Leatherworking moneymaking macros

[Platos]

I've been using the tip I saw on here a while back about buying Borean Leather, then creating Nerubian Legguards and vendoring for 5g. I've searched for the post to link to it, but can't seem to find it, but if anyone links it, I'll edit this to point you in that direction.

Anyway, I've created a couple of macros that have this down to a fine art nowadays, and thought I'd share them.

1 Click to create all Nerubian Legguards:

#showtooltip
/cast Leatherworking
/run for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(i)=="Nerubian Legguards" then CloseTradeSkill() DoTradeSkill(i, floor(GetItemCount("Borean Leather")/8)) break end end

1 Click to sell all to vendor:

/run for bag=0,4,1 do for slot=1,GetContainerNumSlots(bag),1 do local name=GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot) if name and string.find(name,"Nerubian Legguards") then DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("- Vendor buys "..name) UseContainerItem(bag,slot) end end end

With this, you buy all the leather on the AH you can find, grab it from your mailbox, stand at a vendor, then just press 1 macro, then the other.

This doesn't make me insane amounts of money like some people manage, but it does mean I have a steady income (3k-ish per week) that just requires me to spend 2 minutes in the AH whenever I come through stormwind and occasionally spamming my 'Buying Borean Leather' macro.

These macros can easily be edited for other tradeskills/items.

[0eyvind]

This is just great!
I've 2 or 3 times made some crappy Cloth bracers, and left the PC. The came back to Bracers that vendors for 2.50 and costs 12 Leather's.

This will avoid that, AND ease the process overall
Thanks! +rep

[JQO]

+rep from me

I do the LW thing all the time and this makes it so much easier.

[Zing!]

Is there anyway to automatically buy all stacks of 20 Leather under the buyout price of 10g?

How much does Borean Leather sell for on your realms?

+Rep for the macros and telling me about this though

[Platos]

Is there anyway to automatically buy all stacks of 20 Leather under the buyout price of 10g?

How much does Borean Leather sell for on your realms?

+Rep for the macros and telling me about this though

I'm not sure if theres a way of automating the buying of the leather, we used to be able to use BottomScanner for that kind of stuff but it was removed from Auctioneer. Personally I search the AH for Borean Leather, sort it by PCT and buy anything under 90% using the shift-right click 1 click buyout, that takes me under a minute to clear the AH of every bit priced in my range.

The leather itself tends to sell for about 10g per stack on my realm. I pay upto 11g on the AH if there is a lot at that price, and advertise in /2 for 10g per stack. I've had good days where I've bought a few thousand leather at 7-8g per stack though.

[Shear]

Whoa, nice find.

[Syncness]

May I ask, how did you find the craft IDs?

[uawili]

All of ur leatherz belong to meh now...


Ooo that sounded kinky.

[Platos]

May I ask, how did you find the craft IDs?

I didn't use any actual ID's for this, this is all name based. It's editable to any other craft for any other profession so easily its unreal. Lets say I wanted to change this to smelt Saronite for me, then its just a case of changing:

#showtooltip
/cast Leatherworking
/run for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(i)=="Nerubian Legguards" then CloseTradeSkill() DoTradeSkill(i, floor(GetItemCount("Borean Leather")/8)) break end end

to

#showtooltip
/cast Smelting
/run for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(i)=="Smelt Saronite" then CloseTradeSkill() DoTradeSkill(i, floor(GetItemCount("Saronite Ore")/2)) break end end

The 2 after the name of the material needed is the amount needed to make it.

Edit: Just to break down the macro a little so you guys know what it does.

What its basically doing is opening your tradeskill window, finding the named tradeskill, closing the trade window again, then asking is 'Material' divisible by the amount in the number. If it is, it crafts. It then repeats this until the numbers no longer divisible with an answer of more than 1. (For example, if I had 15 Borean leather, it'd get an answer of 1.875, so it'd do another craft. But then next I'd have 7 leather, which divides to 0.875 which means you haven't enough of the material left.) As long as that answer is 1, it'll keep crafting.

[ElvenMarth]

If you run out of Borean Leather on the AH that's under 10g (like I did), you can always strike a deal with a botter. I was lucky enough to find one on my server; he farms 100 stacks a night and I buy them all for 8g75s. Oh happy day.