Wednesday, May 20, 2009

AutoMagic, autoselling your junk.

So today I am going to discuss another section of the Auctioneer Suite, known as Automagic. The module is designed for selling items to vendors automatically, well sort of. Like anything in the game the developers want abilities to be triggered by keypresses, so you'll have to hit a confirm button. This is a very cool module, it save alot of time, and comes with some cool functions. We will start our discussion on how to turn Automagic on or off in Auctioneer's Config UI.

Breakdown:
1. Enabling/Disabling AutoMagic
2. Selling Junk (Greys)
3. Selling Junk to You (Whites)
4. Selling Items Bought from the AH (for Profit)


1. Enabling or Disabling AutoMagic:
This is pretty simple, we start by pressing the gold pile icon in the Auctioneer Slidebar (or push the config button when at the auction house). This will open up our Auctioneer Configuration menu, and by clicking on the AutoMagic option in the Util Modules we can turn it off or on and configure the different options available.

Once enabled AutoMagic will allow us to do a variety of things such as,


2. Selling Junk (Greys):
This is primarily what I use AutoMagic for. It works by opening up a confirm sell list once you click on a vendor. Click yes to sell, and whala, all you grey items have been sold. There are a few competing Mods on the market such as SellJunk which add a button to the Vendors UI to do something similar. However after having tried both I am firmly convinced on the usefulness of AutoMagic. AutoMagic is more flexible, is proactive vs passive, and sells everything in one go. SellJunk has a limit, and occasionally needs to be pushed multiple times to sell all the greys in your bag.

Add in the fact that Automagic is built into Auctioneer which if your an AH Trader your already using and you get a win win situation. AutoMagic also goes one step further. While SellJunk will sell everything grey named in your bag, AutoMagic has a feature that allows you to,

3. Sell Possible Junk (White level Items)
White named items in the game have some use or another, but most of them are now pretty pointless. There are a number of glyphs that eliminate the need for regents (which are white items). There are a variety of food items that drop from mobs, but we really want to carry around 1-2 full stacks of food, not a dozen stacks of one of each different food item. Add the things like stones, and rocks from mining, and there are quie a few items that can be used... but are probably better to sell and clear up that bag space.

AutoMagic meets this need by allowing us to add items to the Autosell list, so you do alot of mining, grinding, etc and get alot of the same white item which you always sell anyway? Well add it to the list and bother with it no more!

4. Auto AH Vendor Sales
Finally AutoMagic has one other funtion, there is the ability within Auctioneer to buy items on the auction house to sell to a vendor for a profit (the poster posted it for less then the Vendor will buy it for). But often if your buying a variety of items it is easy to forget which items were bought to be sold to the vendors. This is where AutoMagic come in again. AutoMagic will automatically remember the items you bought to be sold to the vendor and the next time you open a vendor window the confirmation box will pop up to sell those items! It is a big time saver, especially if your searching that auction house for vendor sales on a regular basis.

So get out there my loyal readers and start AutoMagicing away! Save your self an extra 2 minutes every time you visit a vendor!

2 comments:

  1. Only thing I noticed about selling things bought for vendoring is that if the items stack, automagic will not notice the items if they are being turned into a stack by you buying several identical items.

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  2. "But often if your buying a variety of items it is easy to forget which items were bought to be sold to the vendors."
    You can only do two things with the items - sell them on AH (either directly or indirectly by DE'ing, crafting, etc.) or vendor them. If you don't think you can sell it on AH in any form, you should vendor it. If AH gives you more than vendor, you should AH it. It really doesn't matter what the original intent was.

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