Yeh I absolutely love new AH, it's just so good and comfortable to use it.
One complain I have is that auction house has a dead looking skin and it doesn't match original UI of two silver dragons and outlining, etc. Skin looks like shitty addon.
What?! The only reason I play Wow, is because of going to the Auction House is so deep and intertwined with my leveling and raiding and role playing experience. The act of each purchase in akin to defeating a renowned adversary and a time of fellowship and storytelling of grand scale. The world isn't alive unless I see the many items listed on the Auction house interface and click one by one, each of those items. Like picking apples at a store. I must feel each and every item, to ensure proper ripeness. Each choice, each purchase, extends the knowledge and wisdom of my characters. The impulsive Worgen warrior charging into purchase. The prude and stoic Orc Death knight debating and pondering the value of each item and the suffering caused by spent coin
The new interface is a soulless black void of efficiency. No touch or smell, no sense of accomplishment. It is has if I'm wandering the great dead forest amongst the many faceless hordes of buyers and sellers, a mere empty husk of my former self. Each click predetermined, no choice, no agency, just efficiency. Cold, silent, meaningless
Last edited by Mad_Murdock; 2020-01-17 at 09:00 PM.
Right, you can still undercut but there's no particular reason to do it on commodities.
I sell pets on various realms. New AH is crap for distinguishing pet lvls. Wants to sell my lvl 25 for same price as lvl 1. Hurry up back ah add ons, we miss you
nonsense. Since BFA release I made millions on the auction house. This just makes playing the AH no fun...in the end it is another step to dumb down the game to make things easier for people. Which is ok I guess...lucky enough I could max out my bnet balance before the change.
a lot harder now to sell items. Old AH, if you put up a stack of say 30 items. And someone put up a stack of 200, but cheaper unit price. If someone only needed say 20 items, he would buy your stack instead of the 200 stack that had a higher total cost, even tho it was cheaper per item.
Now with the new one, if you put up 30 and directly after someone put up 300, those 300 need to sell before yours is bought, it should have been first on the ah, first to go, Not last in first out.
Now i feel like i need to cancel auctions almost at the same time i put them on, its nonstop micromanagedment to sell shit now
This makes it a lot better as a buyer tho, but selling shit is a hassle now compared to the old one
That's all in your head, you don't really need to undercut or cancel and relist, commodities will sell anyway. Try it.
It helps lessen undercutting since when you post an item with the exact same price as someone else's, you're put AHEAD of the queue. For example:
I put a quantity of Monelite Ore in the AH, at 1.5 gold each piece. Now, if you put a quantity of Monelite Ore:
• At a more expensive price than mine, mine will be sold first when someone buys Monelite Ore.
• At the same price as mine, yours will be sold first as you're put ahead of me in the queue.
• At a lower price than mine, yours will be sold first since you're undercutting.
In short: if you undercut, you're not benefiting yourself. You're actually hurting your own margin of profit since undercutting has absolutely zero advantages now over putting the same price as mine.
But, hey, people don't care about reading patch notes, so we still got people undercutting because they don't know any better.
Woah, ok I think I could have explained a bit better.
Yes, you're all right that 1000 stacks of 1 is not immersive or fun or remotely enjoyable/good at all. What I meant is that now you no longer buy stacks from a person. The AH used to represent buying items off another player. Now that you can buy any quantity from anyone without seeing who they are it's two sets of Player+Computer interactions versus Player+Player with the computer in the middle. If that makes sense?
Yes it's an upgrade. Yes I'm happy about it. I'll be sure not to mention the word "immersion" again.
No you still CAN see who you are buying from. It is hard to estimate the exact count because you don't know the amount of stacks each player has put in but you still know who sells what and at which price.
And imo, it is more realistic because shop owner won't tell you exactly which item belongs to who. Especially if you are buying reagents.