A Businessman's Toolkit

There are tons of guides to essential addons on the web, but many of those don’t address the needs of the business people. I don’t need bar mods or threat meters. I need to get my mail faster and keep track of all my dough. I wanted to put together a list of what I use, because maybe there are one or two gems in there that you guys aren’t using.

First off, I use wowmatrix to download and update all of my mods. Back when you had to install them and update them yourself, I didn’t use mods that often because it was a pain, but now it doesn’t have to be.

Obviously auctioneer suite. I was pretty bitter about having to move to auctioneer advance because there is no more real support for igor’s mass auction that I know of. I’m sure that there are people smarter than me out there that know of a quicker way to put up a lot of different auctions up other than appraiser, and maybe you’ll comment here and let me know. Appraiser is great when you are putting up a lot of the same auctions, but when I have 50 different pieces of armor, I’d rather have good old Igor. I would spend more time buying and selling armor, which has been pretty lucrative in the past, but it takes too long for me to post them all.

Next you need a good mail mod. I use postal because it seems to get the mail the quickest for me and you have a contact list. You have to remember to change the speed in the options to make it grab the items quicker though.

I also use Fubar money fu. It keeps track of all of your gold by character, by session, by the day and the week. It screws up when I use different computers for wow since the information it gathers is saved to the computer. I get around this limitation by using different toons for different tasks. I have a toon that receives money simply to buy things to disenchant, so I can keep track of disenchanting costs. Then I have a toon that only sells DE mats to keep track of revenue. All my other buying and selling goes on with a third toon.

Another really useful mod to keep track of items you routinely search for in the AH is AHsearch and AHsearchnext. The menu system for saving searches is a little complicated, but once you figure it out you can save a lot of time typing searches. I look up all the eternals and crystallized elements everyday for example. Instead of having to type everything in, once it is set up you can just click on it from a dropdown menu. It also makes sure I don’t overlook an item I usually check prices for.

I also used to use wowecon. I upgraded a few weeks ago to the premium version and I haven’t had a good experience with it. It very well could be user error, but I find that for whatever reason it only tracks a very small number of my sales, which was the entire reason I upgraded. The module uses a good deal of memory as well, which is fine for my desktop, but it prohibitively expensive in terms of performance with my laptop.

Finally, if you are in a guild with your AH toon, you might want to use a chat mod like prat to filter all of your AH activity so you can keep track of whispers and guild chat. A few people have felt snubbed by me because I didn’t respond because I never saw what they typed. With a chat mod you can keep track of everything easier.