Addon Changelog
What changed in each GearInsight release, and who reported it. Player reports are what drives most of these — thank you.
fixed
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Lua error when hovering "Tier filler" in the Gear Map (bad argument #5 to 'SetText'). GameTooltip:SetText takes at most 4 arguments in 12.x; the code used the old 5-argument form. The wishlist stat tooltip had the same issue and is fixed too.
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On slots that are already best-in-slot, the gem / enchant squares, names and "Top 5" link floated away from the item, leaving a gap. They were anchored to the hidden BiS icon; they now sit next to the equipped item.
added
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Gear Map (new default view): the Next-steps list is laid out like the character sheet - two columns of slots, weapons centered at the bottom. Each cell shows your item, an arrow, and the BiS piece to get; best-in-slot pieces get a green border and check mark; the header shows N / 15 slots at BiS.
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Gem / enchant squares with names beside each BiS piece; the color is the status (green done, yellow non-recommended, red missing, grey not socketed). Left-click searches the auction house if it is open, otherwise posts to chat; right-click copies the name.
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Top 5 and Tier filler / Source links on every cell; the unique meta gem is recommended in one socket only; leg enchants point at the real auction-house armor kits / spellthreads.
fixed
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Blood / Unholy Death Knights had no weapon enchant recommendation - runeforges were filtered out as legacy data. Blood now recommends Rune of Sanguination (96.7%), Unholy Rune of the Apocalypse (99.2%).
fixed
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The key timeline did not appear for Bloodlust classes (mage / shaman / hunter / evoker) - player reports. It reads your lust spell's cooldown; in 12.x that value can be secret inside instances and the comparison threw every second, so the bar never rendered. Warlocks were unaffected. All cooldown reads are now secret-safe, and any further timeline error prints one visible line instead of failing silently.
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The dungeon assistant module failed silently when it was disabled on a character (GearInsight_Dungeon is a new folder since 0.74.0; addon enable state is per character). It now tries to enable itself first, and otherwise tells you to tick it in the AddOns list and /reload.
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New /gi kt debug prints diagnostics for bug reports.
fixed
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The key timeline blocked nameplates and could not be moved (player report). It was always draggable, but it accepted mouse input at all times and sat right where nameplates stack, so it swallowed clicks meant for nameplates; the only drag hint lived in a hover tooltip. It is now locked by default and ignores the mouse entirely - clicks pass through to nameplates. To move it: /gi kt unlock (turns green, draggable, shown even outside a key so you can place it in town), drag, then /gi kt lock; /gi kt reset restores the default spot. A new checkbox next to the Key Timeline toggle in the Dungeon Guide window does the same.
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Trade-off: while locked, the timeline's hover tooltip (full key plan) is unavailable - the same content is in section 4 of the Dungeon Guide window.
changed
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The dungeon assistant (dungeon guide, live hints, key timeline) is now an on-demand module that loads only when you enter a Mythic dungeon. The old switches only stopped it from displaying — the code still loaded and its events still fired, including a global spell-cast event that ran for every unit in raids, battlegrounds and the open world.
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The first time you enter a Mythic dungeon you are asked once: Enable, or Don't ask again. "Don't ask again" means the module is never loaded again — zero memory, zero events.
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Off does not mean gone: the Dungeon Guide button on the panel still opens it at any time, and a master toggle was added to the bottom-left of that window to turn it back on.
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BiS data is now decoded on demand — instead of building tables for all 40 specs at login, only the specs you actually look at are built. The gear data itself is unchanged: the old and new data were compared field by field across every combination of usage reference, exclude-raid and difficulty tier.
fixed
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The loot-spec hint never worked (self-audit). It looked up spec data one level too high, so the match count was always zero and the hint never fired. It failed exactly like "this dungeon really has nothing for your spec", which is why nobody noticed it.
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The dungeon guide's master toggle now refreshes every time the window opens, instead of showing a stale state after you changed it from the in-dungeon prompt.
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Key Timeline marks top-run boss arrivals, consensus lust points and your current position in Mythic+; the alert states the next actionable event.
