Tank like a girl

Today’s addon corner will present an addon that has nothing to do whatsoever with tanking or general UI stuff. Nevertheless, it’s one of my favorite addons and I hope it will take off just as its towering competitor Auctioneer did when it was first introduced. As always, click on the images for full-size versions.

If you’re an Auctioneer user, you might have noticed that since the Classic version was kissed goodbye, you are now using an unwieldy giant of an addon, with a feature richness that is quickly overwhelming when you’re not very math-inclined. To change any of the settings requires going through extensive menus that are not very intuitive at all. If you think that’s all a bit much, maybe you’re looking for something that’s more simple to use. Meet AuctionLite.

When installed, you will gain two new tabs, Auction-Lite Buy and Sell. The latter is the core of the addon. AuctionLite wants to help you sell your stuff by undercutting your competition. Open the sell tab, Alt-Right click on what you want to sell, and AuctionLite will scan the AH for the item, show all competitors and offers pricing, undercutting the cheapest seller. That too cheap? Click on the item listing you want to undercut and the price gets adjusted. AuctionLite will store historical price values after scanning and the estimated profit you can make via AH selling will be displayed in the tooltip. Nice and simple.

 
If you’re in for finding great deals on the AH, click on the Full Scan button on the Buy tab. AuctionLite will do a very fast scan (about a minute) of everything that’s on the AH, and if it finds something that’s sold way underneath historical value, will be offered as deal. Alternatively, you can supply that you want to buy 20 Saronite Ore, as example. It will then check the AH for the cheapest way to get those 20 ore, even if this means buying out several smaller auctions and reselling the extra ore.

 

 
AuctionLite will use about 20 MB addon memory, or rather, that’s what it’s running on my system right now. I will often turn it off on my non-banker characters because I can do without the tooltip with price values. But for reselling and buying, it’s incredibly useful, and a million times easier to use than Auctioneer. I greatly endorse this. If you’re into the AH game at all, give it a shot. For reference, I have four characters with epic flyers and am currently running around with 9k gold total. Playing the AH works.

At popular request, I will give a complete overview of my UI next week, so I am hoping to take a couple nice UI screenshots in Naxxramas this weekend. Stay tuned!