SlotStatus Hardcore

SlotStatus Hardcore is a lightweight but complete gear-maintenance addon for World of Warcraft Classic Era and Hardcore. In Hardcore, broken gear at the wrong moment isn't an inconvenience — it's the difference between dinging 60 and rolling a new toon. SlotStatus keeps your durability, your repair budget, and your route to the nearest anvil right in the UI you already use, so you never get caught flat-footed.

It started as a simple idea — show durability bars directly on the Character Frame so you don't have to hover every slot to check your gear — and grew into a full suite for tracking, repairing, and maintaining your equipment without ever leaving the game. This build is tuned specifically for the Classic Era client (1.15.x), with bars auto-fit to the vanilla paperdoll geometry out of the box.

Everything is per-character, stored locally, and works out of the box. No libraries, no dependencies, no setup required.

Durability bars on the Character Frame

Slim, color-coded bars sit flush against every equipment slot on the paperdoll. A single glance tells you which pieces are fine, which are worn, and which are about to fail you mid-pull.

Healthy, Worn, and Critical color tiers
Special tints for Accessory and Utility slots
Live updates when durability changes, gear swaps, or repairs happen
Fully customizable colors, thresholds, alpha, thickness, and position
Auto-fit placement — bars snap to the Era slot edges automatically; no manual offset tuning required

Rich tooltips

Hover any equipped item to see:

Item Level
Slot Repair — estimated cost to repair just that one piece
Total Repair Cost — all slots combined
Nearest Repair vendor — name, subzone, zone, and coordinates
A green Repair here callout when you're standing on one

World map vendor pins

Anvil icons appear on the world map marking every known repair vendor in the zone you're viewing. Pins refresh automatically as you open and resize the map. In Hardcore, knowing where the next vendor is before you commit to a route can save your character.

Vendor auto-discovery

SlotStatus ships with a built-in repair-vendor database covering the capitals, Eastern Kingdoms, and Kalimdor — and also learns new vendors on its own. The first time you open any merchant that can repair, SlotStatus records their name, zone, subzone, and exact coordinates. Over time you build a personal atlas of every repair vendor you've met. View the full list at any time with /ss vendors.

Automation at the merchant

Open any repair vendor and SlotStatus handles the boring parts for you — all toggleable:

Auto-repair — repairs everything the moment the merchant window opens
Guild bank first — if you have the withdraw cap, pulls repair costs from guild funds before touching your own gold
Auto-sell grays — clears Poor-quality junk from your bags and reports the gold earned

Every transaction is tracked in the Stats tab so you know exactly how much you've spent and earned across the life of your character.

Warning system

Three levels of heads-up so you never get caught with broken gear at exactly the wrong moment:

Low-durability warnings — off, chat-only, or chat + on-screen flash + sound
Pre-combat warning — fires the moment you enter combat with any slot below a configurable threshold
Animated bar pulse highlights the exact slot that's in trouble

Default thresholds are 25% for the standard warning and 35% for the pre-combat check, both adjustable. Hardcore players: bump those higher — there's no shame in repairing at 60%.

Gear Overview window

A custom-styled dialog you can open from the minimap button, a broker panel (Titan / Bazooka / ElvUI), or a slash command. It shows:

Condition verdict — at-a-glance summary of your overall gear state
Repair Cost block — total repair due vs gold on hand
Gear Wear stat sheet — slots needing repair, your lowest-durability piece, a status verdict, and average durability
Slot table — every equipment slot with its current durability, color-coded to match the bars on your paperdoll

Minimap button and broker support

Draggable minimap button, position remembered per character
Left-click opens the Gear Overview window
Right-click opens the options panel
Also exposes a LibDataBroker-1.1 data source so Titan Panel, Bazooka, ElvUI DataBars, and other display addons can show your average durability on their bar
No dependency — if no broker addon is loaded, SlotStatus silently does nothing and moves on

Full options panel

Accessible from Interface Options or /ss options. Four tabs:

General — display toggles, all three merchant automations, debug prints
Warnings — warning mode, sound and flash, pre-combat warning, threshold sliders
Advanced — five color pickers (Healthy, Worn, Critical, Accessory, Utility), live bar preview, G→Y and Y→R threshold sliders, bar alpha, thickness, left and right offset sliders
Stats — session and lifetime gold in/out, with a Reset button

Every setting is saved per character.

Slash commands

Command	What it does
`/ss` or `/slotstatus`	Show help
`/ss options`	Open the options panel
`/ss advanced`	Panel → Advanced tab
`/ss stats`	Session gold in/out
`/ss reset`	Reset session stats
`/ss autorepair`	Toggle auto-repair
`/ss autosell`	Toggle auto-sell grays
`/ss guild`	Toggle "guild bank first"
`/ss warn [N`	off	chat	full]	Warning mode and threshold
`/ss pins`	Toggle map pins
`/ss mm`	Toggle minimap button
`/ss vendors [clear]`	List or clear discovered vendors
`/ss discover`	Toggle vendor auto-discovery
`/ss welcome`	Re-open the welcome popup
`/ss debug`	Toggle debug prints

First-run welcome

New characters see a one-time welcome popup two seconds after login that explains how to open the addon and lists the main features. It appears once per character, then never again — re-openable anytime with /ss welcome if you want to see it later.

Design philosophy

SlotStatus Hardcore is designed to stay out of your way. It doesn't modify the Blizzard UI, doesn't add third-party frames you didn't ask for, and doesn't nag. It sits quietly on the Character Frame showing you what you need to know, and steps in only at the merchant window to save you a few clicks. In Hardcore, every saved click is one less moment your attention is off the screen.

No library dependencies
No taint on the default UI
Per-character saved variables
Lightweight — minimal CPU and memory footprint

Why a separate Hardcore build?

Hardcore Classic runs on the Era client (1.15.x), which has a slightly different paperdoll layout than TBC Classic (2.5.x). Rather than ship one addon that "kinda works on both," this build is tuned specifically for Era — bars sit flush with your slot edges out of the box, no slider-tweaking required.

If you're playing TBC Classic, grab the original SlotStatus instead.

Compatibility

Interface: 11508 (WoW Classic Era / Hardcore, 1.15.x)
Saved variables: per character
Dependencies: none

Feedback and issues

If you spot a bug, have a feature request, or find a repair vendor that should be in the built-in database, please leave a comment on the CurseForge project page. Vendor coordinate corrections especially welcome — the more accurate the database, the safer your route.