Posted on 2010 under AddOns |
2
Sep
Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It’s main purpose is to track the closest plants, deposits and treasure locations on your minimap.
The addon does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it “remembers” where you have found various items in the past. It does this whenever you gather (perform herbalism, mining or opening) on an item, and records the specific map location in its history. From then on, whenever the item comes into range of being one of the closest 1-25 (configurable) items to your present location, it will pop up on you minimap.
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Posted on 2010 under AddOns |
1
Aug
Recap records damage, healing, and other combat-related events in the area around the player. Recap tracks buffs, debuffs, and the use of abilities.
- When installing Recap, please first remove any existing Recap folder from your “World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns” folder.
- If experiencing problems with Recap, sometimes it is a bug, and sometimes your saved variables file may be damaged. It is always worth seeing whether removing the saved variables file fixes the problem. To do that, exit the game and go into your “World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/<account_name>/SavedVariables” folder and remove the “Recap.lua” and “Recap.lua.bak” files. Starting with version 4.25 there are also per-character saved variables files in the “…/<account_name>/<server_name>/<character_name>/SavedVariables” folders.
- If you believe that Recap is properly installed and enabled, but you can’t see the Recap main panel, try typing “/recap”. If that doesn’t work try typing “/recap centre” (or “/recap center”).
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Posted on 2010 under AddOns |
14
Jul
As a part of our ongoing coverage of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, we now bring you a first look at what’s in store for players levels 78-82 in Vashj’ir, an all-new underwater zone in the Great Sea of Azeroth. The remaining cursed Highborne night elves, now known as the monstrous naga, lurk through the ocean abyss seeking the power contained within the Elemental Plane of water, a place vulnerable to attack in the wake of Deathwing’s cataclysmic return. Read on to find out where fate may lead you should you venture to the sunken city, Vashj’ir.
Once a great Highborne city housing some of the most revered night elves of Kalimdor, Vashj’ir was swallowed by the Great Sea during the Sundering and thought to be lost forever. Queen Azshara, formerly a beloved leader of the night elves, escaped death in the depths of the sea when the Well of Eternity imploded. Such salvation came at a great cost, as the queen and many of her fellow Highborne were forever transformed into the monstrous naga, doomed to wander the seas for thousands of years. Their existence mostly remains a mystery to the peoples of modern Azeroth, though the Earthen Ring has learned of Azshara’s naga seizing Vashj’ir for an unknown purpose as the cries of the elements echo across Azeroth from the abyss.
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Posted on 2010 under AddOns |
14
Jul
As many of you know from panels at last year’s BlizzCon and posts here on the forums since then, Cataclysm will bring about major changes to familiar character stats such as Intellect, Armor Penetration, Defense, and others, ultimately designed to make the effects of stats more easily understandable and make gear choices more interesting. As these changes will have a significant impact on how stats work and relate to one another, today we wanted to offer you a closer look at exactly what’s in store and explain some of the rationale before Cataclysm arrives.
The most obvious question these changes raise is “Why are stats being changed, and why now?” As the game has matured, we’ve run into increasingly complex issues with the current stat system. Many stats are inherently confusing, and the way they interrelate can feel convoluted. Attack Power, for example, currently translates to damage, but so does Armor Penetration. Defense provides five different statistical benefits of varying utility. Mana regeneration involves understanding multiple stats and rules and often ends up being irrelevant anyway. In addition, the difference between a “good stat” for a class and a “bad stat” can be extreme. Some casters want Haste but not Crit; hunters want Armor Penetration but not Haste. There are other overarching issues, as well, such as Intellect not being very exciting for casters despite it being a core stat — and these are just a few examples.
Our ultimate goal is make gear a more interesting (and less confusing) choice by making each stat valuable to more players. While the reasoning behind some of the following changes may be clear, we understand that you may have questions about some of the less obvious alterations, and we’ll do our best to answer any questions you may have here on the forums.
