The legit pledge

Five lines we do not cross

• No buying or selling gold

  Gold moves only inside the game. We never link a gold seller, never price gold in dollars, and never rank a zone by how much real money its loot could fetch. The WoW Token is Blizzard's, and we only mention it as what it is.

• No bots or input broadcasting

  Every loop assumes a person at the keyboard. Addons that read the auction house or help you post are fine; software that plays for you is not, and we do not teach it, name it or route around its detection.

• No exploits or dupes

  If a method only works because of a bug, it is not on the map. Nothing here describes a terrain skip, a reset trick or a duplication.

• No carries for real money

  Gold for an in-game service follows Blizzard's advertising rules and is legitimate play. Real money for the same service is not. The site never prices, lists or recommends a paid boost.

• No invented yields

  Nobody here says they farmed anything, and no page prints a per-hour figure you did not type. Every figure is a scanned price, a vendor price from the game data, or your own lap count wearing the label measured by you.

How a verdict is decided

Every unit on every zone page carries one of four stamps. The rules live in one file, tools/verdict.py, run once per data build on our own machine, and are exported to data/atlas/method.json (rules version 2026-10-02.2). The browser renders a verdict; it never computes one. The thresholds, as that file holds them:

1. no data: no scan priced the unit on this market in 14 days, fewer than 3 scan points (2 for Midnight), the last scan is older than 72 hours (48 for Midnight), or fewer than 2 scans of the market in 14 days. The vendor price is still shown when known.

2. vendor floor: net after the 5% auction cut is at or under 1.15 times what a vendor pays, or the lowest listing is 5 copper or less when no vendor price is known. Sell to a vendor, do not list.

3. thin: net under 3 times the vendor price (under 50 copper when the vendor price is unknown), or the lowest listing more than 40% under the 14-day median, or down 25% or more and still falling across the scan window, or more than 5,000 units listed and down 10% or more.

4. worth it: none of the above. The stamp carries the net per unit, the multiple of the vendor price and the listed depth.

Beside each stamp sits one word of confidence: solid when the unit has 8 or more scan points and the scan is 24 hours old or less, otherwise light, always with the scan time. The full page, rendered from the same file so it cannot drift: how every stamp is decided.

How the daily note is made

Nothing on this site runs while you browse except your own browser. There is no chat box, no prompt field, and nothing you type on this site reaches any server. Verdicts, ranks and the daily note are built once per data build from files you can open yourself at /data/manifest.json.

1. Scans are copied. Player addon scans of each market and the item data arrive as JSON files with a scan time and a market on each one.

   data/atlas/markets/<market>.json, data/atlas/vendor.json

2. Verdicts are stamped. The rules above write one verdict file per market and keep yesterday's copy for the rank arrows and the diff.

   data/atlas/verdicts/<market>.json, verdicts/history/

3. The note is drafted from a facts packet. The packet holds what moved between the two verdict files and by how much. The draft cannot look anything up or add a figure, and it says nothing about why a price moved beyond the figures.

4. The draft is rule-checked. A script compares every figure in the prose against the packet and scans for banned words. A draft that fails is not published; the page shows the facts tables instead.

   tools/brief_rules.py, published as data/brief/YYYY-MM-DD.json

The daily note is built from dated snapshots, rule-checked.

That line appears wherever the note appears. If a note is missing or failed its check, the home page says so and shows the figures without prose.

What an estimate is

The atlas prints prices, not yields. The one calculated figure is yours: type how many units you gathered on a lap and the zone page multiplies it by the net per unit and labels the result your estimate, in the same sentence as the figure.

• your estimateYour units per lap times today's net per unit. Inputs shown beside it.
• no dataWe have no basis for a figure, so we show none and say why: no scan, too few scan points, or a scan past its window.
• suggested loopA path traced on the map art. It is a suggestion, not a measurement, and every caption says so.

Report a bad number

If a price, verdict or scan time on any page does not match what you see in game, tell us. Include the page address, the item, the market and the scan time next to the figure. We check it against the source file and fix the pipeline, not the sentence.

Every page on the atlas