What Project Defeat could look like

The front door: Phase 2 at a glance, real data changes and a card for every tab. The original teal, with light shafts, and a soft crystal swell on the first visit.

The stat bar with the hit cap, and all six sub-tabs on real data. Gear is a character sheet with game-style tooltips and a "What's left" checklist with one-press fixes and where each upgrade drops. Compare holds your item's tooltip next to another's, with the trade summed up in one sentence. Talents is the game's talent window, with a "What's off" list of one-press fixes. Buffs fill in from your raid and seat as clickable icons, with a Blessing for each Paladin. Ranked Gear shows Wowhead's order slot by slot as tooltips, or by where each item drops with your upgrades marked. Build makes a share link that opens the same character in the live app, keeps named builds, and reads a paste (or the addon's export) before loading it. The hit cap follows Precision and Improved Faerie Fire. Deep sea blue, with slow rising bubbles.

Runs the live app's own simulator on your planner character: your stat priority, your best upgrades by real DPS gain, then the estimate with its damage sources and how far to trust it, against what players average for all 20 DPS specs. Gold over violet, with crystal pillars.

A real planning table: click a spec to fill the next seat, group 1 first; move or drag players; name them with the pencil; and see each group's party buffs and what's missing. White-gold, with one light per group that brightens as its buffs are covered.

The tier board: Wowhead's three Phase 2 lists as rows of spec icons, with a card for any spec (its place on every list, what the logs say, what it brings to a raid), or switch to Wowhead's tiers against what players actually parse. Emerald, with three rank rings under the crystal.

The boss journal: pick a raid, then a boss, and see its loot as the game shows it with your spec's picks ranked from Wowhead's Phase 2 lists, or switch to your raid and see who in it wants each drop. All five raids, 24 bosses and 469 drops from the live app, a search across every raid, and the scene follows the raid.

The profession window: set your skill and every recipe on the path to 375 takes its colour, with reagents, vendor prices and routes for the gatherers; or switch to Which two, every profession by what it gives a level 70 character and makes for your spec. Amber, with veins of ore up the pillars.

Like the game's own: pick a profession's icon, set your skill on the bar (trainer stops marked), and every recipe on the path to 375 takes its colour at that skill. Pick one for its reagents, what it makes and what a vendor charges; a gathering profession shows its ranges and the route instead.

Every profession by what it gives a level 70 character, led by what it makes for your spec from Wowhead's lists (for Fury: Blacksmithing's Dragonstrike, the #1 main hand). Pick two to see the pair: what you get, and whether one feeds the other (Mining supplies 97% of Blacksmithing's farmed materials).

Set your skill and see the rest of the climb as one road, trainer stops as waypoints and passed steps folded away, beside the shopping list from here: what a vendor sells, priced, and what you farm, counted, with who gathers it.

The familiar tier-list board: S to D rows of spec icons in class colours, damage on top and healing and tanking side by side. Press any spec for its card: its place on every list, what the logs say, what it brings to a raid and its signature ability. Your spec starts selected; a class filter dims the rest.

Wowhead's tier against the logs: the 20 damage specs ranked by archon.gg's observed DPS, each with both tier letters, and the disagreements spelled out (they agree on 9). Sort by Wowhead's tier instead, or show only where they disagree. Healers and tanks are Wowhead's opinion alone, and say so.

The tier list as a raid-building tool: every spec as a card with its tier and the buffs and debuffs it brings. Pick one of the 40 to light who brings it; the specs in your Raid Composition raid are counted, and "Would add" names who would bring something your raid has nobody for.

One boss at a time, like the game's boss journal: the raid's bosses down the side with their art, the chosen boss's loot as icons with tooltips, and "Loot for" any of 27 specs (Fury Warrior first) putting that spec's picks on top with their rank. About the raid holds the way in; The fight holds the mechanics.

Progression first, like the Attune addon: five doors that open as you tick off the attunement steps you've done, the next step for the chosen raid and which other raid it needs (Serpentshrine's Blazing Signet waits on Karazhan), then what's waiting inside for your spec, boss by boss. The ticks are kept in your browser.

A loot plan for the raid you built on Raid Composition (or its example): every drop with who in your raid wants it, as spec icons with their rank, most wanted first, and contested drops marked. Tier tokens count for whoever wants a set piece they buy. Press a raider for their wishlist.

The cards stay, each showing a real glimpse of what's behind it: the recommended set's icons, an example raid group, the top tier, the raids' own art, the professions. Character Planner is the big default door, with the simulator and the import beside it.

Goal first, since the goal chose the first click in the usability study: gear my character, simulate my DPS, plan a raid, see where my spec stands, find what drops where, level a profession, or bring my character from the game. Each names the section it opens.

