Auction House Broken & Knowledge Point Guides - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 342
Hello! Welcome to the 342nd edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!
This week we look at the struggling Auction House and what might be the cause of the issues. We also have guides for Fishing and collecting weekly Knowledge Points as well as a look at how Gold Per Hour can be a useful metric to find ways to be more efficient.
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We Broke the AH
With the official launch of The War Within well underway, the flood gates of players descended into the Isle of Dorn and the poor Auction House buckled under the weight of all the transactions.
We’re aware of and working on diagnosing and solving issues that are affecting the performance of the Auction House in WoW. At this time, the Auction House is up, but is experiencing degraded response times.
We’ll let you know as soon as we have updates on the situation.
Thank you!
The result has been an incredibly sluggish Auction House taking a while to find the list of items and post them ..
Buying commodities is even harder with the price updating so slowly, it's impossible to buy at the current price and you end up with «Item No Longer Available» errors.
Many are blaming Auction House addons for the problems, but this is an entirely new kind of issue. There have been posting and cancelling throttles in place for a while now which limited how many items you could post or cancel before the throttle took effect.
I don't think TSM is responsible. TSM has been around forever, and Blizzard didn't just disable the way TSM and other addons communicate with the AH, they disabled the entire auction house. I think it's something new or different. Something that sends way more requests.
This ties with an update tweet from Tom Ellis, a senior game producer on WoW ...
So what’s going on with the Auction House is an interesting tech problem, a well meaning and simple design change caused a DB table that used to hold 20-60k rows to now contain
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