20 Days of Gold Making - Day 11 Addons

Addons - get it? lol

I do love my addons so when I wrote the questions for my 20 Days of Gold Making, I just had to ask about them! The Question for today is "Most of us use TSM, Auctionator and/or Auctioneer in combo with Postal - are there any other lesser known gold making addons you use?".

I used to use Auctioneer but it was broken by one of the patches last year and didn't get updated for a while so I switched to Auctionator. I also use Trade Skill Master (TSM) but not to its' full potential, I'm sure!

Other addons I use related to gold making are MySales & Auditor as well as RecipeProfit for Gathermate (although not so much these days).

MySales gives me a quick overview of what's sold in the last time period - you can set it for 7 days, 1 month or alltime & you can also set it per character or per server/faction. You can see a list of individual sales via your mailbox or you can go to the Items tab & it shows sales by item which you can sort in a couple of ways. There are only 2 commands to remember too /ms window opens the view below & /ms config opens the configuration/settings window - nice and easy to remember for my ageing brain cells!

MySales addon Items window

Auditor is just a little addon that lets me see a summary of in & out gold flow across various characters. I like it for seeing how much I've spent on repairs, materials etc & as a quick glance at my overall gold total for the server. It just adds a button to the edge of your minimap so it's unobtrusive & you don't need to remember any commands to open it!

Auditor addon example

Above, you can see an example of the top half of the Auditor window. I used it to keep track of my Paladin's earning whilst she leveled from 85 - 90, without any Auction House activity. The time frame can be changed between various time frames, including 'this session', 'today' & 'month' so sometimes if I'm on a farming run, I'll change it to 'session' - just to see how much that farming spree earned me.

The bottom half of the window isn't shown but it has a list of all your other characters on the same faction & server so you can check their balances/earnings without having to log them. I don't use that bit very much to be honest but it's there if you want it.

RecipeProfit for Gathermate is very useful when you are out & about in Azeroth. It adds vendor sold recipes/plans details etc to your minimap so you can easily find the vendor. With so much to do in Mists of Pandaria, it will be a while before I'm doing much lowbie stuff but when I do, I often stop by the vendors to grab a few of these recipes. An Outland recipe run in particular used to be very profitable although I haven't tried it in a long while now.

So those are my 3 extra gold making addons. I don't think any of them are totally necessary & TSM covers much of this data too. I just like the very simple, 'quick glance to get info' usefulness of them. I use the TSM Accounting module when I want to look at specific items sales/profits or drill down for much more detailed analysis or to see when I've messed up my sales price & made a loss on something! I've been lucky there though!

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