Since the launch of the new TSM website, we’ve had a lot of feedback about the missing directory of publicly shared group imports.
While it’s easier than ever to make your own groups in-game by searching the Base Group, or using Wowhead to leverage more powerful filters – we wanted to improve the way you find and use community-made groups on the web. It wasn’t quite ready for the recent relaunch of the overall website but we’re excited to announce that it’s back and the first iteration is ready to use!
As was the case with the old TSM website, the ability to search for and use these groups will remain free and does not require a TSM Premium plan.
You can access groups by using the global search bar or via the Groups menu option in the navigation bar. When opening the page you’ll see a list of popular groups, groups you have looked at recently, and a link to view all of the groups shared for the game version selected. The page is always pre-filtered based on the game version you have selected in the top right of the page, so you won’t see Classic Era groups mixed in with Retail groups for example.
If you search for a particular item in the global search bar or on the Groups main Browse page, you’ll see published groups in the results along side the item itself. This is very handy to find groups you might be interested in using based on the item you want to group.
The first major evolution to the system is that they can also include operations associated with the group. This is possible because the way groups are published is based on what a TSM user uses in-game, rather than collecting some item IDs from Wowhead which was the only option on the old website.
If you’d like to use a group you can click on the Add to Addon button to generate an import string to be copy and pasted in-game.
Publishing Groups
There are two ways to publish a group on the TSM website.
Clicking on the My Published Groups sub-menu item will show a list of currently published groups. From here you can click on Import From String and copy and paste the import string that can be manually exported from any group in-game. Learn how to export a group from the TSM knowledgebase.
Alternatively, if you are a TSM Premium (Gold) subscriber, all of your groups are synced to the website automatically so you can publish them from directly from the My Addon Groups tab after selecting the appropriate WoW Account and TSM Profile.
Once published, you’ll get a shareable link you can provide your friends or community and the group will appear in the public directory. You can however opt to make the group ‘private’ so only those with a link can access the group if you’d prefer not to have the group included in the public directory.
Future Improvements
We have a lot of other ideas to improve the process of finding and managing groups on the TSM website including showcasing published groups that contain a particular item when you view that item page and introducing a rating system to share feedback.
Additionally, with a TSM Premium plan, we’re exploring options to synchronise a group to the game directly via the TSM desktop app to skip the manual importing process. This could also enable some cool mechanisms such as ‘subscribing’ to a particular published group so you would be able to keep up to date with any changes or updates without having to think about it.
We’d love to hear your feedback on how you used the old version of the public TSM groups feature, what you like or dislike about the newly revamped version, and what you want to see out of it in the future!
We’re super excited to announce the launch of a brand new TradeSkillMaster website to elevate your gold making in The War Within and Classic World of Warcraft!
Along side a new website, rebuilt from the ground up – our TSM Premium offering has evolved in to multiple plans which are stuffed with brand new features and quality of life improvements to take your gold making even further.
Let’s get started with what’s in store on the brand new TSM website.
The homepage now features a few important tools that will help you get an understanding of what’s going on with the Auction House – and what’s going on with your gold making activity, if you’re logged in.
You’ll first notice a heatmap of items and item categories that show trends in market value (red for declining trends, green for increasing trends) and volume of auctions (the bigger the square, the higher the volume) on your realm or your region – for the the version of the game you have selected on the homepage.
From here you can drill down in to a category, and then an item, to see current trends in price data at a glance. For example let’s look at Cooking Reagents.
Here we can see that cooking reagents are overall down in price trending when comparing the market value and historical value by -24.2%, then selecting the Reagents category the Cooking category shows individual items including Basically Beef trending down in price by -12.7% (perhaps oversupplied?) and Leyblood trending up by 505% (perhaps new demand?) – there’s also a tally of current volume of auctions for these item categories and individual items.
Let’s drill down further into Basically Beef as an item and check out the item page to see what’s going on in more detail.
At the top of the page we can see a summary of the item’s TSM Market Value, a confirmation of the current trend of the Market Value compared to the Historical Value, the current quantity on the Auction House – and if you’re logged in with TSM Premium (Platinum) an overview of your current inventory data across characters and the Auction House.
We also see an Auction House Quantity trend chart, showing volume of auctions for this item over time – coupled with your recent gold making actions pulled from your Ledger automatically, with TSM Premium (Platinum). In this example I might see I have a bunch of stock not listed and decide to log in and post them to the Auction House before the trend continues to fall, or realise I don’t have any stock on hand and decide to scoop any deals before the trend reverses.
