The short-lived days of scanning hundreds of auctions in a single page are over :(

I didn't see anything posted here (I assume it happened when 7.1 dropped), but I had to re-download my AH addons to remove the modifications that checked "Is Usable" to get thousands of auctions at once. Looks like I am back to scanning 30+ pages to post or buy felslate again.

My god i wish there was a less awful way to do this, especially now that I have tasted the unbridled awesomeness that was that bug. :(

Posted Oct 29, 2016, 7:58 AM UTC

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Jugad•

Someone posted 5300+ stacks of 1 fjarns... dear god... that's dedication.

I hope no one buys any of it and everyone of those has to be opened throught the ah return mails.

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KevDotCom•

Which only takes 1 button click and then you can do something else for 1 hour and 46 minutes.

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im_a_goat_factory•

u would get logged out

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Jugad•

good point.

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Nolzi•

Well, half minute to get mail, while the other half spent on reposting. Easy.

2
MaXxOwnage•

how so? is there an addon I'm unaware of? I have TSM mailing and even with that its only 50 per 1 minute unless you reload UI each time and even then theres a loading time between each 50

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Jugad•

I like it that you gave a precise time for opening all those return mails...

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Terpapps•

I imagine him going out and actually doing the math on how long it took to open each envelope, lol.

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KevDotCom•

Well... You can loot 50 mails every minute, so that's just basic maths :D

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Alterscene•
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Hometownblueser•

Didn't they fix the default AH interface so it sorts by price per unit? So there's no reason to do the extreme singles postings except to be a jackass and kill scan times?

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Schakarus•

let's say average price for x is 100g. player y posts a wall of 2k x at 50g. the average player will see 50g as normal price and set their auction for 49g 99s. player y buys everything below his wall, cancels his auctions and sells for 99g 99s

if there is no other goblin buying all. those 2k player y is going to make some neat profit

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Forikorder•

5300 items would take like an hour and a half to open thats a huge waste of time

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Schakarus•

and the same goes for any goblin trying to tear down this wall.

many people won't bother trying so the goblins wall is "safer".

btw.: if you cancel all auctions, you can relist all items directly from your mailbox as stacks and sell or cancel and get them stacked in your mail.

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RedDawn172•

Thing is, as an alchemist I don't care as much since I can make potions/flasks while auto opening ah items (this is a much more noticeable affect when buying yser seeds)

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Str3aks•

Ah, you must be on Dalaran as well!
I doubt anyone will buy them, he set the price at about 44g each, and they weren't even that much before the Blood trader. I can't see any reason to do that other than trolling those of us who use TSM/Auctionator

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Schakarus•

the bug was QOL^100 but good things never last long.

at least scanning a page doesn't take up to 5 minutes anymore!

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PhysicsMaestro•

Yea it almost feels unusable now. I hate this 'fix' so much.

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schrikk•

Is there an addon that does that ? Show the Auction house all in one page instead of pages of 50 ? I don't want TSM or else, just a simple addon that allow us to browse easily the regular AH interface

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TurtlebaconsOP•

Well, TSM and Auctionator both display results in a compacted way that is easier to read, but they still need to scan every page.

There was a bug as of 7.0 that allowed you to trick the AH in to showing you thousands of auctions in the first page that you scanned.

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v04bvs•

Why do you need it anyway? With new sort you don't really need to scan every page. Need to know actual price? Look at first page. Need to buy? Buy first page and go on. Yes, those single item auctions sucks, but not so much.

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Wampie•

Without scanning for the item you cannot use for example TSM buy macros, meaning that it's practically impossible to torn down walls with 100s or 1000s of items.

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TurtlebaconsOP•

Because posting at a wall can be the wrong thing to do. Maybe they posted a bunch single-stack auctions cheap enough to ruin the price with the intention of buying out whoever comes behind them.

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im_a_goat_factory•

you can't scan one page until TSM is changed so it can scan just one.

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