Two item levels?
 

A friend linked me an item the other day and the tooltip showed two item levels, like this:



Does anyone know what this means? First time I've seen this. I know the global string is ITEM_LEVEL_ALT, but that doesn't really tell me anything. :)

What the frick...?

Could it be the item level it would become when it has been upgraded to the next level ?

Edit:

Scratch that, unless they've introduced upgrading to low level items.

I just upgraded my weapon on my main and it only shows the new item level, not the original one. It shows "Upgrade Level: 1/2" below that.

So this is used for something else, but what? It definitely seems like a bug.

might be a dumb question but have you testet if its the same without addon?
right idem level seams to be 128 http://de.wowhead.com/item=30053

I also tested this and linked it ingame with this macro and for me it only shows the 128 only

Looks like Blizz might start taking into account gem sockets (which technically count towards the ilvl of the item) and whether or not they have gems in them.

Could be useful for incentivizing people to put gems in their gear if their ilvl is too low for content, or just to get their ilvl up to the proper ilvl of their gear.

Well, I haven't seen it on anything else so far, I'll ask my friend to link it again (it doesn't work if I do so myself) and see what I can figure out from the link data.

I can't see anything in Blizzards code that uses the ITEM_LEVEL_ALT. Neither in 5.0.4 when it was introduced in globalstrings.lua nor 5.3.0. I can only assume an addon is utilising the globalstring for their own display but a quick look on curse and wowi hasn't located any screenshots that show the same effect yet.

There's nothing in my UI that would cause it to display, so I'm clueless. :confused:

Now I know the challenge mode item level is normaly shown on this place :D
If I'm in challange mode it shows 463 (522) for 522 items.

You won't see anything in Blizzard's UI code using that string in relation to tooltips, because tooltip text is not generated in Lua -- it's generated C-side when you call tooltip methods like SetItem, SetSpell, SetUnit, etc.

Ah thanks, didn't know that part of it. So the C code part uses the globalstrings.lua file too ?

Yes. You can change the global strings to change the tooltip text. However, this is not recommended, as it is very likely to break addons that depend on reading tooltip text.

In 5.3 lv90 bgs scale items down to 496.

In lv70 bgs they might scale the items down to 126.

EDIT: Low level Battlegrounds actually boost your itemlevel a bit. Just tested this on my lv 60 DK. The bg boosted my lv85 sword to 97


ilvl 85 (97)