013
New in addon version 4.0 (currently in beta testing):

NEW in 4.0: Displays the "hosting" realm name while in cross-realm groups, showing when it changes and why
Tooltip cosmetic improvements

Bug reports or feature requests: http://www.wowace.com/addons/roleicons/tickets
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Posted May 29, 2013
Good catch! Healbot apparently changed it's internals recently.

Fixed in addon version 3.2.5

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Posted Mar 7, 2013
@Dorzagi

Thanks for the report, see ticket 8.

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Posted Mar 7, 2013
There is no count for Hunter class in this..all classes are there but hunters

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Posted Dec 24, 2012
I could swear this used to work for Vuhdo. It no longer seems to? :((

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Posted Jan 4, 2013
Vuhdo has built-in support for displaying a role icon on the health bars.

RoleIcons adds a role icon to the Vuhdo tooltip (when you mouseover a bar). I just tested with the latest version and it's still working fine. Note that when you're outside an instance group and no Blizzard roles are assigned, Vuhdo attempts to "guess" the roles by scanning specs and puts that on the health bars. This is sometimes handy but potentially misleading, and can easily be wrong after a respec. RoleIcons does not do this - it displays the explicitly-assigned Blizzard roles, and if no Blizzard role is assigned the RoleIcons tooltip will have no icon (even though the Vuhdo bar might show a "guessed" role).

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Posted Jul 7, 2012
This addon continues to be astoundingly awesome.

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Posted Jul 14, 2012
Adding the icons to Healbot looks amazing! thank you so much. But now i have another challenge for you, lol. Can you add an option so that you can select which role icons to display.

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Posted Jul 14, 2012
I don't like the idea of only showing selected roles for part of the group. If you're just looking for a way to easily identify the tanks, HealBot already has an option to place all the tank frames together in a single section (Skins/Healing/Healing Bars/Main tanks). That's much better than having a few tank icons scattered throughout the raid.

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Posted Jul 3, 2012
Added this feature in 3.0 beta 1, try it and see what you think.

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