Addon Changelog
What changed in each GearInsight release, and who reported it. Player reports are what drives most of these — thank you.
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Shortcuts: today's (10-20) list - Nightmare Prey, the Shadow Enclave hunter tame, the Nalador Isle war turtle, the Memory Gully spore dragon, Valeera's poison and curios - plus the two new Hallow's End achievements; the labyrinth Hall of Fame deadline is extended to 10-28 per the official notice.
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Supporters: more names now show in their class color (the site looks classes up automatically); names, realms and messages follow your UI language, hover to see the original.
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News page: the guild recruitment list is removed - recruitment lives in the Guild tab.
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Auto-Equip: new button on the Stat Targets row of the main panel. Picks the best-fitting set from what you wear, your bags and your bank (recorded when you open it, Warband bank included) - item level first (swapping for stats costs at most 3 item levels), then top players' WCL rank, crafted embellishments and set-piece count, and only then your stat targets (Raid / High Keys / +12 follow the main panel). Every swap shows its reason and the WCL rank before and after; click "Equip", or "Equip and save for this spec" to store it in the game's Equipment Manager tied to your spec so the game swaps gear when you change spec. Optional reminder when better gear lands in your bags. Thanks to the community member who suggested it.
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Gear map: catalyzed bracers / belts / cloaks / boots are no longer mistaken for crafted gear - a 334 catalyzed bracer used to show as "Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors, BiS #1" with a check mark although the BiS was not owned. Thanks to the Mistweaver player who sent the screenshot.
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Arms rotation (0.3): on 3+ targets, one enemy entering execute range no longer turns every suggestion into Execute - Cleave comes first whenever it is ready, Execute / Overpower fill while it is on cooldown; 1-2 targets unchanged. WCL M+ (40 runs): with Cleave ready on 3+ targets and the target in execute range, top Arms pressed Cleave 64% and Execute 15%. Thanks to 倒数五个数 (Shadowmourne-CN) for the report.
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Advanced Analysis: a new top-level tab. "Generate my analysis" carries your gear, talents, this week's progress (Great Vault, keystone, raid lockouts) and your last 5 fights to the website for a personal report: where you rank in your spec, which slots to replace, a week-by-week farming route, a slot-by-slot comparison with top players, and the must-interrupts for the key in your bag.
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Fight review: after a boss or a training dummy, compare the fight with top players of your spec - which abilities you pressed less and by how much. Off by default; use "Last 5 fights" or "Try on a dummy" on the Rotation page, or turn on the automatic popup in settings.
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A new Guides tab group: Top routes plus Guides (AI rotation coach / Mythic+ dungeon guide) in one place.
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The "Press now" panel on the Rotation page has a cleaner right column; the matching talent build shows "✓ Selected" once you are on it; News is a top-level tab again.
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Empty areas of the dashboard no longer block the mouse (mouse keybinds keep working); the training-mode and other buttons work in combat; keybind auto-backups no longer spam chat.
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Fixed missing glyphs (boxes) in the dashboard's bold font for some Chinese spell names; the font now covers the full common character set (restart the game to apply).
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Windwalker rotation 0.0 (test): learned from 40 top Windwalker (Conduit of the Celestials) Mythic+ logs on WCL - Invoke Xuen on bosses / big pulls, then Zenith; Celestial Conduit late in Zenith and Zenith Stomp to cancel the channel; Whirling Dragon Punch whenever available; never repeats the previous ability (Combo Strikes). Readiness and the free Blackout Kick / Dance of Chi-Ji / Rushing Wind Kick procs are read straight from the game. The dashboard now supports Windwalker.
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One-click rotation talent build (Blood / Unholy Death Knight, Arms Warrior, Windwalker): the GI rotation entry on the Rotation page shows the talent build that goes with it (the most representative build from the same top-player logs) and how many nodes differ from yours; "Switch" creates a new loadout and switches to it, filling apex talents automatically. Your existing loadouts are never changed or deleted.
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A lock button on the rotation board: hover to show it, click to unlock (drag to move, Ctrl + wheel to scale), click again to lock (click-through). It locks automatically in combat.
