WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-Up: Hotfixes & Updates, Auction Deposits, Transmog Mastery & TSM 4.2

Wowhead 由 Gumdrops 发表于 2018/09/01，11:04

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Auction House

The deposit for certain tradeskill goods has increased by 20% of the asking price of a single unit. This cost is constant, regardless of stack size. As with the standard deposit, this is returned to the seller when the auction successfully sells.

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The Interdimensional Companion Repository should now stack up to 20.

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Contracts now correctly have a 7-day duration.

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Profession World Quests should no longer appear on the map for characters who do not know that Profession.

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Blizzard

To address some issues related to the Auction House, we’re reconsidering how deposits—the refundable fees you pay to list your auctions—are calculated. This fee is based on the item’s vendor price, and for profession materials in particular, vendors offer very low prices, so these mats have a low deposit cost. Deposits are substantial on items such as BoE uncommon gear, gems, and so forth, but not trade skill materials (trade goods such as cloth, ore, leather, etc.).

One thing we’ve identified as particularly troublesome is a large volume of trade skill materials being auctioned off in stacks of 1. Some addons make posting quantities of this size trivial to do, resulting in dozens, if not hundreds, of pages of auctions for a single item. As we looked at ways to change this behavior and improve the overall Auction House experience, we found that we prefer to avoid inflexible solutions such as caps on the number of listings a player can make, or increased minimum stack counts, which might interfere with many players' common gameplay habits.

Our current plan is to increase the deposit cost of some profession materials on a per-stack basis, which should provide incentive for players to post items in larger stacks.

Here's an example:

• Let’s say that a player is trying to sell 200 Tidespray Linen for 10g (gold) each. Today, each item has the normal deposit cost of 1c (copper), with a 1s (silver) minimum deposit, so 1 auction of 200 linen requires a deposit of 1s, and 200 auctions of 1 linen each adds up to a total deposit of 2g.

• Now imagine an additional 20% deposit added to the listing fee per auction. With an asking price of 10g each, that raises the deposit by 2g per stack. In the case of 1 stack of 200 linen, the total buyout price is 2000g, and the new deposit is 2g1s. In the case of 200 individual stacks, the new deposit of an additional 2g per stack brings the total deposit up to 402g.

In either case, the deposit is returned to the seller if the item sells. Successful auctions aren’t affected by this change.

Our goal is to give players some forewarning on this change, and to gather feedback. We’re putting together a list of the items that would be affected by this deposit change, which we expect to be limited to high-quantity trade goods. Furthermore, we’re deploying the change to the PTR first, so that addon authors can work through the change while we test it thoroughly.

This change will likely be a temporary measure, as we’re also working to broadly improve the default Auction House in the future. It’s clear to us that many players use addons because they find the default Auction House interface inadequate. A temporary change to deposit fees will help with this in the short term, and we’ll continue to work on overall improvements to the Auction House for a future patch.

活化钢魔化源质锭Trusted Goblin BilisOnyxia shared his thoughts

I think the new deposit fee system is a great idea in general, but it should only apply to high volume trade materials. It should not apply to expensive materials that people do not want to buy in big stacks.

Let's say there is a rare material that people only need 1-2 of every blue moon to craft a specific item. It sells for 2.5k.

A flat 20% fee relative to the per unit buyout means there is no point in keeping stacks of 1 of the item posted on the AH, as the lost deposits for expired auctions are too costly.

At the same time there is no point in posting large stacks either. A player who only needs 2 of the item to craft something does not want to buy a full stack of 200 for half a million gold.

How have you been handling the increased deposit cost? Have you noticed any difference in how much you're paying? What are you doing previous-expansion materials now that they cost so much to post?/u/pyumanou shared a fantastic high level overview of the transmog marketfull post is well worth a read

Potential

Transmog as a market has the potential to make a large amount of gold per week for a committed goblin. It is possible to see up to 1 million gold per week from transmog alone, possibly more if you are good enough. For example, the youtuber/streamer Studenalbatroz recently did a 0-goldcap challenge with transmog only and consistently made around 700k each week from a mixture of transmog sources.

