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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lucifercatnip Owner
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humfras Author
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MrFIXlT Author
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MysticalOS Author
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plusmouse Author
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pompachomp Contributor
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SunnySunflow Translator
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Posted Oct 2, 2025With the upcoming Midnight alpha I anticipate that Prat _will not_ work, and it may be too difficult to rewrite the sections that break.
Key breaks:
1. Sending chat messages in a dungeon (due to the new instance chat restrictions and how Prat is written)
2. Reading/receiving chat messages (same)
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Posted Sep 28, 2025Can you tell me what this error is related to?
9x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] Модификация 'Prat-3.0-3.9.71' пыталась вызвать защищенную функцию 'prevClamp()'.
[Blizzard_EditMode/Mainline/EditModeManager.lua]:875: in function 'UpdateLayoutInfo'
[Blizzard_EditMode/Mainline/EditModeManager.lua]:161: in function <...ddOns/Blizzard_EditMode/Mainline/EditModeManager.lua:152>
Locals:
self = EditModeManagerFrame {
advancedOptionsEnabled = true
AccountSettings = Frame {
}
editModeActive = false
RevertAllChangesButton = Button {
}
LayoutDropdown = Button {
}
accountSettings = <table> {
}
modernSystemMap = <table> {
}
dirty = false
GridSpacingSlider = Frame {
}
numLayouts = <table> {
}
highestLayoutIndexByType = <table> {
}
snapEnabled = true
ShowGridCheckButton = Frame {
}
EnableSnapCheckButton = Frame {
}
hasActiveChanges = false
layoutApplyInProgress = true
FramesBlockingEditMode = <table> {
}
editModeSystemAnchorDirty = true
modernSystems = <table> {
}
Title = FontString {
}
fixedWidth = 510
SaveChangesButton = Button {
}
EnableAdvancedOptionsCheckButton = Frame {
}
Grid = Frame {
}
MagnetismPreviewLinesContainer = Frame {
}
Tutorial = Button {
}
CloseButton = Button {
}
Border = Frame {
}
registeredSystemFrames = <table> {
}
accountSettingMap = <table> {
}
layoutInfo = <table> {
}
LayoutLabel = FontString {
}
}
layoutInfo = <table> {
layouts = <table> {
}
activeLayout = 4
}
reconcileLayouts = nil
savedLayouts = <table> {
1 = <table> {
}
2 = <table> {
}
}
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Posted Sep 28, 2025In reply to Disquad: Something has been touched by code when it wasn't supposed to. Do you have steps to cause the error to happen again?
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Posted Sep 27, 2025Prat suddenly started highlighting the word "even" in a dark colour. Can't figure out why.
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Posted Sep 28, 2025In reply to BambisFaline: Prat has probably seen a character with the name "even" and associated it with the class. To reset this association go to the Prat settings, "Chat Formatting" -> "PlayerNames" and click on "Reset Settings"
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Posted Sep 23, 2025In reply to plusmouse: Ty that worked..
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Posted Sep 15, 2025I can't find the copy button on the chat pane. Is this a known issue or do you think it's something on my end?
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Posted Sep 15, 2025In reply to Dillz916: Its in the top right, its pretty faded
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Posted Aug 28, 2025Prat keep continuing to size the font at 12, no matter what i set up, every time i log in and every time i change tab(like guild, wispers etc) anyone?
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Posted Aug 28, 2025In reply to CptGunny: You need to change the font size in the Prat settings, not the Blizzard right-click menu
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Posted Aug 28, 2025In reply to plusmouse: omg ty, dunno before should set just from grp directly on ui, now yea need setup it on "addon setup". ty again! <3
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Posted Aug 20, 2025is there a way to make the copytext button be invisible until mouse over? https://imgur.com/3MwxCcB
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Posted Aug 20, 2025Anti spam module not working, even why i manually press plus and prat interface said that its 100% spam.
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Posted Aug 18, 2025The profile system has not been functioning correctly for some time now.
I have been implementing a workaround but it's a hassle when you have 11 characters.
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Posted Aug 16, 2025I am unable to copy the profile of my main character to my alts. Nothing happens basically (chatwindows stay exactly the same.) I tried copying my Prat-3.0.lua and all but no success.. Any suggestions to succeed are welcome!
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Posted Aug 13, 2025Since the new patch, using the arrow keys in chat is not working anymore by itself and i have to fiddle around with the addon settings to get it working every single time i log on a character
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Posted Aug 13, 2025In reply to Saltkakan: Do you have any other addons that might interfering? It seems to work for me.
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Posted Aug 11, 2025Is there a way to color the tabs i dont seem to see it if there is
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Posted Aug 13, 2025In reply to drahgunz: There isn't
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Posted Aug 8, 2025When I try to /target someone by Shift-Clicking their name into the chat window, Prat throws an error. Specifically, that it's been "blocked from an action only available to the Blizzard UI." If I try to /target someone by TYPING their name, or if I copy then past the name back into the chatbox, no such error occurs. Is there any way to fix this?