Overview
NOTE: This addon is no longer being maintained. The original purpose was to assist with creating groups for vehicle fights like Flame Leviathan, etc. It was never intended to be used for evaluating gear or group fitness. For that, I would recommend ElitistGroup If raid vehicle fights make a comeback, this addon may be revived.
AvgItemLevel is a World of Warcraft addon that lets you see the effective average Item Level (iLevel) of your currently equipped gear. On the bottom right of the Character and Inspect frames you can see the average for yourself or for your inspect target by placing the mouse over the helmet icon. A LibDataBroker launcher is also included that behaves the same as the character pane icon.
The tooltip displays the following information:
- Average equipped iLevel for all equipped gear
- Effective Vehicle iLevel (see below)
- Approximate Vehicle Health bonus
- Best Available Vehicle Set
- Approximate Vehicle Health Bonus for Best Available set
If you are setting up raid assignments, however, that can get a bit tedious. To assist with that, you can click on the helmet icon or use the /avgilevel command to bring up the party/raid report window. This window shows the Effective Vehicle iLevel for your raid or party. If you have a target selected it will also show your current target. To report the averages to your group, simply click the “Print” button at the top of the report frame.
To automatically equip the highest iLevel piece for the relevant slots, Shift-Click the label on the character frame or on the LDB launcher.
No configuration required, just install and go.
How the Effective Vehicle iLevel is calculated
This value is calculated using the current scaling for iLevel on vehicles like those used in Flame Leviathan and Wintergrasp. This calculation could change in the future.
- 25-man scaling is same as in 10-man
- Shirt, tabard, offhand, and ranged/relic slots do not affect vehicle scaling and are ignored in the calculation
- 13 levels are deducted for each reduction in quality. Therefore an iLevel 200 blue is equivalent to an iLevel 187 and an iLevel 200 green is treated as iLevel 174
- An empty slot is treated as iLevel 0
Additionally the following untested assumptions are made:
- Artifact/heirloom (yellow) and legendary (orange) are the same as Epic (purple).
- Common (white) and Poor (gray) are 0
Impact of Averge Item Level on Vehicle Health
- Taking the average iLevel of your gear using the above algorithm and subtracting 170 will give you the aproximate percent increase to the health of your vehicle.
- Thus: All iLevel 200 epic gear => 200-170 => 30% increase in vehicle hp. All 226 would be a 56% increase.
References
- http://mmo-worlds.blogspot.com/2009/03/world-of-warcraft-how-flame-leviathan.html
tag v2.0-Release
00ac98878df084e53d7942e500bd54eb3f67b562
PProvost <peter@provost.org>
2009-09-19 13:20:26 -0600
Tagging v2.0-Release
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PProvost:
- Moved the report panel buttons a bit to make room for column headers
- Fixed typo in LDB object key
- Refactoring and fixed target reporting
- Added current target to report panel
- Renamed UI Panel file
- Final reworking of tooltip code
- Refactored the Report Show login into the main addon table
- First reworking to new tooltip based display
- Moved the label to the top near the character model.
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)...
