GoldScout

By
alkhara

What should this character be doing for gold right now? GoldScout answers that for whichever character you're logged in on: its level, class, faction and professions, priced against your own auction house.

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Description

What should this character be doing for gold right now? GoldScout answers that for whichever character you're logged in on: its level, class, faction and professions, priced against your own auction house.

Get the most out of GoldScout: add GoldScout Companion. The free Windows app brings auction house prices into GoldScout every hour, without scanning, and shares your drop data automatically so the Farm tab keeps getting better. Get it from the GoldScout website (link at the bottom of this page).

Live prices, two ways

Every hour, without scanning: with GoldScout Companion running, GoldScout gets Blizzard's hourly auction house snapshot for your realm and faction, plus the Blackwater (goblin) auction house as an extra tooltip line.
Right now, with one click: press Scan AH at the auction house and GoldScout reads every item's lowest price and quantity in a few seconds. Your own scan always wins when it's newer.

Prices are kept per realm and faction and show on item tooltips.

Farm tab

Farms ranked by estimated gold per hour for your character:

mobs with valuable drops, using real drop rates from players
cloth from humanoids up to your level
herbs, ore and leather your Herbalism, Mining or Skinning skill can gather
valuable crafting reagents, the mob-dropped materials professions always need, selling on your auction house right now, even before anyone has learned where they drop

The Lvl column is green when the mobs still give you experience, yellow when only some do and gray when none do. Tick Gives XP to level and earn at the same time.

Craft tab

Every recipe you know, ranked by profit per craft: auction house price after the cut, minus the cheapest cost of the materials. Vendor prices are learned automatically.

Hunt mode

Pick a farm and press Hunt:

Blizzard's own waypoint arrow to where players find those mobs
an icon over the mobs you're hunting (turn on enemy nameplates)
a live panel: kills, drops, your drop rate, loot value and gold per hour
a summary and history when you stop

Gets smarter the more people play

Every corpse you loot teaches GoldScout what that mob really drops, on all your characters. Share what you've learned and it goes into the next release for everyone. The more players share, the better everyone's Farm tab gets.

GoldScout Companion shares for you: it runs quietly in the system tray, never shows pop-ups over your game, and uploads new data after you agree once. It only reads GoldScout's saved data and writes one small data addon; it never touches the running game. Without it, /gscout export and the Share drop data form do the same job.

Honest data

Every drop rate and spawn point comes from GoldScout players looting in game. Nothing is copied from Wowhead or any other site.

Plays by the rules

GoldScout only shows information. It never moves, targets, attacks, loots or marks anything for you, and it respects every limit Blizzard puts on addons. The addon is free, and every in-game feature is the same for everyone.