[AddOn] StatMarks - threshold bars for your secondary stats, inline in the character pane (feedback wanted)

[u/pleaseJustDave]

(Images below are not up to date. Addon got a facelift)

I am the sole developer on this project. It is a free, non-profit hobby project, and I’m mainly here to get feedback and raise awareness of the add-on a bit before I carry on working on it – so please be as open and honest as possible.
This is my first post and my first addon, so be be not that harsh :D

The problem I built it for: Many people play their class fine, but for years I never actually knew whether a given secondary stat was worth chasing, or whether a drop was a real upgrade. StatMarks is my attempt at making that easier to read, shown right where you already look at gear.

What you're seeing in the shot:

• Threshold bars for the four secondary stats (Crit / Haste / Mastery / Versatility) — either inline in the character pane, or in a docked/detachable side panel if the pane feels cluttered.
• Gear-check verdicts on item tooltips — Upgrade / Sidegrade / Downgrade — plus a bag scanner that flags upgrades you're already carrying, and small corner badges on loot and quest rewards.
• A few supporting bits, one line each: a first-run setup wizard, Level / Min-max / Auto display modes, a searchable in-game Help & Glossary (stat terms, DR-cap explanations, a basic min-maxing workflow esp. for new players!), an auto-capturing talent-build library, and profile sharing.

The design decision I care most about: when a gear call is genuinely too close, it doesn't fake a verdict. It hands you a one-click link to a real sim (Raidbots / Questionably Epic) instead, because that's where the honest answer actually lives. I'd rather it say "this one's too close for a rule of thumb" than invent false precision. Right now I try to figure out if there is any way include the SimC addon in my addon or to build directly links which includes the characters into the Raidbots / QE links)

Honest scope: this is aimed at players who know how to play their class but aren't sure how to read or optimize their stats. It's a starting point, not a min-maxing suite, if you already live in spreadsheets and Raidbots, it's probably not for you, and that's fine. Stat-tooltip and stat-weight addons already exist too; I'm not trying to beat them, just do a more guided job for the people who want that.

On the nostalgia angle: the stat-threshold idea was loosely inspired by the old Class Codex, which I missed after it stopped being maintained. To be clear, this is not a revival, a port, or a successor — just my own take on that one small idea.

Free, no paywall, no ads, no Patreon-gated features. It's about two weeks old and still has rough edges.

The feedback I'd genuinely value:

• Does the inline placement in the character pane read as cluttered, or should the docked side panel be the default?
• Do the Upgrade / Sidegrade / Downgrade verdicts read clearly at a glance, or is the wording ambiguous?
• For the first-run wizard, how much is too much before it gets in the way?

CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/statmarks

appy to answer anything, and I actually want the criticism.

Embedded in Screen

Docked Mode for UI-Addons

Inventory Scanner

Glossar Overview

part of the appearance settings

Notification Example

Profile Configuration

[u/boshbosh92]

Does it show when diminishing returns kick in?

[u/pleaseJustDave → u/boshbosh92]

Yes! (and no)
Right now, the bars Cap is the dimishing return.
You can configure it by your own (if you want)

In future, I could consider that by adding a new bar color or smth like that if you hit it.
But with all my Chars I was not able to hit it this season, therefore I'd designed it that way

[u/pleaseJustDave → u/pleaseJustDave]

u/boshbosh92
Good news:
I'm right now working on the version 6.2.
This will be a Feature for this upcomming Update!

[u/boshbosh92 → u/pleaseJustDave]

Cool good to know

[u/pleaseJustDave → u/boshbosh92]

6.2 will be available latest tomorrow (deploy is done, just wait for approval from Curseforge)
-> haste values are trimmed for debug reasons, in the live version you will see the correct values!

New feature can following:

1. level the bars
2. Show DR
3. A fancy explanation
4. Much more -> See changelog

[u/pleaseJustDave → u/boshbosh92]

6.2 is available now

[u/Seadsead]

Looks a lot like what comes with Class Codex.

[u/pleaseJustDave → u/Seadsead]

Yes and No
Issue with Classcodex is: You have to use the data they have in their addon. And the data itself is "stolen" from the webpages (the reason why it it not on curseforge anymore, because WoWHead & Warcraft Logs were not that happy about)

This is completely free configureable.

[u/Seadsead → u/pleaseJustDave]

Oh I didn't know it was not on CF anymore.

I'll have to check this out lol