This is a simple light weight addon that places any change in your experience in the chat window of your choice. This is for the person grinding experience. How much grinding do you need to do to get to your next up.
With the new Burning Crusade out, and the run to level 70, I wanted a simple way to see what my experience is and how many more mobs or quests I need to get to the next level. I wanted the information placed in the Chat Frame. I looked around and found nothing that suited my needs. So I took some inspiration from Nirek and his Rep2 addon and a whole lot of elbow grease and created Exp2.
Exp2 places a line of text in your chat frame every time their is a change in your experience. On this line its states your experience gain, current amount of experience, total amount of experience to get next level, what your next level is, and how many more times you need to repeat the action you just did to get to the next experience level.
Other Addons in the this Family
There are three addons in this family. They are Rep2, Exp2, and PetExp2.
Please check out all three of these addons.
They can be found here:
Rep2
Displays changes in your reputation
Rep2 -
Exp2
Displays changes in your experience
Exp2 -
PetExp2
Displays changes in your pet's experience
PetExp2 -
Configuration
Type in /exp2 to get the menu of available options. Ability to set what window information is displayed to, ability to set the default profile for this addon, ability to suspend or resume this addon, and ability to show the information about this addon.
/exp2 set {output frame number} -- frame number is calculated by looking at your frame tabs. First tab on left is one(1), next is two(2), etc. For example '/exp2 set 3' sets exp2 to be displayed in the third chat frame.
/exp2 profile {other info entered here depending on what you want} -- allows you the ability copy or use profiles from your other characters.
/exp2 standby -- Toggles the addon to either be Active or Suspended
/exp2 about -- Display information about the addon.
Patch Notes:
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3.0.a
Exp2 and Rep2
Lots of coding changes to make it compatible for
3.0. Some fantastic re-writes were needed. Many
thanks for the people who have maintained the
original Rep2. This took a lot more work than
planned. Special shout outs go to Darkmane on
Icecrown (US), Palirome on Icecrown (US), and
EPRock for there tireless help in configuration
and testing.
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2.4.h
Exp2, PetExp2, and Rep2
Coding prep for WotLK. Cleaned up the variables
and made them more user friendly.
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2.4.g
Exp2, PetExp2, and Rep2
Grimnar and Keekyo of Icecrown pointed out a
conflict with a variable name and a couple of
his other addons. Renamed the variable not to
interfere with the calls.
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2.4.f
Exp2, PetExp2, and Rep2
Correct a small calculation error that happens once
every blue moon.
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2.4.e
Exp2, PetExp2, and Rep2
Attempt At optimizing memory usage to use even less memory
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2.4.d
Exp2, PetExp2, and Rep2
Corrected a spelling and grammar.
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2.4.c
PetExp2
Fixed the not showing Pet Exp increase when character
is max level and pet is not max level.
Calculation correction thanks to Darkmane on Icecrown.
Rep2 and Exp2:
Calculation correction thanks to Darkmane on Icecrown.
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2.4.b
PetExp2
Fixed first kill for the pet strange message.
Now reads "PetExp2: Pet Exp will be displayed on
next kill" for the first pet display.
Rep2 and Exp2:
Codes update and optimization
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2.4.a
Updated TOC.
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)...
