Sniper Setup

1) Under TSM -> Settings -> Custom Sources, add a new custom price source. Change its name from "custompricea" to "minprice" and hit enter. Then click into the right column and copy this as the Custom Price Source value:

max(min(DBHistorical, DBRegionMarketAvg, DBRegionHistorical), VendorSell)

If you want to be really cautious, you can also add DBMarket and/or DBMinBuyout to this pricing string. Then it would look like this for example:

max(min(DBMinBuyout, DBMarket, DBHistorical, DBRegionMarketAvg, DBRegionHistorical), VendorSell)

By adding these price sources, your sniper operation will be much more picky, which means you will find a lot fewer deals, but the deals that do pop up in your sniper results will be more likely to actually be worth buying.

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2) Once you have set up the "minprice" custom pricesource, do a /reload. After the reload, create a new sniper operation under TSM -> Operations -> Sniper.

Set the "Below Custom Price" setting to

ifgte(ItemQuality, 1, ifgt(minprice, 250000g, 80% minprice, ifgt(minprice, 100000g, 70% minprice, ifgt(minprice, 50000g, 60% minprice, ifgt(minprice, 10000g, 50% minprice, ifgt(minprice, 5000g, 30% minprice, ifgt(minprice, 1000g, 10% minprice, 0c)))))), 0c)

and hit enter to save your changes.

This string will filter out all grey items and will use a different percentage of the "minprice" price source, depending on the value of the item. The more valuable the item, the higher the percentage that will be used. Feel free to play around with the values and percentages to better fit your needs if you want to.

Alternatively, if you'd like to use smoother transitions between the different price tiers, you can use this string:

ifgte(ItemQuality, 1, minprice * ifgt(minprice, 250000g, 80, ifgt(minprice, 100000g, (minprice - 100000g) * (80 - 70) / (250000g - 100000g) + 70, ifgt(minprice, 50000g, (minprice - 50000g) * (70 - 60) / (100000g - 50000g) + 60, ifgt(minprice, 10000g, (minprice - 10000g) * (60 - 50) / (50000g - 10000g) + 50, ifgt(minprice, 5000g, (minprice - 5000g) * (50 - 30) / (10000g - 5000g) + 30, ifgt(minprice, 1000g, (minprice - 1000g) * (30 - 10) / (5000g - 1000g) + 10, 0)))))) / 100)

This uses linear functions to calculate the percentage that will be used, based on the item's value. This avoids the sudden jumps between the different price tiers.

With the simpler version of the string, an item with a minprice value of 101k gold would use 70% minprice and an item with a value of 99k would use 60% minprice. The string that uses linear functions will use 70.067% minprice for the 101k item and 69.8% for the 99k item.

Here's a picture to illustrate the difference:
https://i.imgur.com/aGGK9ri.png

Lastly, assign your new sniper operation to the Base Group and any and all of your groups that you want the operation to apply to.

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That's it, you are good to go! You can now open the AH and run a sniper scan. The sniper scan will continuously scan the last page of the AH that contains the most recently posted 1-50 auctions over and over again and will inform you of any auction it sees that is listed below your sniper price.

Happy sniping!

- BilisOnyxia

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Video-Guide:

There also is an amazing videoguide created by Sheyrah on how to set everything up, where she even went a little further by creating a separate sniper profile with different groups. I'd highly recommend to watch the entire video as she does a fantastic job of explaining everything in depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v-JeIkmCGE