Averager: The WoW Addon That Tells You Exactly What to Pay for Reagents
If you have ever bought a stack of herbs, crushed them into pigments, and then wondered whether the whole operation actually made you gold, you already understand the problem Averager solves. This World of Warcraft addon is built for goldmakers, crafters, and gatherers who are tired of guessing. It watches every craft you perform, calculates your true empirical average yield, and then tells you the highest price you can pay for a reagent before your craft stops being profitable.
No spreadsheets. No mental math. No more overpaying for materials because you assumed a recipe would average out in your favor.
What Averager Actually Does
At its core, Averager is a yield tracker with a profit calculator bolted on top. Every time you mill, crush, prospect, salvage, cook, or craft, the addon records what went in and what came out. Over time, those records build into a statistical profile of your actual results, not the theoretical numbers you see on a wiki page.
Combination-Based Yield Tracking
Each reagent-and-product combination gets its own dedicated entry. Crushing one type of herb is tracked separately from crushing another, and crafting different quality potions never muddies the data. Multicraft procs and bonus items are captured alongside base yields, so a lucky streak does not distort your long-term averages.
- Three-decimal precision, so a yield of 1.333 or 2.250 is visible rather than rounded away
- Non-duplicating empirical data that becomes more accurate with every craft
- Separate tracking per recipe and per reagent combination
Auctionator Price Integration
Averager hooks directly into Auctionator's event bus. The moment an Auction House scan finishes, whether it is a shopping search or a full scan, every value on your screen recalculates without a reload. Vendor-sold reagents such as vials, thread, and flux use fixed NPC prices instead of inflated Auction House listings, and a status bar at the bottom shows when prices were last refreshed.
The Max Buy Price: The Feature That Pays for Itself
The headline feature answers one question: what is the absolute maximum I can pay for this reagent and still profit? Averager multiplies your average yield by the product's Auction House price, applies the 5 percent Auction House cut, and divides by the reagent quantity each craft consumes. The result is your Max Buy price.
Buy at or below that number and your craft breaks even or profits. Buy above it and you lose gold, every single time. Hovering over any row reveals the full breakdown: reagents consumed, current unit costs, total output, gross revenue after the cut, reagent cost per craft, net profit or loss color-coded in green or red, and the Max Buy calculation itself.
A Quick Example
You crush one Herb X and receive one Pigment Y on your first craft, then three Pigment Y from a Multicraft proc on your second. Your average yield is (1+3)/2 = 2.000. If Pigment Y sells for 5 gold, revenue per craft is 2 x 5 x 0.95 = 9.5 gold. Since one craft consumes one herb, your Max Buy price is 9.5 gold. Buy below that and you profit. Buy above it and you do not.
Commands, Interface, and Compatibility
The interface is deliberately compact. Type /avg or /averager to toggle the main window, use /avg reset to open the confirmation dialog for wiping your tracked database, or click the Averager icon in the default minimap addon compartment. A reset button sits at the bottom right of the window, protected by a confirmation prompt so you cannot erase weeks of data with a stray click.
When you download Averager for World of Warcraft, note that Auctionator is a hard requirement. It supplies the live market pricing and vendor prices that make the Max Buy calculation meaningful. Averager itself supports Retail and The War Within, and the same tracking logic carries over to Classic, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm, and MoP, where milling, prospecting, and salvaging are just as central to goldmaking. If you play across multiple versions, check that your addon build matches your client before you start logging crafts.
Players who prefer a hands-off setup can grab Averager through the foxygame.net launcher, which keeps the addon updated automatically and flags any version mismatch with your current World of Warcraft client before it causes tracking errors.
How to Install Averager
Installation follows the standard World of Warcraft addon routine. Close the game completely, place the extracted Averager folder inside your Interface/AddOns directory, and confirm the folder contains the .toc file directly rather than a nested duplicate. Install Auctionator the same way, then launch the game and check the addon list on the character select screen. Once both are enabled, run an Auction House scan and Averager will begin populating prices immediately.
Who Should Use It
If you mill herbs, prospect ore, crush pigments, salvage gear, or cook in bulk, Averager turns guesswork into arithmetic. Gatherers can verify whether selling raw materials beats processing them. Crafters can set precise buy orders instead of chasing listings upward. The longer you use it, the sharper its averages become, and the more confidently you can answer the only question that matters at the Auction House: is this reagent actually worth buying?