TerribleLuraHelper

TerribleLuraHelper

A standalone World of Warcraft Midnight addon that helps a raid coordinate during the Midnight Falls boss fight against L'ura. This addon lets one spotter press five pre-bound macros (created by the addon) and surfaces the result, in human-readable form, both in raid chat and in a dedicated helper window every player with the addon can see.

Basic Usage

After installing, run /lura config to open the TerribleLuraHelper options. From there you can pick which chat channels the helper window listens on, set its scale and opacity, toggle auto-hide, and choose which channel the macros send to (/raid is the default).

If you're gonna be your group spotter, the five rune macros — TLH_Diamond, TLH_Triangle, TLH_Circle, TLH_Cross, TLH_T — are created automatically on first login. Drag them from /macro onto your action bar or assign keybinds. TLH_T uses the Star raid-marker icon for action-bar recognizability, but the macro sends the literal letter T to chat.

The helper window updates whenever any raid member presses one of the macros — you don't need to be the spotter to see slots fill. Slots populate in arrival order (1 through 5), and the display auto-clears 20 seconds after the last update so it's empty and ready for the next L'ura cast.

Players without the addon aren't left out: the macros emit ordinary raid-marker icons (and a literal T) into chat, so anyone who can read the chat frame can still see the rune sequence and react. The addon just gives those messages a dedicated, scaled-up display.

Limitations

Because Blizzard's chat-messaging-lockdown blocks tainted addon strings during boss fights, this addon can't send chat messages itself — it ships pre-bound player macros (which aren't tainted) and listens for their output. The trade-off is that the helper window reacts to every message on whichever channel the macros target, so avoid typing other chatter on that channel during fights, or switch the macro target in the config panel to a quieter channel like /rw or /i.

Other Difficulties

This addon is built around the L'ura Heroic rune pattern (five marks in a fixed rotation). Normal only shows three marks (two slots stay empty) and Mythic's rotation may differ — neither is directly supported in v0.1.0. If you'd like direct support for either, leave a comment on CurseForge or DM me on Discord so I know it's worth putting the time into it.

AI Usage

This addon was written with Claude AI doing most of the typing. I'm an experienced software developer, but Claude writes Lua faster than I do — and it lets me play WoW while it works. I review every change and test it in-game; the addon is maintained by me to the best of my abilities.

License

WTFPL v2. See LICENSE.