Athene's Upgrade Estimator

What does it do?
This is an addon for those who want help at figuring out what items are upgrades, and are tired of/don't understand complex spreadsheets.
It is made for DPS and healing.

To enable the addon for a character, type "/aue" and select if you want to show stats for DPS and\or healing.

How does it work?
The addon will first scan your current gear and check your talents to figure out the value of each stat for you. To help figure out the value for each stat, the addon uses a preset DPS rotation depending on class and specc. This DPS rotation is gathered from combat logs of good players at WoW Meter Online.
The addon will then print out a list with the value of each stat and how important each ability is to your DPS, next to your character window.
In addition to the preset DPS rotation, you can make your own rotation for increased accuracy. This requires Recount to be installed, as AUE will use the Overall fight datas from Recount to make the DPS rotation.

When you mouseover an item the addon will calculate what your total stats would be if you replace your current item with the mouseovered one, and then check if it would be better or worse.
The resultat is printed at the bottom of the item tooltip, and you can have an explanation in the tooltip for what makes it an upgrade\downgrade(what stats would increase\decrease). The upgrade\downgrade result is also colored in a fitting color (red for downgrade, green for upgrade).

The addon is not as accurate as a real spreadsheet, but the difference should be small. It is ment for those who care about gearing properly, but don't want to use complex spreadsheets like those on Elitist Jerks. This addon is completely automatic and 100x easier to use than any spreadsheet, but in return it is a bit less accurate. Thus it fits good for raiders who are dedicated but not hardcore.

Advantages:
Personally, these are the things I like the most with this addon:
1: You dont need a new spreadsheet for all your alts when you try out new classes. Just enable the addon and go.
2: Whenever you see an interesting item you can see at once if it's an upgrade. No more "sec, I need to check my spreadsheet", no time spent on building an upgrade list for new raid instances, no trouble trying to figure upgrades all by yourself.
3. The addon automatically saves all upgrades found to an internal upgrade list. With Atlasloot Reverse installed AUE will also save the drop spot with the item, making a list of what items you need in every instance. Is your alt done with heroic farming? Should you join that TotC 10 pug? Check your AUE list.
4: The stat values and calculations scale with your gear and buffs. Sometimes as a healer you might want to change a bit of gear depending on buffs in the raid. As a DPS this makes the addon more accurate than using standard stat values.
5. The addon will automatically check how much value you can get from a blue quality gem in empty sockets, and take them into calculations. That way it's alot easier to figure the value of an item with empty sockets.
6. When you have figured wether an item is an upgrade or a downgrade, you can quickly figure from the item stat difference what makes out the upgrade\downgrade. Why is that item an upgrade when you lose spell power and crit from wearing it? Maybe it's because you really need that hit rating?
7. Tooltips will also tell you if an item is on the upgradelist for any of your alts. This way, all your chars could shop upgrades for any char on AH.

The 3.x versions of AUE are heavily overhauled since 2.x and not all classes or speccs are implemented yet.
These speccs are currently implemented:
- DK: All speccs
- Druid: Feral
- Hunter: No speccs
- Mage: All speccs
- Paladin: Retri and holy
- Priest: All speccs
- Rogue: All speccs
- Shaman: Elemental and Resto
- Warlock: No speccs
- Warrior: Arms and fury

Known bugs:
- Text from Ratingbuster and Wardrobe appears twice in tooltips.

Change Log:

3.11
- The displayed hit rating missing on character screen was wrong for all abilities with more than 8% hit cap. Fixed.
- Mage: Fixed some issues on mage rotations.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
- Paladin: Updated retri nuke rotation and added an aoe rotation.
- Priest: Updated shadow nuke rotation and added an aoe rotation.
- Shaman: Updated elemental nuke rotation and added an aoe rotation.
- Rogue: Added separate rotations for assassination nuke and aoe, and combat nuke and aoe.

3.10
- Fixed a bug for mage rotations.
- Fixed the cast time for Heroic Strike.
- Fixed a bug that caused talent effects for abilities to be applied twice when opening the ability GUI.
- Fixed Deep Wounds for warriors.
- Fixed DK talent effects on abilities to display properly in the ability GUI.
- Fixed retri talent effects on abilities to display properly in the ability GUI.
- Fixed priest talent effects on abilities to display properly in the ability GUI.
- Fixed elemental talent effects on abilities to display properly in the ability GUI.
- Fixed talent effects for retri judgements.
- Fixed a bug in dual-wield hit rating calculations.
- Untill now the addon has been prioritizing the hit cap above all else when calculating empty sockets. This is no longer the case, it will now calculate the gem that is actually most worth.
- Fixed rogue talents Lethality and Vile Poisons, which had been mixed up.

3.9:
- Added mage - all speccs
- Added warrior - all speccs
- AUE will now share item upgrade info with raid\party members. If the mouseovered item is upgrade for anyone in the raid\party, the tooltip will tell you how much upgrade.
- Fixed a bug that caused ranged weapons to be treated as melee weapons.
- Fixed a bug with healing upgrades not showing in the upgradelist when selecting "all" drop spots.
- Fixed the rogue coefficient for offhand melee dmg.
- Excluded some quest pets that caused new rotations to screw up.
- Fixed a bug in the default rogue rotation.

