Sometime today we will release our first update to the Upgrade Finder.
Quick Rank
A new type of search called “Quick Rank” has been added. It replaces and consolidates many of the previous searches such as Raid, Mythic+, Regular Dungeons, Delves, and Crafted.
This new search allows you to rank all of the same items as those other searches but all at once, making it easier to compare loot across different sources.
Why is it called “Quick Rank”?
This ranking (and all of the previous ones it replaced) uses a faster ranking method than the other searches (such as Great Vault, Catalyst, Valorstones/Crests). This allows us to rank hundreds or even thousands of items for you very quickly. The cost for speed is a little bit of accuracy… but how much accuracy are we talking about?
- In most cases, the score you see will be identical to if you obtained the item, added it to your bags, and ran Best in Bags with it.
- In some cases, the score might be a little lower than that.
- For a few special cases (most notably set items), the score could be a little higher or lower, depending.
This is in contrast to the ranking method used by the Great Vault, Catalyst, Valorstones/Crests, and Add to my Bag searches. Those rankings will try many combinations of your existing gear, gems, and enchants with each item in the list to try and improve the score.
This slower ranking method is more thorough but much slower, to the point where we ran into issues with the Valorstones/Crests search last expansion, once people collected 50 or even 100+ items that could be upgraded. Our next improvement to the Upgrade Finder that we are working on will seek to improve on these slower searches – both the speed and the functionality.
Set Bonus Prediction
We still have the “set bonus prediction” option to help with ranking set items. It does a decent approximation of what your score might be were you to obtain other set items. That said… we can’t know exactly what your gear will be like when you complete the set or which exact versions of the set items you might obtain.
We have not changed how the “set bonus prediction” works with this update, but our next update will improve on this methodology to get even closer predictions. The current method is pretty good, but we think we can do a little better.
Search Results Filtering
We have always had a search box at the top of the Upgrade Finder search results that allows you to instantly filter the results. Now that you can combine a lot of different items into the results via the Quick Rank search, this filter becomes more important. We have added a link right under the search box to a cheat sheet of how it works and the different search terms you can use. It’s a pretty handy feature, you should try it out!