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Role-aware advice tells lust casters whether lust will be ready and tells other specs when to hold burst. Each boss kill compares your pace with the top-run median.
fixed
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Lust points now use boss segments rather than WCL pull names, avoiding repeated-trash false matches and two-name-boss omissions; samples increased from 12 to 30 top runs per dungeon.
improved
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The item name in the loot alert popup is now clickable. Hover for the tooltip, click to open the link window, Shift-click to link it into chat, Ctrl-click for the dressing room - the same handling as everywhere else in the game. The 10-second countdown pauses while you hover, so the window no longer disappears while you are reading the tooltip.
fixed
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The summary line at the top of the Wishlist page could draw outside the panel. It was anchored on the left only, so it had no right edge and grew as long as the text. It is anchored on both sides now and truncates instead. The "data may be stale" note moved into a hover tooltip - the line shows a single "!", and hovering explains why the fallback source is in use and where to refresh.
fixed
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The loot alert popup showed a raw id instead of the item name. Modern clients emit a second link colour syntax (named item quality) that the old parser did not match, so it fell back to printing the internal identifier. The parser accepts both forms now, and the fallback never returns a raw id - it resolves a named link from the item id, filling the name in asynchronously when it is not cached. Reported by Icarus.
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Some Wishlist target rows showed instance names. Tier slots point at the top catalyst filler, but the name was read from a field that holds the instance name in the filler source table (it is the item name only in the gem/enchant tables). Item names are always resolved from the item id now. Reported by Pluto.
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The Wishlist disagreed with the Gear overview's BiS. The BiS fallback matched on class/spec only, mixing every hero talent branch of that spec into one list, while the panel uses just your current hero talent. It resolves the exact hero talent first now. Reported by Pluto.
added
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Loot alerts. A new Wishlist tab lists one row per slot - current item, what to farm, and the item levels you gain - sorted by gain, capped slots left out. When a party member loots an upgrade for you, a popup shows it with a 10s countdown, the item level gain and its BiS rank, and a one-click whisper prefilled with a link to what you are currently wearing. Alerts can be muted per slot. The list follows your gear automatically; there is nothing to maintain.
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Difficulty-agnostic. The same item drops at different item levels across raid and Mythic+ Heroic/Mythic, so the test is the actual item level of this drop against what you wear - any upgrade alerts. Tier slots point at the top catalyst filler, since tier pieces never drop and can only be converted.
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Item tooltips now say where the item comes from: raid or Mythic+, which instance, and which boss number. Boss numbering comes from the dungeon journal order. Items missing from the database fall back to the journal, so every current-season drop is covered.
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Farming priority gained a "Top BiS only" toggle: paired slots (rings / trinkets / weapons) keep only #1 and filler rows are hidden.
fixed
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Some items said nothing on hover. Only items inside your current spec's BiS pool were annotated, but fillers come from the catalyst list and are never in that pool. Fillers now report their conversion result and priority as well.
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The popup listed four fillers while the tooltip said "#2/3". Panel, popup and tooltip each built their own candidate list, and even used different stat weightings. All three now go through one entry point, so the rank and the total always agree.
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"Open journal" did nothing for some dungeons: when merging sources the first entry discarded the richer later one, dropping instance and boss ids. Missing fields are merged now.
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Last season's gear leaked into filler candidates and farming priority. The dungeon journal enumerates a whole expansion, so it mixes this season with the last. A season gate now filters by this season's instance list and item level floor, both recomputed with the weekly data refresh.
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Toggling the raid-gear or usage-reference buttons did not refresh an open filler window - the button changed but the order did not. It now redraws in place, with stat weightings recomputed for the current mode.
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The Mythic+ overview no longer attaches to Blizzard's dungeon finder; it lives in the addon panel. German, French and Korean clients fell back to Simplified Chinese instead of English when a translation was missing.
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Set fillers now answer "which one should I convert". Catalyst conversion only renames the item and adds the set bonus — the secondary stats come from the filler, so picking a filler is picking your stats. Every filler shows its stat pair (major stat first) and the popup ranks them 1/2/3 with a strict total order: scored by your spec's measured stat distribution (major x2, minor x1), ties broken by stat-order match, raid-first, then item id.
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The tier row in the main panel names the filler to farm together with its stats, and hovering shows that filler's full tooltip. Item tooltips gained a "filler priority #N/M" line — panel, popup and tooltip all share one sorter.
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Talent library is split into raid / push / farm with separators, each stating its sampling basis: raid = Mythic difficulty, farm = +12 keys, push = no cap (median +16 this week, +12~+20). Levels are computed from 32,000 real ranking records and follow the week automatically.
fixed
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The "exclude raid gear" toggle was ignored by the set-filler list — raid fillers still came first. Non-raid fillers now lead; raid ones move to the end rather than being removed (some slots only drop fillers in raid), with a note saying so.
