pH: Per Hour Metrics

pH is a session-based World of Warcraft addon for measuring gold, XP, reputation, and honor per hour with live tracking, historical session review, and value-aware loot accounting.

It is built for players who want to compare farms, understand time till next level/faction tier, leveling routes, dungeon runs, gathering loops, pickpocket sessions, or PvP grinds using actual data instead of guesswork.

Getting Started

The micro HUD provides all the essential functions for starting a session. No initial configuration is needed.

You can also use the command line:

Start a session: /ph start
Stop a session: /ph stop
Pause or resume: /ph pause and /ph resume
Open session history: /ph history
See commands and help: /ph help

What pH Tracks

pH reports live and session-based per-hour metrics for:

Gold per hour
XP per hour
Time needed to level
Reputation per hour
Time needed for next reputation tier
Honor per hour

Gold tracking includes more than raw coin. pH can account for:

Looted coin
Vendor trash
Market-value loot
Gathering materials
Enchanting materials
Quest rewards
Vendor sales
Pickpocketed coin and items
Lockbox loot
Repairs, vendor purchases, and travel costs

This gives you both liquid gold and expected inventory value, so you can see the difference between cash made now and value still sitting in your bags.

Reputation tracking includes:

Rep for all factions gained
Estimated time for next faction tier
Potential rep for gathered items (IE Arakkoa feathers)
Where to turn in

This provides accurate data for dungeon runs or trying to rep up via gathering quests. It supports multiple factions at a time.

Why It’s Useful

pH is designed to answer practical questions like:

Is this route actually better than the last one?
Did that spec, gear swap, or profession route improve results?
Is this dungeon, grind spot, or battleground worth the time?
Am I gaining rep, XP, or honor at the rate I expected?
How long will it take me to level up / get the next faction tier?

No route advice. No farming opinions. Just measurement.

Session-Aware by Design

pH is built around real play sessions.

Start, stop, pause, and resume sessions manually
Source-aware auto-session options for more hands-free tracking
Auto-pause behavior for AFK or inactivity cases
Instance-aware behavior for dungeon and battleground style runs
Persistent session data and account-wide history

Live HUD

The HUD is compact, quiet, and meant to stay readable during long sessions.

It includes:

Real-time per-hour metrics
Session totals and breakdowns
Recent vs session-average views
Compact metric bars and expanded metric cards
XP pacing and level ETA support
Reputation and honor visibility without chat spam

Session History

pH includes a full history view so you can review and compare past runs.

Filter by character and zone
Sort by gold, XP, rep, honor, or date
Review session summaries, item details, and gathering stats
Compare sessions side by side by metric
Archive, unarchive, merge, delete, and undo history actions
Filters out short sessions by default
Built in logic to automatically start sessions (with the ability to configure these triggers for your personal preference)

This makes it much easier to track improvement over time instead of only watching the current run.

Item Valuation

pH uses conservative value estimates for looted items.

Vendor-value handling for trash and low-liquidity items
Auction-based pricing for relevant items when available
TSM integration for pricing data
Support for manual overrides and custom AH price sources
Conservative expected-value handling to reduce overcounting

Reputation Support

Beyond simple rep/hour, pH can also surface reputation turn-in potential from items you loot during a session. That makes it useful for farms where some of the value is future rep rather than immediate turn-ins.

UI Philosophy

Minimal footprint
Classic-native look and feel
Readable, low-noise presentation
Useful detail when you want it, quiet when you don’t

pH is meant to stay out of the way until you need to make a decision.

Good Fits for pH

Farming route comparisons
Leveling efficiency
Dungeon or instance runs
Gathering sessions
Rogue pickpocket farms
Reputation item farms
Battleground or honor sessions

If you change how you play, pH shows you the difference.

Notes

Works best when used consistently across sessions
No setup is required to get started
History and valuation features become more useful over time
TSM pricing support is optional, but recommended for more accurate item valuation