World of Modcraft: Trade Skills

We have already covered most of the areas where you’d need mods/add-ons; trade skill/profession mods are all that remain now. Here’s a list of mods that will help you either level your trade skills, or bring in the big bucks, via your professions…

The basic trade skill User Interface (UI) is really plain and simple; while it’s easy to use, it doesn’t offer too many options when queuing up crafts (or anything else for that matter) is concerned.

Advanced Trade Skill Window fixes this by giving you a lot more control over your trade skills, via a kickass UI. It includes everything from a nifty filter function, to a really powerful production feature that even considers crafted reagents (for instance, you could convert Knothide Leather to Heavy Knothide Leather and convert the latter Heavy Knothide Kits in the same queue!)

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It’s not easy to make money off crafting professions, so take solace in the fact that CraftList’s there for you when you need it. This nifty mod eases selling/crafting items by a simple and effective method – if someone needs an item crafted or need to get their gear enchanted, all they have to do is send you a whisper with !enchant or !craft to you to get a list of enchants/craftable recipes you have.

This mod not only saves you from the pain of linking recipes, but it makes it possible for others to know what you can craft even when you’re busy doing something without distracting you. If you’re a crafter of any sort, this add-on is an absolute must!

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It takes patience and a lot of planning to make crafting profitable. You could just sit around in a big town and spam what you can craft for tips, or you could get wise and buy materials for cheap, then craft items, and sell them.

To help you do just that, there’s Fizzwidget’s ReagentCost which helps you by giving you the price of reagents required to craft items, which it picks up off the auction house. This way know exactly how much profit you’re making from each item you sell, so you can really haul in the big bucks if you play your cards right.

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Tired of searching Thottbot for all the recipes that could help you level up your profession? Then Ackis Recipe List is just what you need! This add-on scans your current trade skills and prints out a report of the ones you don’t have. This is a great way to help you with leveling up professions, and finding what craftables can help bring in the moolah.

Although the tool doesn’t really have any sort of customization and lacks a functional graphical user interface (meaning barely any buttons etc.), its functionality surpasses all those superficial things, making it a welcome lightweight addition to any crafter’s arsenal.

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I know I mentioned Auctioneer in the general mod section too, but since it’s such a great add-on for crafters and traders of all kinds, I’m going to tell you about its relevance in this context too. After scanning the auction house on a regular basis for a week or two, your prices become pretty accurate. Use this information to find the best price at which you can buy your crafting materials, and spam the trade channel to buy them at that price.

Also, putting multiple auctions of the same kind can get tiresome and extremely boring at times. Auctioneer helps you jump that hurdle with a feature that allows you to place multiple auctions of the same kind, quickly and effortlessly. Setting up different types of auctions becomes a drag-and-drop routine too, so you never have to worry about manually undercutting competition.