ItemPimper

Regemmed tooltip

ItemPimper allows you to select an enchant and gems for an item, and then gives you an item link with those gems and enchants on it. Its main use is together with RatingBuster; by tweaking the gems and enchants, you can see exactly what effects they will have on your important statistics.

You can assign a keybinding to it (I use 'i' myself); then when you're looking at the tooltip of an item and press your keybinding, the window pops up showing the item (and its gems and enchants, if it already has them). Alternatively, you can type /ip [Some Cool Item] .

How to use: for each socket, there are three dropdown boxes. The middle one lets you select the colors of the gems the right dropdown should show. For example, if you select Red and Blue, then the right dropdown will show gems that match red or blue sockets. Furthermore, if you set the left dropdown to "Only", then it will show the gems that match *only* red or blue sockets, and no other colors; if you set it to "All", then all gems that match a red or blue sockets are shown, regardless of what other colors they match. The checkboxes provide more control over which gems should be shown.

Notices:

• I'm not sure if it knows all the gems and enchants. If you use it on an item which has an enchant or gem that it doesn't know, it will print a message in your chat log. This message will contain a number (which it calls "id") - please let me know this number, so I can add the gem or enchant.
  
• If you're a blacksmither and have the tradeskill that puts an extra socket on your gloves or bracers, the addon should allow you to put an extra gem on your gloves or bracers. However, it seems like Blizzard changed things: the way in which I tested if you could socket your gloves and bracers now only works if you have the Blacksmithing window open. So if you're a blacksmither and you want to gem your gloves or bracers, FIRST open your blacksmithing window, and THEN open ItemPimper; then it should work as expected.
  
• With the current filtering options for gems, the addon has the ability to show all gems known to it in a single dropdown. However, there are a lot of gems in the game, and due to a design decision of Blizzard, part of the memory that it allocates for showing all these gems cannot be freed again until the next reload of the interface. So if you have a limited amount of memory available for addons, you shouldn't set it to show all the gems.
• The addon should work with any language version now. However, the names of the gems and enchants are still in English -- but the tooltips will show the correct names.
  
• As you can see from the screenshot, if you have Skinner, then it also skins itself :-)

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  Author

  Nearyan

  (Project Manager)

  Downloads

  • Guardian Spirited
  • ItemPimper

26-10-2008: initial release.
15-02-2009: Added WotLK gems and enchants.
16-02-2009: Fixed a number of faulty enchants and a bug which prevented the "<None>" dummy enchant from being selected on items with no enchant.
25-02-2009: Rewritten most of the code; the dropdowns now scroll when they get too large, and more filtering options have been added.
26-02-2009: Added a number of missing enchants, fixed a bug in the blacksmithing-only extra sockets for gloves and bracers, added tooltips to the enchant dropdown, and added the ability to link the gems or enchants in the dropdowns through chat.
27-02-2009: Fixed a few faulty enchants and sorted the contents of the enchant dropdown (first according to expansion, then to alphabet).
28-02-2009: It should work in any language now (only tested with German, and the names of all the gems and enchants are still in Enlish - but all the tooltips will show the name in the right language).
01-03-2009: Added "Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle", and changed the ordering of the enchants to be the same as the gems (classic -> tbc -> wrath).
04-03-2009:

• Fixed a few minor bugs with the "Perfect uncommon" filter and the placement of the tooltips of items in the dropdowns, and updated the ace3 library that comes with the addon
• Changed the sorting of the gems: first game version: wrath -> tbc, then quality: (un)common -> perfect uncommon -> rare -> epic, then alphabetical based on the type of gem (all Monarch Topaz gems come before Scarlet Ruby gems and so on), and then alphabetical based on the name. Enchants sorting changed again to reflect this (wrath -> tbc -> classic, then alphabetical)
• If you now press the keybinding while you're not looking at the tooltip of an item and the window hasn't been shown before, it will print a message (saying that you need to look at the tooltip of an item while pressing the keybinding).
• Heavily improved the memory usage of the addon
  

16-04-2009: Updated for 3.1.
28-05-2009: Added some new enchants.
11-08-2009: Updated for 3.2, and added epic gems.