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9 commentsI came across this today, TidyPlates, and it’s a great replacement to the periodically maintained, hard-to-configure Aloft. Note the version on Curse is older, so install it via wowinterface, not the Curse client.
Name plate mods help you know up who you have threat on, and who you’ve lost, and should be designed to reduce visual clutter. TidyPlates has modes which are tuned to tank, dps or pvp usage, and I found the tank settings ideal. It’s also lightweight, so it should have no CPU or FPS hit.
I recommend TidyPlates. I mentioned it earlier today on Twitter before trying it and being impressed.
It is also skinnable, and there are loads of themes you can try. I found the default theme and tank mode fine for my purposes, so didn’t need to customise at all. That said, there is one specifically for tanking which looks good since it shows degrees of threat.
Update, a few hours later: Kadomi just published her own review of this, and she recommends that skin… I’ll have to go try it now. 
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I actually tried this one before reading your post here and couldnt get it to work reliably for some reason. On my palading alt the addon only seemed to “kick in” after a while and on any other char it never did work (and yes it was enabled for them
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Twitter: gphreak
That looks like a great Aloft replacement. Couldn’t live without a nameplace addon anymore – helps with click-targetting alot which is so much better than tab-targetting.
EDIT: while editing (used More Options to change URL property) the twitter account I set was removed.
Twitter: gravitydk
@Emi, most peculiar, some conflict I guess with another addon.
@Matthew, thanks for the note about the editing Twitterlink. Either you fixed it, or it fixed itself (maybe had an old server-side cached version to confuse you). I’ll keep an eye on it.
Twitter: Rhidach
My co-tank recommended these to me and you reminded me of them. Looks like they’ll be really handy for Rotface tonight to see my threat on the Big Ooze.
Twitter: AvengingWrathy
This is looking like a nice replacement. I actually dont have any complaints with Aloft, but I always like trying new add ons. The threat functionality could be very impressive if it works on targets that you are not targeting.
Squee, I can’t wait to try this as an aloft-substitute. Aloft inexplicably turns itself off every so often.
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