Trade Ship / Market Flow

Trade & Selling Gear

This page solves the most common `Trade Ship` questions: when selling actually becomes worth doing, what should be locked, why `D / E / I` must be checked before selling, whether the item is still on the ship or already in the mailbox, and why 'can be sold' does not mean 'should be sold right now.' The structure combines the site's current Gear, Cube, and starter-flow pages into an order that is easier for players to execute.

Start With The Sell Checklist View The Full Trade Flow

Trade is important, but it behaves more like a side economy layer. For early and midgame accounts, the biggest danger is not failing to sell, but moving too much attention into selling too early.

Read This First

Check these 4 things before selling gear

Will this item still be used by my current or next build?
Has it already been processed through Decoration / Engraving / Inscription?
Did I lock the pieces I wanted to keep for mains or backups first?
Do I really need trade value right now, or should I go back to pushing, gold farming, or material farming instead?

Later Layer Trade Ship is useful, but it usually should not outrank the earliest progression, rune, and Formation work.

Mailbox Items that were listed, sold, or unlisted make more sense when read through the mailbox flow instead of the ship list alone.

D / E / I Check for later crafting states before selling. Do not treat processed gear like untouched drops.

Lock First Locking keepers first is usually more reliable than trying to avoid mistakes by memory alone.

Market Watch

Trade advice works better when it is tied to the live economy instead of treated like a permanent rulebook

Recent official announcements matter here more than on almost any other page. An urgent `1.01.01` hotfix and resolved-outage notice arrived on July 22, 2026, another hotfix followed on July 23, 2026, and a service-stability warning arrived on July 26, 2026.

Live Economy / Processed Gear / Sell Timing

Accessory icon — Trade value is real, but the best-selling item is still the one you are truly finished with.

Engraving icon — Processed gear needs a more careful sell decision because its Cube history changes the real cost.

Detach icon — Sometimes the right trade action is not listing the item yet, but recovering value from it first.

Live Trade Logic

Sell timing should be judged against route maturity, processing state, and market conditions together

The latest official trade-related notices make one thing clearer: market rules and service conditions can move, so this wiki now treats selling as a later-layer optimization tied to build certainty and account stability, not as an always-on default behavior.

If a piece might still serve the current build, the next build, or a backup route, it is not really "extra" yet.
`D / E / I` states matter because processed gear has already absorbed resources that may need to be recovered or justified first.
Mailbox reading is part of trade literacy because the item's state changes after it leaves the ship list.

Trade Ship works best after the account already knows what it wants to keep. Selling is a refinement layer, not a substitute for route planning.

July 22, 2026 changed how cautious selling should be

Because an urgent hotfix and outage-resolution notice landed the same day, this page now treats Trade Ship participation as something players should recheck, not assume from older screenshots.

Higher-grade trading Live rules Recheck first

Processed gear should almost never be sold casually

Once an item touches Decoration, Engraving, or Inscription, the decision is no longer just "sell or keep." It becomes "recover, reuse, or list with intent."

Decoration Recovery first Intentional listing

Service warnings reinforce conservative sell timing

When the official channel is also talking about instability and item issues, it makes sense to lock keepers early and keep account-value decisions deliberate.

Lock first Mailbox awareness Conservative timing

Timing

When should you start taking the trade system seriously?

One of the easiest mistakes for a new account is treating Trade Ship like the main route the moment it unlocks. This section helps decide whether market logic deserves your time yet.

Too Early / Good Timing / Mature Timing

Sell Checklist

Sell checklist

The easiest way to lose value while selling is reversing the judgment order. Do not ask whether it can be sold before asking whether it should be sold, what has to be processed first, and whether it may be needed again later.

Keep / Lock / Strip / List

D / E / I Guide

Why D / E / I must be checked before selling

The site's Gear entries use `D / E / I` to mark added crafting states. For now, you can simply read that as meaning the item has already been processed by later systems like Decoration, Engraving, or Inscription.

Decoration / Engraving / Inscription

Trade Flow

The full trade flow: from drop to listing to mailbox

This section is not theory. It follows the real player order: pick up the item, decide whether to keep it, decide whether to lock it, decide whether crafting must be stripped first, place it on the ship, and then come back through the mailbox for the result.

Drop -> Judge -> Lock -> Strip -> Ship -> Mailbox

Mailbox

Separate items still on the ship from items already in the mailbox

A lot of 'the item disappeared' confusion really comes from not understanding ship and mailbox as two different layers of one process. This section splits the most confusing cases apart clearly.

Listed / Sold / Unlisted / Claim

Common Mistakes

The 6 most common trade-system loss points

These mistakes may not break an account instantly, but they steadily damage how you judge item value. They are especially common right when farming starts feeling smoother and players get excited that they finally have things to sell.

Do Not Sell Your Future Upgrade

Next Clicks

After the trade page, where should you go next?

The trade page is useful because it sends you back to the right Gear, Cube, gold-farming, or starter-flow page instead of trapping every question inside the market layer itself.

Gear / Cube / Gold / Systems / Start Here