What does it do?
This is an addon for those who want help at figuring out what items are upgrades, and are tired of/don't understand complex spreadsheets.
It is made for DPS and healing.
To enable the addon for a character, type "/aue" and select if you want to show stats for DPS and\or healing.
How does it work?
The addon will first scan your current gear and check your talents to figure out the value of each stat for you. To help figure out the value for each stat, the addon uses a preset DPS rotation depending on class and specc. This DPS rotation is gathered from combat logs of good players at WoW Meter Online.
The addon will then print out a list with the value of each stat and how important each ability is to your DPS, next to your character window.
In addition to the preset DPS rotation, you can make your own rotation for increased accuracy. This requires Recount to be installed, as AUE will use the Overall fight datas from Recount to make the DPS rotation.
When you mouseover an item the addon will calculate what your total stats would be if you replace your current item with the mouseovered one, and then check if it would be better or worse.
The resultat is printed at the bottom of the item tooltip, and you can have an explanation in the tooltip for what makes it an upgrade\downgrade(what stats would increase\decrease). The upgrade\downgrade result is also colored in a fitting color (red for downgrade, green for upgrade).
The addon is not as accurate as a real spreadsheet, but the difference should be small. It is ment for those who care about gearing properly, but don't want to use complex spreadsheets like those on Elitist Jerks. This addon is completely automatic and 100x easier to use than any spreadsheet, but in return it is a bit less accurate. Thus it fits good for raiders who are dedicated but not hardcore.
Advantages:
Personally, these are the things I like the most with this addon:
1: You dont need a new spreadsheet for all your alts when you try out new classes. Just enable the addon and go.
2: Whenever you see an interesting item you can see at once if it's an upgrade. No more "sec, I need to check my spreadsheet", no time spent on building an upgrade list for new raid instances, no trouble trying to figure upgrades all by yourself.
3. The addon automatically saves all upgrades found to an internal upgrade list. With Atlasloot Reverse installed AUE will also save the drop spot with the item, making a list of what items you need in every instance. Is your alt done with heroic farming? Should you join that TotC 10 pug? Check your AUE list.
4: The stat values and calculations scale with your gear and buffs. Sometimes as a healer you might want to change a bit of gear depending on buffs in the raid. As a DPS this makes the addon more accurate than using standard stat values.
5. The addon will automatically check how much value you can get from a blue quality gem in empty sockets, and take them into calculations. That way it's alot easier to figure the value of an item with empty sockets.
6. When you have figured wether an item is an upgrade or a downgrade, you can quickly figure from the item stat difference what makes out the upgrade\downgrade. Why is that item an upgrade when you lose spell power and crit from wearing it? Maybe it's because you really need that hit rating?
7. Tooltips will also tell you if an item is on the upgradelist for any of your alts. This way, all your chars could shop upgrades for any char on AH.
The 3.x versions of AUE are heavily overhauled since 2.x and not all classes or speccs are implemented yet.
These speccs are currently implemented:
- DK: No speccs
- Druid: No speccs
- Hunter: No speccs
- Mage: No speccs
- Paladin: Retri and holy
- Priest: All speccs
- Rogue: No speccs
- Shaman: Elemental and Resto
- Warlock: No speccs
- Warrior: No speccs
Known bugs:
- Text from Ratingbuster and Wardrobe appears twice in tooltips.
1.6 Beta:
- Fixed tooltips to hide when they should
- You can now decide to show DPS stats+heal stats or just one of them.
- Added Warlock - Destro
- When comparing rings or trinkets, one of the upgrade colors was wrong. Now fixed.
- Fixed a bug that caused inaccuracy when comparing items.
- DPS stat value overview will now properly show DPS gain from intellect and spirit for shadow priests.
1.7 Beta:
- Fixed bug with 2 DPS stats showing and inaccuracy when comparing 2h vs 2h
- Added more stats to the stat comparison window (right side of tooltips)
- Now properly recognices expertise gems
- Now properly recognices "all stats" gems
- Properly hides DPS stat value overview by character window when the addon is turned off for the character
- Stat value overview will no longer show stats that have no value
- Stat differences while comparing will no longer show stats that have no value or are not present
- You can now chose to show item stat differences a) nowhere b) in item tooltip or c) in its own tooltip(as in previous versions)
- Mage value from intellect shows properly
- Fixed bug with too much intellect from Arcane Mind(Mage)
1.8 Beta:
- Fixed a bug that caused the addon to stop working
- Fixed a bug that made healing stats show as negative while in DPS specc
- Fixed the healing values from crit, haste and spell power
- Now properly recognices mp5 gems.
