ProfessionsVault
Simple and light-weight tracking of profession links and recipes for all your alts and friends. Tooltip enhancements and AH/merchant coloring for professions-related recipes and items - ideal for recipe collecting, profession leveling, and any serious crafting.
NOTE: PATCH 5.4 BREAKS PV AND SIMILAR ADDONS
Blizzard has made a major change to the operation of tradeskill hyperlinks in patch 5.4.0, whose implementation seriously affects their usability and fundamentally breaks addons such as ProfessionsVault that rely upon them. Read more details here, and please help complain on the Blizzard Bug Report Forums. A recent tweet from Blizzard Community Manager Bashiok hints there may be a fix forthcoming in a future client patch, however it STILL remains broken after two client patches (5.4.2).
The current release of ProfessionsVault is a "cripped" version that omits the features which rely upon working TradeSkill links (annotated below). There is still no way to open the trade skill links for characters that are offline or you are not directly interacting with. This limitation is imposed by Blizzard's broken hyperlink implementation, as described above. Other features are fully functional, notably including recipe coloring and AH scanning. It notably also allows you to open the tradeskill windows of any same-guild toon in your database (it uses the guild roster to bypass the broken hyperlinks).
Features
Profession list features
- ProfessionsVault automatically records and saves the profession links of all your alts
- Easily allows saving any professions linked from friends or guildies into your database
- <Broken in 5.4> Provides one-click access to the Trade Skill UI of any toon's profession.
- Supports easily posting links of your toon's professions to any chat
- Data is shared between all your toons on the realm, including cross-faction
- <Broken in 5.4> Comes pre-loaded with links to fully-stocked professions
Tooltip/Recipe features
- Enhances recipe tooltips with info about which characters can learn the pattern
- Colors recipes in the Auction House display to indicate which characters can learn the pattern
- Colors recipes in the Merchant (vendor) window display to indicate which characters can learn them.
- Automated scan allows your bank character to scan the AH for recipes learnable by any alt.
- Customizable recipe coloring and character name coloring
Misc features
- Includes an LDB broker with easy access to your professions, supports Fubar or Titan Panel, or can be used stand-alone
- Based on the Ace3 Addon Framework
- Enables the "link" button on all profession windows (default UI just has it for your own)
- Integrates nicely with other profession-related addons such as Ackis Recipe List, Skillet, Advanced Trade Skill Window and Gnomeworks
Usage
- Open the PV window using the minimap icon, LDB launcher or by typing "/pv show" on the command line.
- PV window shows all the saved professions for your character, any alts on the same account running PV, and any profession links you've saved.
- <Broken in 5.4> PV window also includes links to fully-stocked professions (ie containing every recipe)
- Data update happens automatically whenever you open a trade skill window, or you can update them all at any time using the "Scan my Professions" button. PV will automatically update when you learn a recipe or skill up.
- Config button can be used to configure tooltip/coloring integration.
- To save any profession link into PV (eg whispered from a friend or in trade), just open the link and press the new "Save" button that appears at the bottom of the Trade Skill UI. The same technique can be used to merge profession data from a second account (dual-boxing).
Links
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Credits:
- next96 (Korean)
- Freydis88 (German)
- alpha2009 (Chinese zhTW)
- zhTW (Chinese zhTN)
- D_Angel (Russian)
- Valdesca (Spanish esES)
- ChtiClem (French)
- bacco82 (Portuguese)
- <Fables> on US-Antonidas for lots of testing help and suggestions
- Drkestshadow on US-Antonidas for various testing help and suggestions
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Posted Sep 19, 2013No, it's not - recipe coloring workes independently and oscarucb has in the meantime announced that he will make a beta version providing this feature - thank you thank you thank you!
And please remove the nag screen now that Blizz has acknowledged their mistake:-)
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Posted Sep 12, 2013So, do you plan to rely on your protest of Blizzard's action to repair ProfessionsVault or are you going to change your TradeSkill links? Just wondering...
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Posted Sep 12, 2013There is nothing to "change". As of 5.4 it is currently impossible for an addon or any other entity to create a working link to the tradeskill of a character who is not logged in and interacting with the recipient. The whole idea of PV revolves around the ability to do this, and Blizzard has broken that feature of Wow.
I may eventually post a degraded version of PV that provides the few features that don't rely upon working hyperlinks (notably Recipe Coloring), but the central hyperlink-related features are broken beyond my control.
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Posted Sep 14, 2013Good news from Sapperwix, though. It is being resolved... soon(tm).
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Posted Sep 15, 2013Having a centralised database containing all my alts' recipes, and being able to know which one I already know on any of my alts (including the coloring help etc), is "the" primary use of an addon like this (or altoholic for its crafting part, etc) for me, and I guess for many others.
If I understand properly, Blizzard cutting professions hyperlinks should not impede the above...
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Posted Sep 15, 2013Right, but the core design principle in PV is that the database *is* the tradeskill hyperlinks. PV has never directly displayed any trade spells at all - it merely serves up the hyperlinks for you to open in a trade skill UI of your choice. This allows it to remain lightweight and also be compatible with the many trade window UI mods out there (including the default Blizzard_TradeSkillUI). The Blizzard 5.4 bug breaks the operation of tradeskill hyperlinks and makes this entire approach infeasible.
I'm working on a beta version that will provide recipe coloring and tooltip annotations (since those don't directly rely on the hyperlinks), but without a Blizzard fix to hyperlinks you still won't be able to open a trade skill UI for your alts.
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Posted Sep 16, 2013This could take some time...lol I say it was done on perpose really
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Posted Sep 20, 2013So what i use this add-on for (and others with simular benefits) is to look for stuff my character does not know, does not have in their bank either and what any alt chars would require.
I do hope bliz fix this, even though i hardly play the game anymore, i still jump in from time to time but changes like this make it harder to contemplate comming back.
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Posted Sep 11, 2013Is there any interim workaround for PV for 5.4? I saw the messages about the 5.4 changes and read through the threads. Such a shame, I love this mod!
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Posted Aug 22, 2013Just a heads up... The tradeskill link is changing formats (again) in 5.4, see:
http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=20680
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Posted Aug 22, 2013Yea, I'm the one who posted that thread >.<
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Posted Mar 17, 2013You don't need any addon for that, it's already provided by the default AH UI. Just select recipes on the left and click the "usable items" checkbox, then "Search".
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Posted Mar 12, 2013I can't seem to get the current version of ProfessionsVault and Skillet to work together initially. I have to disable Skillet so that ProfessionsVault will perform its "Scan". Once it has done that, it seems to work fine with Skillet. Anybody have any idea why this might be happening? I am new to ProfessionsVault so I don't know if I am going to experience this problem every time one or both update.
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Posted Mar 15, 2013Please open a bug report here with full details of the problem you're having and the versions you're running.
Bug reports in comments will be deleted.
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Posted Mar 10, 2013I can't seem to get ProfessionsVault to work with Skillet. It gets all mixed up when I try to use alts and their professions.
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Posted Mar 10, 2013I use them together regularly.
Please open a bug report here with full details of the problem you're having and the versions you're running.
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Posted Feb 10, 2013great addon, thx!
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Posted Jan 20, 2013Love this addon--one of my favorite. I have one request that would make my life SOO much easier as a boxer. Everytime I log onto any of my toons the button to "Scan Recipes Y/N" pops up. Any way this can have a toggle button in config so I don't need to hit 'no' every time i reload or log on?
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Posted Jan 20, 2013The problem is you keep hitting No lol... Just hit 'Yes' once and you shouldn't see it again on that toon.