How to use ATSW

Advanced Trade Skill Window is a wonderful mod for saving time. It allows for two really useful features that can shave time off of your auction house crafting sessions. The first is the ability to que up entire lists of items to make, and the second is the ability to create custom sorting lists.

Advanced Trade Skill Window will dominate two aspects of your productions. The first is in what you want to produce. Obviously we want to make products that will sell for more gold then it will cost us to make them. By the same token we know that most of our recipes produce items with a negative net value. In other words the materials would have sold for more.

In every profession there are items that are profitable which players are looking to buy in steady quantities. However I'll cover how to find profitable items in a later article. Today I want to talk about what to do with these recipes once we have found them. This is where ATSW can save your time. ATSW allows you to create custom lists, so what we do is create list with only the items we want to consistently produce and sell.



So this Is what ATSW looks like. It doubles the width of the Trade UI, moving production and mats to the left and leaving the right solely for recipes. The major sections are the ones with red squares around them.

Section #1: Is the most important in my opinion, the check box will allow you to sort recipes by your own custom categories, and the edit box brings up a UI to set those categories (seen in the third screenshot)

Section #2: Is the Filter where you can type in a variety of options to limit what you can see. The following is taken from the Readme file and explains how to use filters:

ATSW has a powerful search function built-in. You can either just type some text into the search box and have ATSW filter the recipe list according to your entry, or you can use one of the following parameters:

:reagent [reagent name] - filters the list to only include items that need the specified reagent
:minlevel [level] - filters the list to only include recipes for items with at least the given level requirement
:maxlevel [level] - the same as minlevel, just the other way round
:minrarity [grey/white/green/blue/purple] - filters the list to only include recipes for items with at least the given rarity
:maxrarity [grey/white/green/blue/purple] - should be self-explanatory
:minpossible [count] - filters the list to only include items that can be produced at least [count] times with the material in your inventory
:maxpossible [count] - do I really need to explain this?
:minpossibletotal [count] - like minpossible, but considers material in your bank your alt's banks and buyable materials (actually it depends on what you have activated in the options window!)
:maxpossibletotal [count] - doh!

You can even combine multiple parameters and a text for a name search, like this: "leather :minlevel 20 :minrarity green" - this will show you only recipes with the word "leather" in their name, a minimum level requirement of 20 and a minimum rarity of "green".

Section #3: Cover the production, it is pretty elf explanatory, however the bottom right button called regents is awesome.



By pushing the Regents button after you have qued a large list of items you would like to make, ATSW will generate a list of regents needed to produce everything. To take it a step further ATSW even allows you to auto buy regents from sellers when you have the trade window open with them. This is extremely useful for things like inscription as it allows me to instantly buy stacks and stacks of parchment.

So we have learned how ATSW allows us to produce lots of items relatively simply, but the true strength of ATSW is in the building of custom categories. As you can see below I prefer two. Profitable, and Not Profitable. Section 6 will allow you to type in any category that you would like to create, and then it is just a matter of clicking on the plus to open a category and then click on the recipe to the right to sort it.



I prefer the setting up Profitable and Not Profitable categories because once set up it allows me to bring up a list of the items I produce on a regular basis without having to see the other 90% of recipes which I don't. I hope this helps you to see how using ATSW can be useful, and please stay tuned for a future post about how to find these profitable recipes.

As always, your comments, questions and criticism are always welcome.

Miy