Sharpie's Gear Judge (Classic Era, TBC Anniversary & WoW Forever)

The Final Verdict on your gear.

Sharpie's Gear Judge (SGJ) is a real-time theorycrafting engine and UI enhancement for World of Warcraft: Classic Era, the TBC Anniversary Edition, and the WoW: Forever beta.

Unlike addons that give items static points (e.g. "Hit = 10 pts"), SGJ understands context. It knows if you are hit-capped, if a helm swap will break your Meta Gem, whether a quest reward beats what you're wearing, and in TBC it can project the best gems and enchants for an item before you equip it.

🔥 New in 3.2.0: A Fresh Look

• A bigger window. The Gear Judge window is now 900×700 (was 650×650), and every tab is laid out in three columns: settings or summary on the left, the main content in the middle, details on the right.
• Receipt: your profile, total score and alerts on the left ("2 missing enchants", "1 better item in your bags"; click one to flash the slots). Your character in the middle with each slot's score beside it. Your weighted stat totals on the right.
• Protocol (settings): a section list on the left and the options in boxed sections in two columns, so most of them fit without scrolling.
• Stat Logic: your profile and cap rings on the left, full-width stat weight bars on the right. The rings now match your spec: tanks, healers, casters and melee each get their own set. WoW Forever tanks also see Dodge, Parry and Block, and the hit and defense targets match the ones your gear is scored against.
• Weapon Thunderdome: the six weapon setups side by side, with the winner and a ranking of every setup.
• The plugins (Roadmap, Laboratory, Talents, XP Bar) were redesigned for the new window too.

⚔️ Built for WoW Forever

• Level-60 weights for every class, worked out with each build's own talents: damage and tank profiles from the wowsims Forever simulator, healer profiles from a healing model in which healers downrank as they do in game.
• Profiles that match how you play: Raid, Solo Leveling, Dungeon Leveling and AoE Farming, named after the builds in the Talents plugin (for example "Arms: Raid", "Holy: Dungeon Leveling").
• Leveling weights level by level for all 28 Forever specs, from 10 to 59, built from the talents, spells and gear stats each spec actually has at that level. About 80 talent hooks adjust them for the talents you really took.
• Hit and defense targets follow your level. While leveling that's 5% hit (3% spell hit) against same-level mobs. With Gear for Raiding on, the targets slide toward the raid caps (9% hit, 16% spell hit, 440 Defense, uncrushable) from level 50.
• Relics are rated: all 25 new Forever librams, idols and totems, plus the 19 Classic relics Forever kept.
• Forever's new racials (e.g. +2% Crit for Humans with Swords, Tauren +1% Hit) and new race/class combinations are supported.

🚀 Key Features

🧠 Dynamic "Cap Guardian" Engine

The Judge watches your stats in real time and penalizes gear that would drop you below a critical threshold.

1. Weight scalers (proactive): hit and defense weights shrink as you approach your caps, so every item is scored with your current needs in mind.
2. Cap Guardian (reactive): if you're at or above a cap and a swap would drop you below it, the item gets a score penalty and a tooltip warning.

• Tank defense: 490 at 70 on TBC, 440 at 60 on Era, and on Forever a slide to 440 from level 50 (with Gear for Raiding on). Only applies when your profile weights defense.
• Raid-buffed scoring (TBC): turn on Assume Raid Buffed to credit common raid buffs and debuffs when working out how much hit you still need from gear.
• World buff assumptions: optionally model Classic world buffs for leveling and vanilla content.
• Hybrid live preview: tooltips answer "if I swap this piece, where does my hit land?" without you equipping it.

🔮 Smart Projection (SimC-Lite)

• Gem simulator (TBC): three strategies: The Skeptic (empty sockets = 0), The Casual (respect socket colors), The Pro (min-max, off-color gems included).
• Gem quality tier: project sockets with Common, Uncommon, Rare or Epic gems.
• Enchant projector: compare items as if they had the best enchant for your level and spec.
• Meta gem enforcement: detects when a swap would turn off your Meta Gem.
• Progression-aware gem pool: on TBC progression servers, projected gems follow the Content Phase set in Roadmap.

📊 Tooltip Verdicts

Hover any item: world drops, vendor goods, quest rewards, dungeon loot or AH listings.

