Altoholic

Find equipment upgrades easily

PLEASE READ BEFORE INSTALLING !!

1) YOU MUST DELETE your previous Altoholic directory, as lot of libraries have changed, it is highly recommended to start with a clean installation.
2) YOU MUST DELETE your altoholic.lua in SavedVariables.

Hi, my name is Thaoky, and I'm an Altoholic :)

Altoholic is an Ace 3 addon written for people who dedicate most of their time to leveling alts, and who want to have as much information as possible in one addon. The main feature of the addon is the search functionality which allows users to search their alts' bags or loot tables in an Auction-House-like frame (see screenshots). All this with multiple-realms support.

Paypal donations accepted at : thaoky.altoholic@yahoo.com

About the addon & the author

I've been playing WoW since the European release, and I used to rely on addons like character viewer to check my alts' inventory, but since it was more or less abandoned and not always stable for me, I decided to write an addon myself and to improve the search feature as much as I could. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do :)

The addon has been in development since December 2007 and was officially released in late March 2008. It's still not final, and although it has considerably evolved since the initial release, there are still a lot of things I haven't had time to implement yet.
Please note that this is my first addon, and that English is not my native language.

Features:

- Languages supported: enUS, frFR, deDE, ruRU, zhCN & zhTW.
(Help would be welcome for esES)

- Account-wide data summary:

• Characters' talents: only a summary, not a full buid, I may implement this later on if there's demand.
  
• Money, /played, rest xp for each character, subtotals by realm, and grandtotals for the account.
  
• Bag usage: see at a glance which characters should get bigger bags (bag size, free slots and types included)
  
• Characters' skills: skill summary on one screen, namely the 2 main professions + the 3 secondary skills as well as riding. I may add more if there's demand.
  
• Reputations: a list of all the reputations of the current realm's characters. You can see at a glance if all your alts are at least honored with Honor Hold if you want to get the new 2.4 blue PVP set. Suggestions on how to grind reputations will be available soon.
  

- View containers (bags, bank, keyring) of all alts, on all realms.

- Guild banks : You have 10 alts in 10 different guilds on the same server, all of them with access to a guild bank ? Not a problem, you can see them all here.

- E-mail: allows you to see which alts have mail without having to reconnect them. The addon will tell you when mail is about to expire on a character. Threshold configurable (up to 15 days). Multiple realm support as well. Mails sent to a known alt (one you've logged on at least once) will be visible in the addon without having to reconnect it.

- Equipment: See the equipment of the current realm's alts in one screen. Very useful when purchasing stuff for your alts at the AH. Multiple realms supported. Right-clicking any equipment piece will allow you to find an upgrade, this feature is similar to the official wow armory feature, and is quite performant, even though it doesn't match the accuracy of the official one.

- Search: the most important feature of the addon, it uses an AH-like frame to display search results. You can either search bags on the current realm, on all realms, or a loot table.
The loot table is a table based on AtlasLoot, but which contains only item id's, and therefore keeps memory usage minimal.

The Search menu allows you to find items based on their name (even partial), level, type or rarity, almost like at the AH. It is also possible to search known recipes.

- Quest Log: See the quest logs of all your alts, as well as an indication of which alts are on a specific quest. Clicking on a quest link in the chat log will tell you which alts are on that quest.

- Suggestions: Currently, only profession leveling suggestions are available when mousing over your current level in a specific profession. Suggestions are based on the leveling guides posted on the official US forums (credit goes to their respective authors). The addon also suggests you where to quest/grind xp depending on your character level.

Suggestions were also added for the most recent factions. More to come later.

- Auction house: You can see which auctions/bids you've placed with an alt without being logged in or being at the AH.

- Professions: You can browse all known recipes in a thotbot like frame (see screenshot).

- Mounts & Pets of all your alts.

- Achievements are tracked for all you alts (see screenshot).

Known bugs/missing functionalities (3.0.002)

• There is a known issue with refreshing achievements information, currently data is updated whenever an achievement is completed, but not when its partially completed. This is being addressed in a future patch.
  
• Only achievements are implemented at this point, statistics will come later.
  
• Glyphs are not in yet, but definitely planned.
  
• Tokens/currencies are visible when mousing over a character in the activity tab, this will likely change in a future release.
  

FAQ

The FAQ has been moved here : http://www.wowinterface.com/portal.php?id=372&a=faq

Credits

• I'd like to thank my guild, Odysseüs on EU-Marécages de Zangar, for assisting me since the earliest phases, thanks guys for everything you've done :)
  
• Thanks to the wowace community, you've been very helpful and this addon would not be there without the technical answers you gave me (especially Xinhuan, author of BankItems)
  
• Thanks to all the guys who are behind AtlasLoot, keeping the loot table up-to-date is a tremendous work, and the search functionality of Altoholic would not be what it is without your hard work.
  
• Thanks to Ayindi (wowace) & sLiz3r (curse) for the German translation.
  
• Thanks to NightOwl (wowace) for the zhTW translation.
  
• Thanks to Wang (wowace) for the zhCN translation.
  
• Thanks to Hellbot for the ruRU translation.
  
• Thanks to Laumac for the frFR translation.
  
• Brykrys for the LinkWrangler support.
  

3.0.003 (12/11/2008)

• Fixed mistakes in deDE leveling suggestions, invalid translations (causing Lua errors).
  
• Fixed LinkWrangler support. (moved Hook_LinkWrangler).
  
• Added a launcher for LDB. Tested with ButtonBin & MakeRocketGoNow, working ok, let me know if by any chance you have problems with other LDB displays (which I really doubt given how simple it was to implement it).
  
• Updated shTW localization (thanks NightOwl).
  
• Changed libraries directory from "Libs" to "libs" in embeds.xml, to avoid problems on non-windows platforms.
  
• Fixed a Lua error when clearing AH entries from the list.
  
• Added support for glyphs, they are visible in the character tooltip of the account summary. Their location is likely to change whenever I have time to implement better support.
  
• Suggestions to level inscription have been updated, they are now more complete and go up to 350.
  
• [zhTW]: Fixed translations for "Secondary Skills" and "Riding" that prevented data from being displayed in the skills pane.
  
• [deDE]: Fixed "Klasse: xx" to "Klassen: xx" & "Restores %d+ mana per", and ITEM_MOD_SPELL_POWER (Thanks ckaotik)
  
• Fixed the name of the alt who last visited the guild bank. It was correctly saved, but not correctly refreshed.
  
• Number of achievements earned + points have been added in the class icon tooltip, on top of the achievements frame.
  
• Fixed a Lua error when trying to find an equipment upgrade based on item level.
  
• Tradeskill cap raised to 450.
  
• Level cap raised to 80.
  

Note: v3.0.004 should be released rather quickly, and will contain an updated faction list as well as updated loot tables.