UI ADDONS FOR WORLD OF WARCRAFT
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Greetings! You’ve just found your way to the doorstep of Azeroth’s foremost gadget genius! Using a revolutionary new Goblin technology (I call it “Examell”! Patent pending.), I’ve built a warehouse of amazing gadgets to enhance the productivity of any adventurer. From automated pet minders to reputation building aids, I’ve got it all!
In these postings you’ll find instructions for how to obtain and use these fantastic inventions; follow the menu to your right detailed info on each item, or look below for the latest updates.
January 3rd, 2006
- Updated for WoW patch 1.9.
- Knows its own version number — it’s present in startup messages and if you type
/gems help or /gems version. Please include this version number when sending bug reports or help requests!
Full release notes: Gemologist | 2 Comments »
January 3rd, 2006
- Updated for WoW patch 1.9.
- Knows its own version number — it’s present in startup messages. Please include this version number when sending bug reports or help requests!
Full release notes: Guildentipper | 3 Comments »
January 3rd, 2006
- Updated for WoW patch 1.9: Includes information on where to find the three new pet skills (Charge for boars, Shell Shield for turtles, and Thunderstomp for gorillas).
- Includes several fixes and additions to the database for existing skills and mobs, too.
- Updated French and German partial localizations.
- Knows its own version number — it’s present in startup messages and if you type
/hh help or /hh version. Please include this version number when sending bug reports or help requests!
Full release notes: Hunter's Helper | 5 Comments »
January 3rd, 2006
- Updated for WoW patch 1.9.
- Fixed several general issues that resulted in problems dealing with alchemists’ elemental transmutes:
- We won’t get a stack overflow error trying to calculate reagent prices if a loop exists in the recipe chain (e.g. if you know both [Recipe: Transmute Life to Earth] and [Recipe: Transmute Earth to Life]).
- Transmutes and other recipes which fit a similar pattern (one reagent which is also produced by the skill is used to create another reagent which is also used by the skill) only report based on the price of the immediate reagent (even if it can be produced by other such recipes)… it’s more important to know that you might profit from transmuting [Essence of Earth] to [Essence of Water] than that you might also profit from trasmuting Life to Earth to Water.
- If you know more than one recipe that produces the same item, all of them will be listed in the output from
/rc report and /rc [item link]. For internal calculations and display in the tradeskill window, the recipe with the lowest total materials cost is used.
- These changes required a reformatting of the database we store your tradeskill recipes in; if you’ve been using previous versions, you’ll need to log in to each of your characters and view their tradeskill windows before
/rc report and /rc [item link] will again be able to report on what they know.
- Fixed some cases where we wouldn’t recognize an item link.
- Fixed an issue where
/rc report and /rc [item link] would incorrectly report items that sell at a loss.
- Added
/rc autoload on|off command for those using ReagentCost with Auctioneer; when enabled, ReagentCost will automatically load Auctioneer when you show a tradeskill window (so that it use auction data to show reagent costs). When disabled — now the default — the tradeskill windows won’t show reagent costs unless Auctioneer is already loaded. (ReagentCost will still automatically load Auctioneer if you expressly ask for a price via /rc report or /rc [item link].)
- Knows its own version number — it’s present in startup messages and if you type
/rc help or /rc version. Please include this version number when sending bug reports or help requests!
Full release notes: ReagentCost | 5 Comments »
January 3rd, 2006
- Updated for WoW patch 1.9.
- Now correctly lists when items are above the median/average buyout in reports.
- Knows its own version number — it’s present in startup messages and if you type
/sl help or /sl version. Please include this version number when sending bug reports or help requests!
Full release notes: ShoppingList | 2 Comments »
November 18th, 2005
- The previous release’s fix for “Buy Reagents” broke buying things that come in stacks (e.g. vials in pack of 5)… Fixed.
Full release notes: AutoCraft | 14 Comments »
November 18th, 2005
- I missed [Azerothian Diamond] when first compiling the tables… it’s included now.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: Gemologist
November 18th, 2005
- We now keep track of what recipes which characters (on which realms) know; the
/rc report and reagents commands now only list recipes the current character knows by default. Use /rc report all [skillname] to list all recipes known by all characters on a realm (within a specific skill, if given), or /rc report allrealms [skillname] for all recipes ReagentCost has seen regardless of character/realm.
- Better handling of Auctioneer’s LoadOnDemand nature — you should be less likely to see “missing required dependency” or “installed but non-functional” errors, and we’re smarter about when to automatically load Auctioneer if it’s needed but not yet loaded.
