Item Comparison

Community General Discussion
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Item comparison is now on by default and has had its UI improved to help with visual clarity.

I suggest a very swift hotfix to add the missing menu item to shut that off please and just let me hold down shift when I want to compare.

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They say “on by default” which, in my not so humble opinion, implies that there is an option to set this to “off”. But I haven’t found one yet. Maybe I’m missing something obvious.

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I can’t find anything to turn it off, either. Very annoying, takes up a lot of the screen. Give me the shift command back!

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Agree. Please revert this unnecessary change to item comparison. Add an option to switch to auto-compare for people who like more visual spam.

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Bad change that nobody asked for.

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Why… just… why? Makes no sense at all to default it like this with no ability to revert. F’in A Blizz!!!

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This patch seems full of a lot of those

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yeah I’d like to be able to revert this. I don’t mind it when it’s in bags, but this affects trinkets and equipment you have in the action bar and it’s -really annoying- to have the comparison pop up in combat because you want to click your trinket (also it seems to compare against what you have equipped…. -even when you’re hovering over an equipped item-. Nonsensical).

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I also would like to see an option to revert back to holding the shift key down for Item comparison. The default on mouse over is too much and very invasive on the screen.

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If you’re unable to find an in-game preference for this, you can enter the following command in chat:

/console alwaysCompareItems 0

Alternatively, you can create the following entry in the config.wtf file if it does not exist by pasting the following line:

SET alwaysCompareItems "0"

0 = off by default, allows you to hold shift to compare items
1 = on by default, the current “default” setting (no pun/reducancy intended there)

Edit: Fixed accidental oopsie in copypasta. Corrected lines are, in fact, correct now.

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Has anyone found an in-game option to restore Item comparison back to the shift key so that it is no longer automatic? If there is an in-game option, it would be very helpful

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See the post directly above yours. I just tested it and it brings it back to the old “won’t compare unless you hold shift” behaviour.

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Ty it worked like a charm

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I kind of like it. But to each their own I suppose.

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Please give us the option to turn this off/on.

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Thank you!

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Hello, I found this from 2023, if you use this code, just press enter paste and press enter, then you can use shift to compare item stats.

/console alwaysCompareItems 0

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Gracious, you’re on fire with all these console/config.wtf commands. Thank you for this one and for the other one which keeps spells (e.g. dismount) from automatically being added to an action bar.

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You’re my hero!

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This change is super obnoxious. Mousing over things accidentally and getting flashed by excel spreadsheets is just ridiculous.

They need to be simplified and shrunken if they’re mandatory.

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