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v1.3.0: Incorporated a more comprehensive approach to default profiles.

If you wish to use the new default profiles, you can flush your profiles and get all the new default profiles by typing

/consider resetall

and then visit the bank to rescan all your items. Remember to set your active profiles again in the options. This will also destroy any custom profile changes.

v1.2.0: Performance enhancement to improve framerates in certain situations.
v1.1.0: Added checkbox for "Use Epic Gems?" in Considerater option panel. When toggled, Considerater will fill in the top-scoring epic gems where applicable.

Upgrading users are advised to type "/consider refresh" and visit their bank to re-score their items.

Considerater

An add-on that considers an item against all the items you have to determine whether or not it is an upgrade. Scores are computed for an item based on profiles which weight each stat according to relative importance.

There are many pre-defined profiles, which can be edited, or you can create a new one. To avoid taking up too much compute time, only "Active Profiles" will be used for scoring. See the Add-on Interface Options panel for all these details.

Considerater will scan your bank, bags, and inventory whenever you open your bank frame. So if it is your first time loading it, be sure to get to the bank to fill up your item cache.

Considerater will automatically determine the best gem choices according to each profile and will score items as if they had those gems inserted. This should make comparisons between pieces of gemmed and ungemmed gear relatively fair.

Type "/consider help" in game to see the command-line options.

Type "/consider" alone to bring up the Considerater graphical user-interface for comparing items.

Type "/consider [link]" with an item linked to add that item to the list of items considered by the graphical user-interface.

The idea for this add-on came about when I started re-specing my character on a nearly daily basis between four different playstyles. Each requires different sets of gear, and it was getting difficult to remember what I had in my bank and what was considered better for each spec. I relied on the useful website LootRank.com, but I needed something that would be able to quickly make comparisons on the spot, and only with the gear I had or was considering. So, I would consider this add-on to be a combination of ideas from LootRank.com and add-ons like BankItems.

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Posted Jan 5, 2009
Having said that, I found a library which handles the localization issue for precisely this problem. So, hopefully if WoWAce ever starts syncing again I will have a new version out with this fix.

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Posted Jan 3, 2009
No, I wasn't planning on it. Still in beta, anyhow.

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Posted Jan 2, 2009
i've been looking for an addon like this. thanks. you going to start a forum thread?

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Posted Jan 2, 2009
I like the addon idea, but not really impressed with the default profiles it comes with, at least for Death Knight. When it's telling me that a leather item is better for DPS and Tanking that the plate item i'm currently wearing, there's something wrong.

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Posted Jan 2, 2009
Well, for DPS it is quite possible that a Leather item may be better than a Plate item. At least, I don't consider armor class when looking for DPS gear. The profiles are easily editable to suit your tastes, of course.

But in general it is difficult to know the best balance of weights for every class and play-style, especially those which I don't play. I'm somewhat dependent on feedback to determine what is best for the defaults. The originals are based on templates from LootRank.com.

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Posted Jan 2, 2009
I can accept that :). I just found tweaking difficult because it's hard to know how to scale a certain aspect from 0-25. The profiles on lootrank are definitely off since it weight crit higher than AP.

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Posted Jan 2, 2009
Well ok, it would be up, but WoWAce.com is having trouble syndicating to Curse. You can go directly to WoWAce.com to get it, either way.

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Posted Jan 1, 2009
0.7beta is up with the tooltip idea I talked about previously.

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Posted Dec 28, 2008
The main problem is that since several active profiles can be selected, this could potentially wind up stuffing a lot of info into the tooltip and that may not be desirable. That is why I shied away from the idea at first and went for the GUI dialog instead. Maybe it isn't so bad, I have not really tested it out.

Another way of resolving it might be only to add tooltip lines when the item in question is best in score. This also helps with the difficulty that a raw score is not so useful without context. Really the interest is not with the raw score per profile, but whether or not the item is highly rated compared to all your other items. So I could imagine a line in the tooltip like this:

"Top score in: profile1, profile2"

and this should be fairly compact and unobtrusive too.

BTW, what do you mean by "ready functionality?"

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Posted Dec 27, 2008
Is there any way to automatically have the considerator score added to the tooltip of items, that way mousing over a link in the ah or quest reward etc would give you an immediate comparison rather than using the command line to do a check or using the gui to compare, otherwise it's a very nice mod and if had more ready functionality i would consider (no pun intended) switching from Pawn to this.

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
thanks for checking. sorry for the run-around.

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
I enabled all of my other addons and it is still working.

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
Yes... that did seem to do it. The latest latest alpha is supposed to have that but WoWAce doesn't seem to be updating.

Anyway, I am puzzled about how this managed to work at all, and not fail because of missing files. AceConsole was being included by the XML, so I didn't notice anything amiss because it did not give me an error.

I will tag a beta and hopefully that will force WoWAce to update the files.

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
I copied AceConsole-3.0 into your lib dir and it seems to work now. It was missing.

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
Ok I think I am managing to reproduce the problem on my laptop.

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
New error.

Date: 2008-12-23 21:25:36
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Considerater\NewAddon.lua line 1:
Usage: EmbedLibrary(addon, libname, silent, offset): 'libname' - Cannot find a library instance of "AceConsole-3.0".
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: error()
...dOns\Considerater\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:154: EmbedLibrary()
...dOns\Considerater\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:142: EmbedLibraries()
...dOns\Considerater\libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:115: NewAddon()
Considerater\NewAddon.lua:1: in main chunk
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.1.3910 (SnaggleTooth)
Considerater, v0.1
(ck=39)

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
New URL http://static.wowace.com/uploads/18/319/86/Considerater-0.5beta-4-g89362f9.zip

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Totally forgot to add something to the XML file. One sec I will upload another alpha.

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I used the latest alpha you linked, and turned off everything except swatter and Considerater.

Date: 2008-12-23 21:15:27
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ...ns\Considerater\libs\StatLogic-1.0\StatLogic-1.0.lua line 30:
StatLogic-1.0 requires AceLibrary
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: error()
...ns\Considerater\libs\StatLogic-1.0\StatLogic-1.0.lua:30: in main chunk
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.1.3910 (SnaggleTooth)
Considerater, v0.1
(ck=39)

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Also, can you try out this latest alpha and see if it fixes the problem: http://static.wowace.com/uploads/18/319/80/Considerater-0.5beta-3-ge1d2b72.zip

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Project ID

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Created

Dec 19, 2008
Last Released File

Jan 7, 2010
Total Downloads

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License

GNU General Public License ver...

1.3.0
Jan 7, 2010
0.9.1beta
May 10, 2009
1.3.0-15-gc01fb96
Jan 20, 2011

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