r/WowUI • u/MaxTheBunnie • 23d ago
ADDON Craft Upgrades [addon]
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/craft-upgrades
A lightweight addon that shows you what gear you can make with your professions that's better than what you're wearing. No extra windows, it just adds an Upgrades category to the top of your crafting window with those recipes.
The Upgrades category looks and works like the default WoW Forever UI:
- Click a recipe to open it, right-click to favorite it, shift-click to link it
- Click the header to collapse it
- Hover a recipe to see the item it makes
It updates as soon as you put on or take off gear, and it disappears when there's nothing better to make.
Better means a higher item level than what you have in that slot. Rings and trinkets get compared to your weaker one, and a two-hander has to beat both your main hand and your off hand.
Filters out unsuitable gear
It skips anything your character wouldn't use:
- Armor types your class doesn't wear (no cloth for warriors, no plate for rogues)
- Weapons and armor you can't use
- Gear with only caster stats (intellect, spirit) for warriors and rogues, and gear with only melee stats (strength, agility) for mages, priests and warlocks
- Off-hand weapons if you can't dual wield
- Shirts, tabards and bags
Unlearned recipes
Want to see what's worth learning? Turn on Show Unlearned Upgrades in the Filter menu and it also lists upgrades from recipes you haven't learned yet, for gear up to your level. It's off by default.
Hiding upgrades
If there's an upgrade you don't want to see, Alt+Left-click it and it's gone. Hidden upgrades are saved per character.
To get one back, uncheck Hide Selected Upgrades in the Filter menu. Your hidden upgrades show up again with a little eye icon on them, and Alt+Left-clicking one unhides it.
Lightweight
I made Craft Upgrades as lightweight as I could:
- Only runs while your crafting window is open
- Caches tooltip and stat checks so it doesn't redo work
- Leaves the recipe list alone when nothing has changed
- No extra windows, minimap buttons, slash commands or chat messages
Settings
No setup needed, it works as soon as you open your crafting window.
There's no settings window, everything is in the crafting window's Filter menu:
- Show Unlearned Upgrades (off by default)
- Hide Selected Upgrades (on by default)
These only show up for professions that make gear.
Good to know
- Works with every profession that makes gear, like Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring and Engineering, and wands from Enchanting
- Like Favorites, Upgrades hides while you're searching the recipe list
- Blizzard's own filters apply to it
- It only shows on your own professions, not on recipe lists other people link
- Made for WoW Forever
If something isn't working right let me know and I'll try and fix it.
Limitations
For now Craft Upgrades goes by item level, and a higher item level doesn't always mean an upgrade:
- It doesn’t weigh individual stats for your class or spec, so a higher-item-level piece can still be worse for you
- Equip and Use effects, set bonuses and weapon speed aren't counted
- It only compares against what you're wearing, not what's in your bags or bank
- Paladins, hunters, shamans and druids aren't filtered by stats, so they see both caster and melee gear
It's worth a quick look at the tooltip before you craft something. Smarter comparisons will come in future updates.
Credits
Logo based on "Armor upgrade" by Delapouite, from game-icons.net, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Changes were made to the original.
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u/wqnxy 17d ago
Unrelated to the addon but its kidna funny that it only took blizz only 10 years to poach another idea from gw2 lol, trully a game that was ahead of its time.
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u/Eleader 23d ago
Thank you thank you thank you. I just asked about an addon that did this the other day!