Auction House Broken & Knowledge Point Guides - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 342

Posted 2024/09/01 at 12:59 PM by SamadanPlaysWoW

SamadanWe Broke the AH

We’re aware of and working on diagnosing and solving issues that are affecting the performance of the Auction House in WoW. At this time, the Auction House is up, but is experiencing degraded response times.

We’ll let you know as soon as we have updates on the situation.

Thank you!

I don't think TSM is responsible. TSM has been around forever, and Blizzard didn't just disable the way TSM and other addons communicate with the AH, they disabled the entire auction house. I think it's something new or different. Something that sends way more requests.
Tom Ellis

So what’s going on with the Auction House is an interesting tech problem, a well meaning and simple design change caused a DB table that used to hold 20-60k rows to now contain tens of millions. Not a problem by itself but we’ve got some code changes to make to support this new world we live in. We’re going to throw more hardware at the problem with maintenance while people far more clever than me work on actual solutions.

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Making 70k/hour with mining

Just wanted to share some tips for those that are having difficulties farming gold and don't know what farm to do.

Mining around The Ringing Deeps, I am making around 70k gold / hour by farming the nodes with the current market prices. I am also a druid so I move a little faster.

Most of the gold comes from Bismuth Ore (47k per hour) and from Imperfect Nullstones (10k per hour).

Knowledge Points Route:

Mining Fundamentals - 5 points for vigor
Mastering Myterious - 5 points for cd reduction
Plethora of Ore - 50 points

After that max mining fundamentals and go for Bismuth specialization.

Don't forget accessories & tools.

Here's proof of what i gathered in 1 hour:

In the spreadsheet, quantity is on the left and price/unit on the right. in the middle is the gold I made

Let me know if you have any questions and gl mining :)

Plethora of Ore increases your skill mining every kind of ore.

when you max it, in total you get +85 skill (to all mining nodes) +45 Deftness, +105 Finesse, and +60 perception

Then when you max the bismuth you get +55 skill, +180 Deftness, +30 Finesse, +60 Perception and the ability to refine

That +140 combined skill + your regular 100 skill (105 if you are a highmountain tauren) lets you find higher quiality ores regularly, and you can boost the amount of ores you get using a Finesse tool and enchant

So for anyone on the NA wide Ah prices arent as good but still decent if you're not great at other methods.

Now keeping in mind if you start leveling mining now even by the time you max you'd have less KP than OP, but even if somehow you did, you'd be looking more at around 45k in mats if you replicated exactly what OP got.

Now, 45k an hour for mining still isn't that bad at all but again, you won't have the KP to be able to achieve that so realistically your now down to probably sub 40k per hour. Now that's also assuming tis a fresh mining char and you haven't already bricked a current one by incorrectly speccing.

Really just up to you to think about whether leveling a new prof is worth it for just under 40k an hour for items that are continuing to come down in price by the day as well
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Comment by ImagrootI'm baffled by how they let the auction house working while the bug creates duped items and it screws the economy.Comment by minka25I'm baffled by how they let the auction house working while the bug creates duped items and it screws the economy.Comment by XaleaMakes you wonder how the NYSE doesn't break all the time either.Comment by nanito14And isn't related to TSM, Auctionator and all those add-ons?Comment by Rainy27TBH should disable tsm and all AH addons that'll fix it for nowComment by ivikatashaTBH should disable tsm and all AH addons that'll fix it for nowComment by Teydamalways appreciate the writeup my man. I think you'll have to include big winners in the first week and that one goes to Lives as far as im aware. Good execution of strategy!Comment by Rainy27TBH should disable tsm and all AH addons that'll fix it for nowComment by ivikatashaTBH should disable tsm and all AH addons that'll fix it for nowComment by WalkerfinHmm wat gold? What ah? Lol! Are talking same game now?Comment by NanoshieldBlizzard should add a reset knowledge point button for the people like me that put all the points to the wrong category 🥹Comment by DaeverenThe AH is broken like that since the 1st day of early access, it was a pain to buy anything (took ages to open the AH, ages to do a search, tons of errors when trying to buy with default UI because the items were already sold). It was exactly the same at Dragonflight release too, exactly the same issues.Comment by Aeadinfunny that we talk about the econemy, but no mention of degen profession shuffle. I guess it's just a secret, if you know you know, otherwise stay poor? Just kinda funny that we would talk about making gold and not mention how people are making r3 mats with no concentration. But hey, I guess it's just a soft story to put out to the public.Comment by Palemoonfunny that we talk about the econemy, but no mention of degen profession shuffle. I guess it's just a secret, if you know you know, otherwise stay poor? Just kinda funny that we would talk about making gold and not mention how people are making r3 mats with no concentration. But hey, I guess it's just a soft story to put out to the public.Comment by crushburnfunny that we talk about the econemy, but no mention of degen profession shuffle. I guess it's just a secret, if you know you know, otherwise stay poor? Just kinda funny that we would talk about making gold and not mention how people are making r3 mats with no concentration. But hey, I guess it's just a soft story to put out to the public.Comment by Aeadinfunny that we talk about the econemy, but no mention of degen profession shuffle. I guess it's just a secret, if you know you know, otherwise stay poor? Just kinda funny that we would talk about making gold and not mention how people are making r3 mats with no concentration. But hey, I guess it's just a soft story to put out to the public.Comment by HolyTechMaking 70k/hour with mining

Just wanted to share some tips for those that are having difficulties farming gold and don't know what farm to do.

Mining around The Ringing Deeps, I am making around 70k gold / hour by farming the nodes with the current market prices. I am also a druid so I move a little faster.

Most of the gold comes from Bismuth Ore (47k per hour) and from Imperfect Nullstones (10k per hour).Comment by klarMakes you wonder how the NYSE doesn't break all the time either.Comment by arnotaTBH should disable tsm and all AH addons that'll fix it for nowComment by arnotaI went through every NA Auction house to figure out which ones were problematic yesterday , As of yesterday morning it was only Azshara, Mal'Ganis, Bloodhoof, Argent Dawn, Lightninghoof, Auchindoun, Eonar, Area 52, Bleeding Hollow, Stormrage, Drakkari, and Quel'Thalas. As well as any realms connected to those. Some are just stand alone realms while others are connected to a number of realms. The problem is that when i checked two days before that it was only 3 of these realms, so based on what i have seen the problem seems to be getting worse as time goes on.