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True Item Level
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- World of Warcraft
- 2,836 Monthly Downloads
- Supports: 4.3.4
- 35,462 Total Downloads
- Updated 5/24/2012 11:24:37 AM
- Created 2/3/2011 9:08:33 AM
- 61 Favorites
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- Release Type: Release
- License: All Rights Reserved
- Newest File: 25MAY2012
About True Item Level
NOTE: This addon does not modify the appearance or theme of your tooltip. Images taken were from a computer with a tooltip theme addon installed.
What is True Item Level?
True item level is a World of Warcraft addon that allows the user to record the average item level of other players.
Why do I want True Item Level?
Although Blizzard has finally added the ability to see what your "equipped" item level average is on your stats page, it does not take into consideration BOA gear (which by system standards retain an item level of 1 regardless). Blizzard also does not provided an in-game method of receiving other player's item level averages.
True Item Level not only properly calculates item level averages; It also shows important gear information. How many pieces of PvP gear does the player have equipped? How many pieces are missing from their equipment? How many heirloom pieces are they wearing? True Item Level will let you know.
In the latest versions, True Item Level will also show you the talent spec of the players you scan. This was added to accommodate players who opted to remove other inspection addons such as TipTacTalents for better performance.
Slash commands
/tilhelp will show you all available slash commands in your chat window in game
/til <name> : Will show any cached TIL data for <name> (much like a /who command).
/tilw : Will toggle the TIL user interface on and off
/tilcfg <option> : Will toggle user preferences
- /tilcfg til : will toggle the visibility of the til on the unit tooltip
- /tilcfg spec : will toggle visibility of the spec on the unit tooltip
- /tilcfg icon : will toggle the visibility of the inspection indicator icon on the unit tooltip
- /tilcfg debug : will toggle developer debugging mode
How does it work?
Just hover your mouse over any unit to start the magic.
True Item Level creates an average number, or TiL (true item level), from the item levels of everything you or your mouse over have equipped. As of the latest version, heirloom gear is also taken into consideration with the magical powers of mathematics.
You may enjoy some of the newer features such as the built-in group scanner that lets you get the details of your group/raid, and the newest feature: "at a glance", which lets you quickly and easily see which items on your character panel are below your average.
It's that simple.
Tips & Tricks
It is a good idea to rid yourselves of addons that rely too heavily on inspection requests. Too many addons that inspect players will cause a bottleneck that may prevent any of the addons from getting their data.
Mousing over a player's unit frame is a more reliable way to scan their TiL than mousing over their character, as other players can get in the way of your mouse cursor otherwise.
Bugs & Support Tickets
Post bugs & suggestions to my ticket tracker for review
- May 25, 2012
- Introduced a new feature nicknamed "At a glance". Items on your character panel will have their calculated til values shown over top of them in light blue. Any items that are below your item level average (the ones that would be best to upgrade) will have their item level text colored orange. Please stop by the curse.com page and let me know how you like the new feature!
- Added the '/tilhelp' slash command that will list all slash commands available to you in game
- Added the /tilcfg glance' slash command to toggle the new "at a glance" feature
- May 19, 2012
- Fixed a bug with the beta group/raid scanner that prevented scanning players from another server where the server name had a dash or space in it.
- The beta group scanner should now automatically time-out and continue on if data is not found instead of hanging during a group scan.
- May 17, 2012
- Fixed a bug where player data was missing until the stats page was manually opened (will stop the "My Characters" tab from displaying 16 MIA for those cases).
- Fixed a bug where a ghost of the til group publish button would remain on the screen after closing the til frame, blocking mouse input in a small section of the screen.
- Fixed a bug where the function "cacheIt()" could cause a nil error.
- Cached data no longer waits for scanning processes to complete before being available.
- Your own characters no longer appear in the "My Cache" tab, and are found solely in the "My Characters" tab.
- Beta group and raid scanning now supports cross-realm group/raid members.
- March 12, 2012
- The cache browser now has a new sortable column: Age
- Fixed a bug with the cache browser that could cause errors when trying to sort by spec
- Added the highly requested group/raid scanning module (in beta, but the code has worked for me so far!)
- Numerous performance tweaks
- Changed the font color of some tabs to be more ideal
- Remember that although the interface for TIL is fully functional, the code has not yet been fully optimized :)
- March 05, 2012
- TIL now has an interface for viewing your saved cache and til info for your characters. See Curse page for new slash commands!
