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You’d assign a shopping operation to these groups and run a shopping scan on them. These are usually groups you’ve created with numerous items in them, categorized in some way like ‘transmog’ ‘recipes’ ‘mounts’. There might only be 10 items I’m looking for, so sniper can happily run searching for those items and nothing else. It’s usually a static number rather than a big string. My operations are simple, whatever the maximum amount is that I’m willing to pay for something is what I assign as an operation. In my case, I still search for current tier reagents this way. The smaller the group, the faster the search. Instead of searching the last page of the auction house scanning for constant deals (this doesn’t work) you create a group in TSM with very specific items you’re looking for ( remember, you CANNOT assign a sniper operation to the base group). If you’re running a second account while you’re doing something else, sniper may still have its use. Personally, I still think there’s room for both depending on the situation. Using shopping lists in TSM will get you results faster than sniper will (depending on how many items you’re trying to search through sniper). If you’re familiar with Tradeskillmaster in any form you probably remember the older version of the addon when you could constantly run ‘sniper’ to find deals on the auction house that people had miss priced (this still works if you’re playing classic) but at the end of BFA things changed. Disclaimer – this is NOT a post telling you what items you should snipe.