MeierHelpers

Small helpers for everyday WoW - one settings window, one look, one positioning mode.

📸 Want to see it first? Every module has screenshots in the Gallery tab at the top of this page.

Highlights

• Mobs to level - how many kills until your next level, and how long that takes at your pace.
• An XP bar that knows more - XP from finished quests on the bar, level-up time, XP per hour, time played. Plus a reputation bar with kills and time to the next standing.
• Fishing tracker with its own fishing log - your skill against what the spot needs, every catch saved with spot, session and coordinates, quiet sounds while you fish - and one key to cast and to hook the catch.
• Loot tracker with drop chances - every kill and its loot saved per mob, zone and item, what a kill is worth, and the top loot of a mob right in its tooltip.
• Gathering log - what every herb, deposit and skinned mob yields per gather and what it's worth: how many Arcane Crystals hide in Thorium veins, which mobs to skin for which leather.
• Level log - where and how you leveled: XP per level and zone, split into open world, dungeons and quests, the exact time played on every level and your deaths.
• Gold tracker - every gold transaction sorted into categories, per character and for the whole account: what you earn your gold with and what you spend it on. Plus your net worth (gold + bags) and a gold goal with a forecast.
• Dungeon runs (beta) - leave a dungeon and see what the run brought: time, gold, XP, kills, deaths and loot - every run kept in a dungeon log.
• Share your logs - export them as text, import a friend's, without counting anything twice.
• Bag value - what your bags are worth at the vendor and in the auction house (Auctionator) and a one-click button that deletes your cheapest junk.
• "Not worth the AH" symbol - items the vendor pays about as much for get a small mark in your bags: in Blizzard's bags, Baganator and EllesmereUI Bags.
• /way in WoW Forever - /way 36.3, 27.6 puts a pin on your map, so the /way lines from guides and websites just work - with an arrow that points to the pin and shows the distance. Plus selling junk and repairing at the vendor, if you want it.
• Notepad - notes for your account or one character, with fonts, sizes, colors, bold and italic for single words, bullet points with indent levels and checklists to tick off.
• Smaller chat bubbles - your font size and your look.
• Fewer numbers - no hit numbers on your portraits, and the combat text switches Blizzard took out of the options.
• All in one place - one settings window, one look for every window, tooltip and menu, one positioning mode with grid and snapping.

Modules

Every module is its own addon. Switch off what you don't need - right away, no reload.

MeierHelpers (core)

• Settings window: a tab bar per module and the options in two columns. Switch modules on or off right in the list on the left, resize the window at the top right.
• One look: accent and label colors, font, outline, background, border, bar texture and scale apply to every window, tooltip and menu. SharedMedia fonts and textures included.
• Positioning mode: grid, snapping, guide lines, arrow keys for the last pixel.
• Minimap button: left-click settings, right-click a menu with every log, Shift + right-click positioning mode.
• What's new: after an update with new features, a small window tells you once - on one character, not on every one. News in the settings keeps every note as a log.

MeierHelpers Level

A slim window with the kills left until your next level, the time at your current kill pace, your average XP per kill and your XP bar with the rested marker.

• Only real kills count - in every client language. Breaks don't spoil the pace.
• Knows that rested XP runs out before your level-up.
• Hides at max level.

MeierHelpers Bars

An experience bar with rested XP and - in orange - the XP of quests you only need to hand in.

• On the bar: level, XP and percentage. Above it: time on this level, this session, played. Below it: level-up time, XP per hour, finished quests and rested XP.
• Every text optional; width, height, colors and backgrounds are up to you. Hides Blizzard's XP and reputation bars (switchable).
• One switch moves the Level line into the bar - then you see both level-up times.
• Reputation bar (off by default) for the faction you watch: standing, what's missing, about how many kills that is and how long it takes at your pace.

MeierHelpers Trackers

Small trackers with their own logs - all on by default, each with its own switch.

Fishing - equip a fishing pole and a window shows your skill (with the bonus from pole, lure and food), what the spot needs - from when you can fish there and from when no fish gets away, in red, yellow or green - and the fish of this session.

• Fishing log: every fish and where it bites best, every spot with its totals, every session with date and coordinates. Show on map sets a waypoint (TomTom supported).
• Skill needed: both values from a zone table, plus what the game reveals - Requires Fishing messages and fish that got away.
• Quiet while fishing: music, ambience and dialog go quiet while the pole is in your hand, effects go to full volume. Your sound settings come back afterwards.
• Fishing with one key: one key casts, and while the line is out the same key hooks the catch (Blizzard's soft interact targets the bobber), with automatic looting. Choose the key in the settings or the key bindings - or drop the MH Fishing macro on any action bar.

Loot - every kill and everything the mob drops, saved per mob.

• Loot log: mobs grouped by zone with level range (e.g. 11-13), drop chances and value per kill, zones, items - and where you last killed a mob.
• Top loot in the tooltip: point at a mob and see its most looted items with the drop chance per kill, its average money and value, in a font size of their own - with the standard UI and with EllesmereUI.
• Quest items stay out unless you switch them on, and it records while you play alone - group loot rules would skew the chances, so groups are optional.

Gathering - herbalism, mining and skinning: what each plant, deposit and skinned mob yields per gather.

• Gathering log: herbs, deposits and skinned mobs grouped by zone, each with its average yield, its value and the chance for every item - and for every item, where you get the most of it.
• Skill needed for every herb and deposit, colored like in the profession window.
• Pick which of the three professions are recorded.

Leveling - where and how each character levels.

• Level log: every level with its time and main zone, every zone and dungeon with its XP - split into mobs in the open world, mobs in dungeons, quests and the rest.
• Time per level from /played - exact, even if you switch the tracker on in the middle of a level - plus the real time from level-up to level-up, and your deaths per level and zone.

