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 26, 2026Just wondering if this addon or the makers of it happen to have a discord server? Finding others that know the ins and outs of this addon isnt easy at the times of night I tend to play.
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Posted Mar 25, 2026Just wanted to mention something seems off with Prat. When people whisper me, all of my whisper windows are stacked on top of each other in the frame. The little arrow I normally click on to select one of the whispers doesn't do anything. I wish I had some error to copy and paste.
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Posted Mar 25, 20269x Prat-3.0/modules/ChannelNames.lua:763: attempt to index a secret string value (tainted by 'Prat-3.0')
[Prat-3.0/modules/ChannelNames.lua]:763: in function '?'
[!WilduTools/libs/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua]:109: in function <...ols/libs/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:109>
[C]: ?
[!WilduTools/libs/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua]:19: in function <...ols/libs/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:15>
[!WilduTools/libs/CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua]:54: in function 'Fire'
[Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua]:604: in function <Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua:536>
[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>
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Posted Mar 25, 2026Hey, it seems that the text fading is happening automatically since the patch, even with the option disabled :/ If by any chance you know how to fix it, it would be greatly appreciated! :D
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Posted Mar 24, 2026When in combat or in dungeons (or maybe other situations?) the chat goes from:
[HH:MM:SS] [G] [90:Naxho]: Test
to
[HH:MM:SS] [G] [Naxho]Test
And no, I didn't miss a space between ] and Test.
I think having it be
[HH:MM:SS] [G] [Naxho]: Test
would annoy me less >.>
and as for level not available maybe
[HH:MM:SS] [G] [??:Naxho]: Test
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Posted Mar 25, 2026In reply to IgnaUY: have the same issue
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Posted Mar 25, 2026In reply to IgnaUY: I'm aware of this, and working on a fix :)
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Posted Mar 24, 2026always happen this error when i received whispering massage
3x attempt to perform string conversion on a secret string value (tainted by 'Prat-3.0')
[Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Mainline/FloatingChatFrame.lua]:2393: in function <...lizzard_ChatFrameBase/Mainline/FloatingChatFrame.lua:2392>
[Blizzard_ChatFrameBase/Mainline/FloatingChatFrame.lua]:2437: in function 'FCFManager_ShouldSuppressMessage'
[Prat-3.0/services/chatsections.lua]:308: in function 'SplitChatMessage'
[Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua]:568: in function <Prat-3.0/addon/addon.lua:536>
[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:
chatType = "WHISPER"
chatTarget = <no value>
(*temporary) = "whisper"
(*temporary) = ";;"
and there’s an issue where the colon (:) disappears from the chat window during combat.
It should display like:
[Speaker]: text~~
but instead it shows as:
[Speaker] text (the colon is missing and the text appears immediately after the name).
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Posted Mar 23, 2026Can information such as addons loading and command output be moved to a new tab window?
Also, why can't I submit translation on the localization page at present?
Is there a more convenient way to submit translations?
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Posted Mar 25, 2026In reply to r0s0j: Hello. I am investigating the improvement of localization, so will have an update for you when I get a moment to do this. As for the command output being changed, there's an open ticket on the tracker for me to look into this, just currently still dealing with the explosion of errors that midnight is causing, and don't want to start implementing new features that could create even further errors right now. However, it will be worked on soon.
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Posted Mar 21, 2026Big errors when trying to move pointer inside chat box since update.
28x Prat-3.0/modules/Editbox.lua:643: attempt to call field 'InChatMessagingLockdown' (a nil value)
[Prat-3.0/modules/Editbox.lua]:643: in function <Prat-3.0/modules/Editbox.lua:641>
[C]: ?
Locals:
self = ChatFrame1EditBox {
tabCompleteTableIndex = 1
addSpaceToAutoComplete = true
disallowAutoComplete = false
headerSuffix = ChatFrame1EditBoxHeaderSuffix {
}
text = ""
autoCompleteXOffset = 35
hookedByAceTab3 = true
history_index = 0
history_lines = <table> {
}
autoCompleteParams = <table> {
}
prompt = ChatFrame1EditBoxPrompt {
}
at3matches = <table> {
}
setText = 0
pratFrame = Frame {
}
chatFrame = ChatFrame1 {
}
lDrag = Frame {
}
rDrag = Frame {
}
header = ChatFrame1EditBoxHeader {
}
at3curMatch = 0
addHighlightedText = true
}
key = "LEFT"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to call field 'InChatMessagingLockdown' (a nil value)"
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Posted Mar 22, 2026In reply to inkadog: Fixed in 3.9.96
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Posted Mar 21, 2026All chats made during raid fights from any source don't appear in chat window until after combat ends. Fairly certain is a bug from today's update
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Posted Mar 20, 2026Hey, thanks for this amazing addon!
Chiming in on a problem I saw someone mentioning below, regarding the shadow of the font. I also noticed for some time that the "set shadow color" option doesn't work, and because of that, shadow + outline stacks no matter what. It would be amazing to have a font shadow color alpha of some sort, like some addons offer (like plater), that way we can remove the font shadow entirely, and leave only the outline, allowing the font to be smooth and not have that overlapping shadow/outline.
Also, an other minor issue, it seems to have a double space after the entering/leaving zone message (Example "[Time] [1] Changed channel: [1. General - Ironforge]" Before the word changed, there seems to be a double space no matter what setting I put.
Thanks for your work though, amazing addon, been using it for years!
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Posted Mar 20, 2026In reply to user_894wt2w3krguev8w: The channel name double space is fixed in the latest alpha. I will investigate further with set shadow color.
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Posted Mar 20, 2026Class colors not working ONLY for Blizzard friend whispers?
Does anyone know why class colors aren't showing up for Battle.net whispers? I have the option enabled in settings, and it works fine for guild and instance chat, but my Blizzard friends' names just look like they're offline. Is this a known bug or am I missing a setting?
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Posted Mar 20, 2026In reply to user_bfjjzwhfx6snynhy: There's a fix in the latest alpha for this. I'll be doing a release soon with it shipped :)
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Posted Mar 19, 2026When using arrow up the call last message sent during a fight (channel raid or /ar), giving an error blocked action interface reserved by blizzard
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Posted Mar 20, 2026In reply to Dreirak: This is fixed in the latest alpha.
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Posted Mar 18, 2026Broken. Shift-clicking to link anything in chat (item, names, whatever) causes error.