HonorSpy addon for WoW: Classic
Addon helps players estimate their PvP next week rank and overall progress.
It uses the exact formulaes as game server does, the only difference is that it operates on the database collected by players themselves. The final result is pretty close to what you get in reality, as the database is collected by all addon users and is synced instantly across other players.
Known Problems
- Reset Day Is Wrong: I'm playing on EU server, but HonorSpy resets on Tuesday instead of Wednesday: its because your client thinks you are in US. Check your WoW Classic Folder > WTF > Config file, it should have
SET portal "EU", not "US". - I'm Not In the Table -or- My Table Is Empty, even though I Have > 15 Kills!!!: its because its reset day, and you have 0 honor during this whole day. Everyone have 0 honor! Check your Honor tab, line "This week honor". Come back tomorrow, when honor is updated for everyone and the table will start populating with content.
How it works
Addon does all the magic in background.
- addon inspects every player you meet (you should mouseover the player or target him, in inspect range), stores his PvP data in your local database, send this info to other addon users
- occasionally, when you die, you broadcast your whole database to other users. It works other way around, so you get the most recent database from every other player when they die, and merge it into your database.
- data is synced across "RAID", "BATTLEGROUND" and "GUILD" channels, so when you play on BGs you transmit and receive data from your teammates. And all the time you exchange your data with your guildmates.
Right click on minimap icon to estimate your progress without opening the addon window.
Install
You have three options: - Use Twitch app to install this addon. Just search for 'honorspy' in Mods section of the app. - Download directly from Curseforge https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/honorspy - Download latest release from Github (https://github.com/kakysha/HonorSpy/releases/latest), unzip and put it in Interface/Addons folder, relaunch WoW.
About
- Estimates your honor during the day
- Calculates diminishing returns after each kill, prints into chat real honor gained and number of kills for every victim
- It inspects every player in 'inspect range' which you target or mouseover
- It syncs your db with other party/raid/bg members and your guildmates on your death
- It can estimate your (or specific player) onward RP, Rank and Progress, taking into account your (player's) standing and pool size
- It can export your internal DB in CSV format to copy-paste it into Google Spreadsheets for future calculations. Spreadsheet done specially for HonorSpy, it will estimate RP for all players
- It supports automatic weekly pvp reset.
- Supports sorting by Rank, Honor and last week Standing.
- Groups players in table by brackets
- Esc → Interface Options → Addons → HonorSpy for addon settings.
It only stores players with >15HKs.
P.S. Do not be afraid of losing all your data, very likely that other players with HonorSpy will push you their database very soon. The more players use and collect data -> the more up-to-date data you will have. Magic of sync.
Commands
/hs show -> show/hide standings table
/hs search player_name -> report specific player's standing
Screenshot
Reset Day Is Wrong: I'm playing on EU server, but HonorSpy resets on Tuesday instead of Wednesday: its because your client thinks you are in US. Check your WoW Classic Folder > WTF > Config file, it should have
SET portal "EU", not "US".I play on EU server but in mentioned config file I have "test" not "US" -> should I rewrite it to "EU"?
are you fucking kidding me.. what a bullshit addon.. its so not accurate!!!
In reply to sorcydk:
Its only as accurate as everyone attempts to inspect/play with eachother to sync up. The top brackets (Bracket 14/13/12) are fairly accurate if you have high set caps for the rankers. As they usually play with eachother and they are constantly sync'd which is really the main purpose of this addon on most servers and trying to pick up as many as they can to 'ballpark' how many they can stack in each bracket. If you barely play, play solo, never go around mousing over people, and dont have a lot of people running the addon on your server it wont be accurate.
Inbetween queues after a daily rollover of honor I try to manually update by running through IF/SW and get HonorSpy going by Mouseover/Targetting people. How long should I stand on top of people targetting/mouseover for HonorSpy to update/collect their data?
Is something wrong? It said I made 18k honor this morning now it says 0
Curious, why is HonorSpy adding people to my friend's list without my approval? What is it testing? If this is a feature of the addon, I think it should be noted so on the addon page so people don't freak out about random people on their friends list.
It's testing for player existence, to eliminate fake data. Should be noted probably, ye.
In reply to kakysha:
I always wondered this as well. Thank you for the response!
I'm in the U.S. and yes my portal is set to that however once again it's Thursday and I can't tell anything because it shows a pool size of 5. Been that way for days and yes I've been grinding AV so I've got plenty of kills. What do I do?
Is there any way to add syncing through a custom channel? For instance I would like to start having 'serious/semi-serious' pvp'ers that dont particularly play with eachother on the server but want more accurate data shared through the channel as we pvp within different groups or solo. Could have the channel in the bg syncing when we die and whatnot just to this channel?
In reply to gudder:
It used to be able to sync through a custom channel but Blizzard disabled it. Entire server was syncing through 1 channel and it was causing insane chat lag, remember? It wasn't long ago.
One other feature request: Could you please display HKs alongside Honor? It would make it far easier to identify bots like this one with 6 HKs and 77k honor:
Would it be possible to remove the bracket displays and rank predictions, please?
Not your fault, but since the channel was broken by Blizzard the poolsize is always a lot lower than the actual pool size and this makes what HonorSpy displays very inaccurate.
Last week was the worst for this I've seen. Final pool size on my HonorSpy on Tuesday was 1940 and actual pool size was 3700+.
This leads to the brackets looking a lot smaller than they really are, which makes people panic because it looks like others are breaking brackets.
My data keeps purging at 16:00 on a Tuesday but I'm in the EU. How can I fix this? I have the latest version.
Read the description above?
Is there a way to prioritize player driven inspections over the Addon? It's pretty annoying to have to try to inspect someone 8+ times in a highly populated area because the Addon is in the background gathering data from other targets, it would be nice if it prioritized or stopped whatever it was doing when a player attempted an inspection of another player, then gathered other data in the background.
Here's a thread of some other people running into the same issue https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/inspect-not-working-takes-8-inspect-for-it-to-finally-open/372379/2
Yep, there is a way to stop addon inspections. But it will only can be started after first manual inspection, so you will have to wait couple of seconds after first attempt anyway, to wait for server throttling to allow next inspect call.
No way to prioritize one API call over another. Its a server-side limits for number of inspect calls.
I played like 15h of AV yesterday, i made over 100k Honor. Today it is saying I made 35k. wut?
I changed that line in LUA and still sync fine with others, the honor count is more accurate. Thanks!
Actually this calculation is irrelevant for the sync, because it is synchronozing only real honor gained till "yesterday", it does not sync today's estimations, so fixing it for yourself is a good way to estimate your today's honor in total.