TalentPlaner

TalentPlaner adds planning capabilities to the talent frame. Left clicking on a talent increases (and right clicking decreases) your planned rank for that talent. Control left clicking a talent actually buys it if you have a point. Note that I am not responsible for any talents you accidentally buy! I've made every effort to make the interface intuitive and have tested it extensively, but until you get used to it it may be a bit disorienting.

The talents are color coded to indicate their status (see below) and a description of the planned rank is added to the tooltip. It's similar in nature to the talent calculators on the Blizzard website, but slightly more complicated because it needs to show you not only what talents you've planned but also what you currently have. The bottom right numbers are your current rank/max rank. The bottom left number is your goal rank.

TalentPlaner no longer depends on the Blizzard web calculators. Given that they are not updated frequently and that they tend to introduce more errors and typos than they fix I am no longer using them. The description text for the planned ranks is now derived from the game itself. This means that if Blizzard changes a rank of a talent that none of my characters has but does not modify the rank that they do have or rank 1 for talents they don't have, I might miss it. But with the patch notes in hand and the fact that changes to talents tend to affect every rank of the talent, this approach will be much easier to maintain and much more accurate. Please report any inconsistencies you find!

As of v2.6, TalentPlaner is only half-localized in German. I don't have access to a deDE client, and as I am now using game data, I cannot support localization by myself. If someone is interested in localizing TalentPlaner, I can provide the web script to get a "baseline" talent set from the web and the addon I wrote that will compare that set against the data in-game. It should be relatively easy to obtain accurate, localized talent data using those tools.

There are several states a talent can be in, each with its own color.

If you do not currently have points to spend:

Grey: You have not planned any ranks in this talent but you could do so. Blue: You have planned some ranks in this talent, but not to its maximum. Purple: You have planned to max this talent out. Gold: You have maxed out this talent. Red: You have more ranks in this talent than you had planned.

If you have one or more points to spend:

Cyan: You have not planned any ranks in this talent, but you could still spend a point on it if you want. Green: You have planned some ranks in this talent and can now spend a point on it.

Slash commands:

/tp or /planner Enable/disable the mod.

/tp or /planner reset Clears the talent goals for the current character.

/tp or /planner current Sets the talent goals for the current character to be whatever talents they currently have. It's probably a good idea to do this the first time you log in with a character.

/tp or /planner save <name> Saves the current build set under the name <name>. If there is already a saved set with that name, this will overwrite it.

/tp or /planner load <name> Loads the build set saved as <name>. This will overwrite your current build.

/tp or /planner delete <name> Deletes the set saved as <name>.

/tp or /planner list Lists the saved sets for the current character.

Future plans:

1. Make the colors configurable. Some may not agree with my color choices, seeing as how I have no artistic sense whatsoever.

2. Allow for alt-viewing. Currently it only shows the tree for the current character. It would be a pain to store all the textures and whatnot in order to be able to view one character's talent goals on another character in the normal graphical talent pane, but perhaps a text listing would work.

3. Allow for all three talent pages to be seen at once.

02/10/09: v3.5
- Updated for WoW 3.0.9

01/20/09: v3.4
- Updated for WoW 3.0.8

11/04/08: v3.3
- Updated for WoW 3.0.3