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Keybind page: the GI panel macro (/gi) always has a row and is created automatically when you set its key; "Cast ranking" moved onto this page; the system keys now include the character panel.
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Rotation assistant progress: released specs now show their version-upgrade progress; a new "Current queue" lists what is built next, ordered by development progress on the website (each item resets when it ships), marked as first release or version upgrade, with a copyable website link.
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Keybind page layout: the summary is split into three lines, toolbar buttons no longer overflow the window, and each row shows the ability, status, suggested key and "Set key" in separate columns.
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The keybind Save tab and talent-linked keybind restore are hidden for now (daily automatic backups still run in the background); the gear map columns sit a little closer to the centre.
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Gear overview / gear map: level-scaled items (quest gear on new characters) read the wrong item level (655 instead of 102), so every slot looked finished and no BiS was suggested; the item level shown by the game is now used.
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Fixed UI taint from the macro module that could cause "GearInsight_Macros tried to call a protected function" and action-bar cooldown / character panel errors in combat.
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Board buttons (opacity, − / +) could not be clicked while locked; the approx mark before countdowns showed as a box (now ~); "Rebind these keys" did nothing and "Reset main bar keys" did not list keys it skipped.
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Active effects now show their time left (all specs): after a major or defensive cooldown, a racial or a burst potion, its icon in the rotation assistant turns green with a countdown and the trigger lane draws a duration bar. Auras are unreadable in combat, so timing starts from your cast.
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Dashboard active-effect highlights: big countdown icons above your health bar (orange and flashing in the last 3s); your bar glows gold during burst and green with defensives, the target bar glows red during a Colossus Smash window; the top banner reads "Burst · Avatar 14". Can be turned off in settings.
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Racials in the rotation assistant: the racials you have go into the major / defensive / control / movement lanes, and stat racials (Blood Fury / Berserking / Fireblood / Ancestral Call) join the burst for Blood and Unholy Death Knight and Arms Warrior. The keybind page groups racials by role too.
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Roll coins: new "Mythic+ only" toggle hides raid items and bosses and only recommends this season's dungeons; the choice is saved.
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Arms rotation 0.2 (player feedback): Cleave on cooldown; on 3+ targets Heroic Strike drops below Cleave, Execute, Overpower and Mortal Strike; Slam is only a last resort; Cleave, Mortal Strike, Colossus Smash, Avatar, Bladestorm and Overpower readiness now comes straight from the game, so skills are no longer suggested before they are ready; Mortal Strikes fired by Bladestorm no longer count as your casts.
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The dashboard burst card no longer sits on "unconfirmed": it reads your major cooldown in combat and shows "ready to burst" or "burst on cooldown · ~N s".
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The dashboard is larger overall: rotation lane icons, the main suggestion, the resource bar, defensive / interrupt / flask / food / potion cells, health bars and text are all bigger without covering the view.
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Opening the dashboard turns on enemy nameplates (the rotation assistant counts nearby enemies with them); closing it restores your setting.
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Farm planner: crafted gear is now shown as crafting candidates (yellow "optional" tag - evaluate first, not a must-craft list), listed under the current filters with a reminder to keep your 4-piece set; the plan panel status is condensed to one line (panel % · matches equipped / estimated after swap, etc.).
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Macro page: right-click opens the existing macro's edit window without overwriting your edits.
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The WeChat group QR code now points to the new group.
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Cheese tips: the labyrinth final boss unlock condition is now complete - clear 9 rooms in one run at depth 8+ for the first unlock.
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Farm planner tiles now carry small colored tags: missing (red), catalyst base (purple), upgrade / replace (orange - you own it but the item level is short), skipped / optional (grey), reached (green). Owned and skipped tiles move to the end of each row, and long header notes wrap to a second line.
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Farm planner tooltips show the fully upgraded BiS item level (344 / 334); the Heroic setting only decides what counts as obtained.
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Gear overview slot arrows are now larger solid gold triangles.
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The Top routes tab now shows only Community classics (popular keystone.guru / wago.io routes, credited with the original link); the Top players and +12 standard sources are hidden for now.
