RoleIcons is a tiny UI mod that adds Blizzard's party/raid role icons (tank/heal/dps) in several useful places in your UI, and provides several other related features.

Role icons are added to:

• The Blizzard raid tab. The role icons replace the level field for max level players.
  
• Game tooltip when you mouse over a player or raid frame
  
• Target frame
  
• HealBot unit frames
  
• HealBot and Vuhdo tooltip when you mouse over a raid frame
  
• Party/Raid chat (Blizzard chat frames, Prat, Chatter, WIM)
  
• NEW in 4.2: System messages that mention group members
  
• NEW in 4.3: Player popup context menus
  
• NEW in 4.4: Group member tooltips on map and minimap
  

Other features:

• Enhances the Blizzard Raid tab with role summary counts and class summary counts
  
• Adds a role-check button to the Raid tab
  
• Blizzard Raid tab can now be left-clicked to target a raid member
  
• Blizzard Raid tab can now be middle-clicked to set a raid member's role
  
• Automatically sets your role based on your spec when joining a raid or respeccing
  
• Automatically replies to role checks from the raid leader based on your spec
  
• Adds a tooltip showing the tier token breakdown for the current raid members
  
• NEW in 4.0: Displays the "hosting" realm name while in cross-realm groups, showing when it changes and why
  
• All features are optional and can be toggled using /ri
  

Basic Usage:

• Install as usual
  
• It Just Works! (tm)
  

Command Line Usage:

• /ri help - Get info on command-line options
  
• /ri check, /rolecheck - perform a Role Check (must be leader or raid assistant)
  

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