WoW Forever Auction House Guide

Every capital in WoW Forever has an Auction House, and the three capitals of a faction share one market: a stack you post in Orgrimmar shows up in Thunder Bluff and Undercity at the same moment. What changed since Classic is the scale and the window. Forever has no realms, so one house serves everyone in your region on your ruleset, and it runs on the modern retail interface, where ore, herbs and cloth sell as commodities. ConquestCapped checked the Forever game client on November 13: a faction house keeps 5% of every sale, while the neutral houses in Gadgetzan, Booty Bay and Everlook, the only place where Horde and Alliance trade with each other, keep 15% and charge five times the deposit. The minimum deposit is still 1 silver: Blizzard has postponed the drop to 1 copper until the weekly maintenance on November 17. Below you will find every auctioneer with coordinates, how fees, deposits and payouts work, what you can't list, the addons that help, the habits that keep the 1 silver deposit from eating your profit and what has been selling in the first week.

Where to Find the Auction House in WoW Forever

You can reach the Auction House from all six faction capitals and from three neutral goblin towns. Inside a faction it makes no difference which capital you use: the listings, prices and buyers are the same, so pick the city where your bank, mailbox and trainers are closest. The neutral towns are a different market with higher fees, covered in their own section below.

The table lists one auctioneer per house with Wowhead coordinates. Most houses have two or three auctioneers standing side by side, and any of them opens the same window.

Ironforge: The Commons

Darnassus: Tradesmen's Terrace

Orgrimmar: Valley of Strength

Undercity: Trade Quarter

Thunder Bluff: central mesa

Valanaar, a new Forever town, has an auctioneer too. It is not a rest area, so logging out there takes 20 seconds, which matters if you plan to park a character at the counter. We compare every capital for that job, with maps of the bank, Auction House and Enchanting trainer, in our WoW Forever bank alt guide.

Valanaar, Zephras Isle

One Auction House per Faction and Ruleset

Forever replaced realms with megaservers, and the Auction House follows them. There is one house for each region, ruleset and faction: Horde players on PvP servers in the US share one market, Alliance players on Normal servers in Europe share another. At Blizzard's developer Q&A in September, Nora Mills said that Oceanic players share the same ruleset-wide Auction House as their US friends, because Forever went "realmless but not regionless". The four rulesets at launch are Normal, PvP, RP and RP-PvP, so your choice of ruleset also decides which economy you play in.

Because every house holds a whole region, supply is deep and prices settle within hours. A mistake gets bought and relisted fast, and a rare item rarely stays rare for long. Josh Greenfield said on a podcast in late October that Blizzard could link Auction Houses if a ruleset ever becomes too empty to sustain its own market, but that is a fallback, not a plan. How rulesets, factions and friends fit together is explained in our WoW Forever PvP or PvE ruleset guide.

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Neutral Auction Houses in Gadgetzan, Booty Bay and Everlook

The faction houses are not cross-faction. A Horde character sees only Horde listings, and an Alliance character only Alliance ones. The goblin auctioneers in Gadgetzan, Booty Bay and Everlook run a separate neutral house that both factions can use, which makes it the only way to sell to the other side. The Forever client lists it as the Blackwater Auction House.

Gadgetzan, Tanaris

Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale

Everlook, Winterspring

That access has a price. The neutral house keeps 15% of the sale instead of 5%, and its deposit rate is five times higher. A trip there pays off only when the same item costs much more on the other faction's side, for example a profession material that one faction farms more than the other. For your own faction's goods, stay in the capital.

The Black Market Auction House in Powderfuse Port, Riverglades, is not a neutral house either. Players can't list anything there: Madam Swyndle auctions a few rare items and Mister Graphed sells top-end reagents at fixed prices. What it sells and how its prices cap the regular market is in our WoW Forever Black Market Auction House guide.

How the WoW Forever Auction House Works

Forever is built on the modern client, and its Auction House works like the retail one rather than the old Classic list. The window has separate tabs for buying, selling and your own auctions, and it treats stackable goods and gear in two different ways.

