A WoW Forever addon for Waylaid Crates. It prices every way of filling a crate from your Auctionator data and shows the Merchant's Favor it pays.
Needs Auctionator. Prices are whatever Auctionator has (AuctionatorSync keeps them shared between friends).
Hover a Waylaid Crate:
- each bundle gets its Auctionator price, with gold, silver and copper in their own columns
- the cheapest bundle is listed first and highlighted in gold
- a Merchant's Favor line shows what the crate pays (the same whichever bundle you use)
- a Rating (Best, Great, Good, Fair, Poor, Worst) against every other crate, under the crate's name, above the price column, with its rank and how it compares to the cheapest favor under the favor line
Each crate's market cost per favor is p = (crate AH price + cheapest bundle) / favor. Crates without a known favor or any priced bundle aren't rated. Each rated crate is compared with the cheapest one (ratio = p / cheapest p) and gets one of four tiers, with Best and Worst kept for the extremes:
| Tier | Ratio to the cheapest favor | Colour |
|---|---|---|
| Best | the cheapest crate, or within 10c per favor of it | purple |
| Great | up to 1.25x | blue |
| Good | up to 1.75x | yellow |
| Fair | up to 3x | orange |
| Poor | over 3x | red |
| Worst | the dearest crate, or within 10c per favor of it | deep crimson |
Tiers by ratio keep each one tight: one very expensive crate can't drag mid-priced crates up a tier. A crate with no AH price of its own is rated on its bundle alone (the tooltip says so). The /crates Rating column sorts by the ratio itself.
Hovering a crate also saves its real bundle amounts for the crate list. The beta guides don't always match the live game (Journeyman Textiles wants 20 Wool Cloth, not 40).
Every Waylaid Crate, sorted by the cheapest Merchant's Favor:
| Column | |
|---|---|
| Crate | name, coloured by rank |
| Crates | how many you need for the target favor |
| Crate cost | the crate's own AH price |
| Best bundle | material, amount, price per unit |
| Bundle cost / Total cost | the materials, and crate + materials |
| Favor / Per favor | favor per crate, and total cost per favor |
| Rating | Best / Great / Good / Fair / Poor / Worst against the other crates (see above) |
| Have | crates in your bags and bank |
- Click a header to sort; click again to reverse.
- Search by crate or material name.
- The dropdown filters by crate type, or by the profession a material comes from (then only that profession's bundles count).
- Target favor: type how much you want (say 60) and every cost, and the cart, covers the crates needed to reach it.
- View: Market / My cost. Market is the objective best at full AH prices. My cost counts crates you own as free and subtracts the materials you have.
- Hover a row for every bundle's price. Shift-click a row to search Auctionator: the bundle columns search the material, the rest the crate.
[+cart] on a row adds the crate and its best bundle's materials. The cart lets you tick items, change amounts and remove them, then Create Shopping List makes an Auctionator shopping list. The cart is kept per character.
The Merchant button on /crates, /crates merchant, or shift-click (or middle-click) the minimap button: all 308 recipes the Durotar Supply / Azeroth Commerce vendors sell for Merchant's Favor, plus the mount, pet, tabard, title and profession certifications.
- Columns: favorite star, recipe, profession, type (armor type for gear), skill, required level, slot, effect, reputation, favor cost, learned. Click a header to sort.
- Effect is the item's stats or the potion / enchant effect, plus the crafted item's Equip / Use lines once the game has loaded the item.
- Search matches name, profession, type, slot and effect, with short forms like CraftRoute's (int, agi, sp, mp5) and amounts ("+9 int").
- Stats dropdown: tick stats to show only items that have all of them, and type a minimum to need at least that much.
- Sort by stat: order the list by one stat (grouped like CraftRoute: Attributes, Spell, Physical, Defense, Resistances, Bags), highest or lowest first. The value leads the Effect column and rows without the stat go last. Click a column header to go back to column sorting.
- Click the star to favorite a row (kept per character). Favorites only shows just those; the star header sorts favorites first.
- Filter by profession or "My professions", hide recipes you've learned, or show only what your current favor can buy (affordable costs are green).
- Hover a row for the crafted item's tooltip (the enchant's for enchants). Shift-click links it in chat.
The Writs button on /crates, /writs (or /writ, /crates writs), or ctrl-click the minimap button: all 150 Craftsman's Writs (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring), sorted by the cheapest reputation.
- Writ cost: the writ on the AH. Buy item: the required item on the AH. Craft item: its reagents, each at the vendor price (from Auctionator's vendor cache), the AH price, or crafted when that's cheaper. The cheaper of buy and craft is gold.
- Total = writ + the cheaper way to get the item. Per rep = total / the writ's reputation (75 Journeyman, 125 Expert, 200 Artisan).
- Rating: the crate tiers on cost per rep. A writ with no AH price is rated on the item alone and marked *.
- Have: W if you hold the writ, then how many of the item you have. Today: the writ's daily is done.
- Standing with the trade camp is shown at the top. Pick a Target standing (per character) and each writ shows how many of it you'd need (Writs) and what they'd cost (To ). The line under the envelopes names the cheapest shown writ to repeat until you get there, and how many days that is.
- Under the list, each Sealed envelope (a random writ of that rank): its price + the rank's average fill = the expected cost per rep.
- Filter by profession, rank, writs on the AH, writs you have, or hide those done today. Hover a row for the reagent breakdown and the recipient. Shift-click searches Auctionator (the item columns search the item, the rest the writ).
- Writ and Sealed writ tooltips in your bags show the same breakdown and rating.
/cratecost config, right-click the minimap button, or Options > AddOns > CrateCost:
- bundle prices on crate tooltips, cheapest first, gold highlight, the Merchant's Favor line, the rating
- the writ rating on writ tooltips
- the minimap button (left-click: crate list, shift- or middle-click: merchant list, ctrl-click: writs, right-click: settings)
- Recipes, costs and reputation come from wow-professions.com's Merchant's Favor guide. Crafted item IDs and base stats come from CraftRoute's Forever recipe data (
tools/join.pyrebuilds Recipes.lua from both). - Writs (writ and quest IDs, required item, skill, rank, reputation, recipient) come from wow.gg's Merchant's Favor guide. What each item is made from comes from endgametools.com's Forever profession pages (
tools/writs.pyrebuilds Writs.lua from both). - Favor per crate comes from wow-professions.com's beta tables: raw goods 5/10/15, crafted goods (Fabrics, Ingots, Parts) 10/20/30 for Apprentice/Journeyman/Expert. Artisan is unknown so far.
- Crate item IDs are found by name at login. Material IDs and professions were checked against CraftRoute's Forever data.