Stat Priority First

PvE (Raid / Mythic+) stat priorities and BiS from Wowhead — clean, hoverable, weekly-updated.

Overview

Stat Priority First is a focused guide addon for Midnight (12.0). It puts Wowhead-sourced stat priority chains, BiS gear picks, and a friendly diminishing returns walkthrough in a small floating panel — plus a compact priority strip above your Character frame.

It does not replace your UI, vault tracker, or weekly checklist. It answers: what should I stack, what gear is BiS, and how hard is DR hitting me right now?

• Guide first — class/spec browser, Raid / Mythic+ build pills, Compare.
• BiS cards — Weapons, Trinkets, Consumables, and Tier Set with quality borders and Wowhead copy-links.
• Live DR — breakpoints, true rating / lost to DR, and a readable bracket meter on secondary-stat hovers.
• Character bar — your current-spec priority above PaperDoll (soft-skinned for ElvUI / EllesmereUI when those suites theme the character sheet).
• Weekly data — scrape pipeline under tools/ refreshes Data/Priorities.lua from Wowhead.

Current version: 1.0.0 · Interface: 120007 (Midnight / Revelations)

Installation

Manual

1. Place the StatPriorityFirst folder in World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns.
2. Restart the game (or /reload if already in-game).
3. Open with /spf.

No other addons are required. Optional soft skins: ElvUI, EllesmereUI (+ EllesmereUIBlizzardSkin for Character Sheet theming).

Getting Started

Panel tabs

Left-click the minimap button to open the panel; right-click jumps to your current spec. Drag the button around the minimap rim to reposition.

Configuration

Open Esc → Options → AddOns → Stat Priority First.

A short About Diminishing Returns blurb sits at the bottom of the settings page.

Features

Floating panel

• Class list and spec picker with localized names where Blizzard provides them.
• Build pills for Raid / Mythic+ (and extra variants when Wowhead lists them).
• Compare to put two builds side by side.
• ESC closes the panel (UISpecialFrames).
• Class-accent chrome for the browsed class (Character bar won’t stomp the panel accent while it’s open).

BiS gear

• Stacked full-width rows: Weapons, Trinkets, Consumables, Tier Set.
• Best in Slot | Alternatives when both sides exist; consumables stay BiS-only (no empty Alts column).
• Fixed 32px icons, quality-colored borders, item tooltips with bonus IDs when present.
• Card ↗ copies the Wowhead guide URL (Consumables uses the enchants-gems page when available). Never calls protected LaunchURL — copy-link popup instead.

Diminishing returns

• Guide-tab tables for the first three Midnight breakpoints (same numbers Wowhead / Maxroll list at 90).
• Hover Crit / Haste / Mastery / Vers on the Priority tab or Character bar for live compare.
• True rating and lost to DR from SimC conversion + % brackets.
• Bracket progress as a normal tooltip line + a thin muted meter (no text on neon fill).
• Optional item-tooltip true-delta (Settings).

Character bar

• Shows only on the Character (PaperDoll) tab — hidden on Reputation / Currency.
• Click a chip or empty chrome to open /spf on your spec.
• Soft skin when ElvUI Blizzard Character skins are on, or when Ellesmere Character Sheet theming is on. CharacterFrame tabs are left alone.

Minimap button

• Sits on the map rim (size-aware; round and square shapes).
• Flat SPF chrome; soft ElvUI / Ellesmere button skin when those suites load — no gold tracking border.

Keeping data fresh

Priorities and BiS live in Data/Priorities.lua. Maintainers regenerate them with the tools under tools/.

Quick path

1. Open wowhead.com → DevTools → Console.
2. Paste tools/browser_scrape.js and wait for spf-wowhead-export.json.
3. From tools/:

powershell -File update.ps1

1. In-game: /reload then /spf status (missingGear / missingDR should trend toward 0).

Details, offline HTML merge, and parse notes are in tools/README.md.

Soft skins & companions

SPF stays a guide; weekly vault and crest tracking belong in a companion addon.

Contributing

Bug reports and scrape/parse fixes are welcome. When filing an issue, include:

• Client build / Interface (120007)
• Spec you’re looking at
• /spf status output
• Whether ElvUI or EllesmereUI is loaded

For data bugs, note whether a fresh browser_scrape.js + import still reproduces it.

Credits

• Wowhead — PvE stat priority, BiS, and consumables guide pages (scraped; not affiliated)
• SimulationCraft — secondary-stat conversion factors and DR bracket sizes used for true/lost rating
• ElvUI / EllesmereUI — public skin helpers for optional Character bar and minimap chrome