Showing posts with label Search. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

2 New Features Added To WoW That Are Nice Additions


2 Nice New Features Added To WoW

There have been a couple of nice additions to the World of Warcraft UI that make our life a little easier.  I'm not sure how long these 2 changes have been live in WoW or what path they were added in, but I believe it has been within the last couple of patches.  I had just recently noticed both of these changes and I have been using them since I discovered the changes.  Maybe you are like me and missed the additions in the patch notes, so I present them to you today.


New Auction House UI Feature - Crafted Armor View
 Crafted Recipe Armor Viewing

Crafted recipe armor viewing is a nice addition to the auction house user interface in WoW.  What exactly do I mean by "crafted recipe armor viewing"?  Previously, when searching the rare Bind-on-Pick-up crafting recipes on the auction house, we were unable to see what the finished crafted product would look like.  You had to go to wowhead and search for the item and pray someone had submitted a screenshot of the crafted item.  Sometimes there was no screenshot to even refer to and if there was, it probably looks different on your character's race than it does on the example image. 

With the change to the standard auction house UI, that is now longer an issue.  You can Control-Left Click on any weapon or armor recipe listed in the auction house to see what the crafted item would look like on your character.  If you take a look at the image above, you will see what I mean.  The character image shows her naked with just the Boots of Utter Darkness equipped.  This is a nice addition that makes it much easier to determine what a crafted item looks like prior to buying the recipe, which is great for your own mogging needs (since many are BoP recipes) or for finding recipe based items to craft for Transmogrification.


New Search Backpack Feature In WoW
Backpack Search Feature

The second nice feature that has been added to the game is the backpack search function.  While it may not seem very useful it does come in handy once you know it is there!  At the top of your open main backpack screen you should see a search window.  You can enter in anything you want and the items that match your search will stay visible, while the non-matching items will be darkened out.  Check the image above.  You can see I did a search for "ranger" gear in my bags.  This made it super fast and easy to see that I only had the Chest and Legs on me.  While this isn't a huge change, it is very effective at cutting down your time when hunting for specific items within your bags.  This has been very helpful when building and sorting set pieces to sell for transmogrification buyers.

Anyone found any better uses for these two additions to WoW?

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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Children's Week Recap

The Search Page

I would like to draw some attention to the top of the page.  You should see a new tab up there labeled "Search".  This an Awesome New Feature I have added to make it easier to identify posts on specific topics.  You just search for specific items, posts, or topics and the search will return you a list of articles from Cold's Gold Factory and Auction House Junkies.

This new search feature will also allow me to moniter the topics searched for so that I can add some of the popular search topics to future blog posts.  So if you use the search, I can come up with some posts tailored to what you are looking for as readers.  Hell, it could even give Wes and I an idea for an episode on the Auction House Junkies WoW gold making podcast.
So Give It a Try!

Children's Week

Children's Week starts today.  So instead of providing a blog post with a recap of recent Children's Week posts, let's give the new Search feature a try.  So head on up to the Search tab and give it a try.

Search for Children's Week or whatever else you like.