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About this addon
What it does
GearMatic is a gear upgrade and best-in-slot addon for Retail and every Classic version. It scores every item you see (tooltips, quest rewards, loot rolls, your bags) against what you have equipped and marks it with a clear +12% upgrade or -3% downgrade, using per-spec stat weights, caps, and breakpoints from the Icy Veins class guides for every class, spec, and role, healers and tanks included. You are scored the moment you log in, no setup required.
Note: bag icons may not show with some bag addons installed. GearMatic's own bag window is in the works so you will not need one.
Prefer your own weights? Paste Pawn-format strings from WoWSims or Raidbots into /gm import, or pull every scale from the Pawn addon with one option.
The Gear Map
Type /gm gear for a ranked window of every upgrade waiting for you across dungeons and raids, biggest jump first, with slot, drop location, drop chance, and auction buyout on BoE pieces. While leveling it looks ahead and tags gear with the level you can equip it at.
Best in Slot
The Icy Veins BiS list ships built in for every spec. A skull marks the true BiS piece even when its raw stats look lower, in your bags, on your character sheet, on loot rolls, and on Great Vault choices, each with its honest percent.
Simulated Procs, Trinkets, and Set Bonuses
Equip effects carry real value, not just raw stats. Procs, trinkets, and set bonuses are pre-simulated for your exact spec on every game version: damage procs for damage dealers, tank procs for tanks, healing and absorb procs for healers. An off-list trinket with a strong effect can honestly beat a listed one, famous legendaries and procs are covered, and older leveling gear has measured values too. When an effect cannot be measured reliably you get an estimate with a gray note, never an invented number.
Your Other Characters
Page through your alts on the character sheet: full gear, stats, durability bars, and the character in their actual transmog. Low durability triggers an alert with sound and a skull emote, and worn-down alts are flagged at login. One master toggle turns all alt suggestions off and on.
Features
- Icy Veins scoring built in - weights, stat caps, and haste breakpoints per spec
- Simulated proc, trinket, and set bonus scoring folded into every item's score
- BiS skull marking in bags, character sheet, and loot rolls
- Upgrade arrows with exact percents everywhere an item appears, including every bank, and alongside all the popular bag addons
- Your markers, your way - chevrons or arrows, new or classic artwork, live previews
- BoE and Warbound badges with optional quality filter
- Pawn weights, optional -
/gm importany Pawn string,/gm pawnimports them all - Alt gear browser and durability alerts with sound and skull emote
- Equipment Manager on Classic, a modern sets panel on the character sheet
- On-screen upgrade alerts, fully customizable
- Optional auto-equip, hardened against swap loops; hand-equipped gear is left alone
- Optional vendor automation - grey junk, soulbound gear by your rule, auto-repair, always with a chat summary and never anything valuable or still tradeable
- Cross-character tracking - weak slots, chat mouseover summaries, mailable gear in suggestions
- Loadouts -
/gm saveand/gm loadnamed gear sets - Spec auto-detected, with a Cat or Bear role picker for Classic Ferals
- In-game FAQ, localized in 12 languages along with the whole addon
Slash Commands
/gm- settings and loadout/gm gear- the Gear Map/gm import//gm pawn- bring in Pawn scales/gm scales- list or activate scales/gm save <name>//gm load <name>- saved gear sets/gm equip- equip detected upgrades now/gm auto on|off- automatic swapping/gm junk on|off- auto-sell grey trash/gm changelog- what is new/gmhelp- every command
License
All Rights Reserved. Embedded third-party libraries keep their own original licenses.
At-a-glance numbers
Performance highlights
- Peaked at Hot #45 on Sep 8, 2026.
- Peaked at Rising #165 on Sep 9, 2026.
- Featured on the Hot list across 5 distinct weeks.
- Shipped 66 releases in the last 30 days.
- Averaging 3.3K new downloads per day over the past week.
Visuals
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