• Judge's Score for your active spec (and any tracked off-specs).
• Upgrade / downgrade verdict with the score difference.
• Context warnings: cap breaks, set bonus loss, meta deactivation, missing enchants, off-hand requirements and more.
• Shift-only mode: show verdicts only while holding Shift.

🎒 Bag, Loot, Quest & Profession Overlays

Turn these on in Protocol → Interface Options.

• Bag upgrade arrows (off by default): green and red arrows on bag items. Works with Blizzard bags, Bagnon, ElvUI, Baganator, GudaBags and XLoot.
• Fast bag arrows: quick single-slot scoring, with a full check for set pieces and weapons.
• Loot roll arrows (off by default): highlights the best upgrade on group loot popups.
• Quest reward overlays: marks the best choice among quest rewards.
• Profession arrows: recipes that craft an upgrade for you get a green arrow, including Forever's new professions window.

🖥️ The Gear Judge Window (/sgj)

• Weapon Thunderdome: compare two-hander, one-hand + off-hand and dual-wield setups without equipping anything.
• Receipt: your equipped gear with a score per slot, alerts for missing enchants and better items in your bags, and your stat totals.
• Stat Logic: your active profile, cap rings and every stat weight, with the math behind each one on hover.
• Protocol: all settings, Pawn import and data export.
• Plus a tab for each plugin you have installed.

🧩 Plugins

• Roadmap: ranks every dungeon by the upgrades it holds for your character.
• The Laboratory: build and compare two full gear sets without owning the items.
• Talents (WoW Forever): talent build guide with level-up reminders, and weights that follow your build.
• XP Bar: an experience bar that shows quest turn-ins, rested XP and the gear upgrades waiting for your next level.

👥 Multi-Spec & Saved Baselines

• Tracked specs: turn on secondary specs in Protocol → Secondary Specs & Baselines, and tooltips show an upgrade line for each.
• Save Profile: snapshot your equipped gear as the baseline for a spec, so off-spec comparisons use that gear instead of what you're wearing. Essential for healers judging DPS drops while in healing gear.
• Clear: remove a spec's saved baseline.

💻 Slash Commands

Gear Judge also has a page under Game Menu → Options → AddOns to open the window or its settings, see What's New and bring back the minimap button.

⚙️ Settings Guide (Protocol)

Interface Options: Hide Minimap Button · Hide Tooltip Verdict · Show Only via Shift Key · Mute Error Sounds · Disable Conflict Check · Show Bag Upgrade Arrows (off by default) · Fast Bag Arrows · Show Loot Roll Arrows (off by default)

Tooltip Visuals: Compact Equip Text · Shorten Stat Names · Colorize Stats

Comparison Logic: Enchant Mode (Off / Current Only / Project Best) · Gemming Logic and Gem Quality (TBC)

Buff Assumptions: Assume Raid Buffed with a Raid Buff Preset (Off / 25-Man Full / 10-Man Minimal) · Assume World Buffed with a World Buff Preset (Off / Full / DM Tribute Only) · Assume Consumables · Gear for Raiding (WoW Forever: slide hit and defense toward raid caps from 50)

Character Profile: Active Scoring Profile. Auto-Detect picks a profile from your talents; hybrid builds may show an "uncertain" note in Stat Logic, so pick one by hand if needed. Delete Custom Profile removes a profile you imported.

Secondary Specs & Baselines: track specs in tooltips, and Save or Clear each spec's baseline gear.

📥 Importing Custom Weights

Import Pawn strings (from SimC or WowSims) or Sixty Upgrades exports:

1. Copy your Pawn string or Sixty Upgrades export.
2. Type /sgj import in game (or use Import Pawn String in Protocol).
3. Paste and confirm. SGJ creates a custom profile you can select in Protocol.

📥 Installation & Compatibility

One download for every client. SGJ detects which game you're running:

Install with the CurseForge app, or extract the SharpiesGearJudge folder into your game's Interface/AddOns folder.

Supported bag addons: Blizzard bags, Bagnon, ElvUI, Baganator, GudaBags, XLoot (loot rolls).

Languages: English, plus German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian.

Credits

• Author: SuperSharpie
• Version: 3.2.0
• GitHub: Supersharpie/SharpiesGearJudge
• Discord: Join the Theorycrafting Hub
• Feedback: found a weight that feels off? Drop by the Discord or open an issue on GitHub!