New Feature: Beastlord Affinity Bar

This was (as usual) a request from one of our Darq Side members. While your Beastlord is leveling up a Warder, it's natural to want to check on your progress frequently. Up until now the only place to see Affinity has been the Warders page in the Character window, which makes it pretty annoying to monitor.

Darq Siders have a new Warder window that acts as a pop-out for the Affinity bar. You can toggle it on and off from a new control on the Warders page (click the image above to get a good look.) The component is already available in all three sizes, and you can resize, change frame/backdrop opacity, etc. in the usual way. There is also a toggle command that you can add to a hotbar or to the Icon Bar:

        show_window Custom.Warder.Toggle

As you know, while playing your Beastlord you can check on the progress of any Warder in your collection, not just the one you're running with at the moment. The new pop-out window will dutifully display Affinity information for whichever Warder you've switched to in the Character window. As a bonus, if you mouse over the new Affinity bar you'll get a progress tooltip as a percentage.

Quick tip: If you do a /loadui while your Warder is up, you already know the pesky Warders tab disappears from the Character window until you zone. That's going to make the window display information unpredictably. I discovered a quick way to get the Warders tab back without zoning after issuing a /loadui: Right-click the Warder itself and choose Pet Options (or type /petoptions), then simply hit Apply without changing any of the options. Presto, the Warders tab is back and all is right in Norrath again.

Thanks to Aidbringer for making the request; it's yet more evidence that our members really do have a direct influence on the product. I hope your Beastlord will enjoy monitoring XP progress in a more convenient manner, and as always thank you for being part of the awesome-est community on Patreon.