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Posted on 2010 under AddOns, Guides |
29
Jun
I find that a lot of the guides here are geared toward players who have high-level characters that might be familiar with a lot of specialized gear. This made Auctioneer a little difficult for me to get a hang of, and I lost about 10 G that I borrowed from another player when I first installed it.
Much of the advice given here is “Know your market”. However, I think I would like to write something that’s geared for the person who’s just bought the game and is experiencing smelting bronze for the first time, or for the elf preparing for his first-ever run through the Deadmines, or for the Tauren woman learning about the majestic Barrens with her newly-tamed cougar running at her side.
Pricing your Gathered Goods
A lot of people use Auctioneer for buying and reselling. However, if you’re a fresh new player, you can install Auctioneer and use it for selling, as well. It helps price your goods so you can post what you gather for a good price, without the hassle of calculating prices on your own. Here’s a step-by-step guide to selling trade goods on the AH, aimed for a new player.
Choose a Gathering Profession
When you hit Level 5, choose a gathering profession. These are one of Mining, Skinning, or Herbalism, and to a limited extent, Enchanting. If you want more money, you can choose two, but I find that it’s less fun than choosing an appropriate crafting skill to go with your gathering skill.
At this stage, I’d recommend that you choose a profession that you want to do, instead of what makes you the most money. Every gathering profession gives you the opportunity to get rich. However, if you want to get rich quickly, I recommend mining.
Gather
Go out and gather a lot of stuff. It might be light leather, linen cloth, copper ore, rough stone, strange dust, whatever. Gather a few stacks of it.
- Copper ore and rough stone are acquired from mining veins and are common in newbie regions. If you’re Alliance, Dun Morogh and Elwynn Forest are loaded with copper ore. As Horde, explore Durotar and Tirisfal Glades, as well as the mountains of Mulgore for copper ore. Don’t forget to buy a mining pick!
- Humanoids drop linen cloth abundantly.
- Herbs, such as peacebloom and silverleaf, are available in rich quantities in the newbie areas. You may also be able to find earthroot and mageroyal, both of which sell for more than peacebloom and silverleaf.
- You can skin beasts and some humanoids (such as worgen) for light leather at lower levels. You will also often end up with ruined scraps, but these rarely sell in the auction house. Use them to make light leather if you have leatherworking.
- If you’re an enchanter, you can disenchant green weapons and armour to obtain strange dust and magic essence.
Posting Auctions with Auctioneer
Go to Auctioneer and do a scan. The scan button is at the bottom of your auction house interface. The process will take 10–15 minutes, and you cannot move away from the auctioneer at this point in time. It is best to take a break at this point.
Click on the “Post Auction” tab and drag a stack of whatever you want to sell into the Item Slot. Auctioneer will suggest a starting price and a buyout price. You can also change the number of stacks you wish to post (which makes selling large amounts very easy).
Now, there’s one section that people that I show Auctioneer get confused about, and that’s the text right beneath “Price Based On: Auctioneer Price” bar.
There is either:
- No Competition. This means that you’re the ONLY person selling this item on the Auction House right now.
- Undercutting by n%. This means that there’s competition, but your price is going to be cheaper than your competition by n%.
- Competition above market. This means that your competition is selling their goods for way above the estimated market price calculated by Auctioneer. Good for you — this means that your price is probably the best one.
- Competition below market. This means that your competition is selling their goods for way below the estimated market price calculate by Auctioneer. Bad for you as a gatherer. Good for you as a reseller.
If the text shows anything OTHER than “Competition below market”, then I suggest that you post your herbs, skins, or ore for whatever the price Auctioneer suggests.
The reason that Auctioneer is great is that it saves YOU time while giving you a good return on your labour. You’re going to sell your goods because your prices are low, but it saves time because you no longer need to calculate what a good price for your trade goods are. You can also post multiple stacks with one trip to the Auction House. The only thing you need to do is a scan every session before you post your goods, which will take about 10-15 minutes.
