FarmWise BCA
Smart, data-driven farming and selling assistant for World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Anniversary
FarmWise watches your own farming and tells you what it is worth. It records what you gather in every zone and sub-zone, measures your time, reads the Auction House prices of your realm, and now it also helps you sell what you farmed, straight from the Auction House window, and keeps a history of what you sold.
No generic guides and no guesses for other players: everything is built from how you play.
Beta. FarmWise BCA is in active development. If something does not work as you expect, please report it in the comments or the issue tracker.
What is new
- A FarmWise tab in the Auction House. A fourth tab next to Browse, Bids and Auctions lists what is in your bags that can be posted, with the price from the last scan and a Post button.
- Sales history. A History page that counts what you sold from your mails: pieces, gold earned, average price, how much came back unsold.
- A starter guide for Outland. The classic farming spots of The Burning Crusade, shown until you have data of your own.
- A manual inside the game, chapter by chapter.
(Screenshot: the FarmWise tab in the Auction House)
The main window
- Items gathered per zone and sub-zone, for the Session and in Total, with items per hour and farming time.
- Optional columns: activity (where it came from), item type, profession, zone, sub-zone, character, Price and Value.
- Session gold per hour: looted gold, vendor value of grey items and Auction House value of materials, after the 5% cut.
- Three ways to start a new session: only when you press Reset, every day at a time you choose, or when you leave an area.
- Lock and minimize: the window turns into a small button on the corner you choose. While minimized, the items you loot rise from the button like the game's own combat text - and they follow the same filters as the window.
(Screenshot: the main window)
The Advisor
- Gold: the places ranked by estimated gold per hour, from your results.
- Item: your best yields so far, or the best places for one item (type it, shift-click it, or drag it in).
- Every result tells how sure it is: Low from 15 minutes of farming in a place, High from 60.
- New to a profession? A starter guide of the Outland farming spots is shown until you have data of your own.
(Screenshot: the Advisor)
Selling from the Auction House
The FarmWise tab sits next to Browse, Bids and Auctions and lists what is in your bags that the Auction House can take (materials, gems, recipes, consumables and more). Gear and bound items are never listed.
- Prices from your scan. The suggested price of an item comes from the lowest price of the last FarmWise scan. Run
/fw scanwith the Auction House open to refresh them. - Amount and value. The amount to post and what you will receive after the 5% cut.
- One click, one post. The game accepts one post for each click.
- A vendor pays more? Items that a vendor pays more for than the Auction House (after its 5%) are left out of the list, marked in the bags with a small gold coin, and their tooltip says so.
(Screenshot: the FarmWise tab)
Your auctions
The Auctions page of the tab shows your posts: still active, sold, or ended. A post can be taken back from here; the History counts its mail as taken when you collect it.
Sales history
The History page keeps what you sold:
- Pieces sold, gold earned after the cut, average price of one piece, pieces returned unsold, and the share that was sold.
- Counted when you take the gold of a sale (or the items of an expired auction) from your mailbox. Each mail is counted once.
- Purchases, gifts and gold from other players are never counted.
The Scanner
- Reads the lowest price of items from the Auction House when you open it, and again by itself when the prices get older than the time you chose.
- Levels: trade materials are always read. Scan commodities too adds everything else sold by amount. Scan the whole Auction House reads everything.
- A sound can tell you when it is done.
- Prices appear in item tooltips ("FarmWise AH"), in the Price and Value columns, in the Advisor and in the vendor comparison.
Options and the manual
- Options (
/fw optionsor the Options button) are grouped in clear sections: Interface, Display, Tracking, Engine, Scanner, Auction House, Data and Info. - Manual: the last page of the options has a short manual with a chapter for each part of FarmWise, and a Back button.
(Screenshot: the options and the manual)
Commands
/fwor/fw status: Show what is stored/fw ui: Show or hide the main window/fw advisor: Open the Advisor/fw scan: Scan the Auction House prices now (Auction House must be open)/fw options: Open the options
Why FarmWise BCA
- Your own data, not generic numbers.
- Decisions, not just lists: where to farm, what it is worth, what to sell and at which price.
- Plain and light: a small window, a few clear options, and every number explained in a tooltip or in the manual.
- Made for the Anniversary client, not a Retail addon hoping for the best: the tab, the scanner and the tracking are built for the classic Auction House and API.
Compatibility and notes
- World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Anniversary (interface 20506).
- The starter guide comes from community guides and is English only. Item names are matched in English for its price lookup.
- The sales history starts from the day you install. It cannot know what you sold before.
- Looking for the Retail version? It lives in the FarmWise project page.
Author
Made by ChrGeo.
FarmWise BCA Team
