[ADDON] Emporium, a smarter Auction House experience

[Faraso]

Emporium
A smarter Auction House experience for Return of Reckoning


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Current version: 0.32.11 beta

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What is Emporium?

Emporium is a new Auction House addon focused on making the AH easier to use, easier to understand and less painful than getting lost in endless filters and badly sorted lists.

The main idea is simple:

Instead of only showing more auction data, Emporium tries to help players make better Auction House decisions.

It is designed around what players actually want to do:

• Find useful gear upgrades
• Compare auction gear with currently equipped gear
• Restock consumables
• Find useful talismans
• Check market prices
• Spot good deals
• Sell items with better price context

This is currently a beta release. The addon is already usable and functional, but it is still being improved. I would really appreciate feedback, bug reports and edge cases from different careers, ranks and playstyles.

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Main features

Cleaner Auction House interface
Emporium uses a custom AH window with dedicated sections for Search, Shop, Consumables, Talismans and Sell, in a consistent flat visual style.

Settings panel
A full settings window with functional options for everything: buying, market thresholds, selling confirmations, UI scale, combat pause and more. Open it with the Settings button or

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/emp settings

.

Themes
Five selectable themes (Grimdark Gold, Dark Iron, Order Blue, Destruction Red, High Contrast). Switching applies instantly without a reload.

Search and browsing
Search the Auction House with clearer result rows, sorting, buyout values and price per unit display.

Saved searches sidebar
Save your current filters with one click and recall them from the Saved (N) button right under Search/Reset. Clicking a saved search runs it immediately and the sidebar stays open, so you can click through your markets one by one like a playlist - the loaded one is highlighted gold. Rename inline, delete with a confirm, hover a row for its full name.

Market price context
Emporium tracks market prices locally from the searches you perform. Over time, it builds useful price context such as typical price, cheapest seen price and sample count.

vs Market verdicts
Auction listings can show market-based labels such as Great Deal, Fair, Overpriced, Suspicious Low or Thin Market.

Buy confirmation
Buying uses a confirmation step to help prevent accidental purchases.

Gear Assistant
The Shop section can read your equipped gear and help search for possible upgrades by slot, including all four jewelry slots.

Gear comparison
Auction gear can be compared against your currently equipped item, with stat differences shown directly in the results.

Consumable recommendations
Emporium includes role and career-aware consumable suggestions to help you restock useful items faster. Potions and draughts are sorted strongest-usable-first for your rank.

Talisman recommendations
The Talismans section helps search and rank useful talismans based on role, stat, value and usability, including an Armor talisman option. Each preset button shows the gem icon of its stat.

Sell helper
Drag an item from your bags onto the item slot (or click it in the list), see the 5 cheapest competing listings with your own listings flagged (you) and suspicious undercuts flagged (low?), and get suggested pricing based on the current market. A manual price box lets you override the suggestion completely. Hover help explains every control.

Advanced selling tools
Emporium includes early beta support for pricing strategies, saved sell rules, stack splitting, batch posting, restock and undercut management.

My listings
View your active auctions with a live X/50 counter, check if they are undercut and cancel selected or undercut listings. Emporium warns you before you hit the 50-auction cap.

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What's new in 0.32.11

• Saved searches redesigned: no longer a separate tab - they live in the Search tab as a toggling sidebar with a live counter, one-click playlist flow, gold highlight on the loaded search and inline renaming. ESC closes the sidebar first, the window second.
• Fixed: the Armor talisman search silently returned unfiltered results (the armor bonus has a different internal name than the other stats). It now finds armor talismans properly, with the grouped view and the correct value ceilings.
• Talisman preset buttons now show the gem icon of their stat.
• The last ornate buttons (Buy, List it / Cancel listing) moved to the same flat style as everything else - no more clipped edges, and all five themes tint them correctly.
• New diagnostic command:

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  /emp stats <text>

  lists the client's searchable bonus filters.

What was new in 0.31.4

• Settings panel (

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  /emp settings

  ) - every option is functional
• Five selectable themes with instant switching
• Fixed: gear alternatives only worked for jewelry slot 1 (the AH tags jewelry with the first accessory slot only) - all jewelry slots now find upgrades
• 4th jewelry slot added to the Shop tab
• Armor talisman option added
• Sell: competition list (5 cheapest with quantity and seller, (you) and (low?) flags)
• Sell: drag and drop to a dedicated item slot, right-click to clear, bag filter box
• Sell: manual price override ("12s 30b", "2g" or plain brass) that beats the strategy and floors
• Sell: live My listings (X/50) counter with 50-cap warnings, auto-refreshing lists, hover help on every control, cleaner buttons
• Consumables: correct endgame stat potion names, strongest-usable-first sorting, Action Point and renown consumables, rarity defaults to Rare so Potent versions show

Thanks to guessgap, wardfan220, TheRealRunkleDunkle, valadorn5 and Harrwin for the reports and ideas.

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Beta status

Emporium is already usable, but it is still in active development.

The current version focuses on:

• Better AH navigation
• Cleaner buying experience
• Market price context
• Gear upgrade discovery
• Talismans
• Consumables
• Manual and advanced selling assistance

Some advanced selling features are still considered beta and need more testing, especially batch posting, restock, undercut management and saved sell rules.

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Known limitations

• Market data is local and builds over time from your own AH searches.
• Gear comparison focuses mainly on stat bonuses and may not evaluate every special item effect perfectly.
• Talisman ranking is still being refined.
• Some item categories, slots or career-specific cases may need adjustment.
• Advanced selling tools are functional but still need wider testing.
• The game client only writes addon saved data (saved searches, market data, settings) to disk on a clean logout or

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  /reload

  . A crash loses recent changes - do a quick

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  /reload

  after saving something important.