Pricing
Your prices should entirely depend on your own preferences and your own realm's economy. Typically higher population servers have lower prices and lower population servers have higher prices. However every server has its own unique set of players and demands, some high pop servers may have very little supply for rare tailoring patterns and some low pop servers have very high supply of felsteel longblades.

In general though, with creating prices for your transmog, use region and global values to give yourself a general idea of value. As transmog items move slowly and tend to have a lesser supply than other markets, region and global values tend to be a better indication of value than your own server's market value (which can be manipulated easily in low supply markets).

Primary Market?
There are goblins who make the entirety of their gold from farming transmog. And whilst it is possible, and it can be very lucrative, it is recommended that you treat transmog as a side market or a long term venture. Transmog moves slowly and relying on it solely could leave you in a bit of trouble if say a new expansion comes out and everybody is levelling and gearing and doesn't care about their mog because that piece will get replaced in 3 quests anyway. Keep a good stock up, whether by crafting or farming, and go find other ways to make gold while things sell.

But Transmog doesn't sell on my server!
Yes it does. It may sell a little slower or for a little less than you see in all the youtube videos but trust me it does sell. There could be other reason's why it isn't selling. Maybe you priced it too high, maybe it doesn't have a unique appearance and an item with the same model is much cheaper, maybe you don't have a large enough stock to see steady sales yet. Be patient, be vigilant and be smart.

How many transmog sales do you make on a weekly or monthly basis? Out of crafting, farming or buying your transmog, which method do you prefer to acquire it?information on what has changed over the last couple of weeks with the release of version 4.2

The launch of Battle for Azeroth certainly drew out some new quirks and issues that weren’t apparent during the beta, however we have been quick to squash some particularly nasty issues such as the recent Auction House hotfix from Blizzard.

Let’s take a look through some of the highlights of the recent updates, and if you haven’t tried TSM4 since the initial release then now might be great time to dive in again!

Shopping

We heard you loud and clear regarding the Shopping interface, it wasn’t where it should have been and in some aspects was a step back from TSM3. A different design direction didn’t quite work out and we’ve given the Shopping interface a makeover. Reintroducing the ‘Post’ button, you can now throw the inconvenient hammer icon out and post an item even if there are none listed at the time. In addition, you can now see how many auctions are posted for a particular item and your own auctions or auctions you’ve placed a bid on are highlighted for quick reference. The ‘Stack Size’ and ‘Quantity’ data for auctions have now also been split into two columns for neater information, and there is now also an option to enable a confirmation button to all buyouts if you’d prefer to not to immediately purchase when clicking.

Inventory Viewer

The Inventory Viewer has made a return to the addon which gives you a perfect overview of all your stock. In this interface you can see the items on the Auction House, in your bags, banks, guild banks and also in the mail across every character.

Scaling

More interface upgrades have arrived with the introduction of UI scaling. As well as resizing the dimensions of a particular TSM window with the resizer in the lower right corner, you can hold the ‘shift’ key before resizing to alter the scale of the window too. Now you can make things a bit more readable or save some screen real estate while working through your gold-making strategies.

Profile Syncing

For those with multiple accounts, it’s now even easier to move your TSM setup to different accounts. After setting up an account sync within TSM, we have introduced an option to send your entire profile from one account to another. Naturally if your setup is quite extensive this may take a little longer than a few hyper-focussed groups and operations.

Various Bugs Fixes & Updates

Through more than 23 releases there have been dozens of bug fixes, issues resolved and behaviours tweaked. Major adjustments include accommodations for Blizzard’s horribly slow Auction Houses, optimisations for account syncing, updates to Vendoring, Mailing, Crafting, and Auctioning plus tons of workarounds for addon conflicts after the launch of Battle for Azeroth such as ElvUI, AllTheThings, and Bagnon.

Have you tried out TSM4 yet, if not what outstanding feature or behaviour are you missing? What is your favourite part about the new TradeSkillMaster/r/woweconomy subredditDiscord serverstreaming live on Twitch@GumdropsEU

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