Today’s blog post is a quick and simple video on how to use snatch in Auctioneer.
Snatch is a great way to get the items that you need at cheap and consistent prices. A good use of snatch is too use its prices to feed into my crafting spreadsheet.
It is a good idea to snatch every time you login, or even multiple times while you are playing. This allows you to grab all of the great deals on the auction house, without having to search through a whole load of items manually.
As I mentioned at the end of the video there will be future videos on using other searches in auctioneer. The next of which is the general search to find out more about your competitors. You can expect this video on Thursday.
So we all know that disenchanting, prospecting and milling take a considerable amount of time – and can’t be automated like creating Frostweave Bolts or smeling Saronite Bars can.
Yet there is a way to cut out at least some of the work. This quick video shows you how.
If you need the commands or macros used, you can find them below the video
To bring up the Enchantrix configuration type
/enchantrix config
The macro you can make to auto click yes type
/click AutoDEPromptYes
This same macro works for disenchanting, prospecting and milling – even though it says DE. There is no seperate macros for each one!
Hope you found this useful, if so please leave comments either here or on YouTube – I will cross post comments on YouTube here if I feel that is required.
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Auctioneer is a great addon, and some would call it near essential for anyone seriously trying to compete on the AH now. While you can get by using no addons at all, it certainly does make things a lot easier if you do!
One of the brilliant features of Auctioneer over other AH addons is it has “Searchers” which are predesigned to find specific items for certain uses. This sounds broad, but that’s because there are a whole host of available searches. The one we will be focusing on today is the Disenchant Search, although I will be using DE instead of disenchant throughout this post.
What is the Disenchant Search?
The disenchant search checks through your latest scan data* to find items that can be DE’d for profit.
Now that is still rather broad – what is scan data? How much of a profit? What if I don’t have the ability to DE high level items or don’t want to deal with low level enchanting mats? How do I actually do it!?
Scan Data?
Auctioneer, as well as other addons, have the ability to ‘scan’ all of the items on the AH and add them to a database. This allows them to do lots of complex things with them, but most importantly it allows them to keep average prices of all items seen for sale on there.
There is an additional bonus post before this one which details exactly how to scan the auction house using Auctioneer, so if you don’t understand this part, worry not – check out Scanning the Auction House!
It is important to remember however that scan data is not necessarily what is in the auction house. For example if you haven’t scanned for a day, the data Auctioneer searches through will be a day old! As such, anytime you are going to do any kind of search on Auctioneer it is advisable to scan first.
How much profit?
Auctioneer gives you the ability to set price limits on the search. For example the default is to only show items which will give you 50% profit, provided they sell for full price once you have DE’d them.
This can be adjusted fully, so you can either set this lower if you don’t mind spending time for less of a profit, which is great if you have spare time on your hands, or if there is little on the AH that will make such a massive profit.
I don’t have max Enchanting skill / I don’t want to deal with low level enchanting mats!
You can customise Auctioneer so that it will only show you items from a certain level of enchanting skill needed to disenchant them.
This might sound more confusing than it really is. Say for example you are fairly new to enchanting and only have 100 skill. Simply change the defaults to only show items that require a maximum of 100 skill to disenchant, and then that is all it will search for.
If you don’t want to deal with lower level items, then simply adjust the minimum to a higher number so that they don’t show up. If you set your minimum to 325 skill then you will see only items that disenchant in to Northrend enchanting materials (needs to be tested in game, fairly certain however!).
How do I actually do it!?
It’s a fairly simple process in reality, especially once you have adjusted all your settings for the first time. I will post a quick video on how to do this, however for now the process is a simple seven step system
Scan the auction house
Switch to the Search Tab
Click ‘Disenchant’
Click ‘Search’ and then wait
Buy the items using the Purchase Button
Go collect the items from your mail box and disenchant them
Sell them!
So essentially Auctioneer allows you to search for great deals on BoE items which you can buy, disenchant and then resell the enchanting mats at a profit. It is all very customizable to make sure you are getting the ROI you are after, and is fairly simple to use once it is setup.
Now we learn how to disenchant hundreds of items with even less effort! Look forward to that post tomorrow.
P.S. As mentioned there is a bonus post, before this one, that explains about scanning the AH – it is a really basic primer for people who have never used Auctioneer before, so check it out if you don’t know what scanning is!