- Added Druid - Resto
- Now properly recognizes both stats on gems that have 2 stats
- When comparing, the stat difference list will show all stats that are valuable to either DPS or healing(previously only to DPS)
- When comparing, the stat difference list now reflects the result after talents, rather than the base stats.
- Increased accuracy in stats calculation when comparing items
- Fixed a bug in calculating crit from intellect.
- Fixed a bug in destro warlock crit dmg
1.81 Beta:
- Fixed a bug with comparing rings, trinkets and weaps that was introduced last version.
- Now shows healing upgrade for both slots when comparing rings, trinkets and weapons.
1.82 Beta:
- Fixed a bug with healing comparison that was introduced last version
- Fixed a bug that caused the program to stop working if you compared to an empty slot
- When comparing an item versus 2 slots(ie rings), the two upgrades will be listed side by side instead of under eachother.
- When comparing, upgrades will show in light green and downgrades in red, instead of the previous scaling color.
1.9 Beta:
- Fixed a bug when comparing for healing
- Small change in healing calculation
- When comparing with an item that has empty sockets, the addon will pretend that the sockets are filled with your most valuable blue quality gems.
- The stat difference list in item tooltips(if enabled) will now show value for both dps and healing.
- Fixed some bugs when using seperate frame for showing item stat differences
- Fixed a bug that caused item stat differences to show twice
2.0:
- Fixed crit from intellect
- Added Druid - Balance
- Added Druid - Feral
- Fixed mage crit coefficient
- Added Mage - Fire
- Added Paladin - Holy
- Fixed some retri talents
- Added Warlock - Affliction
- Added Warlock - Demonology
- Added Shaman - Resto
2.1:
- Added the Demonologist's scaling for pet, which I forgot last version.
- Fixed a bug for holy paladins
2.2:
- Fixed some bugs for resto druids
- Now properly recognizes and compares all combinations of weapons (2h vs onehand, onehand vs 2h, onehand vs two equipped weapons etc)
- No longer tries to compare bags
2.3:
- Combat ratings are more accurate
- Fixed calculation of ARP
- Fixed a healing bug from last version
2.4:
- Fixed some bugs related to comparing mainhands.
- Now shows stat difference for both slots when comparing rings or trinkets
- Fixed comparing of ranged weapons
- Fixed a bug with talent stats being applied twice
- Fixed the lag caused by the addon when you mouseover an item.
- Fixed a bug related to AP, SP and wpn dmg value
- Added Shaman - Enhance
- Added Rogue - Assassination
- Added Rogue - Combat
- Added Warrior - Fury (sjekk talents)
- Fixed several bugs with warr talents
- Added Hunter - Beast Mastery
- Added Hunter - Marksmanship
- Added Hunter - Survival
- Added DK - Blood
- Added DK - Frost
- Added DK - Unholy
- When opening character screen you will see a list of which abilities your DPS should come from, based on combat logs from WoW Meter Online.
3.0:
- DPS calculations redone from scratch, alot more accurate.
- Added more information for DPS at character screen
- Items that are found to be upgrade to any of your chars will now show up with a note in the tooltip, whatever character you are playing on.
- You can now see an upgradelist for all upgrades you have found for your logged character, by typing "/aue upgrades". Filter this list by typing "/aue slot head" or whatever.
- Smart socket calculations: When calculating items with sockets, the addon will figure out if you are below hit cap before sockets are filled. If you are, they will be calculated with hit, otherwise they are calculated with your most valuable stat.
- Smart healer oom-time calculations: To reflect how mp5, intellect and other stats that help you from getting oom become less valuable the more of them you have, the addon will slowly reduce the value for each second you dont go oom. This makes it alot easier to figure when to stop getting those stats and just go for the HPS stats.
- You can now make your own DPS rotations to use instead of the preset one. This is done by using Recount to record your DPS rotation results and then typing "/AUE new rotation (rotation name)". This use it by typing "/AUE use rotation (rotation name)"
- You can browse most lvl80 ilvl200+ items ingame by typing "/AUE check (slot)". This will give you itemlinks that you can mouseover, and upgrades are automatically added to upgradelist.
- Drop spots can be added to your upgrade list by installing a separate addon called Atlasloot Reverse.
3.1:
- Fixed a bug with drop spots and healing upgrades.
- Added Paladin - Holy
- Added Priest - Shadow
- Added Shaman - Elemental
- Added Shaman - Restoration
- Fixed a bug related to first-time use
3.2:
- Fixed some Holy pally talents
- Fixed some Resto shaman talents
- Fixed some Holy priest talents
- Fixed a bug with haste for retri, which was introduced last version.
- Fixed a bug with melee speed for retri, which was introduced last version.
- Fixed a bug that made the addon treat a few different items as the same.
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)...
