Archon Tooltip Addon Now Available for Retail and Cataclysm Classic
The Archon team has officially released their Tooltip Addon, which offers detailed information on characters' progress in both Retail and Cataclysm Classic.
Addon Features
Subscriber Features
All players have free access to the addon and receive weekly character data updates. Those who subscribe on Warcraft Logs Patreon get a few extra perks:
Addon Opt Out and Player Protections
Originally Posted by Archon
The Archon team recognizes the power we're giving players with an easy-access add-on like this and wants to be responsible in our implementation.
Difficulty Breakpoint
We only want to show parses for players that are likely part of the high-end culture. We're doing this by only including the more difficult content parses in the addon. For example, data from Normal difficulties will not be included at all.
Parse-Gates
Additionally, we've decided to introduce something that we've been calling a parse-gate. We want to show players in their best light and give them a chance to prove themselves. To do this, we will be hiding all parses until a certain number of kills have been obtained to give players a chance to improve their best parse before it is shown.
There is a set threshold where parses aren't shown until a certain number of kills. For Heroic in Retail and Cataclysm, this is set to "20 kills", or roughly 3 full clears. Retail Mythic parses are impressive early on regardless of percentile, so a lower threshold of "5 kills" is used.
Note: If a character meets the kill threshold in Heroic, but not Mythic, it will show their Mythic progress with their Heroic parses (and show that the parse is from Heroic).
Opt Out
You may opt out of the addon. To do so, you can hide your character on Warcraft Logs.
Why Are We Releasing an Addon?
This has been a long-time, highly requested feature by the community, and it has been repeatedly attempted to be created through scraping our site or abusing our API. That is not a feasible way to keep it up to date, and it's expensive for us to prevent. We are doing this ourselves as the only way to feasibly provide all this data, and hope this opens up to even more in-game features in the future.
How to Install Archon Tooltip Addon
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The Archon team has officially released their Tooltip Addon, which offers detailed information on characters' progress in both Retail and Cataclysm Classic.
Addon Features
- Displays character's raid progress and boss count on hover tooltips.
- If the character meets the parse-gate, tooltips will show the average parses, All Star Points, and World Rank.
- Tooltips also show up when selecting a player in the guild window.
- The right-click menu features a "Copy WCL URL" option to quickly check character pages on the website.
- Players can link their alts to show their main's progress and parse average, which can make it easier to get into groups.
Subscriber Features
All players have free access to the addon and receive weekly character data updates. Those who subscribe on Warcraft Logs Patreon get a few extra perks:
- Subscribers can use Shift to see encounter-level data in their hover tooltips.
- Subscribers receive daily data updates, along with data uploads for everyone else to see.
Addon Opt Out and Player Protections
Originally Posted by Archon
The Archon team recognizes the power we're giving players with an easy-access add-on like this and wants to be responsible in our implementation.
Difficulty Breakpoint
We only want to show parses for players that are likely part of the high-end culture. We're doing this by only including the more difficult content parses in the addon. For example, data from Normal difficulties will not be included at all.
Parse-Gates
Additionally, we've decided to introduce something that we've been calling a parse-gate. We want to show players in their best light and give them a chance to prove themselves. To do this, we will be hiding all parses until a certain number of kills have been obtained to give players a chance to improve their best parse before it is shown.
There is a set threshold where parses aren't shown until a certain number of kills. For Heroic in Retail and Cataclysm, this is set to "20 kills", or roughly 3 full clears. Retail Mythic parses are impressive early on regardless of percentile, so a lower threshold of "5 kills" is used.
Note: If a character meets the kill threshold in Heroic, but not Mythic, it will show their Mythic progress with their Heroic parses (and show that the parse is from Heroic).
Opt Out
You may opt out of the addon. To do so, you can hide your character on Warcraft Logs.
Why Are We Releasing an Addon?
This has been a long-time, highly requested feature by the community, and it has been repeatedly attempted to be created through scraping our site or abusing our API. That is not a feasible way to keep it up to date, and it's expensive for us to prevent. We are doing this ourselves as the only way to feasibly provide all this data, and hope this opens up to even more in-game features in the future.
How to Install Archon Tooltip Addon
- Download and install the Warcraft Logs Companion.
- Register a new account or log in with your Warcraft Logs account, then head to go Addon tab.
- Retail players have to choose "The War Within" from the game menu, then select the retail folder.
- Classic players have to choose "Cataclysm" from the game menu, then select the classic folder.
- Enable the option "Install Character Tooltip Addon and Automatically Keep Up-to-Date".
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