[Gear Swap] How to gear swap with hex editor [4.0.1]

[recklesss]

Hello everyone,

I saw a few post about people wondering how to gearswap in the new patch 4.0.1.

I found out how it worked for me and decided to make a little guide for those that haven't been able to figure it out yet.


1. First off u need a Hex Editor such as XVI32(the one I use).

2. Open the program and search for Item.adb(for me its C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Cache\ADB\enGB") Open the Item.adb.

3. Ones you have opened the Item.adb file u want to go to wow.allakhazam.com and search for the item that u want to chance(the item u really have ingame) and find the display info of that item( search ur item on the site, click on it, right site ull see "xml" click on that and look for item display), here's a screenie:

4. If you have found the display info code like u can see selected on the screenie, u want to copy that display info and use a hex calculator like this one: Index DOT Html/Css Hex Calculator. then U copy the displayinfo in that calculator and press Hex, now you will have the code. This is what mine looks like:

5. As you can see on the screenshot it says "FB54" which is ALMOST the code u want to look for, the only thing u must do it switch the number arround so "FB54" becomes "54FB" and voila thats the display info of the item u were ingame.

6. Now u go back to ur XVI32(hex editor) and press ctrl + F (search): as you can see I have "Hex String" selected instead of "Text String" so you should too. After uve "Hex String" selected u can type in the display info, if u look back to step 5 of this guide you know how u must type it in there, which for me is "54FB". You hit the "Ok" button to start the search.

7. If you've followed the guide correctly u should find the item u wearing ingame like this: .

8. Now you can just repeat step 3 + 4 + 5 to find the display info and change the info that uve just found to the display info that u want ur item to look like ingame.

I hope this 'guide' will help some people, I know its prolly a terrible guide as I've never made a guide before and I didnt have much time to make it.

Good Luck! If you need any help or more information, just replay to this post and ill try to assist you.

[Annqvq]

It does work, but here some tips how to avoid mistakes:

(i had no idea how to do it, took me about 10-20 minutes )
Make sure World of Warcraft is closed!!
After u opened the file with the editor, click on the button "search" and then "replace".

Find --> hex number of original model replace with hex of ur model u whish to replace with.
Click on "replace all". Afther you finished this process, click on "file" -> "save".

It works, thanks for your guide.

[Eyrika]

Woot! Thanks so much. Will definitely be using this. +rep

[trxdraxon]

Thank you for this. Was trying to figure this out all morning and totally forgot about swapping the hex numbers. Anyone know what value to change for the sheath of a weapon by chance?

[ronmexicoz]

I was curious as to where the new cache file would be, thank you for pointing that out.
However, I am a hex noob so can you shed some light on my dilemma:

I am trying to model change my Wrathful Gladiator's Redoubt (display info: 65581)

However I have input 65581 into a few Hex calculators and I keep getting: 1002d

I have tried searching for 2d10 and other combinations but to no avail. Any suggestions?

[matalin]

This worked great.

My only problem so far is changing weapons from staffs to daggers or shields.
It ends up with the blue checkered box >.<

[coldman]

+rep for getting this out there this fast . I have given up on spell swaps for now lol. I can only do so much with what I know. I will have to wait until greater minds come up with a new way to swap spells.

[Supaflie]

This actually works for people? I edited my first item.adb file which was 94kb, started WoW saw that nothing was changed and exited. Now this is were the wierd part starts, my item.adb now changed and was only 1kb.

Did this happen to anyone else?

edit: Item.adb seems to refresh everytime i start wow and gather new info ;o

[latrodectus]

It worked for me.. but, I made a mistake on one of my hex conversions and because I made a backup of the original file, I thought I would replace the edited one with a copy of my original backup. Well, the same exact thing happened to me. I now have a 1kb file that has none of the displayID values in hex. I've tried logging in/out, playing in bg's and running around Dal looking at as much gear as possible and nothing helps. I'm not getting those values back into that file for whatever reason.

[Drugoh]

You should note that the XML will not work with Google Chrome, it works with IE and I don't know about Firefox.

[recklesss]

It does work with Google Chrome but you have the look better then, done it myself.

[latrodectus]

Can anyone shed any light on the issues that Supaflie and I are having? I don't know if Blizz got tricky with this last patch, but even after playing the game for several hours, I still do not have any gear values in my Item.adb file that I am wearing. Ever since I made a mistake in that file and launched the game, I've been stuck with a 1kb file ever since. I've tried several things to bypass it like switching the file out at character selection, while I'm on my character in game, and it always puts the 1kb file back without the values.

It did work before I made the mistake. I changed my DK's 2H mace to the Brutal Glad's 2H sword and it worked fine. Everything went well until I tried to change my shaman's gear from badge gear to vengeful gladiator gear.. been having the issue ever since. Any help for a workaround would be greatly appreciated.

[latrodectus]

OK.. After fighting with it for hours, I have fixed the issue I was having. For those of you have the same problem, there is an easy fix.

Simply go to your WoW directory, then open your Cache folder.. next, delete both your ADB and WDB folders.
After the folders are deleted, simply restart WoW and log-in to a character. The game puts the folders and the appropriate files back good as new.

The only downside to this is you have to run around and look at people in-game to grow that list of items again. I simply went to the T-10 vendor in Dalaran and looked at the different mail items available for my shaman. After seeing those items, I went and checked my Item.adb file to see it the hex code was there for the shoulders and it was..as was the relentless shoulders I had on.

Exit the game, switch the codes, log back in, and I'm showing myself wearing T10 shoulders instead of Relentless. This does work as intended and if you find yourself with that glitch, this workaround fixes the issues.

+Rep to the original author

[Phraun]

Word to the wise: Make sure you keep track of what you're editing... I accidentally tried to make my shoulders into a chest piece. The game didn't like that at all. xD

This works great though when done right. Great job.

EDIT: Actually I'm having a hard time tracking down the code for the Tattered Dreadmist Robes; the code off Alakazam doesn't appear to be correct. Any ideas? It should be 6074 according to the XML data

[Sasoon]

So how do you change it.. all this showed was how to find your own item