better/README.md

better

a 2.4.3. addon that tells you what item you can equip at a given slot to improve stat X. Written in Fennel (Lisp on Lua).

The basic idea is that you're like level 15 melee and you're barely out of the starting zone and are about to tackle your first couple of elite mobs and you wnat to for example do most damage possible.

So for melee you need strength, agility, crit etc, and you want to see what axe or mace or sword will give you more DPS output at lv 15.

So you run

/better MainHand 3

where 3 means Agility, or

/better MainHand 4

and 4 is Strength. Later on I'll make it accept just “/better MainHand agility” or similar, for now there's a list of stats in the Fennel source code (they are 0-indexed so nr 3 is actually fourth).

Known issues

Currently there's a couple of problems and things missing such as

• head/trinket/finger slots report wrong item types
• items which grant you e.g. like 5 more strength but reduce armor should get disqualified
• generic querying ("/better MainHand DPS” or “/better Shoulder Heal” or “/better Legs Crit”)
• code cleanup