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Mill Your Way to Millions [Archive](已归档)
来自 hintofbasil
[Last Updated]:
2012/01/12
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Staff note: This guide is outdated but kept up for Archival purposes due to the positive feedback it received when it was relevant.
Welcome.
I am an owner of a rather successful glyph business on my server. During my business I have milled tens of thousands of herbs. Along the way I have discovered some very useful time and money saving techniques. This guide is intended for those looking to cut down on the time they spend making inks for their businesses or for those looking to earn some extra gold for themselves from milling. I have personally paid millers approximately 3000 gold per hour to mill for me, so the gold is definitely there waiting to be gained, and with this guide you could earn even more than that.
Addons
Most people use no addons, or use a very simple milling macro, while milling. This is actually a very inefficient methed compared to what is currently available. By using the correct addons you can cut your milling time by about 40%. This is a massive time-saver.
The three addons we will be using are:
TradeSkillMaster
TradeSkillMaster_Destroying
TradeSkillMaster_Shopping
TradeSkillMaster_Mailing
As you may have guessed TradeSkillMaster_Destroying, TradeSkillMaster_Shopping, and TradeSkillMaster_Mailing are simply modules for TradeSkillMaster. There are many other useful modules out there, but they are not directly related to the milling process.
If you don't know what a module is, don't worry. This guide will assume only a very basic understanding of addons, such as how to install them.
Finding Herbs
Obviously before we can start milling we must find herbs to mill. Thankfully TradeSkillMaster_Shopping has made this process as easy as can be. Simply run over to the auction house and open the window as usual. This first thing you should notice is the addition of a 'TSM' tab at the bottom of the window as shown below.
If the tab is not all ready selected click it (red). This is where all of TSM's interactions with the auction house are done. Next you want to click on the destroying button in the side bar (orange). If you have other modules installed there might be other buttons in the side bar, but they are not necessary for this tutorial. You then want to tell TSM what you would like to purchase by clicking the milling button (yellow), choose common inks (green), then select the ink you would like to make (blue). Hitting the search button (purple) will make TSM search for all the materials that can be turned into that ink and show you how much you would be paying per ink. This does include trading
blackfallow ink
into lesser inks. It does not take into account uncommon inks.
N.B. Ivory ink ad Moonglow ink are not used in the crafting of glyphs and are hence worth a lot less than the other glyphs. I don't recommend you search for them.
If you see herbs/pigments/inks for a price you consider reasonable, simply click on the item then click the 'buyout' button (brown). This will bring up a confirmation box, shown below.
Clicking the 'Buyout' button (red) will purchase the herbs. The buyout button must be clicked once for each different auction purchased. The confirmation box will remain until all herbs for that price, in that stack size have been bought. When all herbs of that stack size and price have been bought the box will close automatically and other herbs can be chosen to be bought.
This process can be very tedious, in part due to a design fault of the buttons being so far apart which I expect to be fixed, however in the mean time there is a lovely macro which can speed up the buying process.
/click TSMAHTabBuyoutButton
/click TSMAHConfirmationActionButton
I personally have this bound to ctrl + mouse wheel up & ctrl + mouse wheel down, but any key bind should suffice.
Using the Mailbox
TSM also has a mailing addon to help you gather your herbs much easier. It is no lie that I view TSM as an addon to be used by Elune herself but for this section other addons can actually do a similar, if not slightly better job. I will focus on the TSM mailing addon as it does much more than the other addons, but the extra stuff is not needed in this tutorial.
Upon opening the mailbox you should notice two new buttons shown in the picture below.
The top button 'TradeSkillMaster_Mailing: Auto-mail' (uncoloured) can be ignored for the purposes of this tutorial, that is the extra stuff I mentioned above. The 'Open all' button (red) does exactly what it says on the tin, opens all your mail, until it runs out of mail, bag space, or can't open a mail for some reason (too many unique items, mail sent by NPC etc). The counter (blue) shows how long until the mailbox refreshes. The mailbox can only contain 50 mails at one time, and can only be refreshed every 60 seconds. This is implemented by Blizzard to help out their servers I believe, but is very annoying.
It is worth noting that TSM does not have an option to leave X bag space free (which some other addons have) so make sure to have atleast 2, preferably 3, free bag space before you start milling.
The Destroyer
TradeSkillMaster has it's own method for milling herbs which is much faster than a traditional macro due to being able to mill while looting. To open up TSM's milling addon type the following code
/tsm destroy
This will open up the following window.
The first option we need to deal with is the professions pull down menu (red). The destroying window can mill, prospect and disenchant. It will only show options for professions you have on your current character. For example if you only have jewelcrafting it will only show the prospect option, if you have enchanting and inscription it will show both milling and disenchanting.
N.B You cannot exclude mats from this addon currently, if you have something in your bags you don't want to be destroyed by the current method (gear if you are disenchanting, expensive herbs if you are milling) remove them before clicking the button. You can have spare gear in your inventory while milling, that is perfectly safe.
The second option is the speed for milling (yellow). Slow does exactly what a milling macro does, I see no reason to use this. The difference between normal and fast can be read
here
however there is very little difference between them when spam clicking. I recommend you use fast, but if you find yourself getting lots of interrupt warnings it could be better to switch to normal.
Now you have the destroyer set up just spam click the 'Destroy' button (green) to mill all your herbs. Simple as that.
This can be added to a macro using the following code (even the macro created above for buying herbs).
/click TSMDestroyingButton1
I personally don't use a macro for it because I find it easier to spam click using a laptop mouse pad, but use what ever gets you the best results.
Crafting Inks
Sadly there is not a way to speed up turning pigments into inks. This has to be done how it has always been done. Using the inscription trade skill window. However this does not mean this is wasted time. There are little tricks you can use to make this time useful. The first and most obvious is to go do something else. 300 inks take ten minutes craft. Go make a sandwich, walk around the block, grab a drink.
If you are set on staring at a screen all is not lost. You can craft your inks whilst doing the following:
Buying more herbs from the auction house.
Defending a node in a battleground.
Between bosses in a raid.
How to Sell Inks
So how you have inks coming out of your ears, nose and anywhere else you wouldn't normally find an ink. How do you turn these into gold? The best way I can think of would be to find out who runs the glyph business on your server. Far too many scribes are fed up milling, but finding someone to mill for them is even more effort. If you approach them I'm sure they will be happy to buy up your inks. Go to the auction house and search through a few glyphs, the more the better. Take note of any name that occurs repeatedly. Send that character a mail offering them a large supply of inks for a price you think is good for both of you. On my server I would recommend 7.5g-8g an ink.
N.B Do not base this price off the price of glyphs. Base it off the price of herbs.
If after a few days you have not found someone willing to regularly buy your inks do not despair. Inks still sell very well on the auction house. I will not go into details of how to post on the auction house, however TSM has a fantastic method for simplifying this. For anyone interested there is a great video
here
done by a great gold making blogger known as Faid.
You should now know everything there is to know about milling for profit.
Good luck fellow gold hunters!
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评论
评论来自
Valesti
Hi! So this was recommended to me for my milling and I decided to try it out. Got it from the curse website, so I assume it's updated. When I type in '/tsm destroy' the Destroyer window does not show up at all, like it says it should in the guide. I have the Core addon but only the Destroyer module, do I
need
the other modules for it to function?
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