- TIL now checks to see if an inspection request was sent to the server by ANY addon when considering it's inspection frequency (should fix crashes if you use a LOT of inspection addons)
- A lot of code cleaning and organization has been done
- Feb 29, 2012
- Recoded for modular usage to allow for plugin development (such as group scanning - coming soon)
- Added slash commands to customize your experience: See curse page for list of new commands
- Added slash commands to get saved TIL data for any player (sort of like /who but for TIL data): See curse page for list of new commands
- Increased the scanning frequency
- removed the requirement to have a unit targeted before inspections could be sent
- will now save a cache of up to 1,000 scans in between sessions, and keep the entries until they are 7 days old (your alts will always be saved)
- Feb 22, 2012
- Dramatically increased scanning speed
- Tooltip indicator icon will now change when the addon believes that it is traversing throttled data
- Corrected an issue where in certain circumstances (and data throttling) the addon would incorrectly mark gear as MIA
- Fixed a bug where BOA gear was being averaged incorrectly
- Addon now uses an alternate method to detect missing weapons and pvp gear that is (hopefully) more friendly to users with non-enUS clients.
- Feb 21, 2012
- Players must now also be targeted in order for a til scan to be executed (increases reliability and allows for faster inspection speed)
- Through the magical powers of mathematics, BOA gear item levels are calculated and averaged rather than ignored
- Inspection speed increased
- Player talent spec will no longer wait for the til to be calculated before being displayed
- Player stats page entry has made a return, and shows your TiL up to 2 decimal places.
- Feb 07, 2012
- Completely rewrote the addon to be less intrusive and even more light weight
- Rewrote algorithm to correct item level average discrepancies
- Updated algorithm to include a count of missing items (taking talents like titan's grip into consideration)
- Added player spec to the tooltip
- Added a visual indicator on the tooltip that shows you when it is attempting to inspect data
- v1.4a
- Fixed language localization errors upon player login and unit inspect
- v1.4
- You can now scan TiL in combat.
- Localization framework implemented, please post a ticket or comment with any corrections.
- Improved tooltip layout for easier readability.
- v1.2
- Fixed a bug where under certain circumstances TiL would interfere with manually inspecting someone.
- v1
- Initial release
| File Name | Release Type | Game Version | Downloads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25MAY2012 | Release | 4.3.4 | 843 | 5/24/2012 11:24:37 AM |
| 19MAY2012 | Release | 4.3.4 | 1,349 | 5/19/2012 7:53:20 AM |
| 17MAY2012 | Release | 4.3.4 | 1,097 | 5/16/2012 9:37:54 PM |
| 12MARCH2012 | Release | 4.3 | 5,033 | 3/11/2012 8:30:08 PM |
| 05MARCH2012 | Release | 4.3 | 2,165 | 3/4/2012 8:48:19 PM |
| 29FEB2012 | Release | 4.3 | 2,081 | 2/28/2012 6:19:54 PM |
| 22FEB2012 (2) | Release | 4.3 | 2,457 | 2/21/2012 11:37:05 PM |
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Comments
Nice, the "At a glance" feature is a godsend when working out what gear i should purchase/aim for in dungeons.
Great work!
was feeling a bit bored today, so i wrapped together a feature i've been getting a lot of requests for :)
i call it "at a glance", and it's available in the 25MAY2012 release. The item levels of your gear will be shown on your character panel, and any gear item level that is below your TIL will be shown in orange so that you can quickly and easily see which items are most likely due for an upgrade (and which are bringing your TIL down). As with all features, it is completely optional. Check the release notes, description page, and images when the update is approved through curse moderators for full details :)
Also, I always enjoy hearing feedback!
I just wanted to let you guys know that I am aware of the random error that pops up when referencing the function CacheIt(). Because of the way inspection data is throttled, this addon handles a lot of simultaneous data and moving parts. I'm looking into the error this week, but be assured that the error in question does not seem to break any addons and can be safely ignored / disabled until the next update! I also have a few other updates coming through the pipeline as well, so stay tuned!
As always, I want to thank everyone for their support :)
Just letting everyone know that I have an update being reviewed by curse (17MAY2012) that should fix the cacheIt function errors you guys are receiving since the last patch. Stay tuned for the full changelog and release!