Moving down the page, with a TSM Premium (Platinum) subscription, we see more visualisations representing the Region Sale Average and Region Sold Per Day values – information you’d usually only see in-game in the item tooltip. All of the tooltip information is also surfaced in the Item Statistics section to the right – including your personal Ledger and Accounting data for sales, purchases, sales, and sale rates. This data is available if you’re logged in with an active TSM Premium subsription.
The entire Auction House is your oyster now, giving new insights in market vs historical trends outside of the in-game addon for you to browse and research at any time. Time to start exploring!
Before moving away from the item page – you may have also noticed the ‘Alerts’ button at the top of the page. We’re very excited to introduce a more robust item notification system which includes realm, region, BMAH alerts via email and now also via Discord with a TSM Premium (Platinum) subscription!
It’s quick and easy to enable an alert from the item page, simply select the realm or region and your notification option, along with the price threshold and you’re all set. You must connect your Discord Account through OAuth in the TSM Account Management page in order to receive Discord notifications.
Ledger
The Ledger has had a coat of paint and now shows better charts and statistics based on your in-game gold making activity. The Ledger will continue to evolve over time as it is fully integrated in to the TSM website and new data flows are established from the in-game addon.
Groups
We’re also now making it easier than ever to view your in-game groups outside of the game via the Groups tab on the new TSM website. As a starting point, with TSM Premium (Gold) subscription, you can view the groups and the operations assigned to them separated by profile and also by account.
From here you can also opt to Publish your group to create an easy-to-share link with a friend or the TSM community – which will allow an easy import of the group and operation in one go in-game
Website Future
The new TSM website is a foundation for a lot of things we want to do in future, including more Auction House analysis tools, and more ways to understand your own gold making activity and to help you make more informed decisions on what you should or could do to improve your strategies.
We have a dedicated team working on it full time so we’ll be introducing new features and pushing out updates frequently now that it has been introduced to the world.
For the launch we have opened a new channel in Discord where you can share your feedback or ideas, and report any bugs you might encounter as you’re exploring and discovering our new website.
TSM Premium
With the launch of the new website, we are also revamping the TSM Premium offering with many more features described in the post above, and many more to come.
As of today September 4th, 2024 TSM Premium will be offered at two tiers, each with their own price point and access to features. The Premium plan offered before September 4th, 2024 will no longer be available to new subscribers.
TSM will always be available for free, which gives access to the TSM Desktop Application with TSM Price data and basic Auction House analysis on the website.
TSM Premium will now be offered at a Gold tier and a Platinum tier.
TSM Gold subscription
TSM Platinum subscription
Support TSM
Everything in the Gold subscription tier
Basic analysis of recent sales and purchases in Ledger (your personal TSM data)
Extensive analysis of sales and purchases in Ledger (your personal TSM data)
View BMAH auctions on the TSM website
Track gold making performance on the dashboard and item pages
TSM Addon setting backups synced to the cloud
View sale price and quantity graphed over time on item pages
Email alerts for items on your realm, region, or BMAH
Unlimited realms for price data in the TSM Desktop application
Up to 25 realms for price data in the TSM Desktop application
Discord alerts (in addition to email) for items on your realm, region, or BMAH
Great Deals synced to your in-game addon
Special Discord Role with access to exclusive channels / TSM roadmap insights and input
TSM Premium Role in Discord
Priority TSM beta program access
Price Changes
TSM Gold will start at just $3.00 US per month, while TSM Platinum for all the extra benefits and features will start at just $7.50 US per month, each while billed annually. Monthly and bi-annual options are also now available for each plan.
Current Subscribers
To celebrate the launch of our new Premium offerings, all current TSM Premium subscribers will gain access to the Platinum TSM Premium tier for 6 months at no extra cost!
We’re thankful for you being part of the TradeSkillMaster community, and hope you enjoy the new website and can benefit from all of the new enhancements to the TSM Premium offering.
As the launch of The War Within expansion draws near, we’re very happy to announce the Beta test of the 4.14 addon update to TradeSkillMaster! If you’re a Premium member you will shortly be receiving an email inviting you to participate, along with instructions on how to get started.
Additional invites through our Beta sign-up page will be distributed on a First-In-First-Out system, so make sure you sign-up if you’d like to get involved!
Let’s take a look at some of the major features 4.14 brings!
