Trading and standing

What vendors pay

Every item has a base value and a stage. A vendor's offer is:

value × stage rate × vendor rate × (1 + standing bonus) × (1.5 if wanted) × quality multiplier × demand

• Stage rate: raw 35%, refined 50%, crafted 65%, treasure 80%.
• Vendor rate: a vendor pays its specialty rate for items in its trade, which the shop marks "In trade", and its base rate for everything else.

• Quality multiplier: 1 + the sell-price bonus in the quality table: Exceptional ×1.5, Masterwork ×2.5, Legendary ×3.5.

Buying

• The buy price is value × 1.6 × (1 − standing bonus), rounded up, at least 1 gold.
• You need room in your pack for what you buy.

Vendor appetite and price recovery

• Each vendor takes about 200 + 5 × value gold-worth of one item at full price.
• Each item you sell adds its base value to what that vendor has bought lately. The price slides as that total grows: demand = 1 − 0.6 × (bought lately ÷ appetite), never below 40% of full price.
• A whole stack is priced one item at a time, so big sales come out lower per item.
• The vendor's memory fades steadily: it forgets one full appetite's worth every 10 minutes. It never remembers more than 2 appetites' worth, so recovery from flooding a vendor takes at most 20 minutes.
• Each vendor keeps its own books. Every outpost trader counts separately, so you can spread sales around.
• The books belong to the world, so in a shared world everyone's sales count against the same vendor.

Wanted items

• Vendors with a wants list ask for 2 finished goods at a time, at +50%.
• The list changes every 15 minutes.
• It favours things you could make: items whose recipe needs no more than 20 skill above yours, when at least 2 such items are on the list.
• Named uniques never count as wanted.

Merchant standing

You earn standing by:

• selling crafted-stage goods: 1 point per 25 gold earned, with any fraction as the chance of one more point
• filling work orders
• some story quests

Standing belongs to your hero.

Work orders

• The quest board carries up to 2 work orders from the crafting guilds:
  • The Smiths' Guild: Blacksmithing and Smelting
  • The Bowyers' Hall: Carpentry
  • The Tailors' Guild: Tailoring
  • The Apothecaries: Alchemy
  • The Gilded Trout: Cooking
• An order is for something whose recipe you meet: the recipe's minimum skill is at or below yours, and no more than 45 below it. Items worth less than 2 gold are left out.
• Quantity: 2–5 pieces of gear, or 8–20 goods.
• Exceptional orders: if your Exceptional chance on a gear recipe is at least 15%, there's a 35% chance the order asks for 1–2 Exceptional pieces instead. Anything Exceptional or better counts.
• Pay: 10 + value × count × 1.6 gold, or × 2.4 for Exceptional orders.
• Standing: 3 + 0.12 × the recipe's minimum skill, or × 1.5 for Exceptional orders.
• The goods don't have to be made by you. Progress is simply what's in your pack.
• When you hand an order in, your plainest items go first, so your better pieces are kept. Named uniques never count.