When you first open the auction house UI, it displays a list of recommended items for sale, based on…something.
(Gold balance left undisclosed so nobody gets jealous of my wealth)
How are these recommendations generated?
Diablo – What determines the list of “Recommended Items” in the Auction House
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There is a "Completed Auctions" tab on the auction house menu. Clicking on items in the list will give you the option to send them to your stash. You can't send items to your stash if it is full, but they can remain in the auction house indefinitely.
Note that this isn't 100% certain, but this is how it appears to work from several commodity sales and purchases in the past few days:
- The auction house automatically purchases the cheapest items, but quotes you for the current average of the items within your quantity. If cheaper items appear between your search and your purchase, you'll receive a refund equal to the gold saved by not having to purchase more expensive items.
- If the purchase fails due to another player's purchase making your current gold insufficient for the quantity of items you want, the transaction will fail and you'll receive a full Purchase Refund.
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This is based on personal experience, but so far I've determined:
I say "usually chosen" because I've seen some odd behavior when a 2-handed weapon is equipped. In some situations, it will pick the 2-handed weapon over other slots with items that have lower levels. Others have reported corner cases where different items are chosen, but I've not been able to nail down why this occurs or how to predict it.
The "hero" in this case is whoever you have currently selected in the character selection menu prior to clicking the auction house button.
There's no accounting for cost or other affixes as far as I can tell. There's also no accounting for the amount of gold you have, as it will often suggest things that cost far, far more than the amount of gold you have.
You also can't sort the recommendation list, even though the "Buyout" column seems like it responds to being clicked on.
I find it somewhat useful to look at this list just to determine where my lowest required level item is so that I can target a search to replace the item in that slot, but otherwise it is pretty useless.