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9
Aug

How To Back Up Your Auctioneer Database To Another Machine

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Addons I Use, Adventures Getting Mounts, Adventures In Azeroth, Adventures In Outland, Adventures in PUGs

This entry was inspired by someone who bought and enjoyed my guide to Wealth on Warcraft, and who posted a question about how to deal with accessing WoW from their laptop on occasion when their desktop was not available.

One of my original posts about using Auctioneer but knowing it’s up and downsides was back here.

I hope this helps! :)

Auctioneer Helps Players Gain Wealth

Auctioneer is an awesome addon which I use every day to post my plethora of auctions for my realmmates to buy in order to supply me with a steady flow of Wealth on Warcraft which I use for things like Epic Flying Mount training and gearing my lowbies, and everything in between.

But, if you have more than one computer you log into WoW from, you’ve discovered that your Auctioneer database from all the scans you did on one computer doesn’t show up on your second one.

It’s a real bummer whenever I go to visit my family and use their computer to login instead of my own… but there’s a solution!

How To Transfer Auctioneer Data To Another Machine

WARNING! This requires you to fiddle around in your directory structure. If you’re not comfortable with that, be sure to make a backup before making any changes, so it’s easy to go back. Ultimately if something goes direly wrong, World of Warcraft itself has some ability to recover, but you may lose your saved addon information and have to re-build it. Be careful!

The process, however, is simple:

Exit out of World of Warcraft on both machines.

Go into your World of Warcraft directory on the machine you do the most Auctioneer scans with, and head into the WTF folder, then into “Account”.

In there, you should see directories that are named after the usernames that have been used to log into World of Warcraft from your machine. If only you use it and you only have one account, there’ll only be one directory present. If others have logged in using your machine or you have more than one account, there will be more.

Go into the directory of the account you’ve logged into to do your Auctioneer scanning, and then go into the “Saved Variables” directory.

Copy the file “Auc-ScanData.lua” over onto your Laptop, into the same directory location as where you found it on your original machine.

Start up World of Warcraft on the second machine (or second account if you’re just copying from one account to another on the same machine) and voila! You should have the same scanned data available to you there as well.

Synch Files Regularly

Of course, this update is a one-time update, so you’ll need to do it on a semi-regular basis if you’d like to keep the two databased synchronized. Or, you can start to do more scans on the second machine, and keep it up to date that way.

Good luck, and let me know if you have any problems or further questions!

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1
Nov

Auction House Tips: Value Exceeding Quality

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Adventures In Azeroth, Adventures In Outland

One of the basic “rules” I started with when I started playing World of Warcraft and had no other information to go by was this:

1) Determine what prices to auction something in the Auction House/Player Market according to the quality that Blizzard has assigned to that item.

Meaning, if a piece of armor was Blue in color (denoting “Rare”), I would list it for higher than something that was Green in color (denoting “Uncommon”, a step below Rare), which in turn would be auctioned for higher than something that was White in color (denoting “Common”, a step below Green).

I now have one thing to say about this initial assumption: In terms of battle equipment - weapons and armor, the assumption is a fine one to stick with. In terms of non-battle equipment, the assumption is completely Wrong!

White (professions) Items Value Skew

One of the first items I fished up that challenged this perception was that of the recipe for the blacksmith’s Steel Weapon Chain. I got it while fishing in Stranglethorn Vale the first time, and since I didn’t have a Blacksmith at the time, I sold it for 1g in the Auction House and was quite pleased with myself…

Until I went to Thottbot and looked at the notes about this particular recipe and how rare it was, how it only dropped from chests and fishing boxes in a very small area of the game, and how players were willing to pay up to 20g for the pattern!!!

And, this pattern was a regular “white” pattern. I thought that if the pattern were rare, it would be a different color, but I guess that’s not the case!

Valuation of Professions Materials

There’s no easy way to tell which profession materials or which professions recipes are worth more or less than one another except to look up each item on Thottbot or a similar site with player notes appended, and see what everyone has to say about it.

Alternatively, there are addons that can help determine value, like WoWEcon (which has a downloadable database) and Auctioneer (you have to build the database by scanning the AH at least once a day over a few weeks).

Keep an eye out for things you might not otherwise think are valuable, because every bit of value is a small niche market waiting for you to provide and gain wealth from!

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