Addon for character specs?

On 2007-12-19, az willie <sclaus.DeleteThis@npole.com> wrote:
> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
> equipmentand it's characteristics?

There are some addons that at least collect your data.

I'm a fan of "CharactersViewer", which allows you to view banks of
alts ingame, without relogging.

It saves it's data in a lua-array-file. I suppose someone could
write or have written a converter to print out ascii for that.

But I never felt the need to do so.
Why would you need a printout? Copy&Paste to ebay?

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On Dec 20, 10:01 am, az willie <scl... RemoveThis @npole.com> wrote:
> Marco Dieckhoff <di... RemoveThis @gmx.de> wrote in news:0ktp35-dtt.ln1
> @hamlet.pk8.frankonia-brunonia.de:
>
> > On 2007-12-19, az willie <scl... RemoveThis @npole.com> wrote:
> >> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
> >> equipmentand it's characteristics?
>
> > There are some addons that at least collect your data.
>
> > I'm a fan of "CharactersViewer", which allows you to view banks of
> > alts ingame, without relogging.
>
> > It saves it's data in a lua-array-file. I suppose someone could
> > write or have written a converter to print out ascii for that.
>
> > But I never felt the need to do so.
> > Why would you need a printout? Copy&Paste to ebay?
>
> ====================
> To take to AH to shop for better gear for an alt.
>
> I find it impossible to remember the specs on my current armor when I'm
> looking at getting better stuff. So I open my character and item by item
> look at my armor and weapons and write down the specs with my high tech pen
> and paper.
>
> Not difficult certainly, but it would be better if there was a way to just
> print out the info on my characters gear.
>
> Seems odd that I'm sitting here using a high tech computer to play a state
> of the art online game and have to resort to pen and paper to get basic
> info.

You could, of course, bring the alt to the AH, allowing you to
directly compare AH items with what you are currently wearing. I
think you have to hold in shift while hovering over an item in the AH
to show what you currently have.

Of course, you could also save yourself the gold and completely avoid
the AH.
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Marco Dieckhoff <dieck DeleteThis @gmx.de> wrote in news:0ktp35-dtt.ln1
@hamlet.pk8.frankonia-brunonia.de:

> On 2007-12-19, az willie <sclaus DeleteThis @npole.com> wrote:
>> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
>> equipmentand it's characteristics?
>
> There are some addons that at least collect your data.
>
> I'm a fan of "CharactersViewer", which allows you to view banks of
> alts ingame, without relogging.
>
> It saves it's data in a lua-array-file. I suppose someone could
> write or have written a converter to print out ascii for that.
>
> But I never felt the need to do so.
> Why would you need a printout? Copy&Paste to ebay?
>

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To take to AH to shop for better gear for an alt.

I find it impossible to remember the specs on my current armor when I'm
looking at getting better stuff. So I open my character and item by item
look at my armor and weapons and write down the specs with my high tech pen
and paper.

Not difficult certainly, but it would be better if there was a way to just
print out the info on my characters gear.

Seems odd that I'm sitting here using a high tech computer to play a state
of the art online game and have to resort to pen and paper to get basic
info.
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lcpltom <lcpltom DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in news:2c87d84b-4277-412b-ae19-
28d10b9bce4a DeleteThis @q3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

> On Dec 19, 6:42 pm, az willie <scl... DeleteThis @npole.com> wrote:
>> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
>> equipmentand it's characteristics?
>
> www.warcrafter.net
>
> Enter your characters name and realm.
>
> It provides you with information about your core abilities, and how
> your gear and spec effect them.
>
> Its also not 100% accurate as it appears it is still being worked on.
> But it at least gives you an idea. It also has a "gear score" where
> it attempts to give your gear some kind of numeral score. I don't
> know how this score is generated but it seems to award higher numbers
> to epic items simply because they are epic.
>

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Thanks I'll look into that.
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lcpltom <lcpltom.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in
news:3b3941a6-d852-44a3-b5be-3599aa1c9898@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> On Dec 20, 10:01 am, az willie <scl....RemoveThis@npole.com> wrote:
>> Marco Dieckhoff <di....RemoveThis@gmx.de> wrote in news:0ktp35-dtt.ln1
>> @hamlet.pk8.frankonia-brunonia.de:
>>
>> > On 2007-12-19, az willie <scl....RemoveThis@npole.com> wrote:
>> >> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
>> >> equipmentand it's characteristics?
>>
>> > There are some addons that at least collect your data.
>>
>> > I'm a fan of "CharactersViewer", which allows you to view banks of
>> > alts ingame, without relogging.
>>
>> > It saves it's data in a lua-array-file. I suppose someone could
>> > write or have written a converter to print out ascii for that.
>>
>> > But I never felt the need to do so.
>> > Why would you need a printout? Copy&Paste to ebay?
>>
>> ====================
>> To take to AH to shop for better gear for an alt.
>>
>> I find it impossible to remember the specs on my current armor when
>> I'm looking at getting better stuff. So I open my character and item
>> by item look at my armor and weapons and write down the specs with my
>> high tech pen and paper.
>>
>> Not difficult certainly, but it would be better if there was a way to
>> just print out the info on my characters gear.
>>
>> Seems odd that I'm sitting here using a high tech computer to play a
>> state of the art online game and have to resort to pen and paper to
>> get basic info.
>
> You could, of course, bring the alt to the AH, allowing you to
> directly compare AH items with what you are currently wearing. I
> think you have to hold in shift while hovering over an item in the AH
> to show what you currently have.
>
> Of course, you could also save yourself the gold and completely avoid
> the AH.
>

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True but I use a banking alt for the AH and all alts send excess gold
over 2 g to the banking alt in order to accrue money to buy mounts and
better equip. Good equip does not drop often, especially at lower levels.
And survival is much easier if I get better armor / weapons.

