gearscore considered harmful

[estarriol]

latest target on the anti-spamming mod crusade : gearscore

it's one of the top spam sources in our raids lately.  it does not shut itself off when you're in a raid.  if you're in the guild and not in the raid, you're also spamming everyone in the guild (and thus the raid) with gearscore info.  whenever you mouseover items it repeatedly rescans them for stat bonuses, even in combat. 

recommended alternatives : elitist group; sexygroup; or if you are dead set on gearscore, gearscore lite.

[Flinne]

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like sexygroup is the same thing as elitist group.  The download link on the site I found sexygroup on just took me to elitist group's site.

[Flinne]

I've been using GearscoreLite, (if you do much PUGing, you pretty much have to know your gearscore) and the guy that wrote it must not have foreseen a day when people would have a gearscore over 6k, which people have nowadays.  Can you say Y2k?  The addon throws a LUA error anytime you mouseover someone with a gearscore over 6k.  I got sick of the errors, so I cracked mine open and fixed it.  If anyone else has been using it and has the same problem, let me know and I can let you know how to fix it.  (I'm too lazy to just put the fix in here if no one actually needs the fix)

[Flinne]

Ok, I got a few requests for the fix for GearScoreLite, so here it is:

In your GearScoreLite folder, there are three files.  You need to edit two of them:

informationLite.lua

If you search for "Legendary", you'll find a block of code that looks like this:

Code:

GS_Quality = {
[6000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "Legendary"
},

This is providing values for how to color the text it displays if the gearscore is between 5k and 6k.  It doesn't provide values for how to color the text for anything above 6k, so it blows up if it's higher than 6k.  Personally, I don't care at all what color it is, so I just copied and pasted these values, so this fix will keep the same exact color above 6k as it does between 5k and 6k.  If you're ok with that, this is what you'll want:

Code:

GS_Quality = {
[11000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "Apotheosis"
},
[10000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "Wow"
},
[9000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "ReallyCool"
},
[8000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "Awesome"
},
[7000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "BetterThanLegendary"
},
[6000] = {
["Red"] = { ["A"] = 0.94, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00006, ["D"] = 1 },
["Green"] = { ["A"] = 0.47, ["B"] = 5000, ["C"] = 0.00047, ["D"] = -1 },
["Blue"] = { ["A"] = 0, ["B"] = 0, ["C"] = 0, ["D"] = 0 },
["Description"] = "Legendary"
},

BTW, the descriptions don't matter...feel free to replace my lame descriptions.

Ok, now you need to edit the GearScoreLite.lua file.
Search for "for i = 0,"

You'll find a line that looks like

Code:

for i = 0,6 do

or, it might have a 5 instead of 6, I don't remember exactly what it was before, but I think it was 6.

Anyway, replace the 5 or 6 with 11, so it looks like

Code:

for i = 0,11 do

That's it!  You're done!  You should now be able to see super cool gearscores without it blowing up in your face.   

[RAblaze]

Thank you Flinne  worked great.

[estarriol]

too many people still running crappy gearscore, blizzard taking action upon next restart. 

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25578348839/blizz-to-handicap-gearscore/