Decursive
Decursive for World of Warcraft
Decursive is a cleansing mod intended to make affliction removal easy, effective and fun for all the classes having this ability.
Documentation:
NOTE: Type /DECURSIVE to open the configuration panel. Decursive's options are not directly available in the "Interface" panel due to ongoing tainting issues Blizzard is not willing to fix.
Decursive usage - Micro Unit Frames documentation - Decursive Macro documentation - Frequently Asked Questions - commands
Decursive key benefits
Ease of use:
- Decursive supports all classes with cleansing abilities and configures itself automatically, it works straight out of the box, no configuration is required.
- Intuitive interface and detailed options, Decursive is suitable for simple usage and power users.
Control what and who you want to dispel:
- Easily Filter out afflictions you don't want to cure or that are useless to remove by class (some are pre-configured). (Such as afflictions affecting mana on non-mana classes, etc...).
- Choose between what you can dispel (magic, curses, poison, diseases, charms) choosing their priority. (this allows you to share the cleansing work with other players effectively)
- Prioritize or exclude members. (keep players, classes, or raid groups in a specific order to cleanse them in order of importance)
Manage Mind controlled units:
- If you are a Mage, a Druid or a Shaman you can Polymorph/Cyclone/Hex mind-controlled players.
- In any case Decursive will allow you to target mind controlled units easily.
- Decursive supports magic charming affect removal for Shamans (Purge and Hex), Priests (Dispel Magic), Hunters (Tranquilizing Shot), and Warlocks (Fellhunter and Doomguards spells).
Don't waste time:
- Your cleansing spell Cooldown is displayed to maximize your dispel speed.
- An automatic blacklist will prevent you from loosing time on players who can't be dispelled. (player 'out of line of sight' for example).
- Decursive choose a logical cleansing order depending on your current position in the raid. (preventing dispel concurrence between players and thus 'nothing to dispel' messages)
React faster:
- Visual and/or auditive alerts when someone needs your attention and can be dispelled.
- Special sound alert when Unstable Affliction is detected and you're about to dispel it.
- Visual and auditive alert when your dispel attempts are resisted or fail.
Integration in any interface:
- Decursive is designed to save screen real estate and to be forgotten when not needed.
- Many options allow you to customize Decursive appearance and interface behavior.
- All Decursive alert colors can be modified making it suitable for color-blind people.
Highly optimized and effective coding:
- Decursive was developed with memory and CPU usage in mind, installing Decursive won't affect your frame rate even in the worst battle conditions.
- Bug free: bugs are not tolerated in Decursive.
In brief, what you get with Decursive is effectiveness, a player using Decursive will always dispel faster than other players.
See also:
- Decursive usage
- Micro Unit Frames documentation
- Decursive Macro documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions try this before asking any question
- commands
Interesting articles and videos about Decursive's usage:
- 2010-11-20 (Updated in 2011-06-11)
A complete Decursive guide by @darista: daritos.apotheosis-now.com/?p=24
- 2009-07-15
Article: www.hotsdots.com/2009/07/improving-the-interface-using-addons-7-decursive-cleansing-and-dispelling/
- 2010-02-20:
Video: WarcraftScience's Decursive tutorial
For other videos about Decursive, see the YouTube playlist.
Decursive is dedicated to the memory of Bertrand Sense known as Glorfindal on the European server Les Sentinelles. He was the raid leader of my guild (Horizon)
For suggestions, feature request, or bug report, use the ticket system provided by WoWAce.com.
Development versions of Decursive are available at this URI: https://www.2072productions.com/to/decursive_dev ; note that development versions may be unstable. Unless you want to help testing unstable code you should download the versions considered stable below.
Do not forget to rate Decursive!
Bitcoin donation address: 1LEHZuPsiHN4hM3H3Gru5xKmDgCj867eFX
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Posted Sep 5, 2026Hello,
First off, thank you so much for this add-on. It's one of the best I ever used.
Last season when the squares lit up they would light up the color as the class that had the debuff (for example shaman was blue). Is there a way to make the add-on do this again? Now the squares are all the same color. Thanks again.
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Posted Sep 5, 2026In reply to undray_:
hmm the addon never did that, the color corresponds to the priority/button you must click, the class is around the square as a border.
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Posted Sep 4, 2026For anyone that doesnt want to scroll through comments to find this. Auto installing from Curse did not work for me. I would get no UI or /DECURSIVE. But downloading and installing manually from https://www.wowace.com/projects/decursive/files solved this issue. Addon is working as intended now.
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Posted Sep 4, 2026In reply to Ashes_of_Loki:
Did you happen to have installed another Decursive like Zhaou's Decursive before trying to reinstall the original one? Since both are using the Decursive folder, there is a high chance that it confuses the hell out of the Curse client if you have one installed and try to install the other one at the same time... Can you confirm or not that it was the case?
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Posted Sep 2, 2026Yooooo thank you so much for updating this. I love this addon so much! the lastest build worked flawlessly for me in murder row as a mage. Thank you!
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Posted Sep 3, 2026In reply to cellcubed:
Thanks for the feedback :-)
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Posted Sep 2, 2026none of the builds seem to be working anymore. whether it's beta or alpha builds.
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Posted Sep 3, 2026In reply to vanesoko:
it seems to work for many people so you have to give more details...
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Posted Sep 4, 2026@vanesoko MythicRivals Decurse is working
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Posted Aug 31, 2026Is there an new update coming for this? The other version doesnt work. its always throwing errors especially in pvp where its unusable
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Posted Sep 1, 2026In reply to shockerr:
yes but it is only an alpha for now, you need to right click the add-on in the curseforge client and choose alpha in the release type or you can download it and install it manually from here: https://www.wowace.com/projects/decursive/files
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Posted Sep 1, 2026@archarodim The issue I am currently having with Decursive it requires me to turn off the addon, reload, turn it back on, reload and then it works until I log out again. Sometimes when entering a mythic or raid I have to repeat that process again.
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Posted Sep 2, 2026In reply to lglrain:
What version are you using?
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Posted Aug 31, 2026thank you so much for updating the addon you are a life saver! Quick question nd it could be me, but I am not getting a sound when someone needs ot be decursed am i missing a sound library?
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Posted Sep 1, 2026In reply to echobee11:
Yes that's normal, there is only a sound when a Unit is mind-controlled now because in 12.1, the only way to make a sound when someone gets a debuff is to register every single debuff one by one for each unit... Since I can't possibly register every single debuff the sound feature is not coming back unfortunately unless I can find a better way but there is none for now as far as I know... (maybe Blizzard will add a new way later)
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Posted Sep 2, 2026In reply to archarodim:
Some good news: the latest alpha includes a contribution from someone who restore the sound for a specific set of debuffs
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Posted Sep 2, 2026@archarodim OMG thank you for the update!
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Posted Aug 26, 2026Hi, the addon isn't working. I've tried disabling/enabling it, reinstalling it, and clearing the cache. The `/decursive` command doesn't work either. What am I doing wrong?
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Posted Aug 27, 2026In reply to user_htrp6hno9yejaxnq:
Which version are you using? Only the latest alpha versions are working with 12.1: https://www.wowace.com/projects/decursive/files
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Posted Aug 28, 2026@archarodim Installed it manually, and it worked. Thanks!