Alright, bear with me because that's a big one 😜 (it's an idea from Saelora on Discord, full disclaimer).

Principle

So DBM-like add-ons have started to fiddle with the nameplates to dynamically display stuff attached to other players. It seems you can do a lot of great things with the nameplates API. You can show them temporarily, empty or "hide" them, and anchor a lot of stuff to them, like other frames with 3D models or spell effects.

The idea would be to broadcast visual effects for ourselves just like we broadcast local sounds to play.

We would check that the player is in range, then show nameplates (we can change their opacity, empty them, whatever) to check if the player broadcasting is visible, if they are we can attach the visual effect to their nameplates to show the effect on their character.

Possible caveats

• Spam or huge textures, of course 🙄. A similar system to the sound history to stop and block people spamming visual effects would be required.
• It probably wouldn't work with a lot of nameplates add-on without custom integration.
• Of course, we would have an option to disable that completely and have it completely disabled in combat.