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Farm planner tooltips showed the item's default level (219 / 28 / 44) with wrong stats; they now show the game's own tooltip at the target item level.
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The farm planner tier progress counted 7 slots; it now counts the 5 tier slots only.
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My BiS: custom picks sometimes showed only "target item level pending", and items from the new raid were wrongly flagged as "stats don't match"; both now show the native item tooltip.
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The farm planner no longer shows a separate Tier group: the base item for each tier slot already sits under the boss that drops it, so it now appears there only once. Your 4-piece progress (how many you have, how many to go, which ones just need a crest upgrade) is shown next to the first category title.
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Gear overview "view as spec" dropdown: switching to another spec of your class now switches the BiS recommendations below together with the stat targets. Hero talent names show in Chinese on Chinese clients.
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Hovering a recommended item (farm planner and elsewhere) sometimes showed only "native item details unavailable" plus a debug tag. It now shows the game's own item tooltip with the target item level noted underneath.
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The Great Vault panel judged "no must-roll items, Roll coin 0" before the raid loot had finished loading, and only got it right after you opened the Roll coin pool. It now shows "reading raid loot" and recalculates the coin automatically once the data arrives (player report).
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The farm planner tooltip listed the same spec twice under "specs that need this".
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New: GearInsight Lite. It keeps gear lookup only (BiS by slot, stat targets, gems and enchants, Catalyst, top-player gear) and leaves out rotation, dashboard, Mythic+ guide, keybinds, macros and talents, at about a third of the size. The full GearInsight is unchanged. Install one or the other: before switching, delete every GearInsight* folder in AddOns, then extract the new ZIP. Your settings are kept. The Windows updater can switch for you.
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The main panel tabs went from 12 to 7: Gear overview, Gear plan, Talents, Rotation, Top routes, News, Settings. Gear plan holds My BiS, Top-player gear and Farm planner; Rotation holds Rotation, Keybinds and Macros; News holds News and Advanced & guides. Click a tab and its sub-tabs open underneath; it remembers which one you used last.
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The main action bar (bar 1) keys are never changed by the addon any more, same as the Forever version. Pressing 1-9, 0, - or = while setting a key moves the spell into that main-bar slot (into your current form's page while shapeshifted or stealthed) and the key stays as it is; a spell on the main bar that you give another key moves to another bar instead. The Skill Keys tab has a new "Restore main bar 1-=" button that resets the main bar to its default keys (backed up first).
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The Skill Keys tab now also lists your equipped trinkets that have a Use effect (both trinket slots), so you can put them on your bars and give them a key like any spell. Passive trinkets are not listed.
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Keybinds suggestion view: right-click a spell to set its key right away (same as the Forever version), left-click or drag to pick it up and drop it on your bars. "Move to another row" is now Shift+right-click.
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The Guild tab now works like the Forever version: three slots on top for pinned and this week's most active guilds, then recruiting guilds filtered by faction, "needs my class" and "hide full". Click a guild for a QR code to view and apply.
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Specs without a GI rotation yet show their development progress at the top of the Rotation tab, with a clear note that they currently use Blizzard's default rotation and have no sequence derived from top WarcraftLogs data yet. "See progress on the site" copies the address for details.
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Dashboard mode is now offered only for specs whose rotation queue is finished: Blood and Unholy Death Knight, Arms Warrior. Other specs no longer show the dashboard button; each one opens when it is ready.
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The supporters board now matches the Forever version: no amounts, only each supporter's share of all support and their rank. Weekly running-cost progress and recent supporters stay, and "Support / get on the wall" copies a link with your character filled in.
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Weekly Warcraft Logs refresh: BiS, enchants and gems, Catalyst picks, rotations, hero talents, dungeon data, macros and popular talents now come from the Oct 16 top logs.
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Keybindings reverted after logging out and back in (player report): the addon always saved into the character-specific binding set, but the game loads the account-wide set when "Character Specific Keybindings" is unchecked — so your keys worked for the rest of the session and came back wrong on the next login. Keys now go into whichever set the game is actually using. If that is the account-wide set you get one line saying so, since those keys then apply to every character.