New Sniper Mechanism
Patch 8.3 in Battle of Azeroth changed the way the Auction House works fundamentally. Blizzard removed the concept of ‘pages’ and since then all items are essentially part of the same pool of auctions for a given realm or region.
This caused some changes to the sniper behaviour for TSM in Retail which deviates from the original style of sniping that’s available in Classic WoW. So to try and close that gap and improve the efficiency and capabilities of TSM Sniper in Retail, we have introduced some changes to the way the Auction House is queried during a Sniper scan. If you’re familiar with other Sniper-focused addons, such as Point Blank Sniper (PBS), TSM 4.14 will function in a similar way.
Additionally, in Retail you’ll be able to apply a Sniper Operation to the Base Group just like you can in Classic (or in Retail prior to WoW patch 8.3), allowing for Sniping of items that are not otherwise grouped.
Secondary Realm Market Data
After region-wide trading was introduced in Dragonflight, we have been exploring how we might enable easier arbitrage between realms without overloading the addon with data and consuming all of our bandwidth quotas.
As a first step in this arena we have added the option to display some Price Sources such as Minimum Buyout and Market Value from one other realm that you have added to your TSM Desktop Application in your Tooltip Settings.
We hope this will enable some arbitrage opportunities with a specific realm that you may have gold-making activity on – we understand that discovering and identifying those opportunities is important and we’ll continue to explore supporting that type of analysis outside of the game with our new and improved website suite coming soon.
Scroll Table Improvements
Scrolling tables make up a lot of the UI of TSM, such as the interfaces for Mail, Vendoring, most of the Auction House, and your profession window.
It can take a lot of resources to create and update these tables as new data is loaded or you take actions in the addon, so we’ve spent a lot of time working to significantly improve the performance of these elements across the TSM addon suite.
As well as performance improvements, we’ve added a ton of new functionality to these tables:
Drag Columns to Reorder them
Now you can reorganize the columns in any scrolling data table, such as at the Auctioning House or in your profession window.
Note the ‘item name’ column position cannot be changed, and column positions can be reset in the traffic light menu in the top left of any table.
From this menu you can now also enable to lock the width of columns in the table so that you don’t accidentally resize a column too wide or too narrow. Enabling this option will maintain the current width of all columns in the table.
Create a Group from items showing in a Scrolling Table
Making Groups is often a challenge, over the years we have taken steps to make that easier including the concept of the Base Group which contains any item that you don’t already have inside a Group, even if you don’t currently own the item.
We’re taking that a step further and adding the option to create a Group containing the items that you currently see in the table – whether that is a category selected in your profession window to group items you can craft or a search on the Auction House.
In this example the Auction House Browse tab is filtered by using the Advanced Item Search to look for the category of Tailoring Recipes. I can select ‘Create Groups from Table’ to add all of the items in the table to a new Group. Note that items that are already grouped are not added to the newly created Group.
Adding Prices or Sources as Custom Columns
A very common line of feedback when using TSM is to add more information to the UI in order to be better informed and make it easier to make decisions. We have to strike a balance between what is usable or understandable to someone who may be new to TSM and creating the flexibility to enter ‘data overload’ territory if it’s desired.
With TSM 4.14 we’re pleased to add the option to include any standard price or value source as a new column in any scrolling table, such as your Auctioning and Shopping Scan results, or Sniper Scan results. This is also extended to include any custom sources you have defined as a custom column. Simply select the traffic light menu in the top left of any scrolling table to manage which columns appear in the table.
In this example the number of the item currently owned (NumInventory) is included in the Browse results so I can decide whether I want to purchase more at-a-glance.
The Post From Bags section in the Auctioning tab of the Auction House receives all of the previously mentioned upgrades, including adding Price Sources, and in addition has the new option to add which Group the item is in to the table. It’s easy to see at a glance what might be worth posting if you have limited time or are learning new markets as part of your gold-making strategy!
In this example the DB Recent value and the minimum price from the assigned Auctioning Operation are shown in-context before selecting and posting the items, along with the Group that the items are in.
Scrolling Table settings persistence
All aspects of the scrolling table configuration are now persisted across sessions, including Column Sort Order, Price/Value/Custom Source Columns, and Column Display Order
Import Item IDs from Wowhead
Continuing the theme of creating Groups – historically the Group Maker was a primary middle-man between searching and filtering Wowhead for items you want to import into the addon in-game.
