QuickAssist: My First WoW Addon

Follow your tank's target with one keypress, no macro editing required.

QuickAssist is my first WoW addon, and it fixes a small annoyance: every time the tank or raid leader changed, my /assist macro was wrong.

How it works

Two keybinds:

• Set Player to Assist: target a friendly player and press the key. Press it with no target to clear your choice.
• Assist Learned Player: targets whatever your chosen player is targeting.

Changes made in combat are queued until combat ends. Type /quickassist (or /qa) to jump straight to the Key Bindings panel, and you'll get a reminder at login until both keys are set.

Credit

QuickAssist is a fork of SimpleAssist 4.01 by Schnoggo, released under CC BY-NC 3.0. Thanks to Schnoggo for the original idea and code. What I changed:

• Rewrote it to work with the newer WoW API on WoW retail and Forever without errors.
• Players who share a primary name are told apart using their primary and secondary names.
• Added the login reminder and the slash commands that open the Key Bindings panel.
• Gave the keys their own QuickAssist section in Key Bindings.
• Assigned a new font with larger, easier-to-read messages when setting or clearing an assist.
• Stopped players from setting themselves as the player to assist.
• Removed the Request Assistance feature and its settings panel.

Tested on WoW retail and Forever only. Bugs and ideas are welcome on GitHub.

Download: CurseForge | Source

Updated 2026-10-18: Updated to note the addon works with retail WoW as well and remove specific Forever only references.

Twitch Update

I am currently streaming my raids and mythic plus dungeon runs in WoW. I am also doing some random Age of Conan streams as well. I do have some other plans of games to stream in the future, but the main streams will likely continue to be WoW with some other games as time permits.

Additionally, I am working on improving the quality of the stream for viewers. I have some additional plans, but here are some of the changes I have made recently.

1. Stream down to 720p. Due to not being able to reliably get the transcoding option (clicking the gear cog on the stream to pick from a list of resolutions) from Twitch for now, I have dropped the quality down to 720p to help those on mobile or with limited connectivity have a smoother viewing experience. When I can reliably get transcoding from Twitch, I will stream in 1080p again.
2. New scenes. I have switched to a new, more personalized set of scenes and transition.
3. Stream music. I am now running background music while streaming. Luckily I chose to subscribe to a service to provide this for this purpose, so I should not run into any issues with copyright like many streamers are getting on Twitch now.
4. Camera changes. I have been testing different lenses, settings, and crops to find something that works best for my setup. I have also included additional cameras for the cat cam and overhead view as well as an option to display video directly from my phone.
5. Background updates. I have worked on cleaning up and improving the background in my streams. You may notice the floating skull or the Ragnaros statue on the desk in the background now. I am still considering some other options to make things more interesting.

Twitch Schedule

• Tuesday 8-11pm CT - WoW Raid
• Wednesday 8-11pm CT - WoW Raid
• Saturday 8-11pm CT - WoW Mythic+

YouTube Update

I have not posted much content here recently. I did post my full DOOM Eternal play through, but I have not had time to create any boss kill videos. If I can find the time to do this I may bring these back in Shadowlands.

Site Update

I have not been adding or maintaining this site very frequently. My current role has moved me away from the technology I have used to develop this site, so I have been focusing in other areas. That said, I am looking to rewrite and improve the site using some different technologies. I am still planning which parts I want to keep and what I want to add. Currently I am testing out some theme options and a toggle for light/dark mode.

For now there is some broken functionality on the site. Twitch has updated their API, so the live banner is not displaying properly. My host has changed their configuration, and that is breaking the call to YouTube to get the latest videos. I am looking into what I can do to resolve that problem for now until I get something new created and online.

Update 24-JUN-2020

Finally I have added an actual site!

Currently I have a few goals in mind with the site. Most obvious is that I intend to provide a location where I can distribute useful game related information, downloads, screenshots, etc. Additionally, I want to be able to provide a bit of information about myself and my gaming background. Less important to everyone else, but more important to me, is that I am going to use this as a way to learn and test some new (in many cases new to me) development frameworks and technologies.

I still have a bunch of decisions to make on the direction I take for a number of things. As a result, expect some fairly stark changes over time to the design and available features. For now there will be some disabled links for features not yet implemented, but they will give an idea of the direction I am going. Initially I plan to focus more on MMOs, primary World of Warcaft, but I may expand to some other games and genres as well. Don't be surprised to see something Doom, MechWarrior, or maybe Destiny related.