It’s time to talk about Auctioneer for World of Warcraft. If you’re unfamiliar with this particular add-on, what it does is pretty scan the entire auction house, taking a snapshot of prices, building a price history, and generally setting up players to be able to correctly predict price trends and snipe underpriced auctions with some confidence. It’s a major tool for many players to make gold in the game, and it provides such an advantage that Blizzard apparently tried to kill it by adding an auction house action budget recently.
The idea was that if a player tries to request too much information from the auction house, it would slow to a crawl, thus making the add-on scan take ages to complete and effectively making it unusable. The move was almost immediately reversed, however, with the new system slowing down your actions only if you try to cancel more than 25 auctions in a single minute. So you can keep scanning your auctions like before, but those days may be coming to an end soon-ish.
Meanwhile, the Lead Narrative Designer on the game has made a tweet about the upcoming Shadowlands pre-launch event which is… almost certainly a joke. But if only it wasn’t…
The Shadowlands pre-patch event is an invasion of stylists and fashion consultants so that everyone can spend the entire time before launch transmogging and re-customizing their characters.
— Steve Danuser (@SteveDanuser) June 18, 2020
