The other day I noticed that in the combat log you can see when someone crafts something. For example:


Now this got me thinking I should pay attention to these crafts as I could know which of my competitors precraft in bulk and which craft as they sell. There were problems though. First of all I was limited by only seeing crafts that were going on near my toon. Second I had stuff like people making 100s of bandages/food for raiding or leveling professions nearby. 3rd I had to figure out a way to kill everything else in the combat log so at least I could read it a bit easier.

I was messing around with the combat log filters and by creating a new tab and disabling everything it still recorded the crafts similar to what you see in the above picture. I was talking to Sapu around this time and he managed to create a script to move the crafting info into a chat channel. For example I created a new channel on my server by typing /join aegcrafts and then utilizing the script to send all crafting that my toon picked up into that chat channel. This made me realize that when my level one bank alt was picking up crafts and sending it to the chat channel which my main was also in - My main toon that was in a raid could see every craft my alt was seeing without being stuck near the crafter

I was talking with Sapu about the possibilities and he decided to be even more awesome and creates a new addon +rep to Sapu called Craft Ninja available here from Curse.

Guide To Setting Up Craft Ninja on Two Accounts

1. The first time you logon with Craft Ninja(CN) installed you will see your chat frame look something like this.

2. Since it is spamming my main chat frame I created a new chat tab and moved everything over to that tab. In order to create a new tab:

a. Right click on the general tab and click on Create New Window

b. Type in Craft Ninja (or whatever funny thing you want) and hit accept

c. To move CN over to the new tab I then typed /cn print 3

• Note – I chose 3 since that is the third chat tab on my screen not the channel that I am in.

3. If you don’t want CN to spam with what it sees you can toggle the printing of CN on and off by typing /cn print off or /cn print on

4. In order to connect the two characters you need to be logged on to both of the accounts at the same time. Type /cn alt add on both accounts with Character_name being the toon you are adding. So on my second account I wanted to add Aeg to connect to that account I would type /cn alt add aeglet and I get a message like:


5. Now I am set up on my main toon that while he is out and about in the world doing BGs, Dungeons whatever I can see whatever my alt account is picking up.
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Tuesday's coming up fast and furious and I know you're jonesin' for some WoW gold reading while the servers are down. Here's a quick recap of the best stuff we've seen in the forums the past couple weeks;

• 1001 Gold Tips: A compilation of gold tips thrown together by our own members. Add yours!
• Have you been shuffling ore into Heavenly Shards? I sure hope so. The profits are insane and the shuffle cycle is shorter. That means a high GPH! Quick & Good Profits on Heavenly Shards.
• Stede's been working hard on a shuffling spreadsheet variant. Check it out: Latest Shuffling Spreadsheet for The Masses.
• Wondering what you should craft once Living Ember and epic patterns really hit the market? Look no further: List of Crafted 4.2 BiS Items.
• If you're looking to farm some, Garyoak explains how to farm Shadowmoon Valley to rake in a respectable 1746g/hr; Shadowmoon Valley Farming And Follow Up.
• Sinshroud pulled a couple threads out of the Stormspire for your reading pleasure. This should give you a good idea of what us Wind Trading nerds discuss in the privacy of our own forum:
  
  • Implementing High Finance in WoW: Part 1 - Short Sales
  • Implementing High Finance in WoW: Part 2 - Inflation and Discounted Cash Flow
  • Recipe: Flask of Chromatic Wonder - Cheap Vendor Item, Major Gold!
  • Think Like a Millionaire on Your Way to The Gold Cap
  
  

As always, remember to give the authors due respect and drop them some +reputation! Think a thread deserves to be here? Let me know! ...