Best in Bags

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Mr. Robot knows you have a lot of shiny gear in your bags, and he wants to make sure you equip the right stuff.

  • Install our desktop application & mod that scans your bags and bank. Then upload the file to our site. (Get the Mod on Curse!)
  • Mr. Robot will find the best set from items in your bags. It’s similar to a BiS list… so we call it BiB (Best in Bags).
  • This is very handy for offspecs! Are you a tank? Find your best DPS set. You can even lock in your tank items so Mr. Robot doesn’t try to reforge them on you :)


 How to get started:

First, you’ll need to set up your bags. Click the “Manage Bags” icon and download the desktop client. The client is an application that runs on your computer, and looks for changes to AskMrRobot.lua (or get it on Curse). If you need help installing the mod, read these instructions.

Next: Getting your Main Spec BiB Results

Click the big green “Find Best in Bags” button to see your results. Mr. Robot will not only find the best items, but he’ll reforge, gem, and enchant them for you too. If you get a new item while raiding – reupload your gear. Mr. Robot will find you a new BiB set, and tell you how to optimize your new item. That means you can gem it on the spot with the best gem right away. Too bad you’ll have to wait to reforge it until you get to town.

Let Mr. Robot suggest your best OFF SPEC set too!

This is handy. Really handy. First, you need to switch to your offspec (click the spec icon to change it). Then, click the big green “Find Best in Bags” button. The first thing you’ll see is that you probably have a lot of the best items already equipped, and then Mr. Robot wants to regem and re-reforge ALL of them. DON’T PANIC!

You can lock your main spec items that you don’t want to be putzed with. Mr. Robot saves these on a per-spec basis. So you want to leave your Main-Hand-Sword-of-Amazingness UNLOCKED on your main spec (so Mr. Robot can suggest optimizations), but LOCK IT on your OFFSPEC (so Mr. Robot doesn’t go changing things… and causing you to go broke).

When you lock an item, 1 of 2 things will happen. If it’s still the best item for your offspec, even without new gems or reforges, Mr. Robot will tell you to keep it equipped. However, if you have another weapon in your bag and Mr. Robot can re-gem and re-reforge it, he might tell you to equip it and make the necessary changes. He’ll determine which option is better :)

Once you switch to your offspec. Click on the item in the gear list that you don’t want changed. It will bring up the list of items you have in your bags & bank for that slot. Lock the item(s) you don’t want changed. You can also choose to ‘lock all’ gear that you have equipped.

That’s all folks!

If you have other creative uses, share them! If you have questions, let us know. We’re here to help, and to keep you optimized.

 

  • http://twitter.com/david_b Dave B

    one question comes up. what if you have duplicates of an item. i.e. 2 pairs of raid finder gloves? can you lock one but not the other ?

    • zoopercat

      Good question. Yep, you can lock just one of them, and Mr. Robot will play around with the other one :)

  • http://twitter.com/Fluffywumpki Fluffy the Destroyer

    Question. How would you go about -resetting- your bag contents? For example, if I want to find the best use of VP for upgrades on my tank, but exclude off-set items from consideration so that I can maintain tier set bonuses?

    • zoopercat

      Let me see if I understand what you want: you want to maintain set bonuses for one or both of your specs, right?

      Have you tried the locking feature, which saves gear on a per-spec basis (covered toward the bottom of this post).

      I have a feeling that isn’t what you’re looking for tho – I feel like I missing something. So if you can elaborate, I can help :)

      • http://twitter.com/Fluffywumpki Fluffy the Destroyer

        Well, I’ve got two sets for my tanking spec. One uses the LFR 4pc set bonus, while the other uses normal mode off-set pieces (in my case, chest and shoulders, but I hope you get the idea.) I’d like to be able to exclude either the off set pieces OR the LFR tier pieces from use when checking for optimized VP usage.

        I’ll give the locking feature a try, that may give me what I need :)

        • zoopercat

          We edited the stat weights to put STR just below Mastery in an update an hour ago. Try again – you should now have the mastery enchant suggested.

  • BrettRPG

    If I’m working on my Retribution set and I have pieces locked from my Protection spec, will Robot suggest a different item for that slot that main have better stats if able to respect? For example Mr. Robot says my protection legs are best in slot for my retribution set but I locked it. Mr. Robot says that item is still best in bag with no reforge/gem/chant but is it also looking at my other legs in my bags that are eligible for a reforge/gem/chant?

    • zoopercat

      Yes, Mr. Robot is looking at all of the legs in your bags/bank. So if an item is locked and he still suggests it, that means it’s the best one :) Good question!