To make this process even more efficient we have added support for copying the IDs of any Item search on Wowhead directly into the addon in-game.
Once you’ve applied your filter, select the Copy button, and then click IDs. In this example the filter is for Bind on Equip drops added in Dragonflight, copying the IDs will include up to 1,000 items returned by Wowhead, and not just the first 50 shown on the page which was a historical limitation of our Group Maker web page.
Custom Strings are extremely powerful for the main Operation types in TSM such as Auctioning and Crafting – allowing fine-tuning and ultimate control on what you do and why at any time.
We’re empowering more Operations in TSM 4.14 to support Custom Strings including Mailing, Vendoring, and Warehousing.
Previously these operations generally only accepted integers such as sending 20 potions to an alt character without much flexibility. Now you can create a custom string to only send 20 potions if the market value is where you would consider selling them using price sources, or restock a particular vendor item if your personal sale rate is high enough using a logic function.
Prior to TSM 4.14 all Custom Sources would be calculated and displayed as a currency. Now there’s an option to show a Custom Source as an integer, a percentage, or as a currency as before.
When creating a new Custom Source you can specify the format and you can modify this setting for each Custom Source at any time. Any Custom Source can be displayed in your tooltips via the Tooltip Settings.
In the following examples these Custom Sources use one of each format, the first being a percentage representing an average of personal and regional sale rate. The second shows a number representing the max stack size for an item (a new value source added to 4.14!), and finally the third is a currency averaging various price sources to provide a general price point.
Lots of Other Minor Changes
Addon Optimizations
Further to the Scrolling Table optimizations mentioned earlier, additional work has been completed to further improve the performance of the addon in general – particularly in the Profession UI and Auction House UI.
You’ll notice that the addon is generally more responsive and snappier as you engage with these pages, and searches or Shopping scans in the Browse tab are also much quicker due to scan time optimizations.
Mail Contact Management
It’s now possible to delete names from the recent contacts list in the Mail UI, get rid of those pesky alts that have been deleted or transferred!
Rescanning
There’s a new button in the Auction House UI to ‘Rescan’ to immediately repeat an Auctioning Post or Cancel Scan.
Help Tooltips
A large number of tooltips have been added across the addon to explain functionality for a particular setting, input, or button. Mousing over the section will display the tooltip with contextual information or a definition.
Please join our Discord server as per the Get Started instructions, to share your feedback on the 4.14 Beta or report any bugs and issues you encounter.
We are reviewing our Premium offering and considering where to take it in the future, with potential new features and benefits to enhance your gold-making experience inside and outside of the game.
Your feedback is important in shaping the future of TSM Premium and the direction we take will be guided by your input, so please take a few moments to share your thoughts and suggestions in the following survey – it is open to all TSM users whether you are currently a Premium member or not.
Please note you will need to be signed into a Google account to complete the survey, this account information is not shared with TSM. If the embedded survey does not load correctly, it can be accessed through the direct link:
Following on from our last update with a recap of what was done and was to come in TSM in support of Dragonflight professions and systems – we’re pleased to share further improvements as well as the release of TSM 4.13!
Recent Dragonflight Profession Updates
Rounding out the last releases in TSM 4.12, let’s recap what has been introduced since the start of the year and our last blog update.
Updated milling / prospecting / disenchanting rates for Dragonflight reagents.
Given the significant variations of profession knowledge and equipment we gathered a lot of data to represent averages across the board as best as possible.
New quality selector to easily switch between different target qualities for a given crafted item, as well as easy access to add finishing reagents.
Selecting a different quality will automatically adjust the reagents selected to meet the selected quality, and is further enhanced in 4.13!
Quality reagents can now easily be changed by clicking on the material row in the material list
Seeing each quality of the reagent for at-a-glance pricing info and inventory quantity helps you decide what to use
New improvements in 4.13
With the launch of patch 10.15 we are introducing version 4.13 of TSM with a number of improvements to Dragonflight profession support and other additions we think you’ll love.
4.13 Profession Updates
Iterating on the things introduced in 4.12, we have continued to improve profession support including:
Adding support for Dragonflight salvaging for milling and prospecting
Adding support for crafting inspiration to show potential cost and profit of a crafted item that is not guaranteed
Improving the Optional Reagent flow further from the modal introduced in 4.12 to an in-line editor when a recipe is selected, allowing quicker access to add embellishments and finishing reagents
Region-wide support in 10.1.5
With the introduction of direct trading between any characters for gold and items on any realm in a given region, we are also very excited to expand on TSM cross-faction support added in 4.12 to cover region-wide tracking and reporting.
