Events/Player

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Player related events

Fired when the player's available talent points change

arg1 

indicates number of talent points changed: -1 indicates one used (learning a talent), 1 indicates one gained (leveling)

Fired when you gain XP from killing a creature or finishing a quest. Does not fire if you gain no xp from killing a creature.

arg1 

chat message

Fired when some chat messages about skills are displayed.

arg1 

The content of the chat message.

arg1 formats are found in Blizzard's GlobalStrings.lua. Some possibilities:

• ERR_SKILL_GAINED_S (eg. "You have gained the Blacksmithing skill.")
• ERR_SKILL_UP_SI (eg. "Your skill in Cooking has increased to 221.")

Fired when the player is camping

Removed as of 3.02. Use UNIT_COMBO_POINTS instead.

Fired when your combo points change.

arg1

always "player", not the number of combo points you have.

Use the GetComboPoints() API to get the exact number of combo points you have.

Note: This event fires for Warriors at seemingly random times.

Fires after the PLAYER_CONTROL_LOST event, when control has been restored to the player.

Fires whenever the player is unable to control the character. Examples are when afflicted by fear, mind controlled, or when using a taxi.

This event fires when a Unit's flags change (eg: due to /afk, /dnd, etc.)

arg1 

The UnitId affected, eg: "player"

NOTE 

WoW appears to condense simultaneous flag changes into a single event. If you are currently AFK and not(DND) but you type /dnd you'll see two Chat Log messages ("You are no longer AFK" and "You are now DND: Do Not Disturb") but you'll only see a single PLAYER_FLAGS_CHANGED event.

This appears to be fired when a player is gkicked, gquits, etc.

Reference handler in FriendsFrame.lua.

Fired when a player levels up.

arg1 

New player level. Note that UnitLevel("player") will most likely return an incorrect value when called in this event handler or shortly after, so use this value.

arg2 

Hit points gained from leveling.

arg3 

Mana points gained from leveling.

arg4 

Talent points gained from leveling. Should always be 1 unless the player is between levels 1 to 9.

arg5 - arg9 

Attribute score increases from leveling. Strength (5) / Agility (6) / Stamina (7) / Intellect (8) / Spirit (9).

Fired whenever the player gains or loses money.

To get the amount of money earned/lost, you'll need to save the return value from GetMoney() from the last time PLAYER_MONEY fired and compare it to the new return value from GetMoney().

Example

Fired when you slay another player

Fired whenever you enter combat, as normal regen rates are disabled during combat. This means that either you are in the hate list of a NPC or that you've been taking part in a pvp action (either as attacker or victim).

Fired after ending combat, as regen rates return to normal. Useful for determining when a player has left combat. This occurs when you are not on the hate list of any NPC, or a few seconds after the latest pvp attack that you were involved with.

Fired when the player's insignia is removed in a Battleground.

Fired when the player changes between dual talent specs, and possibly when learning or unlearning talents (?).

This event fires whenever a totem is dropped (cast) or destroyed (either recalled or killed).

arg1 

The number of the totem slot (1-4) affected by the update. See for example GetTotemInfo() for the uses of the totem slot number.

Fired when the player starts or stops resting, i.e. when entering/leaving inns/major towns.

Fired when the player's XP is updated (due quest completion or killing).

arg1 

The UnitId affected, eg: "player"

Fired when the playtime state changes.

New in 3.x. Fired when a rune's state switches from usable to un-usable or visa-versa.

arg1 

the rune that it's referencing to

arg2 

is the rune usable (if usable, it's not cooling, if not usable it's cooling)

New in 3.x. Fired when a rune's type is changed / updated.

arg1 

the rune that it's referencing to

Fired when the client received a time played message.

arg1 

Total time

arg2 

Current time at this level

Fired whenever a units energy is affected.

arg1 

the name of the unit whose energy is affected

Seen unit names:

• player

Fired when your character's XP exhaustion (i.e. the amount of your character's rested bonus) changes. Use GetXPExhaustion() to query the current value.

Fired when your character's reputation of some faction has changed.

Fires whenever an item's durability status becomes yellow (low) or red (broken). Signals that the durability frame needs to be updated. May also fire on any durability status change, even if that change doesn't require an update to the durability frame.

Should fire whenever the durability of an item in the character's possession changes. (?)