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The system-key rows told you to click "Apply the suggested layout", a button that was removed on Oct 15 — there was nothing to click. Those rows now offer a "Rebind these keys" button right there, which only re-applies the system keys that do not match and touches nothing else. Four other stale references to that button were fixed too.
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Imported talent builds left a point unspent (player report, Demon Hunter Devourer — two builds in a row, one point each). WarcraftLogs builds carry fewer points than the current budget, and our "top up with what top players pick next" step stopped running when one-click import moved to Blizzard's import API on Sep 19. It runs again once the import lands, and stays out of the way while you are in combat or have uncommitted talent changes of your own.
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Custom BiS fix (player feedback): bind-on-equip, world-drop and auction-house pieces could not be picked. Our pools only hold gear top WarcraftLogs players actually wear, so raid zone-drop BoEs were never in them. The slot menu now offers "Use the one in your bags" and the tier-base section lists gear you own but that is not on the ranking, using that item's real item level and secondary stats.
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Catalyzed appearance pieces (cloak / wrists / belt / boots) could resolve back to the wrong base item when the real base only appears in the Mythic+ pool.
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Blood DK rotation 0.2 (player feedback): the assistant now tracks Blood Boil nesting — casting Blood Boil while Boiling Point is lit makes the game fire another one 3 seconds later, which is where 52% of all Blood Boil hits come from. Death Strike is now suggested from "you just Blood Boiled" instead of "runic power is about to cap"; runic power is only a gate. Blood Boil as the first suggestion went from 14% to 27%, and 40% to 67% for the top two.
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Blood DK's rotation primer was rewritten to match: a new entry on Blood Boil nesting, the runic-power-overflow entry replaced with "Death Strike follows Blood Boil, not overflow", real cast ratios added, and Essence of the Blood Queen demoted (it is already at 7 stacks for 93% of casts).
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Refreshed this week's and today's shortcut tips (2026-10-16).
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Hovering an icon in the rotation assistant or dashboard now shows the game's own spell or trinket tooltip first (name, cast time, range, effect), with our ready/cooldown/your-key lines underneath.
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The supplies cells (flask / food / burst potion) no longer cover the minimap: they drop below it when they overlap and stay on top everywhere else.
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Fixed a Lua error in the bonus-roll raid prompt: the pick list follows your coin count, so more than three entries ran out of numbering. It now numbers up to ten and falls back safely.
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Refreshed the in-game supporters list (percentages only, no amounts).
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The News page changelog now keeps only the past week of releases.
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New Arms Warrior rotation assistant (rotation 0.0): recommendations learned from 40 top Arms Mythic+ logs on Warcraft Logs — cooldown rules first, filler order from a decision tree. Burst runs as a set (Avatar → Colossus Smash → Bladestorm) and cooldowns are held for the next pack on small pulls. Pick "GI Arms · M+ (test)" on the Rotation page to enable it (Blizzard's assistant stays the default). It keeps recommending with no target or no enemies nearby, and cooldowns hidden in combat are timed from your own casts.
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Keybind page redesigned: the "lay out my bars" and "apply suggested layout" one-click buttons are gone. The new "Skill Keys" tab detects every skill of your spec (plus potions, the random favourite mount, racials and Macro-library macros already on your bars), lists the unbound ones in one place, and lets you bind them one at a time — press a key or click a keycap on the virtual keyboard; every action is a single, undoable change, and rows can be dragged onto the bars. The virtual keyboard shows your real bindings and right-click on a keycap removes a binding. The Replace tab keeps the top-player suggestion as a reference and slot corners show your current real key.
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Rotation assistant / dashboard: new Mobility lane (charges, blinks, sprints…; can be turned off in the assistant settings). Lanes your class has nothing for (procs, short cooldowns, major cooldowns, defensives, control, mobility) are hidden entirely instead of showing an empty row, in both the training and live styles.
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Fixed the dashboard supplies bar failing to read its data and flask / food / burst-potion slots overlapping. When cooldowns are unreadable in combat, the assistant's cooldown icons are now timed from your own casts instead of all sitting at "ready". Fixed the main skill name showing boxes for some specs.
