OPERATION VERISIUM · RUNES OF ALDUR · D1 FIELD GUIDE

HOARD LIST.

Everything worth grabbing early, before the meta stabilises and prices peak. Your sell window is Day 3–5. After that, supply catches up and margins compress. Read the full hoarding strategy →

GRAB D1 HOARD & HOLD SELL D3–D5 USE VERISIUM EARLY · RUNEFORGE D1
D1 · Hours 0–6
Grab Everything
Pick up every high-ilvl base. No trade site yet: prices unknown, supply is free. Hoard list = ground truth.
D2–D3 · Meta Forms
Hold & Price-Check
Trade site prices stabilise. Watch Verisium + Rune prices. Your bases are worth 3× what they were yesterday.
D3–D5 · Sell Window
List It All
Peak demand. Speculators + meta-chasers drive bids. This is when trade beats grind. Sell fast and move.
D5+ · Endgame Phase
Specialize
One of you: maps + craft + flip. The other: boss carries + simulacrums. Slow steady income, no spike plays needed.
HOARD EARLY · SELL INTO THE D3–D5 PEAK currency while you level · meta bases once you hit red maps · ranked by spike confidence
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USE EARLY NOT TRADABLE
Verisium Metal
League drop · Ezomyte Remnants mechanic

The new crafting currency for Runeforging. Cannot be traded: use every stack on gear. Adds Runic Ward to armour, augments Uniques, upgrades sub-55 Unique base types. Pick it up always, spend it fast. Don't sit on stacks.

Grab whenAlways
Use forRuneforging
Tradable?No
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SELL D3–D5 CRAFT MATERIAL
Ancient Runes + Soul Cores
Ancient Rune of … · Soul Core of … · top-tier (Perfect) runes

High-end Runeforging requires these. Early in the league they're extremely rare: crafters pay huge premiums rather than farm them. Perfect-tier runes and named Soul Cores especially: demand peaks alongside the crafting rush on D3–D4.

Grab whenAlways
Sell windowD3–D5
Ancient / Soul Core≈ 3 / 8 ex
BASE SPIKES · HIGH-ILVL EQUIPPABLES from red maps (T15–16) · the higher the ilvl the better · lower tiers don't move
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BIG SPIKE
T1 Spear Bases
ilvl 80+ · from red maps · Spirit Walker core

Spirit Walker demand made spears the meta phys weapon. The higher the ilvl, the better the Tier-1 odds (ilvl 80 at T16, 81–82 from corrupted waystones). Bank named spear bases as you farm red maps, list 15–25 ex into the D3–5 rush.

Min ilvl80+
List price15–25 ex
PriorityHIGH
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BIG SPIKE
T1 Bow Bases
ilvl 80+ · from red maps · Mirage Snipe Deadeye core

Mirage Deadeye + Snipe is the strongest boss build in 0.5. Bow crafters will be out in force. Top-ilvl bow bases roll the best crit + APS. Demand is fierce once the meta forms.

Min ilvl80+
List price15–30 ex
PriorityHIGH
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BIG SPIKE
T1 Glove Bases
ilvl 80+ · from red maps · Martial Artist glove augmentation

Martial Artist (new class) gets glove augmentation: builds specifically need high-ilvl gloves. Crafters targeting this mechanic will pay premium for T1 bases in the first 72h.

Min ilvl80+
List price8–15 ex
PriorityMED
FIND & HOLD · NEW BREACH DROPS new in 0.5 · Breach rework · rare early
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NEW IN 0.5 FIND & HOLD
Grasping Mail
New Breach armour base · Breach rework · rare · from endgame Breaches

Entirely new armour base type from the Breach rework. Functions differently from standard body armour: early market will not know the correct price. Hold until D3–D4 when community figures out the value. Don't vendor under any circumstances.

SourceBreach
ActionHOLD
Sell whenD3+
07
NEW IN 0.5 FIND & HOLD
New Breach Jewellery
6 ring · 4 amulet · 4 belt bases · all new

The Breach rework added 14 new jewellery bases. One amulet specifically offers two Instilled Notables, BiS for theory-crafters. Any you find early are unknowns. Hold all, price-check D3.

SourceBreach
ActionHOLD
Notable amuletBiS
SELL EARLY · CURRENCY & CRAFT MATS price decay after D5 · sell into demand not supply
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SELL D2–D4
Liquid Emotions
Liquid Paranoia · Concentrated Liquid · Delirium drops

High early-league demand from Delirium crafters building Instilled Modifier items. Value drops sharply after D4 as supply normalises. Sell the moment you hit 5+ stacks.

Sell whenD2–D4
Est. D24–8 ex
D10+1–2 ex
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SELL WHEN FOUND
Idols
Socketable · companion builds · Spirit Walker

Spirit Walker and other companion builds need strong Idol implicits. Idols are socketables: no ilvl gate. Demand is real but narrower than weapons. Sell D3–D5 at 5–12 ex. Don't hold past D5.

TypeSocketable
List price5–12 ex
Sell byD5
10
SELL D3–D5
Jewel Catalysts
Quality catalysts · jewel crafting

Jewel crafting demand is consistent across every league. Catalysts run at 1–2 ex each early-league, normalise to 0.5 ex by D7. Stack them, list at peak D3.

List price1–2 ex
NormalisesD7
Stack beforelisting
AVOID STASHING · DEAD VALUE IN 0.5 nerfed or patched out · vendor on sight
Lightning Arrow gear
LA beams can't chain to same target: boss DPS halved. LA refugees migrating to Snipe. Demand collapsed.
ES body armours
Energy Shield Notables and recovery heavily nerfed. Still viable for dedicated ES builds but no longer the universal defence layer. Demand will be lower.
Instant Leech items
All instant leech removed from the game. Items with these mods are functionally worthless.
Recombinator crafts
Recombinator mechanic REMOVED in 0.5. Any strategies built around it are dead.
Poisonburst quality items
Flat 3s poison, quality scaling halved. Items that were only good for Poisonburst have no demand.
Ghost Dance duration gear
CDR scaling changed to not affect duration. Ghost Dance duration items have no special value.
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