(A note. Many people suggest that you scan with Auctioneer for about a week before trusting its prices. This is true, but only when you’re buying. I’ve found that if you want to sell items with quick turnaround time, such as trade goods, then you can safely scan the market and post your goods immediately after. This is because Auctioneer takes a snapshot and sets your selling price based only on the competition on the AH at the time of your scan.)
Wait For Sales
Now, you need to wait for people to see your auction and buy it. Go do some quests, or logout. Wait a day or so. You’ll soon enough notice that your auctions have most likely sold.
So why is this? This is because when you did your scan and posted, your trade goods were the cheapest of anyone’s on the market at that moment, meaning that yours are going to sell first. As long as you keep posting items on the AH, you’ll be bringing in money, which is very important if you’re just starting the game and have barely enough money to train.
Just remember to scan the Trade Goods before you sell your herbs, ore, skins, or enchanting materials.
And that’s the most basic way that you can make Auctioneer work for you.
Later, I’m sure that you’ll develop a few variations of this strategy, like learning not to post too much when prices are low, stocking your materials in the bank and posting them only when the price is high, and so forth, but this is the most basic way to make lots of money.
Becoming a Reseller
I’d cover this, but many other people have covered it in the other Documentation sections. Take a look! They’re really good.
The only thing I recommend is that you gather a few gold pieces before you start. You can start reselling with as little as 5G, but make sure that is money you don’t need at the moment.
Miscellaneous Tips
Here are a few common mistakes I’ve found when using Auctioneer.
- Don’t buy anything until you know the market. This might require you to do a week’s worth of Auctioneer scanning, as well as a lot of investigation of what people end up buying and selling, as well as actually playing the game and listening to people you group with. The more you play and the more you pay attention to equipment that you want, as well as the more professions you get (with alts), then the more you will learn the general WoW market, as well as a few specifics.
- Since all characters of the same faction on the same server share AH data, create a level 1 alt and run it to the local AH. Configure the auctioneer to exit after a scan using the “/auctioneer finish exit” slash command. Each night before quiting (or in the morning before work/school) log in using your alt and scan the AH. Goto bed/work/school knowing you have up-to-date AH information when you return. For morning scans take it a step further and create a batch file that launches WoW and then calls shutdown (XP only). Now when the scan is complete, your machine will turn itself off.
- Some general tips to go along with your new-found AH data:
- Turn on the trade channel. Pay attention to what enchants people are asking for, and see if you can get the materials for those. Also see what people are looking to buy.
- Watch how prices fluctuate especially on the weekend. Note that Auctioneer doesn’t give you any data of cyclical trends, so you have to observe these yourself. What I’ve noticed most obviously is that trade goods spike during the week, and drop during the weekend.
- Watch the Transactions page carefully before posting anything you buy from the AH to make sure you’re actually getting a good return. Many things happen in an hour in WoW and it’s easy to get less of a deal than you think.
- Trade goods, especially basic goods gathered by gathering skills have an extremely fast turnaround time. They’re great if you need cash in 24 hours or less, but not nearly as good for making the big big bucks. Think of trade goods as your local bonds.
- If you can’t sell something, don’t just keep posting it again and again on the AH. Try the trade channel. Wait for a weekend before selling. Lower the price. Remember, if you buy something for 3G and can’t resell it for 6G, then try selling it for 5 or 4. In the worst case, you’ll sell it for a loss, but instead of losing 3G, you’ll only lose 1G. If you’re desperate, I find that going on Trade and threatening to Vendor something usually gets you a response (as long as you’re willing to actually accept a price around the vendor’s price). I bought a recipe for 5G, couldn’t sell it for two weeks, probably most an additional 1 G in deposits. Instead of keeping it as money sink, I threatened to vendor it for 1G and eventually got 2G for it. Sure, I lost 4G, but that’s not a big deal when you made 60G in the past week.
