In short
- All armory information as seen on the offical site from Blizzard Entertainment, in
game, for all your characters, on all realms
- Information about all skills of your characters, including professions with
recipes
- PVP information, including arena teams
- Searchable inventory, including bags, bank, mailbox and auctioned items
- Quest logs and spell books of all your characters
- Searchable achievements and statistics
- Share quests, recipes and character information with other Armory users
- Searchable Guild Bank that updates itself automatically
Features
- Overview of location, stats, equipment, reputation, skill levels, talents and honor per
character
- Overview of inventory items, including bag, bank, mail and auctioned items per character and
overall
- Overview of quests per character
- Overview of profession recipes per character
- Overview of spells per character (including pets)
- Overview of arena teams
- Searchable inventory by name or quality (e.g. "=epic") per character or overall
- Searchable professions by level (e.g. "10", "~10" or "10-20") or recipe name
- Searchable achievements and statistics per character
- Multiple realm support
- Copy link in chat frame support (shift-click in equipment, inventory, recipes, quests, spells and talents)
- Copy reputation into chat frame (shift-click)
- Gold per character and faction total
- Saved instances (raid info) per character
- Equipment comparison tooltips
- Configurable inventory item expiration scanning at start-up and on-demand
- Draggable frames
- Native Auctioneer (EnhTooltip), oGlow, Pawn, ReagentCost and Elephant support
- LibDataBroker support
- Command-line search for items, spells, quests and recipes
- Lookup quests, recipes and character information of other Armory users
- Ability to filter Armory messages in the chat frame
- Fully integrated Guild Bank support through a separate add-on*
* For individual downloads please visit www.wow-neighbours.com.
Startup
There are five different ways in which you can start Armory.
- /armory
- /ar
- Bind a key in the key bindings section e.g. shift-a
- Use of a LDB display add-on
- Use the minimap button
Data Collection
Once Armory is enabled as a WoW add-on it will scan and keep track of your playing
character's data. But some information can only be reached when you actually open a
game window. Before you do so Armory will not be aware of any information contained
in it. Game windows concerned are the bank, mailbox, AH and your skill windows (i.e.
professions). Once opened Armory will contain their data.
Fast Search
To search the database without opening Armory you can use "/ar find" from the
command-line. The syntax is:
/ar find all | item | quest | spell | skill [namepart]
where you should choose one of the search types "all", "item", "quest" "spell" or "skill",
e.g. "/ar find item boots". If you omit the search type "item" will be assumed, .e.g. "/ar find
item boots" is the same as "/ar find boots". To search all occurrences of the phrase
"spell" you need to specify "/ar find all spell".
You can also search for multiple name parts, e.g. "/ar find boots for" will find "Boots of
Foretelling" and "Reinforced Mail Boots". To search an extact phrase you need to put
quotes (single or double) around it, e.g. "/ar find 'boots of for'".
Navigation
Just below the portrait there are two small arrows that enable you to browse forward
and backward through your characters. In the key bindings section you can define
hotkeys for both functions. At the right-hand side of the portrait you can push
a dropdown button to access a character selection menu.
Equipment Comparison
If you see an equipment tooltip in game, you can press the Alt key to get a
comparison tooltip with the equipment of the selected character. If you use
for example Alt-PgUp and Alt-PgDn as navigation hotkeys you can easily browse through the equipment of all your alts while
comparing.
You can lookup quests, recipes and character information (limited to gear and build) of other characters. The command "/ar lookup" will open a window just for this purpose. To communicate with other Armory users, Armory needs to use one of the available channels. Most usable are group channels, so you can "ask within the guild" or "ask within the raid", but you can also target someone to communicate directly. Note that when you look up character information you don't need to target someone, because you can still use one of the group channels to communicate. In this case you just enter the name of the character you want to inspect (this can also be name of an alt of the person who is online, as long as that person didn't block alt revelation for privacy reasons) and use a group channel you currently share. If this person is a guild member for instance you can select the guild channel to connect to this person's Armory. The lookup window will only show the channels available to you.
One special note about quest lookups: when you lookup quests you can specify an area as well as a quest name (part). In the first case all quests that a character has in that area will be returned.
Guild Bank
Armory Guild Bank, AGB for short, is a separate add-on that enables you to view the Guild Bank contents anywhere in game. You need to visit the Guild Bank once and open all tabs. This will create an initial snapshot of each tab. Once this is done AGB will keep itself updated by exhanging information about tab changes between other guild members who also run AGB. This means that if someone else visits the Guild Bank and makes a deposit for instance, your AGB will be noticed about this change and will update its contents automatically.
You open the Guild Bank with the command "/ar guildbank" or "/ar gb". Please note that sometimes it takes time to retrieve the item information from the game server. Usually after a refresh (reopening the tab) AGB will show the missing item names.
If you disable the sharing module in Armory you can only use the snapshot feature of AGB.
Options
Armory's options are set by using the configuration
panel. To
access the options panel type "/ar config" or select it from the Interface
option in the game's main menu. When using LDB integration or the minimap button (by default disabled if you use the toolbar integration) some
options are also available in the icon's context menu. Use "/ar help" to get an overview of available commands.
Maintenance
There are some command-line options you can use to delete characters from your
database:
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/ar delete all
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Deletes all characters in the database. The playing character will be rescanned.
Example: /ar delete all
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/ar delete realm [name]
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Deletes all characters that belong to the specified realm. If [name] is not provided
the current realm will be assumed. If the playing character is part of the realm
deleted, it will be rescanned.
Example: /ar delete realm MyRealm (case sensitive)
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/ar delete char [name] [realm]
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Deletes the specified character from the database. If [name] is omitted the playing
character will be deleted first and then rescanned. If [realm] is not specified
the current realm will be assumed.
Example: /ar delete char MyChar MyRealm (case sensitive)
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Tips
- You can copy an item's name into the search box of the inventory and guild bank frame by alt-clicking a bag item or an item link.
- You can define several shortcut keys in WoW's key binding interface.
- If you have a "secret" guild character (i.e. not known as one of your alts) you should not reveal its relationship by clearing this option in the "Sharing" option panel for this character.
- Lookup and Guild Bank windows can also be opened through a context menu (toolbar and minimap button).
- You can delete an alt (not the playing character) by right-clicking its portrait and a pet by right-clicking the pet slot.
Localization
Currently Armory only supports the English locale, but it is written with localization in
mind.
If you want to translate Armory you have to create a localized version of the
"Localization.lua" file that can be found in Armory's install directory (see
http://www.wowwiki.com for more details about localization). Send me a copy if you like
your work to be included in a next release. But please test it thoroughly first because it
will be likely that I don't understand a word you're writing and can't make changes when
things won't fit for example.
PayPal Donate
If you like to express your appreciation for Armory by making a donation you can do so here.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
