Ka0s Consumable Master

Ka0s Consumable Master is an auto-managed consumable-macro addon which keeps a fixed set of account-wide macros pointed at the best consumable in your bags: thirteen categories, plus two combo macros that switch on whether you are fighting. Set your food, flask and potion macros up once. Then stop rebuilding them.

Loot something better, change spec, reload, or drop out of combat, and each macro re-points at your current best pick — the right item, or the right spell where a class ability does the job (Recuperate, for one). The macros are account-wide, so one set covers every character you have. They are matched by name rather than by slot, which means you can shuffle them around your macro list and they will keep working next to macros of your own.

English game clients only, for now. Reading how much a consumable heals, or which stats it grants, means parsing the item's tooltip in English text, so other clients aren't fully supported yet. (Item and weapon type detection already works anywhere.) Full localization is planned for a later release.

If a better pick turns up while you are in combat, the macro updates the moment you leave. WoW does not allow macro changes mid-fight.

Screenshots

Stat Priority Selector (Per Spec)

Food category macro selector

All-in-One health category macro selector

Ranking explainer

Macro bar

Usage

Install it with your addon manager, or drop the folder into Interface/AddOns, and log in. The macros are written for you on the way in: Consumable Master reads your bags, scores what it finds, and fills all fifteen. Drag them onto your action bars from the macro window, or from the small draggable icon under the title on any category tab in the settings, which is nearer to hand while you're already in there.

You don't have to give up bar space for any of this. Consumable Master ships a bar of its own that holds its macros and nothing else, and it arrives unlocked so you can put it where you want before locking it down with /cm bar lock. Every button on that bar wears a shaded strip along one edge with a small arrow on it. Hover the strip and a flyout opens listing what you can use in that category right now, best-ranked nearest the button, so the second-best flask is a hover away rather than a bag dive. Long categories are trimmed to whatever you set Maximum flyout entries to. If none of that appeals, /cm bar off.

You can overrule the ranking anywhere it gets something wrong. Each category has a tab on the Macros page showing its candidates in order: a green check on the ones you own, a yellow star on the one the macro is currently using. Grab a row by its drag handle and drop it higher to pin it above the score, or press × to block it so a later bag scan won't put it back. Every row carries a blue info button that explains why the item landed where it did, and the first time a ranking surprises you that button is the fastest way to find out you had pinned something two patches ago. Anything the addon has never heard of goes in through the add-by-ID box at the top of the tab: pick Item or Spell, then type the ID or shift-click the thing straight into the box.

Four categories move with your spec. Flask, Combat Potion, Stat Food and Weapon Enchant all read the stat order you set on the Stat Priority page, where Crit, Haste, Mastery and Versatility are one list you drag into the order you want; click a stat's green tick and it drops to the bottom block and counts as nothing at all. The spec you're editing is pinned in that page's banner, and it governs the four spec-aware tabs as well, which is worth remembering when a flask macro looks wrong right after a spec swap. Day to day, though, the macros keep themselves current. /cm resync rechecks the picks if you're impatient, and /cm rewritemacros redraws every icon for the bar addons that hang on to a stale one.

Everything else is configuration, and it lives in two places: the addon's own page under Settings → AddOns in game, and /cm (or /consumablemaster), which prints the full command list.

How picking & ranking works

Each macro is built in four steps:

1. Gather the candidates — everything in the built-in default list, anything you added by hand, and anything found in your bags, minus anything you blocked with ×.
2. Score each candidate — higher is better:
   • Food / Drink — how much it heals or restores, with a bonus for conjured items and percentage-based ones, so Midnight's %-based food beats older flat food.
   • HP / MP potions — how much they restore. An instant potion beats a heal-over-time one unless the heal-over-time total is more than 20% bigger, so a slightly larger slow heal will not win an emergency.
   • Stat Food / Combat Potion / Flask — how well it matches your spec's stat priority. Primary stat always beats secondary; among secondary stats, earlier choices count more.
   • Weapon Enchant — each equipped weapon is checked on its own. Attack Power oils and stones score highest for Strength and Agility specs, Spell Power ones for Intellect specs, since that is each spec's real throughput stat; other oils rank by your stat priority. Every enhancement is also tagged from its tooltip as bladed (whetstone), blunt (weightstone) or any (oil), and only the ones matching that hand's weapon are considered for it. So dual-wielding a sword and a mace can end up with a whetstone on one hand and a weightstone on the other. A hand that is empty, or has nothing valid to apply, is dropped from the macro. Swap weapons and the macro follows immediately, no reload.
   • Augment Rune — the rune granting the most primary stat wins. "Permanent" runes like Ethereal and Dreambound are not a longer buff, only an unconsumed one, so they win ties and nothing else. New runes are discovered from their tooltip, which means a future one works without an addon update.
   • Healthstone — a small preference for modern auto-leveling stones over old ones.
   • Spell entries — class abilities (Recuperate as a Food entry, say) score above every item, so they sit at the top by default. Pin items above them if you prefer.
3. Apply your pins — any rows you dragged into place override the score.
4. Pick the first one you have — the first item you own or spell you know. If you have none of them, clicking the macro prints a friendly [CM] no category note.

Hover the blue info button on any row to see exactly why it landed where it did.

FAQ

Troubleshooting

Issues and feature requests

Bugs, feature requests and planned work all live on GitHub: github.com/tusharsaxena/consumablemaster/issues. Please file there rather than in comments. The tracker is the project's to-do list, and a comment is not.

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