In 4.13, and if the option is enabled in the TSM General Settings, addon information such as inventory and accounting data will be available on any realm in your region. That way you can reference what you paid for an item and see how many you have on any realm from any other realm.
This will also include gold quantity and gold history, so your TSM Dashboard will cover all realms in your region if you’re actively using the addon on multiple realms!
To manage Accounting Data, the option to remove old sales and purchases has been modified to support an input instead of a predefined list in the Accounting Settings. If you’re making use of this feature and experience some performance issues it’s recommended to purge older data (which won’t affect your gold charts).
Custom String Performance Enhancements
Some TSM users have created some monster Custom Strings for all kinds of Operations and material prices. We’ve spent some time optimizing how Custom Strings are calculated to improve performance for very large or complex Custom Strings in very large profiles. This should also reduce the number of errors encountered when using TSM with some content creator profiles.
Grouping pets by level
We are also introducing ‘item level’ grouping for Pets in 4.13, where the pet item level translates to the level of the pet. When you’re grouping items by ‘item level’ they will be treated differently when shopping and posting through operations vs pets of other levels that are not grouped for example.
As the launch of the Dragonflight expansion draws near, we’re very happy to announce the beta test of the 4.12 addon update to TradeSkillMaster!
If you’re a TSM Premium member you will shortly be receiving an email inviting you to participate, along with instructions on how to get started.
Additional invites through our Beta sign-up page will be distributed on a First-In-First-Out system, so be sure to sign-up if you’d like to get involved! Otherwise, you can bypass the queue and get instant access by signing up to TSM Premium.
Let’s take a look at some of the major features 4.12 brings!
New Crafting UI
To support the upcoming Dragonflight Profession changes, we’ve taken a look at the overall design of the Crafting UI for professions. This approach will form the basis of the UI design improvements as the new expansion features are introduced.
You’ll notice primarily that the Group Restocking flow has been moved out of a sub-tab and is presented at the top of the Craft Queue. Selecting Restock Groups will show the Group Tree and from here you can select any Groups that have a Crafting Operation assigned to be restocked.
At the bottom of the Crafting UI there has been some rearranging of some of the familiar elements including the reagents required for the recipe, the crafting cost, rank, and any recipe status such as ‘Missing Materials’ or ‘On Cooldown’. This will accommodate the new Dragonflight features including profession skills, and reagent quality selection.
In the Craft Queue itself, there’s a new indicator showing when you’re not logged into a character that can craft that particular item.
Pricing & Data Updates
Korean & Taiwan Region Support
We’ve been working hard to expand the reach of TradeSkillMaster, and with recent improvements by Blizzard on the Community Auction House API data feed we are very happy to be able to include support for more WoW Regions in 4.12. TSM users in Korea and Taiwan will now be able to use the TSM Desktop Application to get pricing updates exactly the same as users playing on North American and European realms.
Over the years we’ve had a lot of feedback and discussion around the use of ‘AuctionDB Minimum Buyout’ to represent the material cost of reagents, and we have generally not recommended this approach for various reasons. However, we do appreciate that there is a middle ground between what is happening on the Auction House ‘now’ and what has happened on average over the last 14 days with the ‘AuctionDB Market Value’ calculation – especially when there are significant changes to the economy such as an expansion launch, or a patch affecting a sub-set of items and markets.
With that in mind, we are introducing a new Price Source called ‘AuctionDB Recent’, or DBRecent. This Price Source uses the same approach for ‘AuctionDB Market Value’ however it is only applied to the auctions contained in the most recent pricing snapshot. It is not an average over time, nor is it a single data point for one auction at the lowest price contained in the last price snapshot.
We hope this can create even more flexibility when determining the value of something, and allow for more input to any decisions you make while executing your gold-making strategy.
Pricing Trend Indicators
In addition to the new Price Source, we are introducing trend indicators in item tooltips where pricing data is available.
Trend Indicators
In this example, you will see two trend indicators. The first is beside Market Value which represents the trend when compared to the Historical Price, this trend indicator is enabled by default. The second is beside Region Market Value Avg which represents the trend when compared to the Region Historical Price, this trend indicator is disabled by default.