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Bonus loot from the dungeon journal was counted as convertible fillers. Those items are not armor and cannot be catalyzed; filtered by item class instead of by name.
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24 of 40 specs carried a hero talent on their data key that disagreed with the hero talent actually shown. The key is now derived from the data itself, and all shipped artifacts were re-keyed.
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/gi could stop opening the panel; the toggle now reads the frame's real visibility. Removed the duplicate "Close panel" button and moved "Refresh" back to the main page.
added
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Talent library now covers all 8 raid bosses (Heroic fallback data had never been fetched); each entry states whether its sample is Mythic or Heroic.
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New "Advanced" tab closing the loop with the website: export gear, analyze on the site, paste the receipt back to keep your WCL power score and AI coach review in game.
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Tabbed main panel (Overview / Talents / Advanced / Tools / Settings / M+ Intel) with the M+ meta report embedded and fully localized.
fixed
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Stat priority showed false precision: an audit of all 40 specs found 28 near-ties rendered as a strict A > B (and caused 16 specs to appear to flip between profiles). Gaps under 1.5pp now show as ≈.
reported by 玩家反馈
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Stat-progress label and number used different yardsticks ("on target, over by 90" next to "over target, over by 59"); percentages are now shown too.
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Catalyst-converted tier pieces showed a wrong (usage-inferred) source; corrected at the final data gate.
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Tooltip BiS rank now follows your usage-reference mode and explains catalyst conversion; journal opening hardened; export dialog URL is click-to-copy.
changed
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M+ Intel page fully localized (spec names, K/M units, dungeon names, issue tag) and boards now label the value column as Avg DPS (median of top 100).
fixed
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"Copy back to the addon" button did nothing; difficulty serialized as [object Object]; empty score string when no WCL logs.
fixed
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"Click to open journal" could fail silently: modern load-API fallback, popup no longer covers the journal, diagnostic line if it still fails.
fixed
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Panel init error when a 0.67.x-era imported receipt existed in saved variables.
changed
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The analyzer URL in the export dialog is now click-to-copy.
fixed
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Export button no longer lingers on the Overview page before the Advanced tab is first opened.
changed
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Advanced-tab receipt now carries website-exclusive data only: WCL combat power score (percentile, color tiers) and the AI coach review — the addon computes gap lists and farm priority locally already.
fixed
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Advanced-tab import: WoW edit boxes escape | as || on paste — now unescaped. Website string generation field mismatch fixed (re-copy from the analyzer); paperdoll now shows item icons with ilvl badges.
added
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New "Advanced" tab closing the loop with the website: export your gear string, analyze on gearinsight.app, then paste the new "Copy back to the addon" string — farm priorities and missing pieces persist in game.
added
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Talents as its own tab (second); M+ Intel tab moved to the bottom with a data-date header; push/farm boards upgraded to class-colored bars with T0/T1/T2 tier chips.
fixed
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Tooltip BiS rank now follows your usage-reference mode (raid/M+) and explains catalyst conversion for filler pieces.
reported by 玩家反馈
changed
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Usage-reference and Raid-gear toggles moved from Settings back to the Overview page (top right) — they directly change what the overview shows.
added
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New tabbed main panel: four side tabs (Overview / M+ Intel / Tools / Settings). Overview keeps only gear content with a taller list; feature buttons organized into Tools and Settings pages with descriptions.
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M+ Intel merged into the main panel as a tab (/gi meta standalone window still works).
fixed
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Wrong source shown for catalyst-converted tier pieces (WCL usage inference stitched unrelated raids). Now corrected at the final data gate: tier pieces show Catalyst conversion with the proper tier badge.
reported by 玩家截图反馈
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Graduation baseline note reworded to "what top players actually wear".
fixed
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M+ Meta panel showed "data not loaded" — the 0.65.0 data file wrote to the addon-private namespace while the panel reads the global one. Fixed within the hour, plus a boolean bug that would have mislabeled every row as new.
added
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In-game "M+ Meta" panel (/gi meta): weekly spec meta inside the game — push/farm DPS boards with rank changes, tank/healer pick rates, tank & healer damage, fastest dungeons and underrated picks. Same data as the M+ Meta page on this site and the weekly videos.