I like how you are really actively improving this addon, it seems to work better every time I install an update, thanks for the hard work.
I am sort of interested in this addon I am due to the fact that it has item level for the group so if u were in a raiding guild u could hand out gear evenly to gear up everyone as a equal....
Can u give me more info on the full features as such as I am waiting for servers to go back up
Group scanning will be in the next release. at the moment, this addon tracks the til of people that you mouseover as well as your own characters.
I'm not too far off from finishing the group scanning code, and then it's just a matter of quality testing it and polishing it up.
Updating you guys on yet another amazing TIL release (05MARCH2012). As soon as it's approved by Curse admins, you will be able to enjoy a fully featured user interface to browse, sort, and filter your cached til data. You will also have access to a tab called "My Characters" that lets you keep track of your alt's TIL data! A lot of work went into this next release, and I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed coding it!
If you want to stay with the feature stripped version, remember to use the 22FEB2012 release from the 'Other Downloads' section until I can split it's development into a new curse.com project :)
The newest version is causing crashes during raids, shortly after the pull is made. The only thing I changed today was the up day to TILvL. Turned off Tilvl and the crashes stopped, Also .... the mem usage of this mod went from 22kb up to like 172kbs that is a huge mem increase. Also the reason I switched to this mod is because you had to target a person and hover on the unit frame it didnt scan on mouse over and now it does. Read the update notes and the up coming updates you have posted is already being covered by othr mods, Simple ILvL for example already does the group ilvl which is very laggy. The whole reason I switched to this one is becuase of the almost non exsiting mem usage / raid lag. Scanning a 25 man raid group and keeping that info is aweful for 25 man raiding. Please keep this scale down and simple. And please fix the crashing issue.
I will look at the crashing issue today. the mem usage is most definately from the cache being allowed to store data, and in th next release will be completely optional. Until then, please use the older version still posted.
Thank you very much for the feedback, and it's very valuable in helping me to cater to as many people as possible. I take feedback seriously, and as such will ensure that the next release has options to run in light weight mode (ala classic).
for my own insight, is the crash a literal crash where wow stops working or an lua error?
If you don't mind, try the 05MARCH2012 release when Curse admins approve it. I put some extra code in that can tell if other addons are trying to do an inspection request. This should prevent TIL from asking for inspection data at the same time and crashing your game if you use a lot of inspection addons.
Your pleas are definately heard. I'll keep the lightweight addon as a seperate project and link to it on the next release :)
Sorry I did not reply back sooner. The crashing was a true crash, game shutts down critical error from wow. It only happened If i was hovering over an unit frame while pulling. Im guessing there is some sort of code telling it not to scan during combat or it could be that I use Elv UI and the tootips disable in combat. Either way at the start of combat if IM hovering on a UF I crash the only thing that changed when this happened was the update for this mod and when I didabled it the crashing stopped. I went back to the older version and no crashing at all. I use very few mods while doing the 25 man raids. Since we use a loot council I like to see the ilvl of people linking for loot against me so thats why I have searched for a ilvl mod that used little mem. Loved your mod until the update when the usage went from 22kb to 172kb. Dosnt sount a like a lot but with the 25 mans raids the lag is horrible. Even people with awesome pcs complain about lag with all the spell effects going off. So with my search for a low mem usage ilvl mod coming across this was a god send. Here is a suggestion I would like to make . . . Update what you have with all the perks to it that you want like simple ilvl has but make an additional lite version of it and just keep it maintained and low profile, by maintained I mean update toc when needed and leave it be unless bliz breaks the mod interfacing again. I assure you I will not be the only one that will be over the moon to have an ilvl mod that does nothing more than just gives me an ilvl when I target a player and it doesnt keep extra clutered data.
I did some testing around and I haven't had any crashes in raids. The only thing that has caused actual crashing of the game I've run across while developing this addon is when you try to get too much inspection data in quick succession. If this is the reason you are crashing, I would suggest disabling other addons that do automatic inspection (any addon that gets items, enchants, gem socket info, etc from other players will utilize inspection) and see if it still crashes.
I'm considering seperating all of the extra functionality into a different release branch, and keeping this addon as the light weight version. More details are down the line.
Just letting everyone know that the 29FEB2012 update has been released! Check the changelog for details.