- When you’re selling items, generally, the order that people go is Trade Goods, then Recipes, then Weapons and Armour. The last one is where the real money is at, but it’s also the toughest to figure out. If you are not willing to take risky investments and buying out 10-25G items, then it’s best to keep doing recipes and trade goods until you have enough money.
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Posted on 2010 under AddOns |
29
Jun
Purpose
The Auctioneer Suite is a compilation of add-ons based on the Auctioneer core, that provide a number of enhancements and options.
Suite Contents
The add-ons below can be installed independently of Auctioneer via WoW’s AddOns screen; however, all of them except SlideBar require Stubby to be installed as well.
Add-ons
- !Swatter – is a debugging library that provides enhanced debugging information to help developers when you report bugs.
- BeanCounter – tracks the items you purchase, list, and sell; viewed on the BeanCounter tab of the Auction House (AH) interface
- Enchantrix – provides disenchant information in the item tooltip.
- Enchantrix-Barker – allows you to advertise your enchants in Trade chat.
- Informant – provides vendor price, availability, profession, quest, and usage information in the tooltip.
- SlideBar – creates an expandable bar that slides out from the edge of your screen, containing links to the configuration dialogs for our add-on components.
- Stubby – is a stub loader which allows load-on-demand add-ons to define the conditions upon which they will load.
- Auc-Advanced – The core library of the Auctioneer system.
Modules
The items below are considered by us to be Modules (though some can be selected in WoW’s AddOns screen), and require Auc-Advanced to function properly.
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- Auc-ScanData – load-on-demand data store for Auctioneer’s scan data.
Auctioneer Statistics
Enabling one of the statistics module (under Configure, Stat Modules) listed below allows it to begin collecting data on each subsequent scan. Each module stores data separately, so enabling one will not allow it access to another module’s stored data. Disabling a module will immediately prevent its data from being included in the Market Price calculation, but it does NOT delete the data, so you can simply re-enable it to re-include its data (though these data will, of course, be outdated if you’ve performed scans with the module disabled).
Each module can be configured to display multiple values in the tooltip, or none at all. But if a module has no data for an item, nothing will appear in the tooltip for that module, regardless of the display settings. Changing the Show… and Display… settings will not affect whether the module’s data are included in Market Price; only Enable… does. Note that all your Stat Modules settings are saved per Profile.
There is no way to display a module in the tooltip and NOT have its data included in Market Price.
Market Price (in the tooltip) is a confidence-weighted average of the values provided by these modules that you have enabled. Each module has its own weakness, so Market Price is a good choice to offset any fluctuations due to those weaknesses.
- Auc-Stat-Classic – Deprecated in WoW Patch 3.0. Imported some of Auctioneer Classic stats into Auctioneer.
- Auc-Stat-Histogram – provides a median listed price (and IQR) for every item ever seen; no data are ever discarded. An item being listed at a price does not mean it sold for that price.
- Auc-Stat-Purchased – tries to provide prices of items sold by anyone via the the inference of items disappearing before they were set to expire. Accuracy is directly related to scanning frequency.
- Auc-Stat-Sales – provides prices of items sold by you. Displays data from BeanCounter on actual purchase and sale prices. Is installed with BeanCounter, not separately.
- Auc-Stat-Simple – provides a simplified average of listed data, providing 3-, 7-, and 14-day moving averages.
- Auc-Stat-StdDev – provides a normalized average of the last 100 listed price points for an item: finds the average, excludes those that are too high or low, and then averages the remaining prices.
- Auc-Stat-WOWEcon – Uses the WOWEcon add-on’s data (if separately installed) to provide the price to other Auctioneer modules.
- Auc-Stat-iLevel – provides a normalized average (see StdDev above) of listed price for all items of the same rarity, type, and iLevel (e.g., all green, level-10, two-handed maces). Useful for pricing random “of the …” items.
Install Instructions:
AuctioneerSuite-5.8.4723.zip download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.
You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.
Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.
Typical locations for the AddOns folder:
Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”
Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.
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