Professions Helper: Your Smart Material Dashboard

Professions Helper is a lightweight, context-sensitive HUD designed to streamline your crafting and gathering. Instead of digging through bags, it provides a dynamic visual overview of your materials, tailored to your location and character.

From WeakAura to Standalone

Starting as a popular WeakAura on Wago.io, this project is now a standalone addon. This transition allows for better performance, cleaner interface management across zones, and a robust foundation for the Midnight expansion. This is the official version for all future updates.

Key Features

- Smart Location Filtering: Automatically adapts to your surroundings. Minimalist in the wild (essential bars), detailed in capital cities (material icons and profession stats).

- Expansion-Aware HUD: Optimized for The War Within and prepared for Midnight. Filters items based on your current zone.

- Automatic Tool Detection: Specialized trackers (e.g., Woodcutting) toggle visibility when the required tool is detected.

- Skill & Cooldown Tracking: Displays charges, durations, and recharge times for profession spells (e.g., Sharpen Knife, Carve Meat).

- Fishing Matrix: Tracks expansion-specific fishing progress per zone.

Development Milestones

v0.4.x – Foundation & Visuals

Implemented Ace3 Configuration Menu (/ph) and linked movement logic.

Added Interactive Tooltips (active when frames are locked) and LibSharedMedia support.

Introduced "Profession Skills" category with cooldown and charge tracking.

Initial database structure for The War Within and Midnight.

v0.5.x – Data & Achievement Tracking

Reworked profession scanning to be global and added Character-specific Saved Variables.

Introduced the Woodcutting Achievement Tracker with live updates.

Massive database expansion for materials, recipes, and crafted items.

Refined time-logic for better cooldown accuracy.

v0.6.x – Sorting & Organization

Added Advanced Sorting for all categories (by Expansion, Item Value, or Manual/Number-based).

Major reorganization of the options menu and start of localization support.

v0.7.x – Polish & Performance

Added Dungeon/Raid/Delve Mode to toggle icon visibility in instances.

Reintroduced individual color-picking for every status bar.

Refactored core code for significantly better performance.

v0.8.0 (Current) – Accessibility

Added Quick-Lock/Unlock Commands: Use /ph lock or /ph unlock for instant frame positioning.

v0.8.1 - delete a item that does not exist

v0.8.2 - Bugfix: bar don't show twice if you have 2(two) collecting professions

v0.8.3 - Added overload-skills of midnight (Overloard Herb and Ore)

- Deleted entries of old overload-skill in the midnight-lua

Preparing "Free Choice" system for custom item-to-category assignments.

Project Status & Roadmap

Status: Advanced Beta (0.8.x). Core engine complete; currently in the Data-Entry Phase.

Roadmap: v1.0.0 – Official Gold Release.