WoW Confidential

KTQ is one of the most essential gold making addons I use. It was released by Kevmar (you can find him still active online writing about WoW and SC2 on his blog).

What is KTQ?

KTQ (KevTool Queue) is an addon that queues up items to be crafted in your skillet window based on a bunch of criteria.

The best part of the addon is that it takes into account your current inventory levels and will only queue the amount needed to bring you up to the amount you want to keep in stock.

KTQ Features

Queuing with KTQ

The basic command of KTQ is to type the following, the brackets are not needed but are variable areas:  /KTQ queue [insert amount of inventory to craft] [Insert name of item or "group name"]

Group names are premade groups that Kevmar created with the release of KTQ, the ones I know of are: glyphs, raregems, and epicgems. This will create ALL glyphs and raregems/epicgems (only WOTLK rares/epics of course) that you have the recipe for.

Example: /ktq queue 5 glyphs. This will make 5x of every glyph (but will only stock you up to 5 so if you have 2 already in your bank or inventory it will only craft 3)

Example 2: You can use a partial keyword that will create all items with that name – /ktq queue 4 scarlet    (will craft 4 of every scarlet ruby cut you know)

KTQ Queuing Macro

If you are only making glyphs with KTQ you won’t need macros, however when you start to craft multiple items that you want to keep different levels of stock on then you’ll want to make a macro.

type /macro to make  a macro

you can now add a bunch of /ktq queue commands depending on the inventory levels you want, here’s an example of the macros I currently use in my gem market.

Macro 1

since everything didn’t fit due to the character limit; I had to make another macro

Macro 2

/ktq queue 4 relentless earthsiege diamond
/ktq queue 1 rigid autumn’s glow
/ktq queue 2 glowing dreadstone

What this macro does is queue 2 of every raregem/epic gem that I know. It then creates additional stock of the other gems listed. So for Solid Sky Sapphire, 2 are created from the raregems command line, and an additional 2 are created in the separate command bringing my inventory level to 4 since I post that amount every time on the auction house. Note that Meta cuts like chaotic skyflare and Relentless earthsiege are not a part of epicgems or raregems group.

That’s it, I just open up skillet and press the number 2 and 3 key (since I have macro 1 bound to 2 and macro 2 bound to 3) and this will queue up all my gems to the stock I want to carry. Be sure to open your auction house and retrieve all your mail so that Altoholic (KTQ dependancy) knows how much inventory you have currently.

Wingman gave me a great tip, apparently you can use item numbers instead of the full spelling which will greatly reduce the size of your macros and could condense it all to one macro. Go to wowhead.com and you can see the item number of any item in the url when you search for an item.

Example: Chaotic Skyflare Diamond. You can see in the url at the top, at the end it says “item=41285″

Used in a macro that would be:

/ktq queue 3 41285

Advanced Features

You can see all optional features of KTQ by type /ktq

Bonusqueue – This feature should only be used if you craft daily. What it does is if you enable it it’ll craft whatever “bonus” amount you have set if it notices you are completely out of stock of the item.

To enable the feature –  /ktq enable bonusqueue     then configure it by doing –  /ktq set bonusqueue [insert amount here]

Example: I craft glyphs every day and make 5 of every glyph, but have a bonusqueue of 5 more for ones I run out of:  /ktq set bonusqueue 5       /ktq queue 5 glyphs  (this will make 10 of any glyphs that I am out of stock on)

Skip Singles – One of my favourite features. The thing that slows you down the most when crafting a lot of different items is the amount of times you need to press “process” in the skillet window for each new item in the queue. When you are just topping up items that you need to craft 1 of this adds much manual labour. Enabling  /ktq enable skipsingles   will make it so that if you just need to create 1 item it’ll skip it from the queue. I highly recommend this for glyphs.

Threshold – Another great feature for use in the glyph market. Since all glyphs have the same crafting cost (especially now that they are all 1 inks instead of 2) You can tell KTQ to only make the glyphs that are above a certain price. Take note that you need to do a fresh scan of the glyph category on the AH to refresh the values of all the glyphs, I use the “glypher” feature of auctioneer to do this, but it could easily be done by just selecting the category and clicking the play button at the top with auctioneer.

I set my KTQ threshold to 8g 50s, since my total cost (including profits from snowfall inks) to craft glyphs is 2g 17s (with 1g icethorn/adders each) That means I’m getting a 5g 42s profit if the glyph sells at my threshold.

/ktq enable threshold
/ktq set threshold 8g50s

Fallback – I’ve never used this feature and to be quite honest I don’t know what it does. From reading the description in the image above I assume that if KTQ notices nothing is posted on the AH then it’ll create extra inventory for you to post.

KTQ Dependancies

One problem many players seem to have when installing KTQ for the first time is that it’s very picky with other addon dependancies.

Altoholic – Keeps track of items across your whole account. KTQ uses this number to verify your total item stock (so if you have a seperate posting alt and crafting alt it knows where the items are)

Auctioneer (optional) – You could use KTQ without auctioneer but you wouldn’t be able to use the threshold feature since it takes item prices from auctioneer.

Skillet (Lil’Sparkies clone) – The version of skillet needed is very picky or else it won’t work, you need to download the Skillet Lil’Sparkies clone version found on WoW Ace.
The only downside to this fantastic addon is that it seems Kevmar is drifting away from WoW a bit and I’m so comfortable with KTQ in my crafing routine that if it was ever to get broken from a patch I don’t know what I’d do! Fingers crossed that it remains stable and Kevmar could come back for fixes.

Check out the video I made on Gold Making Addons to see this addon in action.