Bonus Post – Please note that today’s real post will be after this one. Sorry they are being posted rather late in the evening – didn’t get home until recently from the hospital.
This is just a quick and simple guide on using Auctioneer to scan the auction house, explaining…
What the term ‘Scan the Auction House’ even means
Why you would want to scan
How often you should do it
How you actually go about doing it
If you already feel like you know all of this, or don’t need quite so much in depth information feel free to skip to the end of this post and just watch the video.
For the rest of us, let’s get started.
Scan the Auction House, what’s that?
A whole bunch of addons are able to pull all the data from the auction house and store them in a database.
This database contains information on every single item seen in the AH, including how many have been seen, who’s selling them, how much they sell for* and a whole host of other things depending on the addon – we’ll be using Auctioneer which you can download from their official site here, from Curse Gaming here or from WoWInterface here. If you don’t know which to pick, just use the official link!
By ‘scanning’ the auction house Auctioneer gets all the information on the items currently in the Auction House at that moment in time. The last part is important – it can only collect data from items in the AH when you actually scan it. As such you should scan regularly, preferably at least once every single day, so that your data is up to date.
*Auctioneer is probably the most detailed in it’s information, all together allowing you to see a tone of different information on the data, from the average price over the past 3 days to the standard deviation in price, complete histograms on items and so on. This is in some part Auctioneers curse – it is TOO good. It floods the average user with so much information that they probably don’t fully understand, let alone care about.
Why would I want to spend time Scanning the Auction House?
Nothing is worse than buying a whole bunch of items that looked like a bargin, and then finding out your data was innacurrate and you just paid 800% the normal price!
As such you should try to have scan data that you have been collecting for at least a week, if not longer, before you start really buying or selling on the auction house. The longer your data collection is, the more accurate it will be.
If you use the GetAll scan (described below and in the video) it is also pretty quick, taking only a couple of minutes on most computers.
A great way to remember to scan is to do it as soon as you login, before you start doing anything else.
How often should I scan? Does the data get tainted if I scan too often?
Aucitoneer is able to detect duplicate auctions from different scans – as such there is no possible way to scan too often and mess up your data. You can scan as often as you like without worrying!
However, Blizzard has put in place a limitation on what addons can do, and so Auctioneer can only do a GetAll scan once every 15 minutes. Truth be told you are probably wasting your time if you are scanning every 15 minutes, but it can be helpful if you are doing a scan before doing a Search (like we did in today’s real post on Using Auctioneer to Buy BoE’s to DE)
If you really do need to scan more often than that, you can do the standard scan. This however can take a very long time, depending on how many items are in the auction house at the time. Even on a fairly medium population server it can take 10, 20 or even 30 minutes or more. Worse it stops you from doing anything on that character other than chatting really. As such, I wouldn’t recommend doing a standard search unless your internet connection or computer can’t handle doing a GetAll scan (detailed bellow)
So how do I actually go about scanning?
Okay, so now we know what scanning is, why we should do it and how often – now how do we actually go about doing it?
With Auctioneer it is surprisingly simple to scan the auction house. This is a lot easier to see in game than to describe, so refer to the video below! It has a rather basic recap of the above too, so you can just refer to the video from now on, unless you need the in depth information listed in this post.
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Well yet again still away from home, although things will be back to normal from tomorrow.
This is just a quick post with something that anyone serious about the auction house should do, preferably weeks in advance to actually trying to compete on there – Scan the AH! Although if that is not possible then at a minimum wait for a week of scan data.
Now if the notion of ‘scan the AH’ makes no sense to you, then worry not! Simply download the Auctioneer addon. Now log in to the game and open up the AH. You will see at the top left of the window 5 new buttons. These kind of look like the ones you might see on a DVD player.
Ignore all of them for now except the one that looks like a fastforward button >>. Click this and you will get a warning, which you should read. However that’s fine, close the warning and click the button again.
Now the Auctioneer addon will do a full scan of the AH – which will take anything from a minute to 10 minutes depending on the speed of your computer and your latency.
Once this is done, Auctioneer will spam a bit of information to your chat window about the scan, which you can ignore. Now you’re done – Simple as that!
Obviously I will be going far more indepth with Aucioneer and other addons at a later date, however it is imperative that you scan like this at least once a day if possible.
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