- Includes support for WoWEcon as a price data source, thanks to Jonathan Roy. I’ve not tested this myself, as I’m not wild about addons that involve separate executable programs, so it’s not “officially” supported.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: ReagentCost | 3 Comments »
November 18th, 2005
- The “Buy Reagents” button formerly didn’t work right if buying a large quantity of an item that a merchant sells singly. (e.g. trying to by 24 [Hot Spices].) Fixed.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: AutoCraft | 1 Comment »
November 18th, 2005
- The item IDs for [Pattern: Warbear Harness] and [Pattern: Warbear Woolies] changed in a recent patch; updated tables to reflect both variations.
- [Glowing Scorpid Blood] is advertised as a Darkmoon Faire turnin.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: AdSpace | 2 Comments »
November 18th, 2005
- Includes a French localization by Corwin Whitehorn. (Still, only the names of abilities, beast families, and other basic information is currently localized. In order to localize the entire built-in beast ability database, I’ll need mappings of English beast names to their localized equivalents. Users of WoW in other languages can help by emailing their SavedVariables/GFW_HuntersHelper.lua file once they’ve tamed or cast Beast Lore on a handful of critters.)
- Made some additions and corrections to beast ability tables.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: Hunter's Helper | 11 Comments »
November 6th, 2005
- You know, I’m pretty sure that back when I started on Hunter’s Helper, you couldn’t find out about a beast’s tamed abilities using Beast Lore… but I recently noticed that you can now. So, some related improvements:
- If you use Beast Lore on a beast which has tamed abilities, you won’t see those abilities listed twice in the tooltip (once by Beast Lore and once by Hunter’s Helper).
- We parse the Beast Lore-enhanced tooltip, and can thus learn for future reference (in tooltips and
/hh find) which skills a beast has without needing to tame it.
- The text we add to tooltips matches the text you see when using Beast Lore (with an accordingly localized label).
- We recolor the tooltip’s “Tamed Abilities:” line when it’s added by Beast Lore to show which abilities you already know and which you haven’t learned yet.
- First steps towards localized releases:
- If we don’t recognize the name of the zone you’re in when you use
/hh find, we’ll fall back to one of several default zones (chosen based on your race or faction if we can parse them) so that the search can proceed, instead of failing to search at all.
- Our built-in tables are now indexed by locale-independent spell identifiers wherever possible, and we automatically reindex dynamically discovered info to match whenever we can. What does this mean? If you’re running a non-English localization of WoW, Hunter’s Helper might not show much in the tooltips or
/hh find results at first… but once you’ve opened your Beast Training window and/or tamed a few mobs (enough for us to match English spell names to localized names), we’ll be able to provide additional search results. Since we can’t automatically map localized zone and mob names to their English equivalents, the additional results may be in English.
- There’s now a localization.lua file with keys for known pet ability names and beast families. Users of other WoW languages are welcome to edit this file to provide the localized equivalents of these names — send back your edits and I’ll include them in future releases. (The more Hunter’s Helper knows about localized names, the better it can access its built-in database when running under other WoW languages.)
- Our built-in database of zone names is now (mostly) localized into French, German, and Korean, thanks to contributors who helped localize Fizzwidget AdSpace and the listings at WoWGuru.com.
- If we see new beast ability info that isn’t in our static tables (which can now happen when mousing over a beast that has the Beast Lore “debuff”, in addition to upon taming a beast), the message requesting that you email me about it will appear no more than once per minute.
- In the past, we could sometimes run into situations where we wouldn’t notice we’d successfully tamed a beast with new skills, and then end up associating some other pet’s skills with it later. Added some checks to prevent such situations.
- Added, updated, and corrected several database entries thanks to user contributions. (Notably, all three species of Wind Serpent in the Sunken Temple have Lightning Breath 5.)
Full release notes: Hunter's Helper | 9 Comments »
October 22nd, 2005
- Fixed a syntax error in the localization.lua file. Oops!
Full release notes: AutoCraft | 13 Comments »
October 22nd, 2005
- The previous release included a bit of code to prepare for the WoW 1.9 patch (in which we’ll be set up to load dynamically whenever Blizzard_TradeSkillUI does), which turned out to be buggy. This normally wouldn’t matter to 1.8 users, except that several third-party addons are forcing the Blizzard_TradeSkillUI to load on login — generally, this is a bad thing, as it negates the reduced RAM usage and login time benefits of patch 1.8 and could lead to worse addon conflicts in the future. This release fixes the AutoCraft error on login caused by that situation… however, if you were experiencing this error in 1800.4, I strongly recommend going through your addons to find out which are causing Blizzard_TradeSkillUI to load on login and hounding their authors for proper patch 1.8 compatibility.
- Included a partial French localization by Khisanth.
Full release notes: AutoCraft | 1 Comment »
October 21st, 2005
- Fixed an error message that could appear when showing tooltips or using
/dp [item link] if the WoW client hadn’t cached enough info from the server yet.
Full release notes: Disenchant Predictor | 2 Comments »
