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About this thing

This simple tool shows item data from the armory and wowhead and calculates a score for each piece to show gear will be an upgrade for your hunter.

The score for each piece of gear is calculated using custom weightings for each stat. Some default templates are provided, but for accuracy you should use the spreadsheet or femaledwarf.com and recalculate your weightings every time you get new gear.

All data is pulled from wowarmory.com and wowhead.com and updates automatically as new gear is released. PTR gear is not included. New gear may take a day or two to appear after patch, depending on when blizzard add it to armory.

The tool does not take currently into account:

Stat calculations for socketed items are based on getting the correct-color bonus. Ranged attack power bonuses (from random enchants) are counted towards attack power.

Since trinkets' value is usually in the 'use' ability, this is a (very!) bad way to judge trinkets.

This tool is based on a calculator for TBC found here, threads on TKASomething and Elitist Jerks and some speadsheets I used to maintain.

If you'd like to tell me I'm retarded and don't know how to play, drop me an email to bees-at-hunterloot.com

Latest updates

May 7 2010: After lots of problems with Armory data (missing socket bonuses, incorrect weapon DPS, fake items, etc) I've switched most of the data over to wowhead. This should be much better; I now get recommendations much closer to the spreadsheet when using femaledwarf. If you see any obvious problems, please contact me. I also fixed a bug where we were still treating JC gems as prismatic, so they sometime scored higher than they should (by activating socket bonuses). An additional bug where the score from equipped gems in prismatic sockets were not being counted has also been fixed. The gear planner should give a much better comparison when switching from 1H to 2H, by using a default enchant for the type you're not currently using.

Jul 25 2009: The gear planner is now live! Gear planner features are explained here.

Jul 16 2009: Added current gear configuration, to show your current points just like the spreadsheet. Added armory import for gear (US & EU). Shorter URLs for custom weightings. Intergration with femaledwarf.com

Jun 25 2009: Added hit-capped weightings. Adjusted all weightings based on the spreadsheet (and Naxx 25 gear). Marked all tier 8 and pvp seasonal gear. Now showing hard modes/drakes where it's a known requirement. Showing trash drops by zone instead fo just 'World Drop'. Showing cost of emblem items.

Jun 24 2009: Filtering out rogue/shaman gear correctly again. No more thrown weapons shown. Removed some placeholder items that are visible on armory but not actually obtainable. Enchants were added some months ago, but never reported here.

Dec 9 2008: Consider Armor Penetration into the mix; Makes PvP gear jump up the tables a little. Show more detail in the socket column. Considering different scores for different socket types, since a yellow is worth so much more than a blue.

Dec 8 2008: Updated all weightings with new WotLK numbers from TKASomething. Take into account DPS of ranged weapons, since that matters far more than stickstats.

Dec 2 2008 (again): Added gems.

Dec 2 2008: Filtering out shamman and rogue gear better (still some issues). Included one-handed weapons. Limit to 100 results by default, to make page loading much faster. Showing T4-7 markers. Showing armor and weapon types.

Nov 18 2008: Added custom weightings. Added weightings from the wowhead calculator as alternatives. Show sources correctly, where we have them.

Nov 17 2008 (again): Shammy/Rogue gear is now hidden. Gear is still visible during an update. Pulling all gear correctly. Now limiting at item level 100.

Nov 17 2008: For gear with random enchants (... of the Eagle, etc), we now pull known variations from wowhead and add these to the index. Only variations which score at least 1 HAEP are shown.

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Created by Bees of Hyjal. Thoughts, comments, abuse, etc to bees [at] hunterloot.com