Opportunity addon for jewelcrafters

I've released Opportunity, my addon for making it easier to make money cutting and selling jewels. It's on Curse. Try it out!

The Opportunity addon makes it easier for jewelcrafters to recognize market opportunities for cutting and selling gems. Opportunity creates awindow with a snapshot of the entire rare gem market, highlighting whichgems are worth cutting and selling for a profit. It does this by lookingat the current Auctioneer snapshot of the market, historical prices, andsales success history via Beancounter. I've used Opportunity for well overa year to great success.

Opportunity requires the Auctioneer Suite, including Beancounter.

This addon is being released *unsupported*. The author has no plans to improve or maintain the addon and any requests for support will be cheerfully ignored. I would be happy for someone to take the addon over and develop it themselves. The code is under MIT license so requires no permission from me, but drop me a note if you decide to take it over!

Usage:

1. Go to the auction house and complete an auction scan.

2. Open your Jewelcrafting spellbook

3. Type "/opp knock" at the console.

4. A window will pop up with a snapshot of the entire gem market.

The window contains the results from Opportunity. It has a lot of information, but once you learn to read it you can quickly pick out which gems are worth cutting.

For every raw uncut gem (such as Sky Sapphire), a line is displayed with the following information:

1. Raw gem name

2. Average gem price from Auctioneer

3. List of 5 cheapest auctions for the raw gem. Green is a bargain.

For every gem cut (such as Solid Sky Sapphire), a line is displayed with the following information:

1. Cut gem name. Coloured by status of the gem.

   Blue = profitable, White = not profitable, Red = been undercut.

2. Percentage of sales that were successful (from Beancounter)

3. Historical cut gem price (from Auctioneer)

4. Name of the seller for the cheapest gem.

5. Five cheapest auctions for the raw gem.

For a quick scan-and-cut, the simplest thing is to look at the window for gem names in blue. Then check their percentage sales success and if it's reasonable, cut a few. Much of the other market snapshot data is clutter you can probably ignore.

Ideas for future expansion: less cluttered display, automatic scanning of the live auction, clickable text so that gems can be cut right off the display window. I would be wary of expanding this addon to other professions, its simplicity is because of the one raw gem = one gem construction of Jewelcrafting.

Comments

[Ray]

Now this looks awesome!

It's really too bad that I cancelled my sub.

[Kal]

It's pretty neat, and I've already made some easy money using it in a few minutes. It's a bit confusing at first, but it's mostly pretty awesome and I figure it'll only get better with more recipes and more scanning. :)

Thanks!

[Flyv]

Glad you find it useful, Kal! The display is awfully cluttered, I had some crazy idea of only displaying the stuff specific to gems it thinks you should sell. For that matter you could have it automatically fill an Advanced Tradeskills production queue or something. But I'm done hacking on this addon, someone else will have to do that work :-)

[Splintered]

/opp knock

brilliance.

[John]

Wow, I've been looking for an addon that does this for years! Can't wait to give it a try. Thanks!

[Harry]

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