Elitist Group - WoW AddOns

Elitist Group's goal is to shift focus away from single scores which don't tell you anything about the users choice of gear. Instead of a single score, Elitist Group shows you a variety of data from the players experience per dungeons and raid (can be broken down by boss), to whether their choice of equipment, enchants or gems fit their spec. You can still see the players average item level as well, but it's not the primary focus and only there to give you an idea of a players gear.

All user data will be compressed on logout to keep the database size more manageable. However, a variety of database management options are included to delete data after a certain period of time, or not save data on people from another server.

Interested in people being able to see your mains experience or request your data, but don't want the entire addon? Take a look at Elitist Group Sender, which does nothing more than respond to experience or data requests.

Elitist Armory: Don't want to run Elitist Group, but still want the item detection and summaries it provides? Take a look at Elitist Armory.

Slash command: /elitistgroup (/eg) use /eg help for a list of slash commands.

Bugs? Suggestions? Items flagged wrong?
Easiest way to report anything is through the ticket tracker. Should you be reporting an item being flagged incorrectly, make sure you include as much details as to why it's wrong.

How are items categorized?
Based on stats. Spell Power is a caster item, Hit is for DPS, Strength is only for melee dps, Defense for tanks and so on. As you can see in the screenshots, you are given what an items type is. Whether an item is allowed or not is based on spec, meaning Holy Paladins will be flagged for wearing Retribution gear, but a Retribution Paladin will not.

If somebody is missing an enchant or gem, Elitist Group will also tell you that.

Summary
To speed up checking out your raid or dungeon group, you can use /eg summary. It will quickly inspect everyone in your group and give you a summarized report on the status of their gear, enchants and gems.

Player notes
Finished a dungeon, was your tank amazing? Notes will allow you to rate him 1 - 5 and leave a comment for future reference, these can even be synced between your friends or guild. You can leave one note per person, with your most recent note being used. Use /eg rate to open this.

Dungeon experience
Quickly see how much experience a player has in a particular dungeon or raid, broken down by hard modes and even by pass. For raids, players are experienced after roughly 3 clears and for 5 mans it's around 6 (combined runs, not 6 of each). The scoring is setup to reward full clears. That way, somebody who can only clear the first 4 bosses of 25-man Trial of the Grand Crusader will have to do a lot more clears to be considered experienced, compared to the person who can full clear it.

To make it easier on players, achievements are factored into the experienced weighting. For example, A Tribute to Insanity and The Immortal will count for a full clear. Even doing 25-man Uldaur hard mods will increase your 25-man Ulduar normal mode experience.

No reason your alt should be left out of the fun because you haven't done a dungeon on the character yet. As of v1.5, you can setup a character as your main and whenever people request your data in Elitist Group they will see your mains experience. No more being left out because of an inexperienced alt!

Item level
To stop 200 item level blues being worth the same as 200 item level epics, simple modifiers are applied to item level based on quality: -0% epic, -5% blue, -10% green, -40% white, -50% grey. Heirlooms are considered 187 item level blues at 80, or 2.22 item level/per player level.

Suggested dungeons are the lowest item dropped -11% for 5-mans, -10% for normal 10 and 25 mans and a -9% modifier for heroic 10 and 25 mans.

Addon communication
Notes and player data can be synced. Players can request your gear or notes at any time; however, you can disable all communications entirely so you will not send or parse to them. Finer control over what channels to monitor is also included in /eg config, you can set it to not listen for gear requests from party or raid, but still in guild.

While in combat, you will not send or parse comm messages.

To prevent people from corrupting your database, Elitist Group will not accept other players gear data unless the player themselves sent it (Johnny can send his gear data, Steve cannot send Johnny's unless Steve is on your trusted list).

As of v1.5, more complicated syncing has been added to allow you to send your entire user or notes database, see here for information.

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- #90
Gorilivan Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:19:29
Will you have my .lua babies? I love this. I am converting everyone I can from GS to this.
- #89
silentdonkey Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:56:47
Is there supposed to be a difference between my EG info when I just look at myself outside of a group, and when I see myself on the raid summary? I have 100% good gear for my spec when I'm by myself in dal, but when I'm in a raid, it's only 5% good. It even says things in the bad gear summary like "Caster, DPS", or whatnot, which confuses me because i'm a DPS caster.
- #88
Shadowed Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:21:53
CobraA1: It's more of a forewarning so I don't get blamed if people see lots of throttle messages. I don't expect anyone to actually uninstall it, although I'll be amused if they did.

Raz: Correct, that was debug code that I forgot to remove.
- #87
CobraA1 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:43:56
"and blaming Gearscore if you see an unexpected amount of inspect throttled messages"

LOL.

ohhh . . . . man.

I so like this addon better, but soooo many people want me to use GS.

At least the addons cache the results.
- #86
-Raz- Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:10:06
guess that was just the debugging then, upgrading to 1.7.5 it stopped

looks like i went crazy a bit to early, was just a bit annoying getting the timer every time i moused over someone, lol

Last edited on 29 Jun 2010 by -Raz-
- #85
Shadowed Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:03:25
No, there isn't any plans to add a way of disabling it. You only (as the description says) get it when using /eg to inspect.
- #84
-Raz- Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:39:51
- If you use /eg to inspect someone and you are throttled and don't have data, you'll get a message indicating you have X seconds until inspections are enabled

is there an option to disable said message that i mightve missed, or any plan to add one ?

i am aware its caused by my tooltip mod inspecting ppl for their talents, however i have no real desire to get spammed by the timer every time i mouse over someone
- #83
Shadowed Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:45:22
NOTE: Blizzard is going to start throttling inspect requests with the next rolling restarts. I'll be pushing an update to EG with the new throttle once the number is figured out.

The main impact of this is group inspects will be slower. Hopefully the throttle is only 3-5 seconds, but will have to wait and see.

I'll also be pushing out the Ruby Sanctum info with the update for next week when it's opened.
- #82
Shadowed Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:19:50
I don't remember which of these I've responded to, so I'll just go over them again:

pgriff91: Thanks for the comments! The translation doesn't have to be perfect, even if you can help translate a few phrases that would be great.

saecula: Sorting's been changed to prioritize those without data. The point of experience is quite literally what it describes, it's not supposed to show you every single kill or achievement as that is far too much information to show people. If you want to see a breakdown, mouseover the percents, both EA and EG have always done this. Inspection is as fast as it's going to get, it won't get faster unless Blizzard changes something.

In general, please direct feedback/suggestions/whatnot to http://getsatisfaction.com/elitistarmory not here.
- #81
saecula Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:16:00
The scanning process for the summary could probably be faster. I am guessing you are querying achievements during this process, and that makes it take around a second or two per person. If you just looked at equipment only, which is all you're showing in the summary anyway, it could be almost instant.