In my continuing series over many moons…
Once upon a time there was Copper. If one wanted Copper ore, you had to dig it out of the list of results. Blizzard honchos saw it, and it was good. But 18 years since Vanilla, one thought, after playing the game and seeing the problem themselves, they decided to change it to Copper Ore, so a simple search works. And it was good.ss
But lo, the same issue resurfaced when Bismuth was introduced. Now one must either search by Bismuth and sort, or you can get results by navigating the menu. It is the only ore inconsistent, as copper was before.
Pweese, with sugar on top fix the name to “Bismuth Ore”.
Now here we are
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or…or you just clicked on the bottom of the list. does anyone actually USE the search function.
Isn’t bismuth not an ore?
also yeah looked it up. bismuth ISNT AN ORE. so op your answer is a big fat no.
Bismuthinite is a bismuth ore. Even ignoring that you could name it bismuth ore anyway because this is a fantasy game and reality has no bearing on whatever bollocks minerals blizzard decides we ought to dig out of the ground this time.
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So what? All of our ores have been metal, even the ones that don’t exist. Even the hardened old god blood was metal (and critically, an ore).
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You don’t make bars out of bismuth. So there’s no separate ore. Game just assumes you’ve figured out how to separate the metal from the rocks and skips that step.
If you ever searched for “ore” in the past you were doing it wrong anyhow. You’re at the AH to buy a particular material you need, and should search for that and compare the price between ore & bars to make sure it isn’t out of whack.
I don’t understand OP’s boggle at all. Search for bismuth. You’ll find bismuth.
How many things even pop up if you search for plain old bismuth? Especially if you filter for “current expansion only”
Not that I’m particularly against what they’re suggesting, but it doesn’t seem like a major issue?
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Um, select reagents before searchiung for reagents and your results wont be so cluttered
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And everything else Bismuth. Which is OP’s problem. He wants to search for Bismuth the material specifically without having to press on the material tab.
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I personally just set favorites on each toon for materials they use frequently.
I had to re-read the thread a few times, because I couldn’t tell if it was a search issue or if we were discussing the nature of Bismuth’s existence.
There is a very easy fix to your problem if you’re searching on the AH. Click the Regents tab, search for Bismuth. You will only find Bismuth and Bismuth Bolts in each quality.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to buy a bazillion more Bismuth Bolts from the AH. I’m out. Again.
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Bismuth is good for when you need to take care of bismuth 
Fun Facts: Pepto-Bismol’s active ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate 
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I want to know why we are crafting weapons and armor out of a soft metal like bismuth anyway…
did you Bismuth-me?
let’s get down to bismuth!