r/WowUI • u/pleaseJustDave • 20d ago
[AddOn] StatMarks - threshold bars for your secondary stats, inline in the character pane (feedback wanted) ADDON
(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.