3.8:
- Added a panel with overview of abilities and how they work.
- Added rouge - all speccs
- Added more raid buffs and fixed some raidbuffs so that they are not applied double when in raid.
- Increased accuracy of 'cast time' for abilities that procc from weapon based attacks (i.e seals and poison).
- Fixed a bug in creating rotations.
- Fixed a bug causing retri crits to be too low.
- Fixed two retri talents that didnt apply correctly.
- Fixed a bug in calculating cast times with haste.
- Fixed a bug in melee swingtime.
- Fixed a bug in DK talent Nerves of Cold Steel.
- Fixed the expertise cap for feral abilities Rip and Rake.
- Fixed a bug in the feral talent Primal Gore.
- Fixed the ele shammy talents Elemental Fury and Lightning Mastery.
- Fixed the cast time for shammy spell Flame Shock.
- Fixed the shadow priest default rotation, which had a bad typo.
- Fixed a bug so that priest talents for SW:Pain and Death are correctly applied.
- Fixed a bug in ele shammy stat value calculation.

3.7:
- Fixed a bug that caused the addon to stop sometimes when making new rotations.
- Fixed a bug that screwed up healing values.
- You can now link items from the item search list.
- Changed options GUI a bit, preparing for more content.

3.6:
- Added more drop spots to the upgrade list filter
- Fixed a bug with classes that are not supported yet.
- Fixed the tooltip for comparing rings and trinkets, which got bugged in a previous version.
- Fixed the bug causing the tooltip to disappear when you mouseover an equal item.

3.51
- Fixed DK talent Outbreak, which was set too high.

3.5
- Fixed a bug that caused DPS upgrades to differ from stat values.
- Stat values are more accurate.

3.4:
- Fixed a bug that caused downgrade one-hands to turn up on the upgrade list.
- Addon will now calculate all non-soulbound waist items as if they had an eternal belt buckle, making the calculations more accurate.
- Added some 'chance on hit' weapon proccs.
- Fixed a bug causing addon settings not to be saved.

3.3:
- Fixed a bug in pet damage.
- Fixed a bug in two-handed upgrades.
- Added DK - all speccs.
- Improved GUI for searching for items and upgrades.
- Fixed a bug causing 2xone handers not being properly compared to other two-handers.
- Fixed a bug causing dual-wield dps to be too high.
- Changed calculation of estimated DPS, should be alot more accurate.
- Fixed a bug in retri talent Improved Judgements.
- Rotations can now also be deleted.
- Added raid buffs to calculations for increased accuracy.
- Fixed some spell base damages for shaman.
- Fixed some bugs in shaman talents affecting abilities.
- Fixed some bugs in priest talents affecting abilities.
- Added statistics for DPS, on mitigated DPS, hastable DPS, DPS lost to miss, DPS lost to dodge, avg crit multiplier and dodgable DPS.
- Fixed a bug causing too high melee dmg.

3.2:
- Fixed some Holy pally talents
- Fixed some Resto shaman talents
- Fixed some Holy priest talents
- Fixed a bug with haste for retri, which was introduced last version.
- Fixed a bug with melee speed for retri, which was introduced last version.
- Fixed a bug that made the addon treat a few different items as the same.

3.1:
- Fixed a bug with drop spots and healing upgrades.
- Added Paladin - Holy
- Added Priest - Shadow
- Added Shaman - Elemental
- Added Shaman - Restoration
- Fixed a bug related to first-time use

3.0:
- DPS calculations redone from scratch, alot more accurate.
- Added more information for DPS at character screen
- Items that are found to be upgrade to any of your chars will now show up with a note in the tooltip, whatever character you are playing on.
- You can now see an upgradelist for all upgrades you have found for your logged character, by typing "/aue upgrades". Filter this list by typing "/aue slot head" or whatever.
- Smart socket calculations: When calculating items with sockets, the addon will figure out if you are below hit cap before sockets are filled. If you are, they will be calculated with hit, otherwise they are calculated with your most valuable stat.
- Smart healer oom-time calculations: To reflect how mp5, intellect and other stats that help you from getting oom become less valuable the more of them you have, the addon will slowly reduce the value for each second you dont go oom. This makes it alot easier to figure when to stop getting those stats and just go for the HPS stats.
- You can now make your own DPS rotations to use instead of the preset one. This is done by using Recount to record your DPS rotation results and then typing "/AUE new rotation (rotation name)". This use it by typing "/AUE use rotation (rotation name)"
- You can browse most lvl80 ilvl200+ items ingame by typing "/AUE check (slot)". This will give you itemlinks that you can mouseover, and upgrades are automatically added to upgradelist.
- Drop spots can be added to your upgrade list by installing a separate addon called Atlasloot Reverse.