Any · Price-check → one legal slam or list
If it already has the mods buyers search for, list it. If it is a magic item with two of those mods and an open affix, it can enter the batch. A blank rare is a vendor.
Hard stop: Never omen-spam a dead rare hoping it becomes a mirror.
Forbidden Rites sample · 2026-09-18 · 1 Divine = 452.9 exalt = 8.47 chaos
Depends on the item you already have
No SKU to sample — this path is “search the item you already have.” That is still the only consistently +EV move in this sample.
Walk the tree
Answer one question at a time. You can step back.
Decide
Same base, same defence family, your mods (not a wishlist). Sort by price. Ignore one insane ask.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Full tree
Screenshot this if you want it next to Trade2. Green is a keep/list. Gold is sell-the-mid. Red is vendor or stop.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Instant Buyout, listed this week, cheapest first. Add the mods you care about, then search.
Method notes: Owned-item decision habit from the old Craft2Profit playbook, without the bot.
Currency
Early in a session the gold vendor or the Currency Exchange is sometimes cheaper than trade for one stackable currency. The profit is that gap. It closes the hour other people stand in it.
Any slot people are buying
The finished item is only worth more than the materials on the day you check. A magic item that already has two useful mods is the start. A white base you Transmute is a different, usually losing, craft.
Whatever the finished search is paying for
Once the two-mod batch is too small for the bankroll, the product is a base that already has the expensive mod locked. You buy that fracture from someone else. Fracturing it yourself is a separate bet, and it loses when the orb divided by the hit chance costs more than the spread.