It should be essentially impossible to encounter the new limits for most players. The system is tuned so that is should never affect players using the AH typically: buying consumables, listing gathered or crafted goods for sale, searching for specific items you want to purchase, etc. With this hotfix, weвЂ™ve implemented a new system that effectively gives each player a вЂњbudgetвЂќ of AH actions per minute, and only kicks in once that budget has been exceeded. Neither of these things is good for the game as a whole. The players who generate all of the AH traffic are using addon-driven automation to gain a competitive economic advantage over other players, in addition to the increasing strain on the game service. Through our continuing work to address service issues as they crop up, as well as our constant efforts to find gameplay issues and fix them, weвЂ™ve observed that a small minority of all players generate the majority of Auction House traffic. The hotfix is intended to both address service issues, as well as address an imbalance between the vast majority of players and a very small minority.

The performance reported above is expected and intended, following a hotfix that went into effect a few hours ago. Each row consists of two values: the timestamp in milliseconds at which the API call was made and the time in milliseconds it took to complete. This data was collected on US-Shattered Hands, which has generally been a very fast auction house as itвЂ™s a lower-pop realm.

Each row represents a single C_AuctionHouse.SendSearchQuery API call (all the APIs experience the same issue - this was just the simplest to test). HereвЂ™s a bunch of data which I recorded which demonstrates the issue.

This impacts all auction house functions (searching, canceling, posting, and buying). Starting this morning, auction house interaction with addons (in my case, TSM) has gotten significantly slower after a certain number of queries.

Tsm 4 auction scan