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This addon adds a visual fullscreen effects when your health or mana dips below certain values. It is meant to alert you, and it will not automatically drink a potion or whisper your local healer for aid. If you manage to miss the effect, it will try harder when you get below a critical value. Sounds like nothing special? Well, you really have to see it in action.

There is a heartbeat sound effect for a more intense warning in version 2.0 and later. Some might recognize this system from other games, but it hasn't been done in World of Warcraft as far as I know.

See screenshot for a preview of the effect; it will flash in and out along the edge of your WorldFrame. The mana effect is identical but blue.

Behind the scenes:
The textures and methods for animation used are already in the game data files, which makes this small addon quite powerful. It also means that credit should go to the Blizzard designers. Their purpose with these effects were almost the same as mine (the blue effect I use for low mana is meant to show when you get stunned or in other ways lose control of your character). They left the effects hidden and deactivated though, and I thought it could be a good idea to make them usable.

Usage:
/lowhealth (/lhw): open configuration window. All settings can be changed here. }}}