Using a banking alt also saves travel money / time not having to fly from
various parts of the world to main cities with an AH.

But, since my banking alt has a severe case of the dumbass, he can't
remember the stats on the characters he is buying for.
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:04:43 GMT, az willie <sclaus.RemoveThis@npole.com> wrote:
>
>But, since my banking alt has a severe case of the dumbass, he can't

^^^^^
>remember the stats on the characters he is buying for.

LOL...I thought I was the only member of *that* guild...
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:02:20 GMT, az willie <sclaus.RemoveThis@npole.com> wrote:

>lcpltom <lcpltom.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in news:2c87d84b-4277-412b-ae19-
>28d10b9bce4a@q3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
>
>> On Dec 19, 6:42 pm, az willie <scl....RemoveThis@npole.com> wrote:
>>> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
>>> equipmentand it's characteristics?
>>
>> www.warcrafter.net
>>
>> Enter your characters name and realm.
>>
>> It provides you with information about your core abilities, and how
>> your gear and spec effect them.
>>
>> Its also not 100% accurate as it appears it is still being worked on.
>> But it at least gives you an idea. It also has a "gear score" where
>> it attempts to give your gear some kind of numeral score. I don't
>> know how this score is generated but it seems to award higher numbers
>> to epic items simply because they are epic.
>>
>
>===========
>Thanks I'll look into that.

These two addons working together might be just what you need.

Check out:
EquipCompare http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/166/
and CharactersViewer. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/316/

EquipCompare will show you the item(s) you have equipped when you
hover over an item in the AH (or vendor, quest reward book, etc).
Nothing too exciting here since a version of it is built into the
Blizzard UI now.

However, when used with CharactersViewer, you can click on a pull-down
menu to choose the character you want to buy for, and the items in the
AH would be compared to your items, but pressing the Alt key will
compare the items to the character you selected.

Very nice for using an AH mule to do your buying.

Don
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Eseer, 70 Troll Mage, Arathor
Obidon, 70 Undead Warlock, Arathor
Tiomi, 70 Tauren Shaman, Arathor
Valeris, 67 Undead Rogue, Arathor
Tahota, 62 Tauren Warrior, Arathor
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Don Reese <dhreese DeleteThis @chartermi.net> wrote in
news:7b14n3pedo4b5cvs4jvsf7fnb0c0c53hj3@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:02:20 GMT, az willie <sclaus DeleteThis @npole.com> wrote:
>
>>lcpltom <lcpltom DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in news:2c87d84b-4277-412b-ae19-
>>28d10b9bce4a@q3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> On Dec 19, 6:42 pm, az willie <scl... DeleteThis @npole.com> wrote:
>>>> Is there an addon that willgive you a printout of your characters
>>>> equipmentand it's characteristics?
>>>
>>> www.warcrafter.net
>>>
>>> Enter your characters name and realm.
>>>
>>> It provides you with information about your core abilities, and how
>>> your gear and spec effect them.
>>>
>>> Its also not 100% accurate as it appears it is still being worked on.
>>> But it at least gives you an idea. It also has a "gear score" where
>>> it attempts to give your gear some kind of numeral score. I don't
>>> know how this score is generated but it seems to award higher numbers
>>> to epic items simply because they are epic.
>>>
>>
>>===========
>>Thanks I'll look into that.
>
> These two addons working together might be just what you need.
>
> Check out:
> EquipCompare http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/166/
> and CharactersViewer. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/316/
>
> EquipCompare will show you the item(s) you have equipped when you
> hover over an item in the AH (or vendor, quest reward book, etc).
> Nothing too exciting here since a version of it is built into the
> Blizzard UI now.
>
> However, when used with CharactersViewer, you can click on a pull-down
> menu to choose the character you want to buy for, and the items in the
> AH would be compared to your items, but pressing the Alt key will
> compare the items to the character you selected.
>
> Very nice for using an AH mule to do your buying.
>
> Don
> --
> Tansi, 70 Orc Hunter, Arathor
> Eseer, 70 Troll Mage, Arathor
> Obidon, 70 Undead Warlock, Arathor
> Tiomi, 70 Tauren Shaman, Arathor
> Valeris, 67 Undead Rogue, Arathor
> Tahota, 62 Tauren Warrior, Arathor

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Thanks, I already had Character Viewer and EquipCompare but didn't
realize it would work that way.

Tried it but couldn't get the alt key to act the way you describe nor
would the AH let me have the character window open and the AH window at
the same time. Must have done something wrong.

But ... better yet ... I discovered that if I used the Character Viewer
to look at an alt before opening the AH ... then it compared items I
hover over in the AH to the viewed character instead of the buying
character.

Works real nice.

Now I feel double dumb that I hadn't figured that out.

Think my next alts name will be dumbass.
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