Craftwise

Are you Craftwise??™

Welcome to Craftwise, a profession and recipe reference companion for World of Warcraft: Forever, bringing crafting materials, recipes, profession requirements, and acquisition information together in one convenient place!

Inspired by the much-missed TradeSkillInfo addon, Craftwise is a spiritual successor with its own features, newly coded from scratch. Many addons do parts of what TradeSkillInfo did, but no current addon does them all. That's why Craftwise was created—to bring back an all-in-one tradeskill suite!

Whether you're wondering which profession needs that stack of mageweave, when you'll finally learn that next recipe, or where to track down an elusive pattern, Craftwise is here to help!

Features

Crafting Material Tooltips

Craftwise adds useful information to crafting material tooltips, including:

• Every profession that uses the material, with its Blizzard profession icon
• The number of cataloged recipes using that material for each profession
• Characters with relevant professions, identified by name and ruleset

No more wondering which profession can use those mysterious reagents or valuable crafting supplies!

Recipe Browser

Browse approximately 2,510 recipes, including recipes your character hasn't learned yet.

• Search recipes by name and profession
• Filter by All, Learned, Not Learned, estimated skill eligibility, or higher-skill requirements
• Sort by required skill (ascending or descending) or alphabetically (A–Z or Z–A)
• View recipes grouped by skill requirement, with ascending skill as the default
• Examine materials, quantities, and orange/yellow/green/gray skill thresholds
• See actual in-game item icons beside recipe materials
• Check available inventory quantities and recorded bank contents

Bank quantities are saved snapshots from your character's last bank visit and may not reflect subsequent changes.

How to Learn

Finding a recipe is often half the adventure. Craftwise's How to Learn section helps with the other half.

Depending on the available information, recipes may include:

• Profession trainers and vendors
• Quest rewards, creature drops, and other acquisition methods
• Individual NPC names and their known zones, cities, towns, or regions
• Clear identification of unknown locations or unverified sources

Multiple known NPCs are listed together.

A note about accuracy: Craftwise combines WoW Forever observations with historical Classic references. Since not every recipe or acquisition source has been verified in Forever, historical and undocumented information is identified accordingly. Some cataloged recipes may not currently be obtainable.

Two Ways to Browse

Craftwise offers two interfaces, both using the same recipe catalog.

Floating Recipe Browser

• Movable and resizable window
• Adjustable font size and optional automatic text scaling
• Window locking, with Shift-drag and Shift-resize support
• Saved window size, position, and preferences

Integrated Professions Tab

• Adds a Craftwise tab to Forever's native Professions window
• Provides recipe searching, filtering, sorting, and detailed information
• Features independently adjustable font sizing

Either interface can be enabled independently, or both can be used together.

Character Awareness

Craftwise records profession and recipe information discovered while playing your characters.

Tooltips identify which of your characters have relevant professions, while recipe filters help distinguish learned and unlearned recipes.

Characters must log in and have their professions inspected before Craftwise can record their information.

Minimap Button and Options

Craftwise includes a custom gold C minimap button.

• Left-click: Open or close the floating recipe browser
• Right-click: Open Craftwise's settings
• Drag: Reposition the button where supported

Compatible minimap-button management addons, including Leatrix Plus, can also manage the button.

Additional options include independent interface controls, window locking, automatic font scaling, and separate font-size adjustments for the floating browser, integrated tab, and Craftwise-added tooltip text.

Slash Commands

• /cw — Open or close the floating browser
• /cw options — Open Craftwise settings
• /cw status — Display recipe database information
• /cw resetpos — Reset the floating browser's size and position

Standalone and Offline

Craftwise includes its own bundled recipe and acquisition database. No additional database addons or external services are required.

The recipe catalog is based on WoW Forever client data, supplemented by appropriately licensed acquisition observations and selected historical references.

Craftwise is a reference addon, not a profession leveling guide, auction-house utility, waypoint system, or automatic crafting assistant.

Happy crafting! May your recipes be plentiful, your reagents useful, and your bags occasionally have an empty slot.

Compatibility

Developed for WoW Forever. Future game updates may change recipes, trainers, vendors, or other profession information.

Credits and Licensing

Craftwise is an independently developed addon. Its original implementation is All Rights Reserved.

Special thanks to the following projects for the licensed data used in Craftwise's bundled reference catalog:

• LibProfessionDB v1.9.1 — Pimptasty: Recipe and profession data, licensed under MIT.
  https://github.com/Pimptasty/ProfessionDB

• Efficient Games — WoW Forever Data: Forever-observed trainer, vendor, NPC, and location information, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  https://github.com/JIVESCORP/eg-link-output-wowf

The bundled third-party data retains its respective license terms. Required notices, source credits, and transformation details are included in Craftwise's attribution and licensing files.