So if I'm correct, in TSM 3 you had the possibility to enable or disable the 5% auction house cut to include or exclude it from the minimum profit in a crafting operation.
I would love to see that back, but make it possible that you enable it per operation not as a overall setting.

Now I know you can use /0.95 but a lot of TSM users don't know about that trick and don't come up using it because they don't see that it is a possibility.

Also would it be nice to enable it on auctioning operations like a little square you can cross.
Maybe some people would love that you can add a simple 5% auction house fee on top of their long created string, just to make it easy and simple.
Make it possible for Minimum price, Normal price and Maximum price.

Hope you like the idea.

What I would love to see is that you can set 'Don't craft after this many expires: on a crafting operation as well and here is why.

Sometimes after a X amount of expires I just vendor the items, however TSM will think you need to craft the items because you're out of them.

Now you can of course add a NumExpire to the 'minimum profit', but doing that for every crafting operation or if need to change the amount of expires is gonna be annoying.

Also for new players it can be very intimidating and it why not make it easy?

I hope you guys/girls like the idea

It would be great to be able to export the task list to excel format (.csv) Since you can only have an active task list for 1 character. It would be ideal to be able to restock, open your task list, export it and then move on to the next character with different professions, restock, etc. This way you can have a master gather list.

An additional perk of exporting would be that, sometimes I get lag while the task list updates while looting items. If I erase the task list because I have it external, then I can eliminate this issue as well.

The current Gathering list functionality could be improved along the lines of old TSM versions. Right now, all it does, is giving you the option to scan all items on the gathering list. Everything else ie. choosing the right number to buy based on the list is done manually, which can be very difficult if the list is long or even exceeds the screen height.

Currently, the crafting and DE searches are not really useable, as their searches take potentially very long and make it impossible to discriminate between different items it's attempting to DE/craft for. The results shown don't figure at all on the task lists so it requires lots of knowledge and experience to decide if it's truly a worthwhile buy.

TSM gathering could be made more powerful e.g. by allowing a item-per-item search in addition to the scan all module in the task list. One used to be able to do this by shift-clicking each item in the gathering list in old TSM iterations. This is mostly with DE, destroy and crafting searches in mind. Extra features could include:
- allow for a shift-clickable task/gathering list, and the search recognises the correct search type (e.g. disenchant for enchanting mats, destroy for gems, etc.)
- gathering could take into account all crafts it can see (available toons) and their destroy/DE etc values.
- the value of crafts, DEs, destroys etc. should be customisable to take into account time invested. E.g I'd only want to craft an item, to then DE it, if the resulting mat cost is about <50% dbmarketvalue or so. Otherwise, I'd just buy it to save time and hassle.

Examples:
- I do a normal gathering search and there's none of an enchant mat, in this example, greater cosmic essence in the auction house. Then I'd like to easily do a search for: lesser cosmic essence, BoE greens, and mats for DEable crafts my tailoring, leatherworking and blacksmithing alts have the recipe for if profitable.
- a particular gem is too expensive, so I'd like to do a destroy search for ore.

Since patch v4.9.6: "Added check when changing the craft value method that it doesn’t include “crafting”."
And patch v4.9.20: "Added validation that the craft value within a Crafting operation does not reference the crafting price source".

Using 'crafting' in custom sources was very useful for creating and using stats like:
- raw profit
- the profit in percents
- profit per day
etc.

Some of these can be seen in the UI, but having them as sources is so useful in making coefficients to determine if I want an item crafted or not.

For example, I want to craft an item if it yelds a profit of 200g per day, while having the profit be at least 20% of the crafting cost.

I'd want a custom source for the absolute sale price:
abs: first(min(dbminbuyout,dbmarket),dbregionmarketavg)

Then I can use it to get the profit:
profit: abs - crafting

Then the profit per day(using the region source):
profitDaily: profit * dbregionsoldperday

Now we want the profit percent(range 0 to 1):
percent: profit/crafting

Finally, if it respects the specified conditions, this source will output the daily profit, otherwise 0c:
twoHundredPerDay: ifgte(percent, 0.2, ifgte(profitDaily, 200g, profitDaily, 0c), 0c)

Setting the default craft value to this source used to display it in the profession UI, letting me know if I should craft it or not. And none of this can be done without using the crafting source.

Complex operations like these used to be possible(and very useful) before the changes.
Unless it causes instability or bugs, I dont see why the 'crafting' source should not be allowed in crafting operations and in the default craft value method.

Thank you.

Can we get an ROI column on the Crafting Pages? While knowing profit is great, there is a major difference in making a 1000g profit on an item that takes 8000g to craft, and a 500g profit on an item that costs 50g to craft.

While you might make a thousand gold profit on a big item, if you could make 3 items with the same mats that make 500g, you'd net more profit, and that's not reflected at all on the Crafting page.

If not specifically ROI, perhaps add functionality to have a column that's custom so you could have ROI, and someone could add a column for ROI times Time spent in Invetory, as it's not just about how much profit you make, but how much profit you make in time. For example, an item making you 1000g profit but with a rating of 0.01 means you'll sell it in about 3 months, meanwhile those resources are being tied up. As compared to an item with 50g profit, even with the same materials cost, but a sell rate of 0.34, and you're making more 50% more profit.

These financial calculations will allow for better processing of how best to invest your gold.