MSBT Hunter Fixes Forever

MSBT Hunter Fixes improves Hunter spell icons and damage-over-time text in World of Warcraft: Forever.

This is an unofficial modified build of MikScrollingBattleText (New API), based on version 12.030. It keeps MSBT’s scrolling text, fonts, options and profiles while addressing several Hunter display issues.

WHAT’S FIXED

Arcane Shot
• Displays the Arcane Shot icon beside its damage number.
• Preserves the ability’s identity when Auto Shot fires before the projectile lands.
• Keeps Arcane Shot damage separate from physical auto attacks.

Multi-Shot
• Recognizes Multi-Shot as a physical ability and displays its spell icon.
• Uses a short match window for one hit on the selected target per cast.
• Prevents subsequent auto attacks from repeatedly inheriting the Multi-Shot icon, including hits arriving in the same frame.
• Ignores zero-damage events before consuming a pending ability match.

Serpent Sting
• Restores periodic damage numbers with the Serpent Sting icon after the recent-cast window expires.
• Tracks the affected target and learns the timing of the first observed tick.
• Handles later ticks, refreshing the sting and expiration.
• Preserves a newly applied sting when it is used to open combat.
• Uses readable duration and tick-interval information from the spell description when available.

Shared spell-icon improvements
• Remembers recent ability casts independently of auto attacks.
• Uses target, damage-school and timing information to improve delayed-hit identification.
• Retains the appropriate icon for different spell ranks.
• Avoids assigning a weapon icon to unidentified magical damage.

TESTING

Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot and Serpent Sting were each tested and confirmed working in game on a Hunter.

The final build also passed 65 offline checks and Lua 5.1 syntax validation. Checks covered individual periodic ticks, critical hits, refreshes, expiration, target changes and interactions between the three Hunter abilities.

Other classes were covered by selected simulated checks, but have not been confirmed in game.

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

WoW Forever restricts the combat information available to addons. When a damage event does not expose its spell ID, these fixes use permitted cast, target, damage-school and timing information.

Overlapping attacks of the same school, pet attacks and other players’ damage can still be ambiguous. This build does not unlock the restricted combat log or guarantee perfect identification of every hit.

The outgoing fallback follows your currently selected target. Keep a mob targeted to see its Serpent Sting ticks through this path.

INSTALLATION

Install the MikScrollingBattleText folder in your WoW Forever Interface/AddOns directory, enable the addon and restart the game or type /reload.

Open the options with /msbt.

This modified build uses the same addon folder as MSBT. Back up your existing installation before replacing it. Installing another MSBT update may overwrite these fixes.

CREDITS

Mikord — original MSBT author.
MrGank — New API adaptation for Midnight and Forever.
Hitmanblood — Hunter testing and this modified release.

Original project:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/mikscrollingbattletext

This release is unofficial and is not presented as an update from the original authors.