Saturday, September 14, 2013

Tradeskill Master: the Intro

I'm usually quite pleased by the WoW Insider's articles on addons. They tend to be informative and useful when I want to learn how to use a new one, but I was quite frustrated with a recent article on TradeSkill Master. I read and re-read the post but I just could not make the modules work the way I wanted them to, or the way that my husband who has much less tolerance for fiddly addons wanted them to. I ditched the article, went to google, the official TSM forums, youtube, and finally spent some time playing around on my own.

I can now help you get your feet wet with TradeSkill Master, if you would like. First of all if you do your own googling you may hear lots of talk about TradeSkill Master 2. It's still just TradeSkill Master at curse.com though. It is a 2.x file, but the name hasn't actually changed. Also, it's more convenient to refer to it as TSM, so that's what I'll be doing from here on out. By the way I think this is an extremely unattractive addon, but it's not being installed for its looks. It will take a few clicks to get set up, but I promise it isn't too bad for our purposes today.

All we are going to do is use TSM to see which items our profession can make that are profitable, and then if you're feeling adventurous we'll also use it to craft our items. (Warning: lots of screencaps)