Can't Enable Threat on a Target Frame? Really..? #1220


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  • Caelosoth created this issue Dec 24, 2017

    I'm trying to configure Pitbull to display my Threat value on my target's frame, which I would've assumed to be the common-sense default functionality, so I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious here.

     

    I've been able to configure it just fine to display my threat on the target on my Player frame, but this is unnecessarily obnoxious to use, as it forces my own status bars to shrink & make room for the Threat bar when I target a hostile. This does absolutely nothing productive over a separate threat bar addon that I could just move anywhere, and soaks up space I should be able to dedicate to watching my HP. It's also extremely distracting for my Player frame to flip back and forth between having & not having a threat bar each time I target/untarget hostiles.

    To counter this problem, my intention was to move the Threat bar to my target's frame, since obviously the only time I want to see that threat bar is when I'm targeting something hostile. But no matter what I've done to change my Target layout in the Layout Editor, it refuses to display a Threat bar on my Target frame, as if someone decided that the only possible place anyone would want a threat bar is shoe-horning it into their own health bar frame.... which is probably the absolute worst place I'd imagine to put one. Hell, I'd rather have it floating off in space than arguing with my HP for real-estate.

    Here's a screenshot of my options open for the Target layout & the Threat Bar settings. Note the lack of Threat bar on my Target's frame despite the settings clearly showing it enabled (I've also tried checking if it's maybe the Side position setting, but it won't display on either Left, Right, or Center):




    Since that didn't work, I tried just setting my Target to run on my Player frame layout, since the Threat bar works just fine on the Player frame. But as you can see below, that also fails to display the Threat bar on my Target's frame. It's not like my target is going to have a threat percentage on me in return, so it can't be a matter of the target having its own Threat value instead; there's only 1 threat calculation involved here, just no way to put it where it should be.

     

     

    The additional green bar I have enabled on my Player frame is an AP bar, so it makes complete sense that the green bar wouldn't show up on my Target's frame, but I cannot fathom what logic would go into preventing the Threat bar from appearing on the frame a tank would most want to see their threat on. Please tell me I'm missing something glaringly obvious and that I don't need to use a separate addon altogether just to see my threat without it being forcibly shoved into the Player frame.

     

  • Caelosoth edited description Dec 24, 2017
  • Caelosoth edited description Dec 24, 2017
  • Caelosoth edited description Dec 24, 2017
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