fixed
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"Graduation ilvl" renamed to "Drop baseline" with its definition shown — 321 is the season raid's base drop level (derived from live data), upgradeable via tracks; the old label didn't say so.
reported by 西野已无恶
fixed
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Cleared every last-season item still appearing in recommendations. All 40 specs audited: 95 items / 272 entries across 17 source shapes (catalyst conversions, reputation rewards, crafted pieces, old raid difficulties, world drops...). The filter is rewritten from label-based blocking to a general rule: anything below this season's item-level floor and absent from the season's authoritative drop tables is removed — it judges the item, not the label.
reported by 筱小飞
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Weekly WCL data refresh (both M+ tiers + all 40 raid specs).
fixed
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The BiS rank shown in item tooltips is now labelled "Season BiS ranking". A player reported that the addon's BiS pick and the one shown on hover did not seem to match. They are two different things: with Companion connected the panel shows a personalised suggestion (one item per slot, with an improvement figure), while the tooltip reports where the item you hover sits in the season-wide ranking. Neither was wrong — nothing said which was which.
reported by ZL
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Tooltip ranks no longer go stale: the reverse index was built once at login and cached forever, so after a weekly data refresh the tooltip kept showing the old ranking — silently. It now rebuilds when the data changes.
added
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Also available from 新手盒子 (the Chinese addon manager) for players in mainland China, alongside CurseForge and the direct download here.
fixed
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Wrong season label: the panel footer still read "Midnight S1" while the data shipped inside the addon was already Season 2. The string was hardcoded separately in all three locale files and nobody updated it at season rollover.
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Tier set sources were a season out of date — every spec's catalyst filler pointed at last tier's raid. The cache that feeds them was built a week before its own input was refreshed and never rebuilt after the season rolled over.
reported by ZL
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Clicking a drop source did not open the Encounter Journal: the source-to-journal map still listed last season's instances, so only 25 of 4022 items resolved. It is now read from the weekly data refresh instead of being hand-maintained — coverage is back to 3328 items (82.7%) and it will follow future season changes on its own.
changed
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Localization overhaul. Added 53 missing English and 56 missing Traditional Chinese strings — these silently fell back to Simplified Chinese, which is why nobody noticed. Slot names now come from the game's own localized strings, so German, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian clients no longer show Chinese slot names, and new languages need no work at all. A missing string now falls back to English rather than Chinese (Traditional Chinese still falls back to Simplified, which is far more usable there).
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Interface fixes: the stat target buttons no longer overlap (their width was hardcoded for two Chinese characters), copy dialog hints no longer overflow the frame, and sub-windows re-dock each time they open instead of staying wherever they first appeared — while still remembering a position you dragged them to yourself.
changed
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Only one QQ group is shown in the addon now (954673901). It has been expanded to 2000 members, so listing a second group only made people hesitate over which to join.
changed
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QQ group info updated: group 1 (954673901) has been expanded to 2000 members and is no longer full, so it is the primary group again; group 2 (1095639862) is listed as the alternative.
fixed
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Raid boss numbering was wrong: the rotation guide labelled this tier's first boss as M11, because the numbering came from a cross-season encounter list with last season's bosses first. It is now scoped to this tier's eight bosses in Blizzard's own order.
changed
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Gear export now points at the website: the export string is unchanged, but the prompt sends you to gearinsight.app/wow/en/analyze instead of a WeChat mini-program that is no longer maintained.
fixed
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Mythic+ gear now graduates against its ceiling item level. The panel used to treat whatever item level the sampled top player had as the target, so a Hero-track 6/6 piece (321) counted as finished even though the Myth track sits above it. 244 items had their target raised.
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The ceiling comes from observed data — the highest item level that item appears at anywhere in the sample — not from arithmetic on the upgrade track, whose steps are not evenly spaced. Raid BiS stays Mythic-only.
fixed
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Raid talents are back for all 40 specs — the previous build only had them for Fire Mage because the Heroic fetch stopped after one spec.
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Difficulty is chosen per boss: Mythic wherever a Mythic ranking exists (M1-M8), Heroic otherwise (H1-H8). This early in the tier anyone with a Mythic kill is in a top guild. Raid BiS stays Mythic-only.
fixed
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Removed a leftover Dragonflight item (Vexamus' Expulsion Rod, item level 298) that was the top Mythic+ off-hand pick for one spec, shown with an unresolved encounter id as its source. Third shape of the same bug fixed in 0.62.x — the rule now also covers raw encounter-id sources below the season's item-level floor.
