World of Warcraft: Classic Addon that optimizes profession leveling using TSM Price Data.
Introduction • Guide Generation • FAQ • Download • License
WoWProfessionOpimizer is a powerful add-on for World of Warcraft: Classic. Its primary goal is to revolutionize the traditional approach to leveling professions by replacing static profession leveling guides. The add-on generates guides dynamically using an optimized brute force algorithm. The guides are integrated into the game, allowing for a customizable experience.
Users must/may provide the following information before generating a guide:
- Profession - e.g. [Engineering]
- Skill Start / Target - e.g. 1 to 450
- Recipe Sources - e.g. Trainer✅/Vendor✅/Drop❌/Auction House❌
- Crafts Ban / Limits - Prevent or restrict craft-count of certain crafting recipes
- Crafts Mandate - Enforce certain crafts to be made efficiently along the way
- Bi-Product Disposal - per-item specification of what to do with un-needed items
- e.g. [Deadly Blunderbus]: Disenchant❌/Auction House:✅/Vendor:✅
- Limitations on auction house - Limit Num Sold or Diminishing Returns
A: As most people use the same popular guides, this drives up demand on a small subset of items in the game. For example, a recipe using [Aquamarine] may have been originally economical, but as all profession levelers dog-pile on that one item, it causes prices to balloon, no longer being the cheapest route to level. More-over, the guides often remain static for years, and assume generalizations across servers. Most importantly, static guides do not factor in profits made from crafts while leveling.
A: TSM (TradeSkillMaster) provides nearly real-time information on auction house, vendor, and disenchanting prices for every non-soulbound item in the game. Ensure TSM and TSM_AppHelper are installed and loaded before using this add-on.
A: WoWProfessionOptimizer handles random skill-ups by computing the average number of crafts needed to ascend one skill level. WoWWiki's Profession Page dictates the chance for a skill as the following formula:
chance = (greySkill - yourSkill) / (greySkill - yellowSkill)[Unstable Trigger] has a skill breakdown of { 200 200 220 240 }. If you had a skill level of 235 then the craft would be green. Plugging this into the formula would yield the following:
chance = (240 - 235) / (240 - 220) // 0.25 or 25%This means you would have only a 25% chance of getting a skill-up from crafting an [Unstable Trigger] at 235. The add-on takes the inverse of this 1 / 0.25 => 4, indicating four crafts of [Unstable Trigger] are needed to reach 236.
A: Brute force - Backtracking - Pruning. At each skill level, the guide will look over all crafts that generate a skill increase. It will pick one item, craft it until a skill-up is achieved, and tally the cost into a gold-spent sum. If the crafted item is a bi-product, it is sold according to the user's specifications, otherwise it is kept for later. If the current gold-tally exceeds a known-best route, the algorithm backtracks one step, recursively. Routes which show no promise are pruned prematurely to save on run-time complexity.
You can download the latest release on the 'Releases' page.
Note For manual installation, ensure your path to the add-on's TOC (Table of Contents) is similar to as follows:
C:/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/AddOns/WoWProfessionOptimizer/WoWProfessionOptimizer.toc
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