      • zoopercat

        We’re working with Theck from Sacredduty.net on all of the pally stats weights. We’ll definitely be accounting for these things :)

  • Elvaen

    Would love the ability to lock gems and enchants, but allow Mr. Robot to suggest reforges.

    Lets define:
    “soft-lock” = allow reforges, don’t change gems/enchants

    “hard-lock” = don’t change anything.

    As a monk tank occasionally we single tank specific fights and I get to go DPS. I don’t mind paying ~100g in reforge to tweak my gear but I don’t want to deal with regemming and re-enchanting.

    By using a combination of hard-lock and soft-lock I should be able to adjust how much I’m willing to spend on reforging vs. how optimized I want my gear.

    • zoopercat

      Just to make sure you’re aware: you can currently lock any gems, enchants and reforges. You can do this by clicking on the gem slot and clicking the lock icon toward the top of the window.

      Assuming you already knew that: I wanted to let you know we are working on a ‘lock all’ type of feature that will help scenarios like you describe :)

      • Elvaen

        Hi Zooper!

        I can lock gems/enchants when I’m looking at “My Gear” but when I’m looking at “Best in Bags” that feature is disabled. I can no longer lock specific gems/enchants.

        • zoopercat

          Ah, I see what you’re saying. You can lock an entire item so gems/enchants/reforges won’t change. But if I understand correctly, you want the ability to lock any ONE of them, not just ‘all’ or ‘none.’ We’ll look into this.

          • Elvaen

            Exactly.

            Thank you.

          • http://www.tylerbutler.com/ Tyler Butler

            For what it’s worth, I’d really like to have the “lock gems/enchants/reforges” all separate locks. In my case, I’m willing to reforge items for a specific fight in my offspec, and in ToT in particular, the mobile reforge mount is available to use in much of the instance. I am less willing, however, to regem completely for a single fight unless it’s progression. As it is right now I do a bunch of awkward gymnastics by first using the best in bags feature with no items locked, then logging out in that gear, refreshing from armory, and manually locking just the gems (and enchants, though that is less often an actual problem) in place then hitting optimize. Basically, the workflow kind of sucks. Granted, this may be a somewhat unusual case, but I’d definitely love to see the feature. :-)

          • Elvaen

            Tyler is basically describing exactly what I was attempting to articulate a month ago, as well.

  • jslade

    I recently installed the Best-in Bags program and then clicked on the AMR toolbar icon while in-game with all of my bags open. I then logged out of WoW and reloaded my profile in AMR. When I went to the Manage Bag tab the My Gear list only included items that I was wearing. Not all of the other viable gear in my bags. Any idea what is going on?
    Thanks

    • zoopercat

      Can you send me a link to your character? A few things could cause it:
      1) Are you below level 90?
      2) Did you click the AMR icon in-game to grab the bag/bank data?
      3. Are you using the client program (the one that runs on your computer and uploads the data for you)? Have you tried manually uploading the .lua file?

      We’ll figure this out with you :)

      • Lillylotus

        I have the same issue. New user as of today. Not sure if I’m just doing it wrong.

        In answer to your previous questions:

        1) No

        2) Yes

        3) Yes, yes

        4) Yes, old tier shoulders for lvl 70, in my bank.

        I’m looking at a neck piece. It shows as an upgrade to me in the gear lists. When I use the BiB it doesn’t try to use it as it sits in my bag. It check marks what I have on as best. If I equip the new item it than it tweaks my reforge and gems and check marks it as best.

  • Ráuko

    Today in LFR I grabbed 2 x T15 pieces on my rogue but already had 4 x T14 set bonus so was unsure whether it would be an upgrade to replace them.

    I updated my bags and put the results through the BiB scanner and it said what I already had equipped was best. But then to check I logged out of the game in the new pieces and tried again and it then said the new pieces I had equipped were BiB – This makes me think something may be bugged with it? Now i’m not sure what to use! :)

  • lannowar

    Hi all , the amr addon is working fine on uploading one of my characters items but doesnt work on the others… Keep saying “Error your gear could not be uploaded”.Any solution for this?

    • zoopercat

      Can you email me your .lua file and AMR user name (feedback -at- askmrrobot.com). I’m wondering if an item in your bags is causing an error. Also, note it only works for gear iLevel 300 or higher (in case you’re trying it on an alt).

  • Asteroth

    Is there a way to just make 2 different sets like for example in outfitter and just use different items for each slot.

    • zoopercat

      You can save different sets in a profile. However, be careful when you click ‘update from armory’ – as it will grab the items you had equipped when you logged out. Here’s more info on the profiles: http://blog.askmrrobot.com/2013/03/saving-a-profile/