Trade Skill Master Guide Part 1 of 3

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

Today starts of a small mini series of posts that will help you use & understand the newly released addon, Trade Skill Master. Now do keep in mind, this addon isn't for everyone, if you've never used an addon such as Quick Auction or APM, it might be a little rough at the start, but once you've got all the right settings it will same you so much time, you won't even believe it!


Auctioning Items & Groups/Categories
First and foremost, let's start off by teaching you how to have this addon auction off items. You will first and foremost need to configure some settings, make sure you have the addon installed, type /tsm and the big menu will come up, you're going to want the Auctioning Groups/Options button that is to the right hand side, click it and you will see this screen to the right.

This might get a little bit hectic, but stay with me, I'll go slowly :)

Once here, click Catergories/Groups. This is where you're going to want to configure the default prices on items, for example every time you create a new group, the default prices will be used unless you change the manually. I'll give you my default options for posting glyphs with the screenshot to the right.

I'll explain some of the items. Post cap is at three, this mean it posts 3 items of X in a group of 1 ( per auction ). Post Time is set to 48 hours by default, you could set it to 12 or 24, I like 48 though.

I undercut by 1 silver this way I don't loose out on profits. Threshold is set to 5g, this is the lowest you're willing to sell an item at before it posts it at fallback, which in this case is set to 60g.

Once you've got all of that set up, you're ready to start making groups


Click the Catergory/Group tab at the top. Now catergories and groups are different things. Categories can be made to sort out specific Items, for example if you want to categorize your groups by profession, you can make a enchanting category and put all of your scrolls in there, same with Jewelcrafting. You can also sort your glyphs by ink type, or gem colors, or any way that you'd like to categorize your groups.

For this tutorial, I will make a Category named < Engineering Pets >. I will be using engineering pets, more specifically the Pet Bombling Pet. I type in Engineering Pets into the Category box and hit enter, it created a category for me named, of course, engineering pets. Now I want to create a group within that category, so I go back to the Catergory/Group Tab and make a group named Pet Bombling. Now, this group named Pet Bombling is empty, meaning you're going to have to go add the acutal item into the group, so open up your Uncategorized groups and find Pet Bombling, go to Add/Remove Items and find Pet Bombling, and hit add.

This group will now be placed under Uncategorized groups, but I want it in the category of < Engineering Pets >, so i go to that category, and at the top it says Add/Remove Groups, click there and find the group named Pet Bombling. Keep in mind, that you don't have to categorize everything, if you'd like you can leave everything under the uncategorized groups, but I'm simply doing it this time to teach you how to do it.

The item that you just made is going to be posted at the default price, that is unless you change that. Go to the Pet Bombling group, under the category Engineering Pets, and you can change the pricing from there. Set the pricing to whatever you'd like.

I know this seems a bit confusing, so I'll make a short step-by-step guide that entails everything above.

• Set your default options on pricing, this includes post time, post cap, per auction, fallback & such.
• Create a group, or category ( if you do want to be organized ) named accordingly to your item that you wish to sell/list at the AH
• Go to the group, add X item to it, set custom prices if you don't like the default ones that you've set
• Go to the AH and post the item using TSM

Once you've done all that, you're now ready to go post X item that the Auction House. If you'd like to post more items using this addon repeat the steps above. For glyphs, you can create one big group and add all of your glyphs into it, that's what I currently have Or you can sort the glyphs by ink, and set the prices for each ink time differently according to the pricing you can acquire X ink. One thing to keep in mind is that you can only add items to groups if they're in your bags, otherwise the addon won't pick it up.

Part 2 of this series will be posted wednesday morning, it will entail crafting glyphs and such.