Armory

Paperdoll

In short

• All armory information as seen on the offical site from Blizzard Entertainment, in game, for all your characters, on all realms
• Information about all skills of your characters, including professions with recipes
• PVP information, including arena teams
• Searchable inventory, including bags, bank, mailbox and auctioned items
• Quest logs and spell books of all your characters
• Share quests, recipes and character information with other Armory users
• Searchable Guild Bank that updates itself automatically

Features

• Overview of location, stats, equipment, reputation, skill levels, talents and honor per character
• Overview of inventory items, including bag, bank, mail and auctioned items per character and overall
• Overview of quests per character
• Overview of profession recipes per character
• Overview of spells per character (including pets)
• Overview of arena teams
• Searchable inventory by name or quality (e.g. "=epic") per character or overall
• Searchable professions by level (e.g. "10", "~10" or "10-20") or recipe name
• Multiple realm support
• Copy link in chat frame support (shift-click in equipment, inventory, recipes, quests, spells and talents)
• Gold per character and faction total
• Saved instances (raid info) per character
• Equipment comparison tooltips
• Configurable inventory item expiration scanning at start-up and on-demand
• Draggable frames
• Native Auctioneer (EnhTooltip), oGlow, Pawn, ReagentCost and Elephant support
• Titan and FuBar support through separate add-ons*
• Command-line search for items, spells, quests and recipes
• Lookup quests, recipes and character information of other Armory users
• Ability to filter Armory messages in the chat frame
• Fully integrated Guild Bank support through a separate add-on*

* For individual downloads please visit www.wow-neighbours.com.

Startup

There are five different ways in which you can start Armory.

1. /armory
2. /ar
3. Bind a key in the key bindings section e.g. shift-a
4. Use Titan or FuBar integration
5. Use the minimap button

Data Collection

Once Armory is enabled as a WoW add-on it will scan and keep track of your playing character's data. But some information can only be reached when you actually open a game window. Before you do so Armory will not be aware of any information contained in it. Game windows concerned are the bank, mailbox, AH and your skill windows (i.e. professions). Once opened Armory will contain their data.

Fast Search

To search the database without opening Armory you can use "/ar find" from the command-line. The syntax is:

/ar find all | item | quest | spell | skill [namepart]

where you should choose one of the search types "all", "item", "quest" "spell" or "skill", e.g. "/ar find item boots". If you omit the search type "item" will be assumed, .e.g. "/ar find item boots" is the same as "/ar find boots". To search all occurrences of the phrase "spell" you need to specify "/ar find all spell".
You can also search for multiple name parts, e.g. "/ar find boots for" will find "Boots of Foretelling" and "Reinforced Mail Boots". To search an extact phrase you need to put quotes (single or double) around it, e.g. "/ar find 'boots of for'".

Navigation

Just below the portrait there are two small arrows that enable you to browse forward and backward through your characters. In the key bindings section you can define hotkeys for both functions. At the right-hand side of the portrait you can push a dropdown button to access a character selection menu.

Equipment Comparison

If you see an equipment tooltip in game, you can press the Alt key to get a comparison tooltip with the equipment of the selected character. If you use for example Alt-PgUp and Alt-PgDn as navigation hotkeys you can easily browse through the equipment of all your alts while comparing.

Information Sharing

You can lookup quests, recipes and character information (limited to gear and build) of other characters. The command "/ar lookup" will open a window just for this purpose. To communicate with other Armory users, Armory needs to use one of the available channels. Most usable are group channels, so you can "ask within the guild" or "ask within the raid", but you can also target someone to communicate directly. Note that when you look up character information you don't need to target someone, because you can still use one of the group channels to communicate. In this case you just enter the name of the character you want to inspect (this can also be name of an alt of the person who is online, as long as that person didn't block alt revelation for privacy reasons) and use a group channel you currently share. If this person is a guild member for instance you can select the guild channel to connect to this person's Armory. The lookup window will only show the channels available to you.
One special note about quest lookups: when you lookup quests you can specify an area as well as a quest name (part). In the first case all quests that a character has in that area will be returned.

Guild Bank

Armory Guild Bank, AGB for short, is a separate add-on that enables you to view the Guild Bank contents anywhere in game. You need to visit the Guild Bank once and open all tabs. This will create an initial snapshot of each tab. Once this is done AGB will keep itself updated by exhanging information about tab changes between other guild members who also run AGB. This means that if someone else visits the Guild Bank and makes a deposit for instance, your AGB will be noticed about this change and will update its contents automatically.
You open the Guild Bank with the command "/ar guildbank" or "/ar gb". Please note that sometimes it takes time to retrieve the item information from the game server. Usually after a refresh (reopening the tab) AGB will show the missing item names.
If you disable the sharing module in Armory you can only use the snapshot feature of AGB.

Options

Armory's options are set by using the configuration panel. To access the options panel type "/ar config" or select it from the Interface option in the game's main menu. When using Titan or FuBar integration or the minimap button (by default disabled if you use the toolbar integration) some options are also available in the icon's context menu. Use "/ar help" to get an overview of available commands.

Maintenance

There are some command-line options you can use to delete characters from your database:

Tips

1. You can copy an item's name into the search box of the inventory and guild bank frame by alt-clicking a bag item or an item link.
2. You can define several shortcut keys in WoW's key binding interface.
3. If you have a "secret" guild character (i.e. not known as one of your alts) you should not reveal its relationship by clearing this option in the "Sharing" option panel for this character.
4. Lookup and Guild Bank windows can also be opened through a context menu (toolbar and minimap button).
5. You can delete an alt (not the playing character) by right-clicking its portrait and a pet by right-clicking the pet slot.

Localization

Currently Armory only supports the English locale, but it is written with localization in mind.

If you want to translate Armory you have to create a localized version of the "Localization.lua" file that can be found in Armory's install directory (see http://www.wowwiki.com for more details about localization). Send me a copy if you like your work to be included in a next release. But please test it thoroughly first because it will be likely that I don't understand a word you're writing and can't make changes when things won't fit for example.

Point 3 of 4.3.5 introduced an annoying bug that made the search box in Blizzard's profession frame behave oddly. This version offers a quick fix.

Change list v4.3.5

1. Professions were not updated anymore when accessed via an action button; this has been fixed.
   
2. Measures have been taken to prevent the occasional bad argument #n to format errors from occurring in the paper doll frame. It is advised to delete the entry of the character involved from your databaseto force a rescan (only if you encounter this type of error).
   
3. Trade skill cool downs werent updated unless the profession window was explicitly opened; this has been fixed.