Simple and light-weight tracking of profession links and recipes for all your alts and friends. Tooltip enhancements and AH/merchant coloring for professions-related recipes and items - ideal for recipe collecting, profession leveling, and any serious crafting.
Features
Profession list features
- ProfessionsVault automatically records and saves the profession links of all your alts
- Easily allows saving any professions linked from friends or guildies into your database
- Provides one-click access to the Trade Skill UI of any toon's profession.
- Supports easily posting links of your toon's professions to any chat
- Data is shared between all your toons on the realm, including cross-faction
- Comes pre-loaded with links to fully-stocked professions
Tooltip/Recipe features
- Enhances recipe tooltips with info about which characters can learn the pattern
- Colors recipes in the Auction House display to indicate which characters can learn the pattern
- Colors recipes in the Merchant (vendor) window display to indicate which characters can learn them.
- Automated scan allows your bank character to scan the AH for recipes learnable by any alt.
- Customizable recipe coloring and character name coloring
- Enhances crafted item tooltips with info about which characters or professions can craft them
Misc features
- Super-fast performance and tiny memory usage (see below)
- Includes an LDB broker with easy access to your professions, supports Fubar or Titan Panel, or can be used stand-alone
- Based on the Ace3 Addon Framework
- Enables the "link" button on all profession windows (default UI just has it for your own)
- Integrates nicely with other profession-related addons such as Ackis Recipe List, Skillet, Advanced Trade Skill Window and Gnomeworks
Usage
- Open the PV window using the minimap icon, LDB launcher or by typing "/pv show" on the command line.
- PV window shows all the saved professions for your character, any alts on the same account running PV, and any profession links you've saved.
- PV window also includes links to fully-stocked professions (ie containing every recipe)
- Data update happens automatically whenever you open a trade skill window, or you can update them all at any time using the "Scan my Professions" button. PV will automatically update when you learn a recipe or skill up.
- Config button can be used to configure tooltip/coloring integration.
- To save any profession link into PV (eg whispered from a friend or in trade), just open the link and press the new "Save" button that appears at the bottom of the Trade Skill UI. The same technique can be used to merge profession data from a second account (dual-boxing).
Performance
ProfessionsVault is designed from the ground up with optimal performance in mind.
Why should you care about addon performance? In a word, SPEED. Nobody wants to be stuck watching a game loading screen for two minutes every time they switch characters while their addons swap hugely bloated databases back and forth from the hard drive. Nobody wants their entire game to freeze for 60 seconds each time they open a profession to cut a gem or do an enchant while their professions addon laboriously pounds the server cache to scan every last recipe.
Unlike most professions-related addons, ProfessionsVault is the first fully-featured profession management addon that works by saving only the LINKS to the professions, not the contents - consequently, profession "scanning" is instant (ie never delays the opening of profession windows), and the memory footprint is very tiny - under 400k for the whole addon with a fully populated database (ie doesn't increase login/logout times). In tech speak, the space consumption and time utilization of most addons grows at least LINEARLY with the number of trade skill recipes (times the number of professions and the number of characters), whereas ProfessionsVault's space/time consumption is a small CONSTANT for each profession. The difference is relatively minor when you have only one character with apprentice professions, but rapidly becomes very noticeable when you have several characters with grand master professions and hundreds of recipes each.
Bug Reports and Feature Requests
Please use the WowAce ticket system for any bug reports or feature requests. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.
Localization
Apply localization updates or fixes at http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/localization/
Credits:
- next96 (Korean)
- Freydis88 (German)
- alpha2009 (Chinese zhTW)
- zhTW (Chinese zhTN)
- D_Angel (Russian)
- Valdesca (Spanish esES)
- ChtiClem (French)
- bacco82 (Portuguese)
- <Fables> on US-Antonidas for lots of testing help and suggestions
- Drkestshadow on US-Antonidas for various testing help and suggestions
Facts
- Date created
- Oct 27, 2010
- Categories
- Last update
- May 24, 2013
- Development stage
- Release
- Language
- deDE
- enUS
- esES
- frFR
- koKR
- ruRU
- zhCN
- zhTW
- License
- All Rights Reserved
- Curse link
- ProfessionsVault
- Downloads
- 398,269
- Recent files
Relationships
- Embedded library
- Ace3
- LibDBIcon-1.0
- LibStrataFix
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- #46
oscarucb Jan 02, 2012 at 22:44 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault 5.8.2 includes:
Author/Maintainer of RaidBuffStatus, ProfessionsVault, Archaeology Helper, IdiotCheck, SavedInstances, and others..
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- #45
oscarucb Jun 05, 2011 at 22:31 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault v5.1 includes:
* Added automatic handling of profession learn/unlearn
* Added an option to suppress database update messages
* Changed LDB right click to open/link the LDB prof, middle click is now config
* Misc internal cleanups
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- #44
oscarucb May 18, 2011 at 00:20 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault v5.0 includes:
* NEW FEATURE: Added support for tracking non-tradeskill professions (Herbing, Skinning, etc). Current rank is displayed in the PV window and LDB tooltip
* NEW FEATURE: Tooltips for trade links in chat windows
* Profession scanning is now performed silently and automagically in most cases, so database is always up-to-date without user interaction
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- #43
oscarucb May 08, 2011 at 01:59 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault 4.7 includes:
* NEW FEATURE: Enhanced LDB/minimap tooltip functionality. The tooltip now provides quick one-click access to all your professions and the all-recipe links.
* NEW FEATURE: LDB text tracks your most recently used or skilled profession and displays current skill level (this text can be disabled from within your LDB display addon)
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- #42
oscarucb Mar 09, 2011 at 06:06 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault v4.2 includes:
Add support for grouping the main window by profession
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- #41
oscarucb Feb 13, 2011 at 16:36 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault v4.1 adds updates for WoW v4.0.6a
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- #40
oscarucb Jan 04, 2011 at 20:36 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault v4.0 includes:
Add support for Skillet and GnomeWorks Tradeskill frames
Add "/pv save" command that works the same as the save button
BUG FIX: PV was breaking coloring of non-recipes at merchant, AH and mailbox
BUG FIX: ticket 40: "invalid capture index" lua error on German client
Update German translation (thanks to Shorty on EU-Rajaxx!)
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- #39
Reeb Dec 31, 2010 at 18:43 UTC - 0 likesHI,
Would you consider for a future version a feature to select prof skills to show on a data broker for the currently logged in character. Mining 387, Smithing 224 (or icon 321) etc something like that. Maybe be able to select any prof(s) to suit the individual using it. Would be handy to replace the name of the addon with some useful 'at a glance' info.
Anyway, thought id ask. Many thanks for this excellent addon & have a great new year.
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- #38
oscarucb Dec 31, 2010 at 14:29 UTC - 0 likesProfessionsVault v3.9 includes:
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- #37
oscarucb Dec 30, 2010 at 16:34 UTC - 0 likesyoshimo I've replicated your problem and entered it as ticket 40:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/professionsvault/tickets/40-invalid-capture-index-lua-error-on-non-english-client/
I will include a fix in the next release.