Like a game's main menu over the backdrop: a rail of big entries on the left, and a large preview on the right that follows the entry you point at or move to with the arrow keys, with "Continue as your character" for the import.

Press Run and the result reads like a Warcraft Logs report: the estimate against what Fury warriors average, the damage sources as a table with bars, how the number was computed, and what it misses for you. Stat priority and the upgrade finder sit in tabs underneath.

For trying things: your character is the baseline; switch buffs and debuffs, pick consumables or try the finder's upgrades on a copy, and the model re-runs on every change with the difference in DPS, % and per damage source. Keep what you like on the planner.

Guidance first: your stat priority from the real weights and your best upgrades by real DPS gain, with Equip. Then the estimate, with a panel on how far to trust it: every DPS spec's best case by this model against what players average.

The build you're about to share comes first, as a card: slots filled, item level, talents, hit against the cap, buffs, set pieces and the gear's icons. Then the link, Share… and the build text, named saves, and one box to load a link, build text or the addon's export.

Like the game's character select: your builds in a column (the one in the planner now, then every saved one), the selected one beside it with a paperdoll of its gear, and Load, Save over, Share and Delete. A paste becomes a new entry without touching the planner.

Paste-first: the addon's export, a link or build text goes in one big box. Reading it changes nothing; a report shows what came in slot by slot and asks the spec when the talents can't say. Only "Load into the planner" wears it. Share and save sit to the side.

Pick a slot from your gear; its ranked items stand in Wowhead's order as the game's tooltips, with the guide's note (Best, Great, P1 BiS), where they drop, the gems and enchant Wowhead uses, and Equip. Rings and trinkets share one list, and a unique one can't go in twice.

Every ranked item you don't wear in one list, sorted by what it would do for your character, like the simulator's Upgrade Finder: what it replaces, the stats you trade, your hit against the cap, and Compare's example score. Filter to one slot.

The same items grouped by where they drop, for planning a raid night: Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep boss by boss in kill order, then last tier's raids, world bosses, crafting and the rest. What you wear is ticked, upgrades are tagged, and "Only upgrades" hides the rest.

The game's buff row: raid buffs and boss debuffs as icons you click on and off, lit or greyed, with the class colour of whoever brings them. A row of Paladins with their Blessings, and four consumable slots that open a chooser.

Switches on the left; on the right a running total of what the setup gives you: attack power, crit, haste, the boss's armor (7,700 → 3,690) and the hit cap. What the simulator doesn't count is listed with the reason.

Pick the raid (your Raid Composition roster, an example 25-man or 10-man, or just you) and your seat; every buff says who brings it or what's missing. The raid's own Paladins get Blessings to give.

The game's talent frame: all three trees side by side (one at a time on a phone), each on its own dark ground, with gold, green and grey talents, arrows from each prerequisite and game-style tooltips. Click learns, right-click or − unlearns.

One tree at a time beside a running list of what your points do (+5% crit, +25% off-hand damage...), marked simulated or not, with the hit cap against your gear. The line a change moves lights up.

Your build laid over the Fury or Arms preset, with the preset's rank on each talent. Below: what breaks the rules, each with a one-press fix or a “show where”, and every difference from the preset with Match.

The in-game shift-compare: your item's tooltip next to the other one, then each stat change in green or red and what the swap does to the hit cap. Pick the other item from an icon strip of the slot's ranked list.

One bar per stat, gains to the right and losses to the left, with a one-sentence summary of the trade and a gauge showing your hit before and after against the cap (142 on this page, which has no talents).

Every ranked item for the slot in one table against what you wear: stat changes, hit after the swap and an example score. Pin any two for a head-to-head underneath.

Two columns of slots with icon, item level, enchant, gems and rank. Click a slot and a pane opens beside the list with that slot's ranked items to click, its enchants and its gems. The closest to the live app.

Laid out like the in-game character window: armour on the left, the rest on the right, weapons along the bottom, the gear's stats in the middle. Hover for a game-style tooltip; click to swap from a flyout of icons.

What's done and what's left: every slot marked best in slot, upgrade (and which boss drops it), missing enchant or empty socket, each with a one-press fix. 'Where it drops' groups the upgrades by raid and boss.

The same planning table as A, on a torchlit iron muster board, with the picker opening inside each group. A's dialog, one-row seat buttons and whole-seat move targets were preferred.

The portal fills the screen inside our own stone arch; scrolling pushes the camera toward the fel-green gateway.

A stone causeway with burning braziers leads to the portal on the horizon; the six tabs are carved stone tablets. The favourite of the three.

Text on the left, the portal as a window on the right; hovering a tab card shows that tab's world inside the portal.

Pinned scroll story with the camera sinking toward the water, a self-drawing data timeline, Flip filters that rebuild the 3D tier shelves, and a curtain wipe that dives through the water into the planner.