Automating Enchanting Scrolls

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

Automating Your Scroll of Enchantment Empire

Sovash

Korgath-US Alliance

Hello JM2C readers! Markco has taken his shield, and a very large pile of gold out on a romantic voyage aboard his legendary saronite plated yacht today. So I, Sovash, The Supreme Lord of the Stormwind Trade District, The Korgath Trade Authority, Capn' Cash himself, has been given the privilege to discuss a technique I've been using to automate my enchanters scroll of enchant industry.

Friends, like many of you, I have a scribe, and a jewelcrafter, and have enjoyed letting the profits roll in with minimal manual work, and zero farming. However, I also have a 450 enchanter that has been going to waste (minus the once highly profitable Saronite Shuffle, of course) for much of this expansion. I just couldn't think of a way mass produce scrolls of enchant with the same ease that I could mass produce gems and glyphs. Until a month ago, when I had a day off work, and put some serious thought into the problem, and spent the day experimenting.

Since JM2C readers are among the most wealthy, and most intelligent people in the game, I'm not going to insult anyones intelligence by giving you a 1-2-3 guide. I'm going to go ahead and assume that all you of guys are already employing these addons, and are already familiar with the industrial crafting method (as opposed to farming) of making gold in the AH. In the event that I go a little too fast and skip over some technical aspects of this procedure, there is a wealth of information in the JM2C Addon forums, that covers the basics of each addon.

Things you absolutely need before you begin: Quick Auctions 3 (Curse) Altoholic (Curse) Skillet (WowAce) Kev's Queue Tool (Curse) About 5,000 gold to get your start up materials for one or two of each scrolls, OR a guild bank full of enchanting materials that you previously didn't have a use for. A few free hours to configure your addons. Yes, I said hours. It'll be worth it, trust me. A 450 Enchanter (duh), preferably with all the Lich King era enchanting formulas, and a healthy amount of vanilla WoW twinking enchants already learned. Things that may make this process easier / more cost effective: LilSparky's Workshop (Curse) A Scribe that can mass produce Weapon / Armor Vellum III. A miner that can smelt Titanium Bars OR an Alchemist Specialized in Transmute mastery that has transmute Saronite Bar to Titanium Bar. 2 Mysterious bags, to hold your recrafting materials 2 Frostweave /  Portable Hole bags, to hold your scrolls, and other things that don't fit into Enchanting bags. Several thousands more gold to buy dusts, shards, and essences, so you can recraft what you're selling before the profits start rolling in. Important facts to keep in mind: A full stack of completed enchant scrolls is 5. You're not going to have a ton of free bag space, so be mindful not to go over 5 of any one kind of scroll. One Greater Cosmic Essence is almost always cheaper then buying three Lesser Cosmic Essences. Vanilla WoW twink enchants sell like wildfire, for upwards of 1000% profit. Definitely worth rep farming for. Enchant Scrolls will not fit into either Enchanting only bags, nor Enchanting only bags. I learned this one the hard way, so you don't have to.

Above: A fraction of the time... Above: ...For double the profit!

The Automated Posting Process This is the hardest part of the procedure. And by hard, I mean time consuming data entry, that requires very accurate research. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up to possibly lose a lot of gold, instead of making a lot. When the profits come flying in later on, you'll be glad you were careful and diligent. We're going to be using Quick Auctions 3 for this phase, and I'll be using Enchant Boots: Icewalker as a demonstration, using prices accurate to my server at the time of this writing, and the procedure I use. So go ahead and do a /qa config, and let's get to work. Create a new Category called "Boots_Icewalker". Just keep it in an easily readable format, because you're going to be adding a LOT of these new categories, and it's going to get cluttered and impossible to navigate if you don't. Set up all the fields as you see fit. There shouldn't be any 'wrong' values, except for "Price Threshold" and "Fallback". The most important part here is setting your "Price Threshold". It just cost me 16g 80s to make this scroll of Icewalker, so I want to set this field to a value higher then that, otherwise, I'm potentially selling at a loss if there is a infinite dust shortage. Some people will set this to cost + 5% / 10%, others will set their Threshold price to cost + a flat 5g /10g per category. Use your best conservative estimates, depending on your servers enchantment materials market. Set your fallback price too at the bottom of that tab. I set mine to three times whatever my Price Threshold is set at, because you never know when you might get lucky. Hit the "add Item" tab, and click on the finished Icewalker Scroll, and you're done.  Now repeat this process dozens of times to include all the scrolls that will fetch a tidy profit on your server. The general idea, is that each scroll requires different quantities, of different materials to make, so you want to manually set your prices for each scroll when their being listed.

Above: This is how your QA window should look after you've got everything set up.

The Automated Recrafting Process This part isn't hard, exactly, just a bit of a pain, as it requires a lot of alt+tabbing in and out of wow (if you don't play in windowed mode). To pull this off, you're going to make some very special macros. Start by making a new macro, call it something like Scroll1, and paste this into it: /ktq queue n XXXXX /ktq is the command to tell KevTook Queue that it has work to do, 'n' represents the number of items you want it to craft, and XXXXX represents the item id of the item you want to make. To get the item id of the scrolls, head over to wowhead.com and do a search for "scroll of enchant". Hit the "search within these results..." box, and enter in Icewalker. "Scroll of Enchant Boots - Icewalker" should be the only result you get. Click on that link. The URL you have in your browsers address bar contains the item id of the item in the address http://www.wowhead.com/item=38986 the 38986 is the item id that you need to finish your macro. So to keep a constant level of 5 Scrolls of Icewalker, the finished first line of your macro should look like this: /ktq queue 5 38986 If you some how got 60623 as your item id for Icewalker, you were looking at the actual enchanting spell "Enchant Boots - Icewalker" not the "Scroll of Enchant - Icewalker" items page. The difference is that one will work, and one won't. Now, repeat THIS process dozens of times too, to include all the enchant scrolls that you plan on needing to recraft on the fly.

Above: Your macro should look something like this by the time you're done. You can fit 13 lines per macro.

Automating Your Selling

Now that all the painful set up is done, you can relax and spend 5 minutes a day crafting, posting, and profiting. All you need to do, is open your crafting windows, hit your Scroll macros that you just made, make sure you have all the mats / vellums in your bags, and you're done! To post all you need to do is open up your AH window, hit post, and reap the profits!