Cutthroat

# Cutthroat

**Combo point pips and finisher timers that actually work in combat — built for WoW Forever.**

WoW Forever hides combat data from addons. Combo points come back as "secret" values that addons
aren't allowed to read or do maths on, and buffs can't be looked up at all while you're fighting.
That's why the usual WeakAuras and combo point addons don't work here.

Cutthroat stays inside those rules instead of fighting them. It never reads your combo points or
your buffs in combat — and it still shows you both.

## Features

- **Combo point pips** — pips appear one at a time as you earn them, and pips four and five change
  colour so a full bar is obvious at a glance. Twelve shapes to choose from, including crossed
  daggers and axes.
- **Timer bars for Slice and Dice, Expose Armor and Rupture** — each one counts down from the moment
  you cast, right through the fight.
- **Expiry warning** — a bar turns red and pulses for its last 5 seconds so you know to refresh.
- **Rupture and Expose Armor are tracked per target** — put Rupture on two mobs and each keeps its
  own countdown. Switch targets and the right one is shown.
- **Talent-aware** — learns your Improved Slice and Dice bonus automatically the first time it sees
  the buff out of combat.
- **Arrange it how you like** — stack the bars vertically or sit them side by side, reorder them,
  turn off the ones you don't use, and size each bar's width and height independently.
- **Combo points your way** — above the bars or below them, hidden entirely if you already use
  another combo point display, or always on screen as empty sockets so you have a fixed anchor.
- **Move it, lock it, scale it** — drag it anywhere, lock it in place (clicks pass straight through
  once locked), and scale the whole thing from 0.5x to 3x.
- **Settings panel** — type `/cut` to open it. Escape closes it.
- **Per-character settings** — each rogue keeps their own layout.

## Commands

| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| `/cut` or `/cutthroat` | Open the settings panel |
| `/cut lock` / `/cut unlock` | Lock or unlock the frame |
| `/cut reset` | Reset size and position |
| `/cut scale <0.5-3>` | Scale the whole frame |
| `/cut barwidth <0.5-3>` | Set every bar's width |
| `/cut barheight <0.5-3>` | Set every bar's height |
| `/cut pipsize <0.5-3>` | Size the combo point pips |
| `/cut shape <name>` | Pick a pip shape |
| `/cut pips above` / `below` | Put the pips above or below the bars |
| `/cut pips show` / `hide` | Show or hide the combo point pips |
| `/cut pips empty` | Keep empty pip sockets on screen at zero combo points |

## Known limitations

These are consequences of what the client allows addons to see, not bugs, and they can't be worked
around from inside an addon:

- **A finisher that misses or is dodged still starts its timer.** The client tells addons that the
  ability went off, but not whether it connected — and debuffs can't be read during combat to check.
  Cutthroat clears any countdown that didn't really land as soon as you leave combat, but during the
  fight the bar will keep running.
- **Expose Armor and Rupture can't be told apart from another rogue's.** If someone else has the same
  debuff on your target, Cutthroat treats it as yours.
- **Durations during combat are calculated, not read.** Cutthroat works them out from your combo
  points at the moment you cast. The moment it can see the real buff or debuff — out of combat — it
  corrects itself.