I want to apologize to the other writers for dominating the Add-on Spotlight feature for a few weeks. I think it's an obvious I'm an add-on superfreak. I'm constantly upgrading add-ons, trying add-ons, ditching add-ons, and replacing add-ons. This feature, therefore, is something I really enjoy.
I want to talk to you today about "the little add-on that could." This little piece of programming brilliance has been around forever and over the course of time some of it's features have even been worked into the default World of Warcraft user interface. Auction Filter Plus won't die though. The author just keeps honing and refining it for all of us to enjoy.
What does it do? It allows you to manipulate auction search results in ways that the default auction interface does not. How many times have you been to the auction house looking for silk cloth for example, typed "silk cloth" in the search field and had results that included "bolts of silk cloth" as well? One of the things AFP does is allow you to do "exact" name searches which allows you to find precisely what you're looking for without a lot of "bogus" (as my guild leader would say) search results.
Suppose you need a lot of that silk cloth, fast. Your wallet is heavy, you're not worried about the price, and you just need a ton of silk and you don't want to mess around with the vendors who are selling it one-piece-at-a-time. AFP also allows you to specify what stack sizes you want to search. So in this example, you could click the "Stacks of 20" box and it would only show results that were stacks of twenty.
The most obvious and beautiful feature of AFP though, is shown to the player on a budget who is shopping for stackable items. I used to only buy big stacks, because I assumed people who were selling the items in bulk were offering better prices. I've found since installing AFP that this isn't always true. Once you have your search results in the auction window, you can click "Show Best Deals" which will then categorize auction offers based on the cost-per-item. Sometimes the lowest buyout is not always the best deal!
You can also hide items that don't have a buyout, or (if you're a gear freak like me) hide items you can't afford. There are other features, but the best way to find out about them is to download the add-on, or check out the write-up on one of the add-on sites. In my books, this little gem will always be a "must have" in my add-on arsenal.
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9-07-2007 @ 12:44PM
Todd said...
Ah, I've been using this mod for a long, long time. Great when you're needing to buy a stack of 20 or need to do an exact search for "runecloth" and not "runecloth bandage."
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9-07-2007 @ 12:59PM
Dave said...
Looks kinda useful.
However, I've gotta say that often times the people who don't list full stacks of items tend to be the ones that undervalue them as well. I can't remember offhand what addon I have, but I've got one that shows per-item prices and if this thing can work in tandem with that and show me only buyout items and sort by per-item prices reqardless of quantity, I'll be in love.
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9-07-2007 @ 1:54PM
Aler said...
I'm an enchanter, and there's an auction search feature I desperately want, but haven't been able to find.
The other day I was trying to finally push my enchanting up to 300, and I needed lots of illusion dust, but there was none on the AH. I know it DEs mostly from 51-60 armor, so I searched through these, buying items I thought were cheap, carefully avoiding outland items in the same range that turn into arcane dust, and eventually got the dust I needed.
What I want is to be able to search the AH for all items that DE into a particular material, and sort them by this value (often an item that 75% DEs into 3.5 dust sells for as much as something that DEs into 1.5 dust), or by probability, or some combination.
Does such a tool exist?
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9-07-2007 @ 2:01PM
Grimmnar4 said...
Another mod that works quite well with this mod is "Auction House Favorites" (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/4701/).
This mod allows you to add favorite searches to the auction house frame for quick recall.
This is one of the ways we show you how to make gold within WOW. You can make over 1000g a day using this method and others described within the Easy Gold Guide.
http://www.easygoldguide.com
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9-07-2007 @ 2:14PM
Starfury said...
@2 This addon can do price per item too. If you look at the SS its the 4th checkbox on the little menu there.
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9-07-2007 @ 2:30PM
Runstadrey said...
Does this work with Auctioneer?
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9-07-2007 @ 3:22PM
Todd said...
@Runstadrey
This does work with Auctioneer.
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9-07-2007 @ 3:33PM
RogueJedi86 said...
Why does Grimmnar4 always seem to be using any excuse he can to chime in about his "my site on how to make 1000g a day"?
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9-07-2007 @ 4:01PM
Areis said...
I want an auction mod that will allow you to search by stats
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9-07-2007 @ 7:38PM
Runstadrey said...
Thanks Todd
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9-07-2007 @ 9:26PM
Bobby Hansen said...
my two favorite Auction Add ons are Auctioneer and Igor's Mass Auction, which lets you post up to 18 auctions at once. You can go through your inventory ant ALT-click items to put the whole stack into the icon, and then adjust prices, and then post 'em all at once. It's quadrupled my Auction House efficiency. I use to post 20-30 items at a time, now 100 items is a small amount for me to be posting.
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9-08-2007 @ 3:05AM
miszobi said...
An updated and ACEified version of AHFavorites is called AHSearch, and available here:
http://files.wowace.com/AHsearch/AHsearch.zip
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