Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMO Gamers to the Next Level!

The auction house is central to the economy in Runes of Magic. Just like in a lot of MMOG's the auction house can be a very confusing place with long lists and seemingly random numbers. Simply opening up the auction house can make ones head swim. Some items are for very small amounts of gold, some for quite a lot of gold. How do you tell what is a good deal? How do you tell if you are putting up your own items for sale for the correct price? How do you know how much to discount your items when you are putting them up for bulk? Should you even be discounting bulk items? Should I put this up now or wait for the holiday to start?

So many questions and you don’t really want to spend your time trying to figure them all out. Okay, some of us do, I mean we live for this stuff right? We can log into a game and sit for hours playing the auction house and making mounds of money.

For those of us that are not fans of wasting er... spending countless hours at the auction house making our millions, keep reading.

Basics

Auction houses can be accessed everywhere. They are even in the starting zones.

When opening up a category you must hit the search function to get anything to appear.

Item quality ranges from white, to green, to blue, to purple.

There are three tabs across the bottom in the standard interface.

Auctions - This would be the tab where you will create all of your auctions so that you can make some fat loot.

Bid - This is a simple list for all the auctions that you have bit on. I personally would not recommed bidding on alot of items unless you are playing the AH. If you need it and will pay for it then just buy it out right using the [buyout] button at the bottom of the next tab.

Browse - This tab does exactly what it sounds like it should do. It allows you to browse through all the items in the AH. I have created a browse tab tree that gives you a general idea of where to find things

I know that a lot of the above may seem like its common sense and some of it is. There are however some tabs here that would throw off even the seasoned vet. Take [Money] for example. I have not played every MMOG out there but I have played my fair share of both subscription-based and free-to-play MMOG titles and this is something I have never seen before. It is essentially a way to legally purchase gold using diamonds OR diamonds using gold. What a crazy idea.

So how do you play the AH and make tons of gold?

Sadly there is no magic formula. Since every auction house is unique to its server each one is going to be different. A level 1 mana stone might go for 500g on my server and it might go for 5000g on your server. MMOG auction houses are a perfect example of capitalism.

One addon that you can use to improve your overall AH experience is very creatively named AdvancedAuctionhouse. It basically takes everything you ever see and keeps a log so that you can get a good idea of what you can charge for your own stuff you don't want any longer. It also gives you a few extra tools to use when purchasing such as a price per unit so you can quickly see what stacks are better priced.

The best thing I can tell you is that you need to spend some time there or at the very least download the addon mentioned above or some variation there of. If you have some auction house tips please leave them in the form linked below.

Happy Selling!