HoverIlvl

Hover any player. See their item level instantly in the tooltip.

A lightweight addon for World of Warcraft Retail (Midnight) that adds a colored Item Level line to player tooltips, with a persistent cache so known players show up with zero delay.

Features

Tooltip ilvl on hover — a colored Item Level: NNN line is added to any player's tooltip
Quality-colored — the number is colored relative to your own ilvl: orange (much higher), purple (on par), blue/green/white (lower)
Persistent cache — known players' item levels survive logout/relog (default 7 days, configurable)
Optional group/raid panel — floating list of every party/raid member with their ilvl. Hidden by default, class-colored, draggable, lockable
Settings panel — integrated into Interface options, also reachable via slash commands
Server-friendly — throttled inspect with dedupe and round-robin polling, calls ClearInspectPlayer so it plays nice with other inspect addons (Examiner, InspectEquip, …)

Slash commands

/hoverilvl       Open the settings panel
/hilvl           Same (short alias)
/hilvl show      Show the group/raid panel
/hilvl hide      Hide the group/raid panel
/hilvl reset     Clear the cached item levels

Color scale

The ilvl number is colored by the difference against your own item level:

Difference	Color
`+10` or more	Orange (legendary)
`0` to `+9`	Purple (epic)
`-1` to `-10`	Blue (rare)
`-11` to `-20`	Green (uncommon)
`-21` or less	White (common)

Installation

CurseForge / WowUp / Wago — search for HoverIlvl (recommended)
Manual — copy the HoverIlvl folder into World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\

Limitations

These are client-side limits, not addon bugs:

Limit	Reason
Only same-faction / same-group players	Blizzard's `CanInspect` blocks the rest
~0.3–1 s on the first hover	Server inspect roundtrip
No data in arenas vs. enemies	`CanInspect` is disabled
Hostile NPCs in dungeons skipped	Their GUID is hidden by anti-cheat (graceful no-op)

Supported version

Retail — Midnight (Interface 12.0.7+).

Support development

HoverIlvl is free and always will be. If it saves you time and you want to say thanks, a coffee is appreciated: