ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor
Assassination Rogues live and die by their bleeds. Garrote and Rupture are the engine behind your damage, and letting either one fall off mid-fight quietly drains your DPS. ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor solves that problem with a minimal, combat-only grid that tells you exactly which enemy still needs a refresh. No clutter, no guesswork, just a clean visual cue when both bleeds are ticking.
What ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor Does
The concept is refreshingly simple. Every hostile nameplate that is actively fighting you gets its own small 16x16 white square. The moment that enemy carries both your Garrote (spell 703) and Rupture (spell 1943), the square turns red. Red means both bleeds are up. White means something is missing. You read the grid in a split second and get back to your rotation.
Squares are arranged eight per row and wrap downward in the order enemies joined the fight. Once a square appears, it never moves while its target stays engaged, so your eyes always know where to look. The frame is anchored by its top-left corner and grows right, then down.
Built for Assassination and Nothing Else
This is a specialist tool, and it behaves like one. The addon activates solely for Rogues in the Assassination specialization. Other classes and specs see nothing at all, which keeps your interface clean on alts. The grid also only appears while you are in combat and hides the moment you leave it.
Engagement tracking is smarter than a simple nameplate scan. An enemy counts as engaged only while it is in combat and you hold threat on it, so the grid stays limited to your own fight. Idle mobs, other players' pulls, and targets that never take the combat flag such as training dummies are all skipped. If you want the broader view, the slash command /ardm combat turns the filter off.
Minimap Button and Positioning
A minimap button gives you quick control. Left-click locks or unlocks the anchor, and right-click resets the position. While unlocked, a drag handle and one full preview row appear so you can place the frame precisely, even out of combat. The interface is localized in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Slash Commands at a Glance
- /ardm — toggle lock or unlock
- /ardm lock / /ardm unlock — lock or unlock the anchor
- /ardm reset — reset the frame position
- /ardm combat — switch between combat-only enemies and every enemy nameplate
- /ardm minimap — show or hide the minimap button
- /ardm debug — toggle the event trace in chat for bug reports
How to Install ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor
Installation takes under a minute. Extract the ARDM folder into World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/, then restart the client or type /reload. If you prefer a hands-off approach, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process in one click, placing ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor in the correct folder automatically. Because the launcher keeps an addon catalog with automatic updates, you never have to re-download ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor by hand after a patch.
Compatibility Across World of Warcraft Versions
ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor for World of Warcraft is designed around modern Retail, where it targets the current 12.x client and its new aura handling. The addon folder and its SavedVariable are both named ARDM, while the addon list displays the localized name, so it is easy to spot in your collection.
Players on Classic, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm, and MoP should check the version notes before installing, since the aura API and nameplate behavior differ across those clients. On Retail, the addon never queries auras directly. Since patch 12.0, aura data on enemy units is secret during combat and addons cannot read it. Instead, each square hosts a Blizzard AuraContainer, new in 12.1, filtered to your own Garrote and Rupture. The red overlay you see is the container's own aura button, and the addon only controls how it looks, never what it knows.
Why Assassination Rogues Keep It Installed
Bleed management is the difference between a good Assassination Rogue and a great one. ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor turns a complex tracking task into a single glance, letting you spend your attention on energy management, cooldowns, and positioning instead of scanning debuff timers. If you want a lightweight, spec-specific helper that stays out of your way until combat starts, this one earns its slot. Download ARDM — Assassination Rogue Bleed Monitor, drop it in your AddOns folder, and never let a Rupture expire unnoticed again.