NOVA Gearbound

Your Gear. Your Way.

Stop guessing. Know what's actually an upgrade, for every spec you play.

NOVA Gearbound is the gear brain for World of Warcraft: Forever (beta, levels 1-30). Pick a main spec, switch on your offspecs, and every item you hold, loot or wear is scored for each of them, right in the tooltip.

Most gear addons judge an item for one spec and stop. NOVA builds the best gear set for each spec you play, and tells you when something you just looted beats what you already own for your offspec.

See it at a glance

• Upgrade or downgrade, per spec. Hover any item. You get a clear verdict for your main spec and every offspec, with the percent change. Hold Shift for the full stat breakdown.
• Offspec "Best Owned". Your offspec is judged against the best gear you already own for it. A first shield is an upgrade, and a worse second shield is a downgrade, without you equipping both to find out.
• Best Gear. The strongest setup from what you wear and carry, per spec, with suggested enchants. Shield classes plan Protection and Holy around a one-hander and shield.
• Gear Goals. Worthwhile upgrades for each spec, from quests, dungeons, vendors and crafts. An item must beat what you already have. BoE and auction house drops and easy crafts are left out so the list stays real.
• Talent Calculator. All nine classes, three trees each, laid out like the game with real talent icons. It shows a rough estimate of how much your build adds, with a per-talent breakdown.
• Your weights, your rules. Every spec has its own stat priorities, and you can edit them or build custom profiles.

Quick start

1. Open NOVA Gearbound and choose one Main spec.
2. Toggle any Secondary specs you also play.
3. Hover items in your bags, on loot rolls and on vendors. Check Best Gear and Gear Goals for what to chase next.

Good to know

• This is an early beta. Priorities are estimates and will improve with your reports.
• Everything is an estimate, not a simulation. Talent power does not count mana, hit or utility talents.
• School-damage items only count when the matching talents are chosen and the item raises your overall damage.
• Levels 1-9 use simple pre-spec priorities.
• Bank gear counts after you open your bank once (Best Available mode).

Coming next

A levels 1-60 version is planned after the beta.

Found a problem?

Please report it with a screenshot, and paste any Lua error. Every report makes the weights better.

Gear and acquisition data come from the sources listed in DATA-NOTICES.md (ForeverDB, CMaNGOS classic-db, Forever Atlas, sixtyforever.com, and the Wowhead Forever talent calculator for talent layouts). World of Warcraft and related names are Blizzard Entertainment trademarks. NOVA Gearbound is independent.