Writs Carlton
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The gold standard of all things Waylaid and Writs. This addon puts the ease of not only gathering your items for the cheapest cost, but also plans your route from one turn in to the next.
Writs Carlton
The gold standard in writ hospitality.
Writs Carlton is the concierge desk for Craftsman's Writs in WoW: Forever. It knows where every writ is delivered, plans the shortest route between your customers, finds the cheapest way to buy what you're missing, and helps you earn Merchant's Favor from Waylaid Crates for as little gold as possible.
In one line: open it, pick your zones, press Plan route, and walk. Everything else (bank, mail, Auction House, Favor) is handled in the same window.
Highlights
| Feature | What you get |
|---|---|
| Smart deliveries | Reads the writs in your bags and groups them by drop-off zone. Tick the zones you're working today. 95 of the 150 writ customers are built in; the rest are learned at your first hand-in or from other players. |
| Shortest route | Plans the order of your turn-ins, flight masters included. A map pin and direction arrow for every customer, plus a compact tracker. TomTom supported. |
| Prep for the reset | Pack your bags the evening before with everything for tomorrow's orders, then start the moment the day resets. |
| Bank and mailbox helpers | Icons beside your bank or mailbox: Collect what your orders need, Deposit the rest, or Mail spares to an alt. Works with TradeSkillMaster's windows too. |
| Market view | Ranks every writ by gold per point of reputation, with a reputation goal, a day-by-day reputation plan, and one-click scans and searches in Auctionator or TradeSkillMaster. |
| Favor planner | Ranks every Waylaid Crate by gold per point of Merchant's Favor, builds a shopping list for the Favor you want, prices it from every stack listed, and shows the most to pay for each item. |
| Recipe browser | Every recipe and profession title sold for Favor, filtered by your professions and standing. Tick what you want and its price becomes your goal. |
| Stats | Gold spent at the Auction House, gold earned back from Coin Pouches, and a gentle reminder to open them. |
| Prices you can count on | Remembers a week of prices and works from the usual price, so one cheap listing doesn't swing your totals. Shows what you should expect to pay, what it could reach, the most to pay per item (3-day average plus 10%), and what you have paid so far. |
| Forged Delivery Receipts | A step-by-step calculator for reaching a reputation standing with receipts: how many crates to fill, how many empty crates to buy, and the gold it costs compared with writs. |
| Guided tour | A one-minute walkthrough that dims everything except the part being explained. After an update, returning players are shown only the new steps. |
The Favor planner, in detail
- Cheapest per Favor: each crate is costed with the cheapest filling it accepts, minus the coin the hand-in pays back.
- Fill to goal: one click adds crates cheapest first until your Favor goal is covered. It prices each crate and filling from every stack on the Auction House, not just the lowest price, so when a cheap stack sells out it counts the dearer one behind it.
- Your goal, your way: type an amount, or tick recipes (including the 1,000 Favor profession titles).
- Performance Bonus: counts the extra Favor from the Legacy perk and remembers which of your characters have it.
- Learns the unknowns: crate payouts that aren't confirmed yet (such as Artisan) are learned from your own hand-ins and from other players, and marked with a "~" until confirmed.
Quick start
- Type
/wcto open the window. The tour offers itself the first time. - On Deliveries, tick the zones you're working and press Plan route.
- On Market or Favor, open the Auction House and press Scan prices.
- On Favor, set a goal and press Fill to goal, then Search list.
Commands
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/wc |
Open or close the window |
/wc favor |
Open the Favor view |
/wc prep |
Switch "get ready for tomorrow" on or off |
/wc stats |
Show your spending and earnings |
/wc center |
Put the window back in the middle of the screen |
/wc tutorial |
Replay the tour |
/wc tutorial new |
Show only the tour steps added since you last took it |
/wc receipts |
Open the Forged Delivery Receipts calculator |
/wc payup 15 |
Change the margin for the most to pay per item |
/wc autorefresh off |
Stop the background price lookups at the Auction House |
/wc help |
List every command |
Works with
| Addon | Used for |
|---|---|
| Auctionator | Prices, scans and searches (recommended) |
| TradeSkillMaster | Prices (on its own, if Auctionator isn't installed) and searches, and the mailbox and bank helpers beside its windows |
| Syndicator / DataStore | What your other characters, bank and mail hold |
| TomTom | Waypoints for your turn-ins |
All of these are optional. Writs Carlton runs without them.
Good to know
Shared and learned data. Drop-off locations, flight data, crate payouts and Auction House prices are learned from play and shared between players running the addon on your realm, with checks to keep bad data out. You can turn sharing off in Options.
Settings are per character, so a new alt starts clean and gets its own tour.
Prices hold up between scans. Totals use each item's usual price over the last few days, not just the single cheapest listing, and the items on your lists are looked up by themselves when you open the Auction House.
Frequently asked
Do I need Auctionator?
No. Auctionator gives the best experience, and TradeSkillMaster alone also works for prices. Deliveries, routes and the bank and mailbox helpers work without either.
Why is a number marked "~"?
The addon hasn't seen that payout confirmed yet. It corrects itself after your first hand-in or when other players report it.
The window went missing.
Type /wc center.
Credits
- WaylaidCost by Shakam, whose idea of costing out Waylaid Crates inspired the Favor planner.
- Questie, whose quest-giver and location data helped locate writ customers.
- Recipe and crate data compiled by the WoW Forever community, including metammo.com and endgametools.com.
- The authors of Auctionator, TradeSkillMaster, Syndicator and TomTom, whose tools this addon works alongside.
Feedback and support
Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment or open a ticket. If an error appears, include the full text from BugSack and what you clicked just before.
Disclaimer: This addon was 100% written by Claude AI.
Writs Carlton Team
