How the numbers work

wowfah reads every auction house in World of Warcraft: Forever from Blizzard's developer API. Blizzard publishes a fresh snapshot of each house about once an hour; we pick it up within five minutes.

Prices

Min buyout is the cheapest unit price listed. Median and the typical range (25th percentile to median) are weighted by quantity, so one overpriced stack doesn't move them. Bid-only auctions are counted as listings but have no price.

Estimated sales

Blizzard doesn't publish sales. We compare each snapshot with the one before: a listing that vanished while it still had guaranteed time left was either bought or cancelled, and we count it as sold. Listings that could simply have expired are not counted. Treat “sold” as a good estimate, not a ledger.

Houses and rulesets

Each ruleset has three auction houses: Alliance, Horde and the cross-faction Blackwater house. Blizzard's data lists the houses but doesn't say which ruleset each belongs to, so our ruleset labels are provisional until confirmed in game.

Trade routes

Profit is the destination's cheapest price minus the selling house's cut (5% for faction houses, 15% for Blackwater) minus the price you buy at. Deposits aren't included yet.

Credits

Auction data: Blizzard Entertainment developer API. Item names and icons: Blizzard client data via wago.tools, icons served by Blizzard. wowfah is a fan project and is not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.