Play It Forward // Brightening Someone's Day, One Green at a Time
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Send the gear and consumables you've outgrown to guildies or strangers who'll appreciate them. Every item is matched to the class it suits best, turning forgotten bag clutter into somebody else's next upgrade. Pay it forward, one green at a time.
Play It Forward
Send the gear and consumables you've outgrown to guildies or strangers who'll appreciate them. Every item is matched to the class it suits best, turning forgotten bag clutter into somebody else's next upgrade. Pay it forward, one green at a time.
Features
🎁 Makes Someone's Day // Azeroth can be a harsh place. An unexpected parcel from a stranger costs you next to nothing and is the kind of small kindness that keeps a server worth playing on.
📬 Opens Itself at the Mailbox // Walk up to any mailbox and the list is already there, filled with the gear and the consumables you have outgrown. Tick the rows you like, press Distribute, and get on with your day.
🎯 Finds a Real Recipient // Reads every stat on an item, works out which class it is actually for, then goes looking for someone of that class a level or two below the requirement — out in the world where people are questing, and in your guild among anyone who has been on in the last few days.
💛 Generosity Tracking // A lifetime count of everything you have given away — gifts, items, item levels, gold — kept on your own tooltip, and on the tooltips of the other givers around you.
🦺 Safety First // Only bind-on-equip gear you could trade away anyway. Never soulbound, bind-on-use, or quest items, nothing above the rarity ceiling you set, and every row can be reassigned or kept.
Setup
- Install the add-on, ideally using CurseForge or Wago.
- Log in and play normally. Sensible defaults are already set, so there is nothing to configure.
- Walk up to a mailbox. If your bags hold something worth passing on, the window opens by itself.
- Press Find Recipients. Press it again if the first look comes up empty.
- Tick the rows you like, press Distribute, and click Accept on each confirmation.
- "Officially a legend to at least one level 22 Warrior."
How It Works
The Window
Two dropdowns at the top left decide what is offered at all: Gear sets the rarity ceiling, so nothing better than that is ever listed, and Consumables sets how far past a food or potion you have to be before it counts as spare.
Everything below them is sorted into four groups, so the rows worth acting on sit at the top.
| Group | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Matched | A recipient has been picked. These are the rows Distribute sends. |
| Pending Match | The add-on knows which class the item suits, but nobody in range holds a spot for it yet. |
| Stats Couldn't Be Read | The client never handed over the item's stats, so it went unmatched. |
| Kept | Staying in your bags, either because you said so or because no class wanted it. |
Click any recipient to swap in somebody else, run a search aimed at that one item, or choose Keep Item.
Finding Recipients
Find Recipients runs one search per press. The client only permits that search straight from a button press and limits how often it can run, which is why a second or third press often turns up names the first one missed. It looks in the leveling zones where somebody in the right level band is likely to be questing, and it reads your guild roster for anyone online in the last three days. Somebody who has already had a parcel from you is passed over until they have gained a level, so one lucky Mage does not walk off with the whole bag.
What Lands in Their Mailbox
The mail arrives under the subject Play It Forward! with a short note attached, so a parcel from a stranger never reads like a scam:
Just a little something to help you level. (=
No strings attached. Use it if you can, or disenchant or vendor it. Don't want it? Just hit Return and it'll find a new home.
Generosity
Every delivery adds to an account-wide tally — gifts, items, item levels, and gold value — shared across all of your characters. In cities and inns, players near you can see those totals on your tooltip and you can see theirs. Turn the sharing off in the options and your own totals keep counting either way.
Slash Commands
/pif // Opens the Options Interface.
Testing & Localization Status
🟢 World of Warcraft Classic (🟡 Season of Discovery) // WoW 1.15.9
🟢 Burning Crusade Anniversary // WoW 2.5.6
🔴 Mists of Pandaria Classic // WoW 5.5.4
🔴 World of Warcraft // WoW 12.1.0
Localization Status // Works with enUS only at this time.
Please reach out if you would like to be involved!
Links
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