The full guide

Gear crafting

For every craftable piece of gear, the best (buy materials here → craft → sell there) combination: material cost, sell price, profit, ROI, sold volume, and how fresh every price in the math is. City crafting bonuses and your return rate are applied, and the top results are precomputed server-side — the page is instant even though roughly a million combinations were evaluated for you.

Refining

Raw resources in, refined materials out — same math, including the refining city bonuses and your return rate. Often the steadiest low-attention silver in the game.

Alchemy

Potions with batch yields handled correctly: one craft produces five potions, and the math prices the craft action against the five-unit sale, not one.

Cooking

Meals and their markets, batch yields included. Pairs well with the Fish Economy tab below when you fish your own inputs.

Miscellaneous

Everything craftable that isn't gear, refined goods, potions or food — tools, bags, capes and the long tail.

Flip (incl. Non-Craftable)

Buy a finished item in one city, haul it, sell it in another. The Non-Craftable tab covers things you can only trade — resources, mounts, artifact cape tokens. Route safety (safe/danger zones) is shown per row.

Black Market

The Black Market is an NPC buyer in Caerleon whose orders rotate constantly — this is where the fastest silver usually hides, and most tools ignore it. Profit Forge tracks it natively for both crafting to it and flipping to it. You choose the revenue basis: sell instantly into the NPC's buy order, or list your own sell order at the BM.

Salvage

Buy cheap gear, salvage it, sell the recovered materials. A surprisingly consistent money-maker most players ignore — the table prices the gear you'd buy against the material value that comes back out, with your salvage return rate applied.

Melding

Artifact melding expected value: reagent cost against the weighted outcome pool, with the best and worst case shown per combination. An EV calculator — single melds will run over or under, and the table says so.

Transmute

Reagent, royal sigil and map tier-ups: input cost plus the silver fee against the output's price.

Fish Economy

One row per fish: the cheapest fame per silver (eating for progression), the cheapest nutrition per silver, and whether each fish pays best sold raw, chopped, turned into sauce, or cooked into its meal — the winner named per row.

Realistic Revenue (the ⚓ anchor)

When the cheapest listed ask is a troll listing — a 15 M ask on a 15 k potion — profit is computed from the trade-weighted historical price instead, and the row shows an ⚓ anchor with both numbers. Items with no reference anywhere are hidden rather than shown with unverifiable profit. On by default; without this, every market tool happily projects fantasy profits off one bait listing.

The ghost-price check

Realistic Revenue guards what you sell; this guards what you buy. A cost price that is both stale (12+ hours) and far cheaper than the newest fresh price in other cities is probably a ghost — a dead order that is already gone, making the row's profit look better than it is. Always on: flagged rows get a small ⚠ next to their Age, and the detail view shows the fresh cross-city price beside the suspect one. Display-only; it annotates, never changes the math.

Age & Confidence

Every row shows the age of the stalest price used in its math (hover splits it into materials vs sell side) and a confidence score. You always know whether you're looking at data from one minute or one day ago. A tool that hides staleness is a tool that costs you silver on the one craft you actually commit to.

Cross-City Shopping

Normally the calculator prices your whole recipe in one Buy Materials city. That's how most people actually shop — but it leaves silver on the table, because the cheapest planks are rarely in the same city as the cheapest metal bars. Turn on the Cross-City Shopping and each material is priced in whichever city sells it cheapest, across every city you haven't excluded. The row's Buy column becomes a "Multi" badge; open it and you get a literal shopping list: each material, its source city, unit price, and line total.

The detail view also keeps you honest about whether the trip is worth it: it computes the best single city — the cheapest one where every material is actually listed — and shows your multi-city total against it as a savings line. If the savings are small, buy it all in one place and keep your travel time. The route map redraws too: every source city fans into the craft node, and route safety becomes the union of every leg — one red-zone leg marks the whole plan dangerous.

Limits, plainly: recipe tabs only (Gear, Refining, Alchemy, Cooking, Black Market crafting), off by default. The Black Market is never a material source — it's an NPC buyer, it sells nothing. Materials are priced at Normal quality, and the freshness column shows the oldest price across all source cities, so a bargain resting on a day-old listing announces itself.

Where to find it: Filters → Calculator Modes → Cross-City Shopping.

Enchant-Up Comparison

A .2 item can be made two ways: craft it at .2 directly, or craft the .0 or .1 version and enchant it up with reagents (Runes to .1, Souls to .2, Relics to .3). Which is cheaper swings with reagent prices, and almost nobody checks. This mode checks on every row: for each .1/.2/.3 gear target it prices the direct path and every lower starting level — craft cost with your return rate and station fee applied (or the buy price, on Flip), plus the full reagent chain to bridge the gap — and badges the row with the cheaper method: "Craft+Ench↑" or "Craft direct". A sub-line under Profit shows the losing method and the gap, so you see what the choice was worth.

Sometimes reagents spike and "direct" wins — the badge says so. Open the row and a Direct / Enchant selector shows both paths' full cost breakdowns with per-reagent prices; "Update all tiers" re-fetches everything at once. The recommended method can flip after a refresh. That's the point.

Limits: gear only, .1–.3 targets only (.0 and .4 have nothing to compare), and it needs .1–.3 selected in the Enchantments filter to have anything to show. Revenue is identical on both paths — same finished item, same sell city — so this is purely a cost race.

Where to find it: Filters → Calculator Modes → Enchant-Up Comparison.

Quality Reroll

Outstanding gear sells for more than Normal. You can get there by luck — or by paying the artificer to reroll quality, which costs silver based on the item's value. Quality Reroll does the expected-value math: for each item it evaluates every target quality you've selected via up to four routes — craft or buy at that quality directly; craft at Normal and reroll up; or, with Enchant-Up also on, do either at a lower enchant level first (where item value, and therefore the reroll fee, is smaller) and enchant up afterwards. One row per item, badged with the winning combination. Open the row to see every viable combination and swap between them.

The reroll cost isn't a guess, but it is an expectation. Each reroll costs item value × 3.975 × a quality multiplier, and the outcome is random. We solved the expected total cost to reach at least each quality from Normal: ×1.00 of the base fee for Good, ×2.43 for Outstanding, ×4.94 for Excellent. Real sessions will run over or under — that's what "expected" means, and the UI says so too.

Limits, plainly: the reroll odds are community-measured, not official — approximate, and flagged as such. Masterpiece is never targeted (0.1–0.5 % chances make its EV garbage; a lucky Masterpiece on the way counts as success). Gear only, and only items with a derivable item value. Combine with Enchant-Up to unlock the two combined routes.

Where to find it: Filters → Calculator Modes → Quality Reroll.