• Commodities. Ore, herbs, cloth, leather, dust, essences, potions and other stackables are sold by quantity. The buyer types how many they want, and the house fills the order from the cheapest units first, across all sellers. When several sellers ask the same price, the newest listing sells first.
• Gear and other single items. Weapons, armor, bags and most recipes are listed one auction per item, and the buyer picks the one they want. Random-suffix items such as "of the Monkey" show their real stats, and since the October 15 build the list also shows the level needed to equip each item.
• Durations. The selling tab offers 2, 8 and 24 hours. A longer auction costs a larger deposit.
• Payment. The buyer gets the item at once, and the seller's gold arrives by mail. Blizzard's intended delay is 60 minutes.

The fees depend on where you sell. The table sums up both kinds of house.

The mail that brings your gold has had two bugs since launch. Some payments arrived in about 2 minutes instead of an hour, and Horde players got their gold from the "Stormwind Auction House". Both are fixed in the same set of changes as the deposit, scheduled for November 17.

The 1 Silver Deposit and the November 17 Change

The deposit is a fee you pay when you post an auction. You get it back if the item sells and lose it if the auction expires or you cancel it. In Classic it was a share of the item's vendor price, so cheap items cost a few copper to list. On Forever's live servers every listing costs at least 1 silver, even an item that a vendor would buy for 20 copper. For low-level players that made the Auction House almost useless: a green that sells for 1 silver earns nothing after a 1 silver deposit.

Blizzard agreed it was a mistake. Kris Zierhut, principal game designer, said in an interview in early November that the minimum should be 1 copper, not 1 silver, and that the change was coming. The hotfix list of November 10 announced it: "Adjusted the minimum deposit amount to 1 copper (was 1 silver)." The next day the deposit was still 1 silver, and on November 12 Blizzard community manager Kaivax explained why: "We've temporarily removed Auction House changes from yesterday's update, as they will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance on November 17."

The same update brings the two mail fixes from the section above. Blizzard has only announced the new minimum. Under the Classic rule, which uses the same 5% base rate as the Forever client, the deposit at a faction house is 5% of the vendor price for 2 hours, 20% for 8 hours and 60% for 24 hours, and five times that at a neutral house. Whether the formula works exactly like that after November 17 is something to check on your first post.

Until the change goes live, a few rules keep the deposit from costing you money.

• Vendor what earns less than 1 silver. If the Auction House price minus 1 silver and the 5% cut is below what a vendor pays, sell it to the vendor.
• Hold cheap materials for a week. Low-level cloth, ore and leather keep. Posting them after November 17 costs a fraction of what it costs today.
• Post in bigger quantities. Players report that a large commodity listing costs no more deposit than a small one, so one big post beats several small ones. Reports differ on whether the minimum is charged per listing or per stack, so read the Deposit line in the window before you click Post.
• Price to sell. An auction that expires loses its deposit. On items that sell slowly, a price that clears within 8 hours beats a high price that sits for 24.

What You Can't Sell on the Auction House

Not everything in your bags can be listed. The Auction House refuses these items, so they go to a vendor, the bank or a friend instead.

• Soulbound items, including anything that bound when you equipped it.
• Quest items and items that last only a limited time.
• Conjured food, water and other items made by spells.
• Bags that still have items inside and damaged gear.
• Bind-on-pickup recipes, which includes the patterns sold by the supply camps for Merchant's Favor.

Enchantments can't be listed either, since they are spells, not items. Enchanters sell the materials they disenchant instead.

Auction House Addons for WoW Forever

The default window is enough to buy and sell, but an addon saves time once you sell more than a few items a day. Auctionator has a Forever build and is the addon most players use: it scans the house, shows Auction House prices in item tooltips and fills in the selling form with the current lowest price.

