TheWoWDB Addons

Install for Retail

Install TheWoWDB Companion for Retail from CurseForge. The normal route, and the CurseForge app keeps it updated.

Or download TheWoWDB Client, a small Windows app that installs the addon into every retail WoW client on the machine and, unlike CurseForge, refreshes the packaged prices between addon releases. The section below explains why that difference matters.

Select the Retail game version in CurseForge. After installing, fully restart World of Warcraft if it was running. The game reads its addon folder at launch, so /reload will not pick up a newly installed addon.

Retail release 0.12.4, built for retail 12.1. Release notes and older builds.

Retail cross-realm price tooltips

Hover an item in your bags, at a vendor or in the auction house and the tooltip picks up four lines the game does not carry: the all-realm average, the region median, how many are listed region-wide, and which realm is currently cheapest for it.

Those lines come out of the market snapshot shipped inside the addon, so they work with the auction house closed and on a realm you have never visited.

Retail auction house dock

The dock anchors to the side of the auction house rather than over it, so Blizzard's frame and Auctionator both stay usable. Nine tabs: Scan, Buy, Post, Cancel, Lists, Bags, Groups, Settings and Info.

A full scan walks every page and records what it finds. Posting follows your own undercut and floor rules, Cancel clears everything undercut in one pass, Bags values what you are carrying at vendor price and at market, and Lists keeps your saved shopping lists.

Buying, posting and cancelling stay one click each. Blizzard protects those calls, and the addon never fires them for you.

The same snapshots sit behind the Auction House browser, Cheapest Realm, item prices and materials on this site.

Retail crafting and patron orders

Open a profession and the dock anchors beside the crafting frame and closes with it. Each recipe picks up three lines under its reagents: cost to craft, profit, and the cheapest quality the recipe can be made at. Where the snapshot has no price for a reagent the line says so instead of guessing a number.

The Patron tab reads the Crafting Orders page you have open and lists each order with its reagents and the estimated net after the commission, so you can see which order is worth filling before you claim it.

Optional Windows client for Retail

The Retail addon ships a market snapshot. CurseForge updates refresh that packaged data; the optional Windows client refreshes Retail prices between addon releases.

TheWoWDB Client is the piece outside the game. It refreshes the packaged market data in the background, so tooltips keep pace with the market instead of drifting until the next addon release. It sits in the system tray, holds no account, and its whole network footprint is a manifest, an addon and a price file. The source is on GitHub.

Retail prices on the website

Retail tooltips use the same market snapshots as the Retail price pages on this site. The website adds price history, supply depth and search.

The site publishes a weekly economy report out of those snapshots: the commodities that rose and fell over each ISO week, the most-traded materials, and the WoW Token trend, with the method and the sample stated on every page. Those figures may be quoted with attribution and a link, so a guide or a post can cite a week directly.

Going the other way: the item, material and realm pages carry the price history and supply depth the addon cannot fit in a tooltip. Auction House browser, Cheapest Realm, Token tracker, weekly reports.