Best in Slot not respecting "Phase" selection

Ask Mr. Robot WoW Classic
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It seems like no matter what I do, when I select an earlier phase of the game when trying to optimize for “Best in Slot”, it keeps suggesting very clearly-not-phase-1 items, for instance, in this snapshot ID: 19e08a50eb5b4e4ab56744f298943824

You’ll see I’ve selected “Phase 1” in the setup, but when I go to look at best in slot:

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Runesword of the Red - AQ Gates, obviously not P1
Scepter of Interminable Focus - 0.5 Quest, not available in P1
Diana’s Pearl Necklace - is this misnamed? It should be “Nacreous Shell Necklace”, I don’t think this was in the P1 loot tables but I could be wrong
Abyssal Cloth Amice of Sorcery - Silithus drop, obviously not P1
Shroud of Arcane Mastery - 0.5 quest, not P1
Rockfury Bracers - Silithus, not P1
Sorcerer’s Gloves - 0.5 quest, not P1
Sorcerer’s Boots - 0.5 quest, not P1
Wrath of Cenarius - Silithus (And I’m skeptical about how the optimizer ranks this item because it’s always telling me to use it over every other ring available, in other contexts, not about P1), not P1
Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight - lol, not P1

Why’s it not respecting my Phase 1-only selection?

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I’ll take a look – I think that there is some validation under the hood that is preventing it from going back to previous phases. We’ll change that and then Best in Slot should allow setting the phase to any phase.

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Thanks! I’ve always found this tool incredibly useful / more usable than other “best in slot lists” and was glad to see it supported classic. Now with the fresh servers we’ll be going through the phases so I’m trying to plan ahead hah.

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Did they announce that they are doing fresh servers? I looked a little earlier today and couldn’t find anything…

If they are going to do fresh servers, we can have the site follow the current phase on the fresh servers.

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The fresh servers are LIVE! Did you not pay attention to the anniversary announcement:

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The TLDR:

  1. NA and EU have gotten 3 new servers each: Normal PVP, Normal PvE, Hardcore PvE.
  2. All three are progressing through the phases as outlined by the graphic in my first link above, the two non-HC servers will then subsequently both progress to TBC. Hardcore PvE will not, it will stay in Nax phase.
  3. The new servers received a couple QoL updates: Dual-spec, instant mail to your own account’s characters, and a LFG tool similar to the bulletin board addon

The servers went live just this last Thursday; and you can see the race to 60 on hardcore here: https://race.aotc.gg/

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Thanks – yeah for some reason searches never seem to find Blizzard’s official posts… weird.

Probably what I’ll do is add a setting to Best in Bags that lets you pick the phase as well, since there are different classic servers at different phases now. Then anyone playing classic can optimize as if they are in any phase.

Theoretically we can bring the TBC version of the site back online when these servers get to that point.