Merchant Helper V2.0
Automatically repairs gear, sells items, and opens/closes all your bags. Also has the ability to delete unwanted items on demand.
Type /merch or /merchanthelper to bring up the menu box.
Type /merch help for Vendor List options.
Please see ReadMe file for more information.
Longer description:
Sells junk and other nominated items at vendors, and prints totals to the chat frame. Repairs automatically at repair merchants with the option to repair from guild funds (if you can), and prints totals. Opens and closes all of your bags. It is highly configurable, you can choose for the addon to print as much or as little information as you want and you can choose at which types of vendors/objects you want your bags to open.
New to Version 2.0
- Prints amounts items have been sold for
- Prints the total profit for the sale of the items
- No longer attempts to sell items with no sell value to the vendors (no more annoying error messages)
- Option to limit the sale of items to 12 each time (the buyback limit)
- A Vendor List has been implemented. Items added to this list will now also be sold automatically upon interacting with a vendor.
(accepts all items of any quality, please use with care for higher quality items)
NB: The Vendor List is based on Item Ids so if you add an item with a random component (eg. Raider's Boots of the Whale), the vendor list
will just add [Raider's Boots] and will then sell any version of Raider's Boots you have.
- A Destroy function - allows you to destroy items up to a value selected (between 5s and 5g)
- will destroy junk items and items on the Vendor List up to that value
- will also destroy any items with no sell value that are on the Vendor List
By default, all settings will be off when first downloaded. Please make sure to bring up the menu to set it up. As Merchant Helper saves separately for each character, you will need to do this a few times at the start.
If you find any bugs, or have any questions, please post below and I will respond as quickly as possible.
Release Version
Added sale totals
Added Vendor List for regular non-junk items to be sold
Added Destroy function
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
