Selling items to stores and NPC conflicts?
Veristek
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Hey all, its me again.
I have another couple of quick questions.
1) Which store has the best prices for me to sell my loot to during Chapter 2? I've been stockpiling a lot of my loot, I want to buy that Defender of Easthaven flail for my CHARNAME.
2) I am waiting for Dorn, Edwin, and Hexxat missions to trigger. I've killed the wedding for Dorn, got the Nether Scroll for Edwin, and freed the "real" Hexxat who said she's waiting for a mission from "L". I have Jan, so that only leaves 1 slot open for other NPC's to do their recruit and companion missions. I have no idea how long I have to wait to finish Dorn, Edwin, and Hexxat's companion quest lines.
My question is, which NPC's will not conflict with Dorn, Edwin, and Hexxat so they won't try to murder each other?
I have another couple of quick questions.
1) Which store has the best prices for me to sell my loot to during Chapter 2? I've been stockpiling a lot of my loot, I want to buy that Defender of Easthaven flail for my CHARNAME.
2) I am waiting for Dorn, Edwin, and Hexxat missions to trigger. I've killed the wedding for Dorn, got the Nether Scroll for Edwin, and freed the "real" Hexxat who said she's waiting for a mission from "L". I have Jan, so that only leaves 1 slot open for other NPC's to do their recruit and companion missions. I have no idea how long I have to wait to finish Dorn, Edwin, and Hexxat's companion quest lines.
My question is, which NPC's will not conflict with Dorn, Edwin, and Hexxat so they won't try to murder each other?
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1. if the shopkeeper has already in inventory a similar item the price is reduced. let's say that you want to sell 4 swords +1 and the shop has not swords +1. he will pay 180 gp (i don't use the correct values, is only an example...). but if you sell him 1 of the swords then he has the item in the inventory so will pay only 150 gp the other ones. so give all the items of the same kind to a toon, find a shop that has not that item, and sell them all at once.
2. charisma affect the price, not charname's one, the one of the party member that is at the top, more charisma he has better prices you get, both selling and buying. hint: there is a ring that set char to 18 and a cloak that gives a further +2, let's have the toon at the top equip them.
3. reputation affect the price, the higher it is the better. as you are running an evil party probably you will never have super good prices, but managing to not go to low with rep you can limit the damage.
about the other question i NEVER play evil, i hate dorn edwin and hexxat with all my hearth and if possible when i find them in game i kill them, so i can not answer as i never did their quests. is since the year 2000 that i keep killing the bas**** red mage of thay
but if i would have know the answer i would gladly have give it to you as i believe in the freedom of the players to have fun as they like, for me is almost physically impossible to play evil, if you like it have fun
ot ( spoiler warning about edwin's quest)
@gorgonzola I sense a deeper... hatred there. Do you want to talk about it?
Also, you forgot to mention the level 1 spell Friends, which combined with items is an easy way to get a score of 25, so long as you avoid casting it where the Cowled Wizards would attack you for it.
I could get triple as much money selling my loot to that genie than to the other merchants.
Is there any merchants like this in BG 2 during Chapter 2? If I can get triple selling rates, it would help me get that Defender of Easthaven flail and a couple other goodies all the sooner.
Sorry, I was trying to by funny. That was most definitely the most vivid description about what someone would like to do to an NPC I ever read. I didn't mean to offend.
but i could not avoid to read some more words than that name. np anyway, i did not read enough to be spoiled. but maybe you are talking of a special merchant that makes better prices then the others.
nothing like that happens in chap 2 and 3 of soa afaik
@jastey you did not
So I should just dump all my loot on a maerchant, since there's no special merchants that buy stuff from me for higher prices in early SoA?
about the merchants they all buy at the same price afaik, if you want to maximize the earning and have multiple not named items, let's say generic +1 swords, find a shop that does not have them in the inventory and sell them all at once. this mean to put them all in the backpack of a toon, select them all and then press the sell button. but there is not a great difference.
what can make a great difference is to steal from shops, not from the adventurer's mart and a couple of other merchants where is not possible and not from the copper coronet merchant that needs a very high pick pocket score, but you can steal quite early valuable items, and later in trademeet you will find a merchant that has very good items, there stealing you can save probably 15 or 20k gp.
to steal effectively you need a thief with some points in pick pocket, jan is perfect, to find the ring that improve stealing and to drink one of each of the 2 different potions that improve thieving score. some people drink many of the most powerful of the 2, as they stack, but imo is not good rp wise, as make pointless to invest in pickpocket for a thief. and obviously you need a savegame right before, or you will loose forever that merchant if you fail.
there are also ways to get a lot of money very early, but not at the first run, we can talk of it later if you wish....
the merchant in trademeet, after the quest, a djinni in the same place before he disappear, ribald, not the inventory, he directly, for a ring of regeneration, the merchant in a shop in the dock area for a rogue stone and some other stuff, all the shops for scrolls, potions and enchanted ammo, maybe is possible to pick pocket tolgerias to have 2 rings of ram, but possibly now the exploit is closed, and terminsel, always pickpocket it, to get some +2 protection rings, every time he appear in the jaheira's quest has a new one. if also that has not been closed in ee. there is also a seller in some sewers that is easy to pickpoket and have good potions.
there maybe be some more but at now i don't remember anything noticeable in chap 2-3, further in the game you visit other areas and find other merchants...
Every store has a fixed sell/buy markup. For the most part buy markup is pretty standardized (30) but a handful buy at better prices. Keep in mind that not all merchants buy all items.
The drow merchants in the Underdark buy at a slightly worse price, while the svirfniblin buy at a slightly better than average price.
edit: corrected Waukeenar temples listed
@Veristek yep, is the only shop of those named by CamDawg that you have access in chap 2 and 3, the others are later in soa or in tob
When they're leaving they sell items at a very favorable price, but their purchase prices are always standard (30).