SpellActivationOverlay

Spell Activation Overlay

This WoW Classic addon mimics Spell Activation Overlays, formerly known as Spell Alerts, which were introduced in Cataclysm.

For example, Frost Death Knights can have procs for Rime and Killing Machine, while Enhancement Shamans have stacks of Maelstrom Weapon.

This addon also makes relevant buttons glow. For example, a Fire mage triggering Hot Streak will have a glowing Pyroblast button.

There is nothing to configure. Just install the addon and enjoy your procs!

 

 Death Knight: Killing Machine, Rime, Rune Strike (glowing button only)

 

 

Killing Machine and Rime

 
 

 

 Druid: Eclipse (Lunar), Eclipse (Solar), Nature's Grace (optional), Predatory Strikes, Omen of Clarity, Omen of Clarity (Feral), Elune's Wrath (4p Tier 8 set), Wrath of Elune (4p PvP set Season 5/6/7/8)

Eclipse (Lunar) and Omen of Clarity

 

Eclipse (Solar) and Omen of Clarity

 

Nature's Grace (Blue-ish)

 

Nature's Grace (Green-ish)

 

Predatory Strikes

 

Omen of Clarity

 

Omen of Clarity (Feral)

 

 Hunter: Improved Steady Shot, Lock and Load, Counterattack (glowing button only), Kill Shot (glowing button only)

 

 

Improved Steady Shot

 

Lock and Load

 

 Mage: Missile Barrage, Clearcasting (optional), Impact, Firestarter, Hot Streak, Heating Up, Hot Streak + Heating Up (optional), Brain Freeze, Fingers of Frost

Missile Barrage

 

Clearcasting (weak effect)

 

Clearcasting (strong effect)

 

Clearcasting (strong effect alongside Hot Streak)

 

Impact

 

Firestarter

 

Heating Up, then Hot Streak

 

Heating Up and Hot Streak at the same time

 

Brain Freeze

 

Fingers of Frost

 

 Paladin: Infusion of Light, Art of War, Hammer of Wrath (glowing button only)

Infusion of Light

 
 

 

Art of War

 

 Priest: Surge of Light, Serendipity

 

 

Surge of Light and Serendipity

 
 

 

 Rogue: Riposte

 

 

Riposte

 
 

 

 Shaman: Elemental Focus, Maelstrom Weapon, Tidal Waves (optional)

Elemental Focus

 

Maelstrom Weapon

 

Tidal Waves

 

 Warlock: Nightfall, Molten Core, Decimation, Backlash, Empowered Imp, Drain Soul (glowing button only, optional)

Nightfall

 

Molten Core

 

Decimation

 

Backlash

 

Empowered Imp

 

 Warrior: Sudden Death, Bloodsurge, Sword and Board, Overpower (glowing button only), Revenge (glowing button only), Execute (glowing button only), Victory Rush (glowing button only)

Sudden Death

 

Bloodsurge

 

Sword and Board

 

Contribution

If you wish to contribute, please come by and visit the Discord server.

You can also file an Issue or send a Pull Request to the github repository.

ABOUT THIS LISTING

This page describes SpellActivationOverlay by Ennvina. The description and screenshots are the author's own, imported from their listing on CurseForge on 24 October 2026: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/spellactivationoverlay

Mythiq.net hosts no files for it. The download button goes straight to the release file on edge.forgecdn.net, so you are downloading from the author's own host, not from a copy of ours.

The download count, rating and comments on this page start at zero and count Mythiq.net only. The source's own figures are not copied here — they measure a different site, and a number that cannot be checked against our own ledger is not worth printing.

GAME FLAVOUR

This is a Classic build. Retail and Classic run different interface APIs, and an addon built for one throws Lua errors on the other — check you are installing into the right client folder.

INTERFACE VERSION

Built against game version 1.15.9. After a patch, an addon that has not been updated is flagged out of date; most keep working, and the "Load out of date AddOns" checkbox on the character screen lets you try.

DEPENDENCIES

Some addons need a separate library addon (Ace3, LibStub and friends) that is not bundled. If the addon does not appear in the list in game, a missing dependency is the usual reason.

1. Quit World of Warcraft completely. The game reads the AddOns folder at launch and will overwrite settings for an addon added while it is running.

2. Download the archive with the button on this page and unzip it.

3. Move the folder — the one with the .toc file in it, not the zip's wrapper folder — into:

World of Warcraft\_classic_era_\Interface\AddOns (or _classic_ for the current Classic expansion)

4. Start the game. On the character selection screen, click AddOns and check that it is listed and enabled.

IF IT DOES NOT APPEAR

Nine times out of ten the folder is nested one level too deep. Interface/AddOns/Thing/Thing/Thing.toc will not load; Interface/AddOns/Thing/Thing.toc will.

UPDATING

Delete the old folder before unzipping the new one. Unzipping over the top leaves files behind that the new version no longer expects.