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Commands

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/emp

Open Emporium.

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/emporium

Open Emporium.

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/emp settings

Open the Emporium settings window.

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/emp restore

Restore the default Auction House behavior.

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/emp replace

Make Emporium replace the default Auction House again.

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/emp stats <text>

List the client's searchable bonus filters (diagnostic, e.g.

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/emp stats armor

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/emp probe

Developer/debug command for checking item, gear and auction data. Mostly useful when reporting edge cases.

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Installation

1. Download the addon archive.
2. Extract it.
3. Copy the Emporium folder into:

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   Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning\Interface\AddOns

4. Start the game.
5. Enable Emporium in the in-game AddOns menu if needed.
6. Use

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   /rel

   or restart the client.

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Feedback wanted

I would really appreciate feedback, especially on:

• Lua errors
• Wrong prices or price per unit values
• Bad or confusing market verdicts
• Gear slots detected incorrectly
• Upgrade suggestions that do not make sense
• Talisman or consumable suggestions that feel wrong for your career
• Items that break comparison, pricing or display
• Strange behavior with selling, batch posting, restock or undercut management

When reporting a bug, please include:

• Character career
• Character rank
• What you clicked or searched
• Item name, if item related
• Lua error text, if available
• Screenshot, if possible

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Planned improvements

Some things I want to improve next:

• Better sell rule management
• Activity log for selling and restock actions
• Improved repost workflow
• Role presets and better stat weights
• Better item search helpers
• More polish based on feedback

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Download

The addon is attached to this post.

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Thanks to anyone willing to test it.

The goal is to make the Auction House easier to use, easier to understand and more helpful for actual player decisions, instead of just adding more filters to an already messy system.

[guessgap]

thank you for this contribution, sounds great. i will try it out later!

[guessgap]

played around with it a bit and my first impression is really positive.
im honestly surprised theres not more people commenting here or downloading and trying it, especially bc i feel the normal auction house and addon alternatives are lacking a bit.

great that the addon is class-sensitive and gives me template options that suit my class.
also very nice to see the market averages/typicals (if i may ask: how are they measured?).

heres a few things id like to add from my testing:
-i cant see my fourth jewelry slot in the shop tab (also cant see a way to scroll down)
-i only get gear alternatives in the shop tab for some gear slots, eg only jewelry slot 1 offers me gear alternatives. i thought its maybe bc of the jewelry, so i switched my jewelry slot 1 and 2, but again: only got a gear alternative offered for jewelry slot 1
-i tested we class and dok class: both didnt show an armor talisman option. im no gearing expert, but i feel like dok class can make good use of an armor talisman
-in the sell section id like to see an option to quickly look at all sellers offers not just the cheapest one

tldr:
great work so far with clean interface and easy to navigate. makes using auction house more comfortable (for me) and gives me some valuable extra information.
good luck and i hope this will get a full release after the mandatory early access phase

[Vegetaplays]

This addon is wild. A+++. Makes my life so much easier for the AH and is so much better than shinies at the moment.

Thank you!!!!

[Emissary]

dude this is great

[Faraso]

Thanks a lot for the feedback, really appreciate it.

About the market prices: Emporium builds its market data locally from the AH searches you do. So it does not start with a global database, but it learns over time as you browse/search the Auction House. It stores price-per-unit samples and uses them to show things like typical price, cheapest seen price and general market context.

The points about the Shop / Gear Assistant are very useful. I will do a tighter polish pass there, especially around jewelry slots, slot detection and the way gear alternatives are searched. The Gear Assistant is one of the main features of Emporium, so I want that section to feel reliable and clear.

Good point as well about talismans and career/build differences. Some recommendations may need more tuning, especially for edge cases or builds that do not fit perfectly into a simple role category.

For the Sell section, showing more competing offers instead of only focusing on the cheapest one makes sense. That would give a better view of the market before listing an item, so I will add that to the improvement list.

Thanks again for testing it and for the detailed notes. Please keep posting bugs, strange item behavior, wrong suggestions or Lua errors if you find them. This kind of feedback is exactly what helps improve the beta.

[wardfan220]

My only issue so far is you cannot see what the posted sales are when you put an item up for sale. It shows the current lowest price on the market, but that doesn't tell you if the current lowest price is some vastly undercut price and the rest of them are selling for the right price. Needs to be able to see the last few for sale instead of the current lowest price like Shinies does.

Not sure if I like the list of items instead of dragging and dropping.

Edit: I see you already mentioned adding more than just the last price, sorry

[TheRealRunkleDunkle]

I'll be giving it a good workout. I can already see some good value here and I feel pretty optimistic.

I've used it to price a few dozen items. It needs a manual option for prices since some of the market items are overpriced and pulled the average price above the real value of the items.

Also your program seems to know that I'm actually targeting flippers with my sales by marking them all as "suspicious" thats pretty funny

[Faraso]

I'll be giving it a good workout. I can already see some good value here and I feel pretty optimistic.

I've used it to price a few dozen items. It needs a manual option for prices since some of the market items are overpriced and pulled the average price above the real value of the items.

Also your program seems to know that I'm actually targeting flippers with my sales by marking them all as "suspicious" thats pretty funny

Love the feedback brother, I'll put it on the list. Laughed hard at the "suspicious" haha, I was thinking about protecting new players mostly, not that much to flipping.

[Harrwin]

Performance wise is it better than Shinies?