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API UnitThreatSituation
Returns brief information about a unit's standing in another unit's threat table. Added in Patch 3.0.
status = UnitThreatSituation("unit"[, "otherunit"])
Parameters 
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Arguments Edit
- unit
- string - the unit token of the unit whose threat to query (e.g. "player", "party2", "pet", etc.)
- otherunit
- string (optional) - the unit token of the unit whose threat table to query (e.g. "target", "pettarget" etc.)
Returns Edit
- status
- integer - returns the threat status for the unit:
- With otherunit specified
- nil = unit is not on otherunit's threat table.
- 0 = not tanking, lower threat than tank.
- 1 = not tanking, higher threat than tank.
- 2 = insecurely tanking, another unit have higher threat but not tanking.
- 3 = securely tanking, highest threat
- Without otherunit specified
- nil = unit is not on any other unit's threat table.
- 0 = not tanking anything.
- 1 = not tanking anything, but have higher threat than tank on at least one unit.
- 2 = insecurely tanking at least one unit, but not securely tanking anything.
- 3 = securely tanking at least one unit.
Example Edit
local status, statustxts = UnitThreatSituation("player", "target"), { "low on threat", "overnuking", "losing threat", "tanking securely" }
print("You are " .. statustxts[status + 1] .. ".")
Result Edit
Prints a description of the player's threat situation to the chat frame. e.g.
You are overnuking.
Details Edit
- This function will return nil if the unit is not on the second unit's threat list, or if either unit isn't available.
