Addon Spotlight: Ackis Recipe List
by Eliah Hecht 
May 31st 2009 at 4:00PM
Just a short one today, but an addon that I know will please a small number of very passionate folks out there. It's easy to see what recipes you know: just look at your tradeskill window. But what if you want to see a list of recipes you don't know? Ackis Recipe List. Completists rejoice.
This mod is dedicated to listing all recipes in your tradeskills that you have not yet learned. But it doesn't stop there. It also tells you where to find them, even putting waypoints on your world map and minimap for vendors if you want it to. ARL also supports sophisticated filtering of recipes, so if I want to see all the Death Knight glyphs of skill level less than 400 that drop from mobs (although I don't think there are any), I can do that.
The interface is also pretty nice, given the amount of complexity it contains. There's a button to scan your tradeskills on your tradeskill window, which also allows access to the ARL frame once you've scanned. /arl will bring up more, including in-game documentation, which I especially appreciate - I haven't seen that in many mods before.
Overall, this mod does a great job at what it sets out to do. Highly recommended if you want to see what recipes you don't have. Thanks, Ackis!
Download Ackis Recipe List at WoWInterface
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Gessilea May 31st 2009 4:11PM
Does it show recipes across characters as well?
AyaJulia May 31st 2009 4:24PM
No. For that I might recommend Altoholic. While Altoholic doesn't build a list of missing recipes as Ackis does, it keeps all of your crafting lists in one place. Also, whenever you run across a recipe or scroll, it will tell you who knows it, who can learn it, and who WILL be able to learn it when they skill up enough, along with that current character's skill level.
For example, I have a level 450 cook and a level 150 cook that I raised only to cook deviate fish. If I run across, say, the recipe for Mok'nathal Short Ribs, Altoholic sticks in its tooltip:
Already known by Eleri
Will be learnable by Maranwe (150)
Pretty handy, really.
Gessilea May 31st 2009 4:33PM
I've used altoholic in the past and loved it, but unfortunately found it much too much of a resource hog to justify using.
Ackis May 31st 2009 4:40PM
It will save tradeskills from other characters (go to Misc options to see where you can select them from) and you can scan them. Adding functionality for saying which recipes/etc are needed is being worked on, but not in the current release.
Linainverse May 31st 2009 4:46PM
While I don't think it shows a scanned unknown recipe list across characters, it can put a prof. link in your chat box from other characters. It's under the Misc filter option. It shows a little arrow, and when you select it, it gives you the option to choose a toon, then a profession, from any of your toons that have been scanned. So you can tell someone else what your alt is capable of making. May even let you link, but I haven't looked or tried that yet. :)
The only time I have issues with this is if I'm on my bank-alt, since she's level one and ARL can't scan anything for her. Therefor, no links for her either. :p
Gessilea May 31st 2009 5:14PM
Thanks for the info everyone!
mysticalos May 31st 2009 5:20PM
Use "recipeknown" with ackis, recipeknown is light weight and adds that missing functionality ackis doesn't have only, no need for redundancy and having two addons doing same thing, so just get recipeknown to fill the hole vs another bigger package.
AyaJulia May 31st 2009 5:30PM
Well, my apologies for the misinformation, then. It wasn't long ago that I used this addon, but things were obviously added since I removed it....
Ackis May 31st 2009 4:41PM
Just a FYI, it's also available at Curse.com here: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/arl.aspx
Zanthexter May 31st 2009 4:50PM
I stumbled on this when trying to finish up the Chef de Cuisine achievement, it really helped with knocking out the last few I needed.
Now, the downside is that because of the recipie list I also know that there is ONE recipie in the game I can get and don't have...and the idea of grinding mobs in Silithus forever is awefully daunting..but it'd sure be nice to have them all...but thats a LOOOOOT of mobs....
Sometimes..I just wish I didn't know!
Thanks for a great AddOn Ackis!
The Claw May 31st 2009 5:18PM
Curious, Zanthexter, what's the recipe you can't face grinding mobs in Silithus for? I have no idea and couldn't find anything on wowhead.
Dryssa May 31st 2009 5:30PM
Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
Kemikalkadet May 31st 2009 5:35PM
i'm doing that grind at the moment.. 12k/36k hated with brood atm. AQ40 runs help a lot, you get 100 brood rep per trash mob and you get to collect the cool bug mounts. Got my red bug and feat of strength a while back while getting brood rep.
twh May 31st 2009 4:46PM
I use Advanced Trade Skill Window normally.
The layout of this one has me interested.... is there a common consensus as to which of these are better?
Ackis May 31st 2009 4:55PM
They're different types of addons.
ARL will show you what you're missing in a separate window.
ATSW replaces the tradeskill window.
twh May 31st 2009 4:57PM
Ah, I see. I misunderstood.
Turtlehead May 31st 2009 5:23PM
I've switched between the two several times but generally end up using Ackis. It takes up more screen space but is also more powerful. If all you need is stuff flagged by who knows/can learn/can learn later use ATSW (or Altoholic, which also does many other things). If you want the greatly enhanced search filtering, use Ackis.
I currently use both Ackis and Altoholic. They overlap some so it's a bit bloat but it works and I've got the system to do it.
Fuseitana May 31st 2009 5:20PM
I use ATSW and Altoholoic (I'm an addon junkie). Does Ackis play nicely with other tradeskill addons?
Ackis May 31st 2009 7:04PM
Yes, ARL works with Skillet, ATSW and a few others.
Linainverse May 31st 2009 4:50PM
I love having ARL. Lets me know how close to having all the recipes I am, and where to find the darn things. Like the anti-venom recipe you get from the Argent Dawn in the Plaguelands. I had no idea until I got ARL. :) And I love the option to put a prof link in my chat window from any alts with profs.