"What shortfall are you trying to solve in the current functionality of the addon?"
- Buying materials on the AH can be (too) expensive or there might not be enough of them at a reasonable price. Adding a gathering option might enable the player to see that a certain item can be gathered (e.g. by mining) and avoid the AH or reduce AH usage, if that player has a character with that gathering profession.

"What new functionality do you hope to attain with the addition of this feature?"
The task list would start to include the wish/instructions for specific characters with the appropriate gathering profession to gather certain amounts of specific materials, as needed to fulfill the crafting queue. When logged into a character having that gathering profession, that character would be able to see the demand for the needed materials.

"How would you or others use this feature? (perhaps the most important question - please provide SPECIFIC use-cases)"
- To enable the user to better organise how which and how many items they need to gather on a specific character. For example those who would like to reduce the cost of the materials needed to craft items.

In the standard crafting UI and in TSM3, I can search for an ingredient and it will show me all items crafted with that ingredient. That feature is gone now in TSM4 which is very problematic, when I can't remember every crafting name.

My example: I needed a new Tinkering of a new belt to give me the run speed boost. I knew I needed a Tinker's Kit for the "enchant" but I forgot the name Nitro Boosts, that the enchant tinkering is. So I searched for Tinker, to show it all, but I only got the Cogwheels "gems" since they have Tinker in their name.

Please make this right again.

I would like to know the crafting cost of an item when it was made. For example if i make a item that cost 1000g to make because i am using DBmarket value, the value of the item will change when the DBmarket value changes. If it cost me 1000g in mats to make an item and i want 20% profit i should make 1200g, but if a month later i havent sold the item and the DBmarket value drops to say 500g to make the item, 20% profit will only make me 600g, which means i have a loss of 400g. I would suggest a Avgcraftedcost, that way if u make multiple of the same items on different days with different mat values it will take the avg. crafting cost for those items and would allow something like (max(120% crafting, 120% avgcraftedcost)). That way u can never go under the crafting cost when i8t was made no matter if the price goes up or down.

When using the gathering option, the order of the current sources is stable, which is great, however, the items inside each source continually change.

Specifically, this is a problem when doing auction house searches. If the items stayed in exactly the same order, I could quickly go down the list of items and check each of them in the AH. However, currently, after I purchase some items, the entire list of remaining items within the AH list changes.

So, instead I need to work off the left side of the gathering window (which is alphabetical), and slowly work down the list for all the say "Buy from AH" and then find it in the list of on the right hand side... a process that can take a little time, if there are lots of items to purchase at AH.

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If you have multiple characters, all of them with professions that have the recipe thats set up in your crafting operation shows instead of your main ones.

It would be nice if there was an option to disable crafting on certain characters (e.g. alts that are there just for dailies/tranmutes etc) to not show while you are "gathering" (see right side of the picture). I only have 4 main crafters but since I have engineering/alchemy on all others, it shows up as well. Not that big of a deal but a little inconvenient if you have dozens of chars with professions.

As an enchant and glyph crafter, especially with the prices for mats and crafted items being so high in Legion, it would be nice if you could add an option to the crafting operation settings that would allow me to tell it to NOT add items to my restock queue if the Region Avg Daily Sold amount is less than X. The reason for this is that, even if TSM appropriately and correctly calculates that I could potentially make 15k profit off of something that only costs 10k to craft, if that item sells too infrequently (let's say, .01 times per day), then it's not worth investing the 10k into mats to make. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

While it is possible to modify material costs, there are a number of crafts in legion where the output is not a specific number of items, specifically mass milling and prospecting. The item result for milling, for example, is a single pigment, and so the profit for TSM is nowhere near accurate. I know this is a problem on Blizzard's end, but rather than waiting for them to fix it, would it be possible to set our own custom craft values for use in the craft window?

This could work in a number of ways, but how I see it being easiest is a new tab in the TSM crafting options which lists every craft, not just the crafting items. Each of these crafts could then be given a custom value. In the case of dreamleaf milling, a string could be used that gives the average value of milling 20 dreamleaf and opening the nightmare pods. There is a whole lot of data collection on the woweconomy subreddit, but no way to incorporate that data into tsm crafting.

Once the custom value is entered, the crafting menu would replace the default item value with the custom one, possibly with colored text to indicate the change. The menu could then use this value instead to calculate profit, both for easy viewing in the crafting menu, and also for interfacing with crafting operations, which could now only mass mill legion herbs when it is profitable to do so.

I'm also sure that this community would be able to find a whole number of uses for this functionality that I would never even be able to think of, and would add a whole lot of utility to TSM for all professions.