Patron Planner: Better View Of Patron Orders

See which crafting orders are worth doing, at a glance, and work through them from one queue. Blizzard's Patron tab is a plain list: to know whether an order is worth it you open each one, check the materials, look up prices and guess. Patron Planner turns the list into cards that answer that straight away.

• Profit up front: the reward, what you'd spend on materials and the profit on every order.
• Quality reach: whether the cheapest materials reach the quality the patron wants, or whether it needs concentration, better materials or can't be done yet.
• Best pick: the most profitable order you can actually craft is marked for you.
• Filters and sorting: one click for the orders you can craft, the profitable ones, the ones that don't need concentration, the ones you can do without buying anything, or the ones with knowledge and other bonus rewards.
• What you already own: materials in your bags, banks and warband bank are counted, so you see what's left to buy and which orders need nothing bought at all.
• Gold per concentration: spend your concentration on the orders that pay best for it, and set what a point is worth to you so it comes off the profit.
• Moxie counted: give Moxie a gold value and it's added to the reward. Reward items are valued after the AH cut.
• Every order tab: Patron, Personal, Guild and Public, with the customer and their note on personal orders and your public claims left.
• Order queue: queue the orders you want, then Claim, Craft and Hand in from a panel beside the profession window. Next does the next step, so a whole queue goes by one button, crafted with the planned materials.
• Shopping list: what the queue still needs, counted once, with prices. Send it to Auction Coach or Auctionator in one click.
• Knowledge: what each profession can still earn this week, knowledge items waiting in your bags, the one-time treasures with waypoints, unspent points, and all your characters at a glance, with Hide completed to show only what's left, catch-up knowledge, folding professions, and a pin to keep it open.
• Minimap button for the options, the shopping list, knowledge and the queue.
• Unlearned recipes sit at the bottom, greyed out, with how to learn them.
• Your choice: switch back to Blizzard's list with one button at any time.

No setup. Open Crafting Orders, pick a tab, and the cards are there.

A Card for Every Order
Each card shows the item, the profit in large print, the quality the patron asked for and how you can reach it, and how long the order has left: amber under 6 hours, red under 2. Underneath: the materials you'd supply with their quality and cost, and the reward gold and items. A coloured edge sums it up: green for a good order, amber when it needs concentration or better materials, red for a loss or a quality you can't reach, grey for recipes you don't know.

Everything Above the Cards
A summary bar shows how many orders there are, how many you can craft, the total profit on offer and how much concentration you have. Filter with All, Can craft, Profitable, No concentration, Nothing to buy, Bonus rewards or Unlearned, each with a count, and sort by Best, Profit, Per concentration, Reward or Time left.

The Full Breakdown on Hover
Hover a card to see where the numbers come from: each reward item and its value, each material you supply and its cost, the profit, the quality needed and how much concentration it takes against what you have. Hold Shift for the item's own tooltip, and click the card to open the order as usual.

The Order Queue
Press + on a card (or right-click it) to queue it, or Queue all for every profitable order on the board; chat says why any were left out. The queue sits beside the profession window with a button per order: Claim, Craft, Hand in. Craft uses the planned materials and concentration, checks the quality just before crafting, and tells you when you're short of materials or away from your crafting table. Next does the next step for you.

Shopping List
Everything the queued orders still need, counted once across the queue, with what you have and what it costs. It opens anywhere, the Auction House included. With Auction Coach, one click adds it to Auction Coach's shopping list, which tells you when each item is listed cheaply. With Auctionator, one click makes an Auctionator shopping list.

New: Knowledge
The Knowledge button above the cards opens a list for every Midnight crafting and gathering profession on your character. This week: the Thalassian Treatise, your trainer's weekly quest, the weekly treasure drops, the gathering and disenchanting drops with how many you've had, and the Darkmoon Faire quest while the Faire is on, with the points left this week. Anything you've looted but not used yet is marked, so no knowledge sits forgotten in your bags. Treasures: all 8 one-time treasures per profession with the zone and coordinates; click one for a waypoint (TomTom when it's installed, otherwise a map pin). It also shows your unspent knowledge and about how much finishes the tree, and an All characters view with every character's points left at a glance.

Prices and Values
Material costs and reward values come from Auction Coach, TradeSkillMaster or Auctionator, whichever you have installed. Reward items count at what they sell for after the AH cut. Without a price addon, the cards still show quality reach, time left and the gold reward. The Values button lets you say what your concentration is worth (taken off the profit of orders that need it) and what Moxie, knowledge and other rewards without a price are worth to you; Moxie has an estimate from what a Master's Surplus bag holds.

Commands

• /pp: help
• /pp cards: use the card view
• /pp classic: use Blizzard's list (or the button beside the order tabs)
• /pp queue: show or hide the order queue
• /pp shop: the shopping list
• /pp knowledge: knowledge still to earn (or middle-click the minimap button)
• /pp options: the options page (also in Esc > Options > AddOns, or left-click the minimap button)
• /pp minimap: hide or show the minimap button
• /pp debug: debug messages for bug reports

Good to Know

• Retail (Midnight) only.
• Public orders grouped by item keep Blizzard's view; the cards show once you pick an item.
• Profit marked with * means some items had no price yet, so the real number may be a little higher or lower.
• Bugs and ideas are welcome in the comments or on our Discord.

Also by CtrlShiftZed

• Trust Crafter: remembers who crafted your orders and how well, with guild sharing you can check.
• Auction Coach: plain-English Auction House advice, a simpler alternative to TSM.
• Alt Inventory: how many of an item each of your characters has, right in the tooltip.
• Recommended Stats: stat priority, BiS gear, talents and rotation from the top players of your spec.
• Party iLvl Check: your group's item level, M+ score and buffs the moment you enter a dungeon.
• Push Planner: the fastest set of Mythic+ keys to reach your target rating.

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