Improvements to Region Sale Data
Both Region Sale Rate and Region Sold Per Day have been given another decimal point to give more visibility on items that sell infrequently. Previously, an item that had a Region Sale Rate lower than 0.01 for example, indicating that fewer than 1 in every 100 auctions posted sells on average, would not have a valid value for this source. Now, this value can go down to 0.001 which would indicate that 1 in every 1000 auctions posted sells on average.
Retail Scanning Improvements
Since the launch of the region-wide commodities, Blizzard has not resolved several issues with addons interacting with the Auction House. One of these issues is failing to return Seller information during a Post Scan with an Auctioning Operation. With the launch of TSM 4.12, we have decided to workaround this issue by ignoring the Seller information for posted auctions, which should improve scanning performance, particularly Post Scans.
As a result of this decision, we are retiring the ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’ features in Retail which relied on the Seller information being available.
Cross-Faction Support in Retail
Earlier this year, Cross-Faction support was introduced in Shadowlands. This means you can now leverage professions, items, and gold on any realm regardless of whether the characters are Horde or Alliance.
With 4.12 we have introduced support for inventory/item tracking between factions in the Ledger and item tooltips, profession and recipe data is considered if the recipe is known on the opposite faction, gold is tracked across factions including in the gold graph of the TSM Dashboard, plus the ability to see your opposite faction characters in the Alts dropdown in the Mail UI.
Custom String Editing UI
We’ve supercharged the experience of editing Custom Strings in Operations, with IDE-style syntax highlighting.
Syntax highlight, invalid price source, and unbalanced parentheses
This new modal will give much more information when things go wrong like typos, unbalanced parentheses, missing values, or unexpected characters when building out a Custom String. It also includes automatic white-spacing for easier reading and clearer indications that the input is saved without accidentally closing/escaping the editor.
Automatic white-spacing once saved
Performance & General Enhancements
Under-the-hood Improvements
We’ve taken a look through a lot of the TSM addon codebase and refactored things to improve the rendering of TSM Addon windows and make them even more responsive.
Commodity buying reliability has also been improved while browsing in general and during a Gathering search.
Group Management
Item tracking is now more intelligent and can distinguish between things that are grouped as ‘Base Item’ and those that are grouped as ‘Item Level’. This means you can now manage inventory for things like transmog that could be any item level due to scaling but is generally grouped by Base Item.
When searching the Base Group, we have introduced the Select/Deselect All option that is available in most other Group Trees. Additionally when selecting an option in the ‘Show ungrouped items as’ drop down menu while managing groups, this selection will persist when navigating around the TSM UI or closing and reopening it.
The Addon API has been enhanced to include an option for returning items that are in a given TSM group, check the Addon API documentation to learn more.
Getting Help
Please join our Discord server as per the Get Started instructions, to share your feedback on the 4.12 Beta or report any bugs and issues you encounter.
Version 4.11 of TradeSkillMaster is now available for general release! Your Desktop application will update your addon automatically, or you can download it directly from our site or your favourite addon manager.
More details on all the new features can be found in our beta announcement post, but here’s a quick reminder of the highlights for this release:
Full Optional Reagent Support, including Crafting Operations, Gathering, and applying them in the TSM UI
Improved item Grouping, with the option to group by ilvl while ignoring secondary stats:
Granular item Tracking, with inventory considered by ilvl/variation instead of only by name
Drag & Drop for items between groups:
Region Sale Data for Classic, BCC, and Battle Pets in Retail
Custom Themes with export/import options:
Various under-the-hood optimisations for scrolling tables with a lot of results and syncing data between accounts
Please do join us in Discord if you run into any issues or encounter a bug or error in-game, we’ll be happy to help!
We are thrilled to announce that the beta test of TradeSkillMaster 4.11 has begun!
If you’re a TSM Premium member you will shortly be receiving an email inviting you to participate, along with instructions on how to get started.
Additional invites through our Beta sign-up page will be distributed on a First-In-First-Out system, so be sure to sign-up if you’d like to get involved! Otherwise, you can bypass the queue and get instant access by signing up to TSM Premium.
Let’s take a look at some of the major features 4.11 brings!
Shadowlands Profession Support
The biggest upgrade in 4.11 is supporting the new profession system introduced in Shadowlands, which includes optional reagents for your recipes and the various outcomes of those optional reagent combinations – including the base legendary crafted items.
