If you want to ensure you get into the beta as soon as possible, you can go ahead and sign up for an invite here. We know it’s still a while away, but we promise it’ll be well worth the wait! Upgrading to TSM4 will be a smooth and completely painless process, with all your important TSM settings being preserved.
We share your excitement, and in that light, we’d like to announce that the TSM4 beta is to be expected in late November. We’re sure you’re super excited about TSM4, and are dying to know when you can try it for yourself. We also didn’t forget about our most advanced users and TSM4 brings powerful new features to them as well with the new custom price functions and sources. This is evidenced in everything from the new Base Group and Dashboard features to the cleaner, yet more powerful sniper UI which we showed here. The entire addon has been rewritten from the ground up to be a joy to use, and to drastically lower the barrier to entry into the world of gold-making. In summary, TradeSkillMaster 4 brings powerful gold-making features to experienced goblins and causal gold-makers alike. We can’t wait to see how people take advantage of these new custom price features!
This includes everything from new, advanced logic functions, to being able to use things like sale rate and inventory quantities in your custom prices. Complex custom prices have become a staple of any mature TSM setup, so we are very excited to announce that TSM4 brings many new functions and data sources to custom prices. TradeSkillMaster has always had extremely powerful features to help advanced goblins make gold as efficiently as possible, and TSM4 is no different. Because we know people like to run sniper in the background for long periods of times, we’ve also added a new way to quickly remove things which you’re not interested in from the results, or restart the search completely to clear all the results and start fresh. We’ve also made it much simpler to buy items as quickly as possible by getting rid of the confirmation window and replacing it with a single buyout button. Once you start the sniper scan in TSM4, you’ll notice that the results are now ordered conveniently with the most recent results shown at the top, along with a special icon to clearly call-out the newest results. The sniper settings have been simplified into new dedicated sniper operations, including a default operation which comes pre-loaded in the addon. With TSM4, we’ve integrated all the great feedback we’ve received on the sniper feature to make it easier to use and even more powerful. This feature allows you to snatch up deals the second they are posted on the auction house. One of the most popular features of TSM is its sniper feature. We’ve also completely reimagined how group management works in TSM4 to make it easier to move groups around, rename them, and manage the items and operations which they are tied to. This group automatically contains any item which is not in another group, and comes pre-loaded with powerful default operations for more than just Auctioning. With TSM4, we’ve taken that a step further with the new “Base Group” which lives at the top of the group tree. In TSM3, we introduced the “Quick Post from Bags” feature, which gives easy-access to the powerful functionality of TSM_Auctioning to post items on the auction house without having to create groups and operations. One of the major hurdles new TSM users face is setting up meaningful groups and operations. The graph within the dashboard is highly interactive and allows you to quickly and easily track your gold on hand over time as you pursue your gold-making goals. The dashboard will show you how you’re doing with your gold-making and help you decide at a glance what to do next. The first thing that you will notice when opening up the core TSM4 window is a beautiful new dashboard where you can see a summary of your gold making and catch up on TSM news. Even though ease of use was one of our main goals, we’ve not forgotten about our power users, and have plenty of goodies in store for them as well! To this end, we’ve completely rebuilt the UI from the ground up to be simpler and more intuitive to navigate. The main focus with TSM4 is to make TSM less intimidating and easier to use for newcomers and experienced goblins alike.
Here, we’ll go into a bit more detail on what TSM4 will bring. If you’ve been paying attention, then you know by now that TSM4 is coming. Over the past few weeks we’ve kept you all in suspense.