Price check and Deduce

Hover an item and press Ctrl+Alt+D. ePOE copies it, parses it, and runs a live search against the official trade API from your own machine.

What the panel is telling you

The headline number is not "the price". It is a summary of what is currently listed, which is a different thing:

• Lowest is the cheapest live listing that matches your filters. It is often a mispriced item, a bait listing, or someone who is offline-but-listed.
• Median is the middle of the matching listings and is a much better anchor for what an item actually moves at.
• The listing rows underneath are the raw data. Read them. Three listings at 1 divine and one at 40 tells you something the median cannot.

The Listing status setting (per-overlay pane, or Overlays → Price Check) decides who is included:

Below the results ePOE shows a rate-limit countdown whenever GGG throttles you. That is the trade API's limit, not ours — the countdown is there so you know to wait instead of hammering the hotkey.

Rares: the mod filter panel

For a rare or magic item the mod panel opens automatically with a row per affix. Each row has a toggle and a min/max.

The default behaviour is to select every stat. That is usually wrong for pricing and right for finding a twin. What to do instead:

1. Turn off everything that does not sell the item. Life, resistances and your main damage stat sell items. A random +3 to Stun Threshold does not.
2. Let the minimums sit below your rolls. If your ring has 74 life, search for 70. You want the price of items *like yours*, not the price of exactly yours, and exactly yours has zero listings. The roll range sliders below do this for you.
3. Use And mode when you need every selected mod present. Use Weighted mode when you care about the *total* — a sum of resistances, or added damage across several mods — and do not mind which specific mods contribute.

Pseudo totals exist because that is how players actually shop. Nobody searches for "+22% cold resistance"; they search for "+100% total elemental resistance". Weighted mode plus a pseudo total is the search a buyer would really run.

Roll range sliders

Each mod row does not start at your exact roll. It starts at a share of it, so the search already finds items *like yours*:

Negative rolls ("reduced …") are bounded the right way round, so an item with one still finds itself.

• Roll range — the slider above the mod list moves every mod at once, from 50% to 150%. Lower finds more listings; higher finds closer matches. Scroll over it to step it by one. It is saved for the next item, and it is hidden in Weighted mode.
• Per-mod sliders — in Advanced mode each mod row has its own slider (70% to 130%), for loosening or tightening just that mod.
• Default roll range under Settings → Price checks sets where every check starts. It is the same setting the panel's slider changes.

Mod-count filters

The Filters rail on the Advanced panel has a Mod counts row. Each chip requires at least your item's number of one kind of modifier: prefixes, suffixes, empty affixes, implicits, crafted, fractured, desecrated or unrevealed mods (and their prefix/suffix splits), uses remaining, and the number of resistances or elemental resistances. They are all off until you click one.

Use them for what the mod list cannot say: "a crafting base with an open prefix" is 1 Empty Modifiers; "a triple-resistance ring" is 3 Resistances.

The mod list also offers opt-in rows for total fire, cold and lightning resistance and total movement speed. Tick one when the total matters more than which mods add up to it.

Deduce: when the item has too many mods

Six good affixes means the exact-match search returns zero results. The instinct is to start deleting filters by hand until something appears. Deduce does that methodically.

It runs a short series of searches, relaxing the least valuable constraints first, and reports what it found at each step. You end up with a *ladder* instead of a single number:

• "With all six mods: 0 results."
• "Dropping the two lowest-weight mods: 3 results, 12–18 divine."
• "Core three mods only: 60 results, median 2 divine."

That ladder is the answer. The gap between the last two rungs is the premium your specific combination is worth — and if the gap is nothing, your extra mods are worth nothing, which is equally useful to know.

Deduce costs several trade searches, so it is rate-limited by the same GGG bucket as a normal check. Run it on the item you care about, not on every drop.

How the suggested price is worked out

The trade site returns matching listings cheapest first. Pricing from the cheapest few sounds safe, but on a loosened search those are simply the worst items that still matched — so a relaxed search used to price your item low. ePOE now works the number out like this:

1. Spread sampling. Instead of the cheapest end, ePOE samples listings spread across the whole result, so the price reflects the typical asking price of items like yours.
2. Narrow first. The trade site only hands back the cheapest hundred listings. When a search matches more than that, ePOE raises the mod minimums back toward your own rolls before sampling, so the sample is made of genuinely comparable items.
3. A ceiling from better listings. One extra search looks for listings that are at least as good as yours on every mod it priced. The cheapest of those is the ceiling: a buyer would take that one instead, so the suggestion is never set above it.
4. One seller can't set the price. At most two listings from any one seller are counted, so a single wall of copies can't drag the number.
5. Your own listings are left out. With your Path of Exile session connected, listings from your own account are never counted.

The lines under a deduced price show all of this: the ceiling, how many listings were sampled across how many matches, whether the search was narrowed first, and how many of your own or repeat-seller listings were left out. Priced on, Dropped and Ignored say which mods the price was based on — socketed runes and filler lines such as stun threshold are set aside rather than searched.

This moves prices up on loose searches, by design. The typical asking price includes some listings that will never sell, which is exactly what the ceiling is there to limit.

The other tabs

• Compare vs equipped — with a character loaded, the panel colour-codes each stat against the item in that slot. Green is an upgrade, red is a loss. This is the fastest sanity check on "is this actually better than what I am wearing".
• Modifier Overview — every mod the item's base can roll, with tiers, required item level and weights. Use it to answer "could this roll better?" before you decide to keep or vendor.
• Whittling readout — flags which mod an Omen of Whittling would remove, so you are not guessing before you spend one.
• Currency and bulk — for currency and other bulk items ePOE skips the mod search and shows the Market Value card and the Live Exchange rate instead — the typical offer, not the cheapest. See Price panel tools.

Buying

Each listing row has two buttons:

• Whisper takes the seller's buyout whisper — the exact message the trade site generates, stash tab and grid position included. While the overlay is attached ePOE hands focus to the game, opens chat and sends it; if the game isn't attached it just copies it to your clipboard with a note. Either way the message is the generated one, unedited, which is what gets you a reply.
• Travel to hideout uses the trade site's own hideout token, exactly like clicking the button on the website. It teleports your online character; it does not type anything into chat.

Fast habits

• Turn on Auto price check so the search fires the moment an item is parsed, and you only ever press one key.
• Recent Price Checks (on the wheel and feature bar; bindable in Overlays → Hotkeys) reopens recent checks. Cheaper than re-checking.
• Bind Open last trade search if you often want to finish a search in the browser with the site's own filters.
• If a live search comes back empty, ePOE falls back to a cached aggregate price so you are not left with nothing. Treat that number as a rough floor, not a quote.