Gold - every gold transaction with its category, per character and account-wide.

• Categories: loot (mobs, chests, fishing, group share), vendor, quests, auction house, mail, trades, repairs, trainers, flight masters and more. Gold between your own characters is a transfer, not income. Auction house sales are split like their invoice: sale price, deposit returned and the auction house's cut. Deposits and purchases show their item.
• Gold window: compact (your gold, the session, gold per hour) or detailed with income, expenses, transfers and the latest transactions - you choose what it shows. One click switches between the two.
• Gold log (/mhgold): categories for today, 7 days, 30 days and in total, every character, every day and the latest transactions - pick a period for them.
• Auction house, item by item: auctions posted, sold and not sold, the share that failed, sales, cut, lost deposits and your profit - and how much more than the vendor it brought. Grouped into The vendor pays more and Worth the auction house, with the share sold for every duration and every day you posted.
• Compare yourself: pick a period (from - to) and see only the auctions you posted on those days, with everything that came of them - the total stays on top.
• Net worth: gold plus the value of your bags (with BagValue), per character and for the account.
• Gold goal: save up for something - the window shows how far you are and how many days it takes at your pace.

Dungeons (beta) - every dungeon and raid run, from entering to leaving. Still being tested.

• Summary when you leave: time, gold (by category), experience, kills, deaths and loot with its value and the rare items - keep it or discard it.
• Dungeon log (/mhd): every run by character, every dungeon with its averages and its best run.

For all logs

• A search field in every log, and the details on the right scroll when they're long.
• Groups fold away: click a heading - a character, a zone - to collapse its lines, shift-click for all of them.
• Data tab: how much room each log takes, cleaning up old entries by rules (also at login, if you want), and exchanging logs with friends as text.

MeierHelpers BagValue

A bar with the vendor value of your bags and, with Auctionator, their auction value.

• Click the bar for the item list: sortable by every column, leave single items out.
• Trash button: deletes the cheapest grey stack - never quest items or what you left out.
• AH symbol (on): a small prohibition sign on items that aren't worth the auction house - after its 5% cut, the deposits of auctions that don't sell (at least 1 silver each) and the postage to your bank alt, worked out per stack. Set how long you list and how often your auctions sell; color and size are up to you. Works in Blizzard's bags and bank, in Baganator (as a corner widget) and in EllesmereUI Bags.

MeierHelpers Bubbles

• Smaller chat bubble text in the font of your choice, in instances too.
• Outside instances: bubbles in your own look, per channel.
• Optional: no chat bubbles in instances.

MeierHelpers Numbers

• No damage and healing numbers on your player and pet portraits.
• Floating combat text switches that are no longer in Blizzard's options.
• Pet frame text size.

MeierHelpers QoL

Small helpers that don't fit anywhere else, each with its own switch.

• /way (on by default): /way 36.3, 27.6 or /way #1429 41.6 65.4 puts a pin on the map and tracks it - WoW Forever has no /way of its own. If the game or another addon brings one, MeierHelpers leaves it to them.
• Arrow to the pin (on by default): points to your map pin with the distance below - for every pin, movable, with its own arrow size and font size. Removes the pin when you arrive.
• At the vendor (both off by default): sell all grey items - never quest items or what you left out in BagValue's item list - and repair your gear.

MeierHelpers Notepad

Notes in the game - for the whole account or only for one character.

• Write in the formatted text: select words and give them their own font, size, color, bold, italic, underline or strikethrough - toolbar or Ctrl+B / I / U. Align paragraphs left, centered or right.
• Bullet points and checklists like in Word: Tab indents, Shift+Tab outdents, Enter continues the list. Tick a box and the item is struck through.
• Copy and paste keep the formatting between notes; undo and redo with Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y.
• Fonts from the game and SharedMedia - bold and italic use the font's own bold and italic versions (e.g. Roboto-Bold, Roboto-Italic).
• Your notes: a list with account and character notes, rename, sort, move, a trash for the last 20 deleted notes, a compact view with only the text.
• Open it with /mhn (macros too), a key binding or its own minimap icon (right-click: your notes, hide the icon).

Usage

Almost everything works with a click - it all starts at the minimap button:

• Left-click: the settings window with every module and option.
• Right-click: a menu with every log.
• Shift + right-click: positioning mode - move every window, with grid and snapping.

Drag the button along the edge of the minimap to move it. The addon compartment reacts to the same clicks, so you can also hide the button (settings, General).

The only command you need: /way

Coordinates have no button - type or paste the /way lines from guides and websites into the chat:

• /way 36.3, 27.6 - a pin on the map of the zone you're in. First x, then y.
• /way #1429 41.6 65.4 - a pin in another zone, by its map ID.
• Anything after the numbers names the pin: /way 36.3, 27.6 Meeting point.

The arrow then points to the pin and shows the distance.

Optional commands

Each of these does the same as a click - a shortcut if you like typing.

Good to know

• Made for WoW Forever (interface 16001), also runs on Retail (12.1.0).
• The download contains every module; only MeierHelpers (core) is required.
• Settings, window positions and all logs are account-wide (the level log per character inside it); the Level statistics are per character.
• No embedded libraries. SharedMedia, Auctionator, TomTom, Baganator and EllesmereUI are optional.
• Lightweight: everything reacts to game events, nothing runs while you don't use it.
• English · Deutsch - anything not translated falls back to English.
• MIT licensed - use it, change it, share it.

Credits

• MeierHelpers Bars is based on the idea and layout of the Easy Experience Bar - visual design by Luxthos, original code by Daemoos. The code in MeierHelpers is written from scratch.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome - please describe what you did and what you expected to see.