Best in Slot BiS Gear

Best in Slot gear, talents and glyphs for every PvE spec in Wrath of the Lich King 3.3.5a.

Not progressive: every spec has one list, always for the latest phase (ICC / Ruby Sanctum, Phase 5). No more guessing what to soft reserve.

Features

• Gear tab: a paper doll of your own character wearing the full BiS set, with the real enchants applied. Every slot shows:
  • the item, in its quality colour
  • its enchant
  • its gems, as icons you can hover or shift-click
  • where it drops: boss, raid size and heroic, emblem cost, Tier 10 heroic mark, reputation, crafted or legendary
• Talents tab: all three trees drawn from the game client’s own talent data, with every point placed.
• Glyphs tab: the major and minor glyphs for the build.
• Item tooltips everywhere: any item that’s BiS for a spec gets a line saying which specs, and where it drops. The normal-mode copy of a heroic item tells you where the heroic one drops.
• 30 specs across all 10 classes, including variants such as Combat with or without Rupture, Spellhancer, Fire Spirit and Balance for the Lich King fight.
• Opens on your own class and the spec you have the most points in.

Commands

In the window:

• Shift-click an item or gem to link it in chat.
• Ctrl-click an item to see it in the dressing room.
• Drag the corner to resize the window; right-click the corner to reset it.

Specs included

• Death Knight: Frost, Unholy, Blood (Tank)
• Druid: Balance, Balance (LK), Feral Cat, Feral Bear, Restoration
• Hunter: Marksmanship (two variants)
• Mage: Arcane, Fire, Fire (Spirit)
• Paladin: Holy, Protection, Retribution
• Priest: Discipline, Holy, Shadow
• Rogue: Assassination, Combat (Rupture), Combat (no Rupture)
• Shaman: Elemental, Enhancement, Enhancement (Spellhancer), Restoration
• Warlock: Affliction, Demonology
• Warrior: Fury, Protection

Not included yet: Arms Warrior, Beast Mastery and Survival Hunter, Subtlety Rogue, Frost Mage and Destruction Warlock.

Install

1. Download the zip.
2. Extract it so you have Interface/AddOns/BiSForge/.
3. Restart the game, or log out fully; /reload does not load new addons.
4. Type /bis.

Credits

Made by Gravie, thranin, Wizax and Peezy.
<Bastion>, Alliance, Icecrown: PvE Hardcore Guild.
Discord: https://discord.gg/3xUfVCejhT

For the curious: about the code

Requirements

• WoW 3.3.5a (Interface 30300), plain Lua 5.1.
• No libraries and no other addons needed.

Where the data comes from

• Gear, enchants, gems and glyphs: curated sixtyupgrades Phase 5 sets. Every item, enchant and glyph was cross-checked between two independent sources.
• Item ids: the highest item level per name. The Lich King’s heroic weapons and the heroic Tier 10 pieces were checked by hand, because common item databases list some of them wrongly.
• Talent trees: read from the 3.3.5a client’s own talent tables, not typed in by hand, so names, icons and positions match the game exactly. Every build is checked to have 5 points per tier and every prerequisite maxed.
• Drop sources: from AtlasLoot’s loot tables.

What it saves

• One small table, WarmaneBiSGearDB: window scale, minimap button position, last spec viewed and the tooltip toggle.

What it sends

• When you’re in a raid or party, it shares your own talents and glyphs with your group on the addon channel WBGT. This happens on join, when you change talents, glyphs or spec, and when a raid leader’s addon asks.
• That lets a raid leader check builds, including glyphs, which the game can’t inspect on 3.3.5a. It sends nothing else, and never outside your group.
• For addon authors, the format is:
  • T:<CLASS>:<tree1>.<tree2>.<tree3>: talent points in tree order
  • G:<spellId>,<spellId>,...: glyph spell ids

Performance

• Tooltip lookups are a single table lookup.
• The window builds only the first time you open it.
• No timers run while the window is closed, apart from a short, throttled message when your talents change.

Credits and modifications

• The credit banner is protected. A copy whose credits have been changed will switch itself off and only show where to get the original.
• If you want to change or extend the addon, contact us on Discord instead of editing the credits.

Known limits

• One build per spec, for the current phase only.
• Heroic and normal versions share a name, so tooltips tell them apart by item id.