GearSense

Your role. Your next upgrade. Built for Classic Era.

Choose DPS, Tank or Healer and see gear recommendations for that role throughout the addon. GearSense keeps the original WoW look: Classic borders, gold lettering, red buttons and native item tooltips.

Classic Era 1.15.9 · All nine original classes · Client-language localization

Choose your role on first login

The setup assistant requires a deliberate choice from the roles available to your class. Recommendations begin after selection. Updating from the former damage-only policy asks you to choose once again while preserving other settings. Talent changes never overwrite your choice; change it in GearSense or the game's AddOns settings.

• DPS: relevant damage, followed by regeneration, mana, health and defense.
• Tank: physical survivability from health, armor and avoidance, followed by shield protection, damage as a threat proxy, regeneration and mana.
• Healer: a healing reference value from bonus healing and spell crit, followed by mana regeneration, mana pool, health and defense.

Later criteria decide ties in earlier criteria. Hunters prioritize ranged offense; healers do not rank spell damage above healing. One shared engine supplies tooltips, arrows, bag recommendations, Optimize, auction searches and loot notices.

Bold upgrades, familiar tooltips

Large transparent arrows show upgrades, downgrades or equal modeled value. Upgrades gain a bold gold frame, bright corners and a broad gold pulse. Marks follow the actual item icon, clear on reuse and never intercept clicks. Extra animation pauses in combat.

The original tooltip stays compact: a large signed percentage where meaningful, Equip / Keep equipped, then direct green/red stat changes with icons. Rings, trinkets and one-handed weapons identify the chosen slot when needed. Restricted items retain the specific reason and a hypothetical preview.

Blizzard's equipped-item comparison appears immediately for cached items, including the TSM tooltip timing fix. No replacement character screen and no separate floating comparison window.

A glowing notice for better drops

An extra Need: upgrade notice appears beside a group-roll frame only for a usable modeled upgrade when the game permits Need. Ordinary loot rows show a compact positive notice. Equal, worse, restricted or incomplete-baseline items receive no extra notice. You always choose the roll; GearSense never rolls automatically.

Last-known BoE prices on icons

BoE equipment can show a compact saved auction price above its icon, including items your class cannot use. Auctionator's last scanned per-item buyout is preferred; TSM's realm DBMinBuyout snapshot is the fallback. No market average, regional average or vendor value is substituted. No data means no price label.

Gold, silver and copper use matching coin symbols; short labels round down. This is a stored asking price, not a live quote or promised sale. Existing equipped items and bag instances identified as bound are excluded. In catalog views without binding information, the price describes the BoE item type rather than proving a particular copy is tradeable. If both providers have data, the stated preference order applies; their timestamps cannot reliably establish which is newer.

Toggle BoE prices on item icons in settings. The feature starts no scan or purchase, and a pricing addon is optional.

Optimize your bags and search the auction house

Optimize in the normal character window applies eligible direct bag upgrades one at a time, rechecking after every change. Rings and trinkets are tested in both slots; weapons respect proficiency, legal hands and dual-wield rules. Two-hand comparisons account for both removed items. This is successive improvement, not an exhaustive global loadout search.

Combat, an occupied cursor, transaction windows or confirmation dialogs stop optimization. Binding/refund uncertainty, incomplete effects and swaps needing another hand cleared remain manual. Nothing is discarded, and binding dialogs are never accepted automatically.

At an auctioneer, the GearSense tab searches upgrades for a slot within your budget, up to 20 pages / 1,000 offers while respecting the game's throttle. Buyouts require your explicit click and confirmation. Role changes invalidate earlier recommendations.

Supported views and languages

Adapters cover Blizzard bags, bank, inspect, loot, rolls, auctions, vendors, quests, crafting, mail and trade, plus Bagnon and AtlasLootClassic. Other replacement interfaces may need an adapter. Uncached item data must arrive from the game first.

Fully exit and restart WoW after installing 0.10.0. Open /gs, the minimap icon or Settings → AddOns → GearSense. /gs wizard reopens setup; /gs character opens the normal character window; /gs compare toggles equipped comparisons; /gs ah opens search at an auctioneer.

The client selects English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese. enGB/esMX share the English/Spanish catalogs. Unknown client languages fall back to English. The internal folder remains KlarGear to preserve preferences.

What the numbers mean

The percentage compares the decisive modeled character metric with its current baseline. Tank uses expected physical survivability against a same-level melee attacker; healing uses a common 3.5-second bonus-healing/crit reference. DPS retains the basic-attack or spell reference model. Resource tie-breaks use corresponding totals. Missing/zero baselines, regeneration tie-breaks and tiny rounded changes use text rather than invented percentages.

This is a consistent gear model, not a full combat simulation. Rotations, individual talent multipliers, pets, poisons, enemy-specific values, caps, school-specific bonuses, procs, enchants and set effects are not fully simulated. Bear Form/armor talents and first-shield block baselines have partial coverage and remain manual for optimization. Spirit mana recovery models the five-second rule, not uninterrupted casting. Included README and STAT-DATA files explain formulas and sources. The setup assistant explains estimates once; ordinary tooltips do not repeat it.

Beta status

Lua 5.1 syntax and stateful API checks cover roles, class/weapon rules, tooltip timing, the installed TSM wrapper, loot, price providers, icons, auction flow, optimization and localization. Gallery images are labeled rendered previews, not live-game screenshots. A live-client playtest, taint check and performance check remain necessary.

Target: Classic Era 1.15.9 / Interface 11509. Retail and progression Classic are not supported. License: MIT.