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Version numbers now match across both addon folders (GearInsight_Talents still read 0.62.0).
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Raid loot tables now show which boss drops each piece (M-number + boss name). Mythic+ rows show only the dungeon — all eight end on the last boss, so a boss number carries no information there, while the dungeon name tells you where to go.
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Tier list has a new Pick rate column, built from real Raider.IO group rosters at +17 and above. Note the Runs column is a fixed sample cap (top 100 per spec per dungeon on WarcraftLogs), so it never showed popularity — pick rate does.
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Talent pages now show each listed player's world rank on that boss.
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Affix page shows which week of the season it is, and the affix list is now translated (it used to print Raider.IO's raw English title above Chinese cards).
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Class and spec icons on the talent index and farming guide pages; class-coloured card borders so you can find your class at a glance.
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Install guide is now a real button instead of a 12px grey link, and the site logo is the addon's own icon.
fixed
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A last-expansion trinket was still ranked #1 by usage in the Mythic+ trinket list (Algeth'ar Puzzle Box, ilvl 298, source shown as "other"). A few logged top players do still wear it, so it had a real share — but it should neither be recommended nor sit at the top today. The pool now also drops items whose source cannot be resolved and whose item level is below this season's floor.
reported by 一叶渊心
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Wowhead links did not open from mainland China. On Chinese locales they now point at cn.wowhead.com, the official Chinese mirror — item, spell and NPC pages all verified.
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The consumables block showed icons with no names at all. Every flask, potion and food now has its name back.
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Mythic+ guide pages listed spell and caster names in English on an otherwise Chinese page. All 244 abilities and 58 casters now use Blizzard's official Chinese names.
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Some hero talents were left untranslated (San'layn showed in English next to a translated Rider of the Apocalypse). All 38 now resolve.
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The trinket page had no breadcrumb; "Mythic+ (farm)" now reads as the term players actually use.
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Community card: Telegram is now the primary button on every language except Simplified Chinese, where QQ stays primary.
data
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Rotation benchmarks, rotation teaching, Mythic+ dungeon guides and live callouts caught up to 2026-08-27. When 0.62.0 shipped these were still rebuilding in the background — gear data was already current. No gameplay changes.
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Gear data re-finalized with all six 0.62.0 fixes included.
fixed
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An item already upgraded onto the Myth track was still listed as "needs upgrade", pointing at the same item on the Hero track — a copy with a lower ceiling. If you own the item it now counts as owned and shows "upgradeable 318 → 321" instead.
reported by 筱小飞
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Hero talent shown for each spec was a hardcoded value from two seasons ago. It is now counted from the actual talents of the sampled top players — this corrected 23 of 40 specs (e.g. Beast Mastery Hunter: Dark Ranger → Pack Leader).
reported by Icarus
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Raid stat targets were derived from the recommended items' own secondary stats instead of what top players actually itemize. They now use the real character-panel ratings read from combat logs (Beast Mastery raid: haste 41% → mastery-first, matching third-party datasets).
reported by Icarus
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Last season's items were labelled as drops from the current raid, because the source was inferred from where the item was seen being worn rather than where it drops.
reported by 一叶渊心
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Last season's gear no longer appears in the recommendation pool (it was suggesting a 298 trinket to replace an equipped 308), and the same item now shows one consistent source in both the Raid and Mythic+ columns.
reported by 陈【小】贝@ / 哈哈老虎
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Trinket pairing now prefers one on-use plus one passive instead of two on-use trinkets competing for the same burst window. It only swaps when the pool actually has a complementary piece.
reported by 哈哈老虎
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Item effect text (the green "Use:" / "Equip:" lines) is now shown on the website, in all 10 client languages, with an on-use / passive tag.
reported by ZSJN WEi
data
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Full data refresh against the 2026-08-27 logs — raid and Mythic+ Season 2. The new raid has full Mythic sample pages for its first bosses; specs still short on Mythic logs fall back to Heroic sampling and say so.
v0.61.0
2026-08-26
fixed
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Target item level was stuck at last season's 289, so "Gap" read 0 even when you were above it. It is now derived from the current season's actual drops (321 this season).
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Most recommended gear was still last season's — the old raid zone was still in the data source and its thicker sample buried the freshly opened raid.
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.