Enchantrix
Enchantrix is an integrated module of the Auctioneer Addon geared primarily toward those who have Enchanting as one of their skills. Notice, however, that it is not only for enchanters - anyone playing the game can make valuable use of at leat a few of the tools Enchantrix has to offer.
The key benefit of Enchantrix to non-Enchanters is the tooltip addition that tells you what a given item will disenchant to:
This item tells you two key bits of information: First that the item you're looking at (in this case a
Diamond Focus Ring) has a 75% chance to disenchant into
Dream Dust, and will on average yield 3.5 dusts (meaning, simplisticly, that half the time you'll get three, and half the time you'll get 4); 20% of the time it will disenchant into
Lesser Eternal Essence, and will on average yield 1.5 essences (again, simplisticly, half the time you'll get one, half the time you'll get two); and 5% of the time you'll get one
Small Brilliant Shard. Note that:
- You'll never get a mix. One of these three things will result when you disenchant one of these items, but two of these three things will never result when you disenchant one of these items.
- There are occasional outliers - just because the average is 1 Small Brilliant Shard does not mean you'll never get two, it just means that chances are very, very slim (less than 5% of that five percent - roughly 1/4 of 1% or once out of every four hundred times you disenchant this item) that you'll get two.
- The second point above assumes that there is not a hard limit coded into the game that does prevent you from getting two shards (or 3 essences, or 5 dusts). I don't know for sure if there is or not; the above point is based on the math, not the code.
Second, the tool tip also gives other important information - you need 175 enchanting skill to be able to disenchant this item (this info is only visible to Enchanters), and the value of the enchanting materials yielded will sell for an average of somewhere between 2G90S and 3G60S. This means that if the tooltip also tells you that this ring typically sells for 2G40S, you're better off sharding it and selling the mats than trying to sell the ring...and it also means that it's worth your while to tip an enchanter 20s to shard it for you, if you're not an enchanter yourself, since there is no auction deposit for enchanting items, but there is for a ring.
The Barker
In addition to this general functionality, Enchantrix includes a tool that allows you to automatically advertise in /trade based on the materials you have in your bags (doesn't work for mats in the bank), and based on how you've 'weighted' your enchants:
You can set the 'weights' here to focus on one specific class of enchants; this is particularly useful when leveling your skill. if, for instance, you want to sell a ton of Fire Resistance enchantments, then you can dial down other attributes on this page (and the 'Priorities' and 'Stats 1' pages) and dial up the Fire Resistance to tell Barker that you really want to focus on that class of enchants. Put the mats in your bag for the Enchantment that will level you, and the Barker will automatically adjust so that it's highest priority is selling the Fire Resist enchantment you most want to sell. Additionally, Enchantrix works with your scanned Auctioneer data to help set pricing and profit levels:
Here, you can see that the Barker is set to automatically mark up the advertised price of my Enchantments such that I'm making 10% more for selling my materials as enchants than for selling them on the auctionhouse as materials. This helps recoup some of the costs of training (which can include grinding reputation with certain factions as well as running certain instances repeatedly to find bind-on-pickup formulae like Formula: Enchant Weapon - Mongoose). You can also set other variables like the lowest price you'll sell any enchant for, or the highest, and so forth.
When it's all said and done, you click the 'Bark!' button, and a message is automatically sent to /trade that looks a bit like this:
In this case, I just loaded my bags up with some mats and left all my settings on default to generate the barker message, so I got a pretty wide range of enchantments for sale. Obviously, this range will adjust based on the priorities you set.
Advertising and pricing without Barker
Enchantrix also enables you to determine the prices you should be able to charge for your enchants without using the Barker advertising functionality. It still relies on the data you've gathered with Auctioneer, and on the profit margin you choose in the Barker configurations, but this is more useful for responding to 'Want To Buy' messages. This information can be found in the tool tip for the enchantment you want to sell.
Here, we see that Formula: Enchant Ring - Stats takes two Void Crystal, which sell in the AH on my server for about 23G40s each, and two Large Prismatic Shard, which sell for about 16G40s each. Total price of mats is 79G50, add 10% markup (justified above), and you end up with a value of 87G58. So from this you can say that 80G would be a good deal, and 95G would be greedy; adjust your pricing accordingly.
In conclusion, we see that the Enchantrix module of Auctioneer is not - as many people assume - just a tool for Enchanters (although they do get some additional benefits). Any player in the game can leverage this information to make more intelligent decisions about what to sell and what to shard.
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