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If you were to install the PTR right now and try to post a batch of auctions for sale with your favorite addon, theres a good chance it wouldnt work. Blizzard has changed the way that addons can interact with the auction house so that its no longer possible to queue up a large volume of auctions and let them post while you read my columns.

Both Auctioneer and Quickauctions 3 have been hit hard, obviously. These are the most commonly used addons for queuing up a bunch of auctions. The rule previously seemed to be that were not allowed to buy in batches, but we are allowed to sell in batches. Well, it looks like Blizzard has decided that we can no longer sell in batches, either. In addition, QA3 has lost its ability to automatically cancel auctions that have been undercut. The new patch requires a hardware event per action, and this has not (at the time of publishing) been written into these addons.

So what is a batch? Since you can queue up multiple stacks of the same item using the default UI, that seems to be allowed still. What is no longer allowed is putting together a list of different types of items that you want to sell at the same time. Take heart, dear reader: There is a workaround!

First, the workaround is fortunately not to simply manually post all your auctions. When you have 300+ glyphs (for example) and dozens of types of cut gems that you probably want to be listing for all the new demand that 4.0.1 will generate, sitting there with the default posting interface does not cut it. It doesnt show you the similar auctions you will be competing with in the same frame, and it doesnt suggest a remotely intelligent default price.

That said, to fix QA3 (only, for now), simply download and install this addon. Without it, QA3 will just hang. With it, youre presented with a handy-dandy little box saying, Do you want to post this auction? It doesnt seem to work with Auctioneer (currently, the box comes up but doesnt seem to work when you click it), but I have faith in the Auctioneer dev teams ability to get a new build out fairly soon when its product stops working. Still, gems and glyphs are expected to be the big sellers come patch day, and those are both markets that QA3 does very well.

 
Apparently, addons are still allowed to automatically price for you, and thats one of the two biggest advantages that QA3 gives us, in addition to automated batch selling and canceling. The only change is that you need to click once for every group of auctions. Luckily, you can still keybind the action of clicking the Yes button: Simply create a macro with this line in it.

/click StaticPopup1Button1

It will work for canceling as well as posting. Drag the macro to a button, keybind that button, and youre set. This type of automation was covered in another article: same principle, different application. Its not perfect, but at least its better than using the default UI to post several hundred types of products by hand.

Why now?

I am not going to hazard a guess about what drove the fine folks at the Blizzard UI dev team to make this undocumented change to the functions used by these addons specifically to service the glyph and gem markets, but its a little rough that its happening simultaneously with a patch thats expected to drive more demand for them than any other patch in the history of the game. Patch 4.0.1 is drastically changing the desirability of stats to many classes in the game, and a huge number of people will be regemming from armor penetration to something other than crit (which is what ArP gems will give you after the patch). Also, now that we can learn every glyph in the game, theres going be a huge surge in demand for glyphs as people scramble to get one of each.

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