Rank 4 legendary base item with accurate crafting cost in TSM 4.11
The TSM Crafting UI has the added functionality of applying optional reagents for secondary stats and ilvl, Crafting costs and profits are now accurate for the item variation you have, plus your Crafting Operations and Tasklist will consider the optional reagents required!
Adding Optional Reagents to a Craft in the TSM 4.11 Crafting UI
Speaking of grouping your items, a new option has been introduced to accommodate the various ways to craft in Shadowlands. In addition to grouping items by their specific variation, and by ignoring all variations, the new option is to only consider the ilvl of the item while ignoring the secondary stats.
Showing ungrouped items by ilvl while ignoring secondary stats in the TSM Groups UI
This means you can group, for example, ilvl 87, ilvl 151, and ilvl 168 crafted items separately but ignore the secondary stats, then apply distinct Crafting Operations to restock a certain ilvl, and Auctioning Operations to undercut the certain ilvl regardless of the secondary stats. To support this, inventory tracking has also been enhanced to track items more specifically by ilvl rather than by name only.
With 4 Shadebound Vest items in bags, TSM only tracks 2 with ilvl 151
Group & Item Management
In TSM 4.11 it’s even easier to manage your Groups and move items between them. Now you can drag and drop selected items between Groups, without needing to remove them or have them on hand! Selecting multiple items is also supported. Check this short video demonstration:
Drag and drop single or multiple items between groups in TSM 4.11
Custom Themes
Building on the introduction of Themes in TSM 4.10, we’ve added the option to customise the colour palette to your own preferences! Once you’ve found your perfect colours you can export a string to share with your friends to import.
For Classic Era and Burning Crusade Classic players, region-wide sale data is now generated and available via the TSM Desktop Application. This means you can now reference dbregionsalerate and dbregionsoldperday in your Operations!
For Retail players, this sale data is now also available on Battle Pets! This is particularly useful for those that like to flip pets across realms in your region.
TSM Region Sale Data now available for Classic Realms and Pets on Retail
Addon Optimisations
Various under-the-hood tweaks and tuning have been implemented, with an aim to improve stability and reduce lag when crafting, scrolling large tables from Shopping or Browse searches, and syncing data between accounts.
What’s next?
With all the features and enhancements we have introduced in 4.11 (and earlier!), we thought of ways to share and discuss the things we are planning to do in future updates of TradeSkillMaster and get your feedback or input on what is important to you as an every day user of the addon.
As an experiment we have created a Trello board with a public ‘Roadmap’, or a list of ideas and features we would like to introduce to take your gold-making to the next level with TSM. We would love to hear what you think!
Getting Help
Please join our Discord server as per the Get Started instructions, to share your feedback on the 4.11 Beta or report any bugs and issues you encounter.
It’s been possible to export your TSM Accounting data through the Desktop Application for quite some time, usually to manipulate and analyse in your favourite spreadsheeting software. To do this in the past meant maintaining several documents, and trying to figure out how to manually build formulae to interpret the vast amount of data available.
We wanted to power up this area of your gold-making, making it easier to take a deep dive into your sales and purchases to unearth the answer to questions like ‘Which Group has the highest profit margin?’ or ‘Where can I reduce my expenses?’ or maybe ‘Where am I taking the biggest losses?’.
To help you answer these questions, and many more, we’re very excited to announce the latest evolution to the TradeSkillMaster suite, with the launch of TSM Ledger – a powerful web-based analytics tool for your TSM Addon transactions, purchases and sales for Retail and Classic WoW.
TSM Ledger will use your Accounting data, allowing for automatic graphing and charting of your activity in-game over days, weeks or months – using pre-built reports or creating your own Data Queries. You can build your own Dashboards with your favourite searches, and highlight particular metrics that you want to keep track of regularly and personalise your analytic experience.
For those with large gold-making empires, you can filter between accounts, servers, profiles, or characters – making it incredibly easy to identify any weak links in the chain or even capitalise on an opportunity that may have otherwise been missed.
As a TSM Premium subscriber, your data will be automatically synced, so you don’t have to upload anything manually. If you’re not on TSM Premium you can upload things as-and-when you log out of the game, or when you need to.
You may recognise this tool, launched earlier this year by magorukun, and we’re just as excited to welcome him to the TSM Team to offer this tool as a native extension of TradeSkillMaster. You can view what’s upcoming for TSM Ledger on the public roadmap, where you’ll see there are lots of cool things planned. We can’t wait to hear what we can do make this tool the best it can be for all of your analysis requirements.