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Fixed the pre-roll advice for bonus-roll coins: gear carried in your bags (not equipped) now counts as already owned, so it no longer says "must roll" for duplicates — for both raid and Mythic+ advice.
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My BiS: for hand-picked gear outside the recommendation pool (such as new raid drops) the target item level now comes from the link stored in the plan or from the same item on you / in your bags, instead of "missing the full link or item level".
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Added the 12.1.5 raid The Unbinding of Kith'ix: Kith'ix is boss M10 and now appears in Roll-coin planning, loot need sheets and farming plans. Multi-spec farming now uses this season's boss numbers.
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The talent library now includes Mythic M7 The Coiled Altar and M8 Ula'tek (Feral, Survival and Fire have no ranked Mythic logs yet and keep Heroic), plus Heroic H10 Kith'ix.
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Fixed random-secondary-stat items (raid trash drops, Traveler's Spoils pieces and similar) showing "link stats differ from the recommendation" on hover: recommended stats now use the spec's ideal pair, matching the website, and hovering shows the native item tooltip.
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Fixed remaining errors and silent failures caused by item APIs removed in 12.x (wishlist drop alerts, slash commands, embellishment planning, the PvP gear page and more). If you still see a GearReader.lua:81 error, update to the latest version.
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The Top Gear tab now always appears on the main panel; if its module is disabled, opening it shows an Enable & Load button instead of the tab disappearing.
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Updated the main addon and all modules for the Retail 12.1.5 (70391) interface version.
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Fixed crafted-item recommendation links with conflicting secondary-stat selections in the gear map and My BiS.
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Fixed Great Vault scoring so farmability and ranking penalties do not discount the actual item-level improvement.
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Added an Unlock / Move button to the rotation page and fixed single-icon dragging, with saved positions and automatic combat locking.
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The cooldown recommendation gold highlight can now be disabled independently of key labels.
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The complete package retains item API compatibility and nil guards. Replace all addon files and restart the game when upgrading.
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New Dashboard mode combines health, target, rotation, resources, cooldowns and dungeon supplies. Switch between rotation and dashboard from one page; edit and lock the layout.
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New Compact mode shows the main recommendation and alternative. Drag the group out of combat, lock it for click-through, and retain its position. Combat openers no longer block regular recommendations.
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Integrated key timeline and burst cooldown references, with historical Bloodlust references and cancellable manual holds. Right-click supplies to use them; left-click to search while at the Auction House.
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Hide compatible duplicate combat frames and timers. Party and raid frames use a separate opt-in switch. Closing the dashboard restores the original UI. Fixed background opacity and dragging Compact icons.
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Per-specialization rotation versions and update history are separated for Mythic+ and raids. Improved selected states, settings and side popups. Show verified public supporter names and distinguish addon release dates from WCL data dates.
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Added safe-icon fallback and diagnostic records for macro creation failures on affected clients. Includes the Top Gear features released in 0.98.0.
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New Top Gear: inspect complete recent loadouts of the Warcraft Logs All Stars rank-one player for each of 40 specs in Mythic raids and Mythic+. Browse gear, gems, enchants and secondary stats per encounter. Open Top Gear or /gitop; data loads on demand.
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Apply a loadout as My BiS with the previous plan archived, including gems, enchants and embellishments. Crafting recommendations follow the active plan. Older best runs fall back to a recent run; encounters without a run in the last 14 days remain empty.
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Recent supporters now lists the ten most recent verified supporters without a three-day cutoff; test payments are excluded.
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Fixed blank equipment overviews, incomplete gear maps and refresh errors on affected newer clients, including gem and enchant item-link compatibility. The reporting player verified that the gear map and refresh now work correctly.
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Fixed dungeon gear and Catalyst filler tooltips showing base item levels. Restored complete instances for 160 items and validated recommended item levels and secondary stats; unavailable native details now show clearly labeled targets.
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Applied the same checks to My BiS custom plans, recommendations, character icons, candidate lists, farming guides and multi-spec lists. Unverified recommendation links are no longer inserted into chat.
Release notes are maintained in English and Simplified Chinese; other languages fall back to English rather than showing a machine translation of a long text.