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BigBrainCrafting

Fully integrated, interactive gathering and crafting leveling guide addon featuring live Auction House pricing, Faction-specific routing, and intelligent TomTom map integration!
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Description

Empower your Classic TBC experience with Big Brain Crafting! Are you tired of switching tabs to read leveling guides, checking multiple external sites for maps, and forgetting what materials to buy from the Auction House? Big Brain Crafting entirely solves that by bringing fully integrated, interactive gathering and crafting leveling guides straight into your World of Warcraft UI!

Key Features:

  • Massive Profession Support: Features 31 fully customized, guided 1-375 leveling paths covering every major Profession, Specialization, and Secondary skill (like Lockpicking) through Vanilla and Burning Crusade.
  • Intelligent Routing: Seamlessly integrated with TomTom. With a single click, BBC runs a nearest-neighbor algorithm to instantly draw optimized, organic routing waypoints directly to the closest gathering nodes in your bracket.
  • Live Material Pricing: Need to know how much a leveling tier will cost? Big Brain Crafting hooks natively into TSM (TradeSkillMaster) and Auctionator to pull live market values for every raw material in your guide!
  • Shopping Lists & Exports: Select the raw materials you are short on and instantly export them into a TSM search string for effortless Auction House browsing.
  • Faction Filtering: Play the way you want to play. Toggle between Horde and Alliance modes to receive customized routing and map targets specific to your faction (extremely useful for Lockpicking and early-game gathering!).
  • Smart Crafting Hooks: For crafters, simply click the "Craft" button next to any guide step, and the addon will automatically open your Trade Skill window and select the exact recipe you need.
  • Interactive Maps: For gatherers (Mining, Herbalism, Skinning), you can instantly open customized zone maps tailored specifically to your exact leveling bracket!


    🧠 Big Brain Crafting - User Guide

    Big Brain Crafting (BBC) is a dynamic, all-in-one assistant for your WoW Professions. It combines step-by-step profession leveling guides, automated Auction House pricing, and advanced TomTom routing.

    The Main Interface

    1. Open the Addon: Click the glowing golden anvil Minimap Button or type /bbc.
    2. Select a Profession: Choose any gathering or crafting profession (e.g., Alchemy, Herbalism, Blacksmithing) from the left-hand column.
    3. View the Guide: The top-right panel will display the exact items or nodes you need to target to level up your skill brackets, along with the Zones they are located in.
    4. Check the Shopping List: The bottom-right panel automatically tallies up the total raw materials required to complete the guide steps based on your current profession bracket!

    Advanced TomTom Routing Strategy

    If you have GatherMate2 and TomTom installed, Big Brain Crafting becomes an incredible automated farming tool.

    1. Enable Routing: Ensure the "Routes (TomTom)" checkbox at the top of the window is checked.
    2. Select a Routing Strategy: Open the Options menu (the button to the right of the red 'Options' header button) and scroll to the bottom. Choose your logic:
      • Circular TSP: Builds a stable, looping circle around the zone (Best for continuous farming).
      • Clustered Sweep: Groups nodes together by region before moving you to the next region.
      • Greedy Nearest-Neighbor: Always points you to the closest single node, creating a fast straight line but often leaving you zig-zagging.
    3. Generate the Route: Click the red "Route" button next to a node grouping in the Guide panel (e.g., Peacebloom / Silverleaf). BBC will instantly calculate the best path through your GatherMate2 database and drop an active TomTom arrow on your screen pointing you exactly where to fly!
    4. Node Cooldowns: As you physically arrive at waypoints, BBC dynamically marks those nodes as "Looted" and puts them on a hidden 10-15 minute cooldown timer so it won't route you back to empty spawns until they actually respawn!

    Addon Setup Options

    Click the "Options" button at the top of the BBC frame to customize your experience.

    • Cycle Font: Instantly swaps all addon text between Friz Quadrata (Classic WoW), Arial Narrow, and Morpheus styles.
    • Cycle Theme: Swaps the background parchment textures of the UI panels (Translucent Black, Blood Red, Alliance Blue, Gold).
    • Price Source Priority: Tell Big Brain Crafting whether to prioritize TradeSkillMaster (TSM) or Auctionator API data when pricing out the raw materials in your bottom-right Shopping List. If one addon is missing data, BBC will gracefully fall back to the other!

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