Blizzard's rules for addons are the same as on retail. An addon can search and fill the form, but posting, buying and cancelling each need your click, so no addon can buy out the market for you. Price history is also thin this early: tooltip values come from recent scans, and in the first weeks they swing hard as new materials reach the market. Do your own search before a big buy or sale instead of trusting a single tooltip number.

Which addons have a working Forever version, and which ones from Classic Era still lack one, is tracked in our best WoW Forever addons guide.

Auction House Tips for WoW Forever

A megaserver market corrects mistakes within hours, so careful habits pay more than speed. These are the ones that worked best in the first week.

• Check the vendor price first. The vendor price is your floor. A Red Linen Bag sells to a vendor for 2 silver 50 copper, and the materials for it are worth about 1 silver 97 copper at vendor prices. A 53 copper margin disappears the moment one other tailor undercuts you, so craft for the Auction House only when its price clearly beats your materials.
• Match the lowest price on commodities. Undercutting by one copper only loses you money. At the same price the newest listing sells first, so matching puts your stack at the front of the line.
• Price gear against the wall, not the lowest listing. One player selling silk bags found a single bag at 31 silver, a few between 37 and 39 silver and 95 listed at 40 silver. Posting at 40 silver sold about 50 bags in minutes, because the cheap ones were gone at once. A lone low listing is not the market price.
• Read the total, not the unit price. Commodities are priced per unit. Typing the price of a whole stack into the unit field multiplies it by the stack size, and nobody will buy it.
• Split essences when the lesser ones sell better. Three Lesser Magic Essence combine into one Greater Magic Essence with a right-click, and a Greater splits back into three Lessers, no profession needed. In one early market a Greater sold for about 2.2 silver while each Lesser sold for 1 silver, so splitting paid about 80 copper per essence after the cut.
• Remember that enchanting materials have almost no vendor value. Strange Dust, Greater Astral Essence and the other disenchanting results sell to vendors for 1 copper, so their worth depends entirely on the Auction House that day. Check it before you break a stack of greens.
• Don't hoard capped reagents. Mister Graphed sells Black Lotus and Arcane Crystal at a fixed price with no purchase limit, so nobody pays more on the Auction House. Stockpiling them for a later price jump doesn't work.
• Post in the evening. Prices tend to be lowest in the morning and highest in the evening, especially before raid nights. The first raids open on December 9, and flasks, potions and food sell best in the hours before groups form.
• Retry an "Item was not found" error. When many buyers click the same cheap auction, one of them wins and the rest get this error. Close the Auction House, open it again or pick the next listing.
• Keep the gold safe. Forever's Temporary Economy Hold restricts trade, mail, guild banks and the Auction House on accounts suspected of buying or selling gold. Move gold only between your own characters and never buy it from a stranger, because the hold hits the account that receives it too.

What Sells on the WoW Forever Auction House Right Now

All economies started from zero on November 4, with nothing carried over from the beta. The first week has followed the usual launch pattern: materials from starting zones were cheap on day one and rose as players leveled past them, while anything every crafter can make crashed within days.

ConquestCapped has followed the Giant Egg on the EU PvP Auction House since launch week: it sold for about 1 gold on November 7, 67 silver on November 9, 49 silver on November 10 and about 31 silver on November 12, with more than 1,300 listed. That curve is typical. A good material is worth the most in the first days and loses value as more players reach the zone that drops it. On November 12 a Blue Pearl sold for about 24 silver with more than 1,700 listed, so even a common item still pays when the demand is steady.

• Saturated: crafted wands such as the Lesser Magic Wand and the Greater Magic Wand. Every enchanter makes them while leveling, and hundreds are listed at once.
• Falling as supply arrives: bags. A Traveler's Backpack listed alone at 100 gold dropped to about 30 gold once ten were on sale.
• Rising with the player curve: materials that new characters need, such as Copper Ore, which went from about 20 copper at launch to about 1.25 silver five days later, and Wool Cloth as players reach the 20s.
• Steady: leather from Light Leather to Thick Leather, cloth for first aid and tailoring, and potions and elixirs for leveling players.
• Next: raid consumables before December 9.

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