MetaCodex

From real fights, not from guides.

What the best players of your spec actually had equipped when they set their best runs — talents, gear, enchants, consumables. Measured, never guessed.

Talents

• The most common build — with its share, and the alternatives beside it
• One click loads it — a button right at the talent window
• Real strings — every one from a player's client, none computed
• Single talents — who takes what, hero trees kept apart
• Omnium Folio — which rune the best take, row by row

Rotation (beta)

• What to press, in plain sentences — "Cast Lava Burst when Master of the Elements is not active", and the filler at the end
• Cut to the measured build — the priority SimulationCraft plays, without the talents the top players skip; one per hero tree
• Single target and AoE — the AoE tab says from how many targets it applies
• Before the pull, potions & trinkets, on the move — and an example opener measured on raid pulls
• Healers measured, not simulated — what top healers cast on Warcraft Logs: single-target and group healing, cooldowns by whom they protect

Groups & specs

• M+ — the most common groups of five and the specs per role, also per dungeon
• Raid — per difficulty, how many kills a spec is in, and how many of it on average
• PvP — which specs stand among the top players of each bracket

Gear

• Popular — the five most worn pieces per slot, with share and item level
• Where it drops — every current dungeon and every raid boss with its full drop list for your spec, straight from the Adventure Guide. What was measured carries its share of top players; crafted, set, PvP and world pieces stand apart under Elsewhere
• Favourites — a click marks a piece, per character and spec, and a line says where most of yours drop
• Already yours — a green tick on everything you wear or carry, in bags, bank, reagent or warband bank
• Highlighting — favourites gold, most worn per slot purple, matching stats turquoise, with a legend above the list
• Your keystone — every tooltip shows the item at the level you would get
• Tier set — this season's, and no other
• Crafted gear — with its stat pair and its crafting tier
• Embellishments — counted as a pair, because you wear two

In the tooltip

• Also worn by — which other specs wear this piece, with their share and the activity it was measured in. The answer to every warbound drop: is this good for one of my other characters? Shift shows all of them
• Stats fit — for pieces no measurement covers, a delve drop or a world drop: whose two highest measured stats are exactly the ones on it
• Both appear only where the piece can still reach another character — warbound, bind on equip, unbound, or still inside its trade window
• Silent where the answer would be a guess: a trinket is its effect, not its stats, and nobody here measures effects

In the dungeon

• "Favourite dropped!" — when a piece you marked drops for someone else, a small window says what it was and who got it
• One click whispers them and asks to trade. During a boss fight the game blocks that; the whisper goes out by itself once it is over
• MetaCodex stays closed in your own combat and opens again after

Before you go in

• Enchants and gems — per slot, checked against what is really on your gear
• Consumables — tell it which one you use, set your own target
• The reminder — chat line, own window, raid warning, sound
• Shopping list — beside the auction house, with the quantity per item
• Auctionator — one click hands it over

And

• Stat targets — medians, with your own values beside them, and the diminishing-returns thresholds marked where your rating is past one
• Races — which race the best of your spec play, and what a race is worth in damage: played from raider.io, simulated from bloodmallet, one list across both factions
• Top players — their gear, their enchants, their string
• Guides — linked where they were written: Wowhead, Method, Archon, murlok

Ten activities, four platforms

M+ (High Keys), M+ (+7 to +21), raid in three difficulties, 2v2, 3v3, Solo Shuffle, RBG, RBG Blitz.

From raider.io, murlok.io, Warcraft Logs and Battle.net — one at a time or together. The rotation comes from SimulationCraft, the race simulations from bloodmallet.com — the only simulated parts, and they say so.

What it does not do

• It does not guess. Where a number is missing, none is shown. Where one is shown, the line under it says which platform, when, and from how many measurements.
• It does not round into a claim. 100 % only when it really is all of them, 0 % only when it really is none.
• It downloads nothing. All data ship with the addon. Only ids are stored — names and icons come from your client, so every line is right on any language client.
• It is not a BiS list. Four medians side by side are nobody's build. An addon that measures can say what people carry; it cannot say what is optimal, and it does not pretend to.

Good to know

English, German and Simplified Chinese. The interface follows your client; /mc lang de|en|zh|auto overrides it.

Auctionator is optional. Without it everything still works — only the handover to the auction house is missing.

Four ways in: the minimap button, the icon on the character frame, /mc, and the addon compartment. Every switch sits under Settings → Features.

The catalog is generated from the game's own DB2 tables. The recommendations are rebuilt from the four platforms once a night; under "Info" the window says when each last measured.