Merchant Archive

I'll admit it, I started merchant because my first holocron told me too, but I was surprised because I think I am actually going to keep it. If I don't keep all of it, I will remove my extra vendors I promise. But my question is how long did it take people to master merchant, because everyone is telling me I should be finished by now. I did the management tree first and set up all 6 merchants. I have been grinding for almost 4 weeks is this typical? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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poohgrace wrote:

I'll admit it, I started merchant because my first holocron told me too, but I was surprised because I think I am actually going to keep it. If I don't keep all of it, I will remove my extra vendors I promise. But my question is how long did it take people to master merchant, because everyone is telling me I should be finished by now. I did the management tree first and set up all 6 merchants. I have been grinding for almost 4 weeks is this typical? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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The math of doing it with 6 vendors and no real additional effort (getting people to come and view your vendors or entry fees to boost your xp) is about 22 days.

The first time I mastered merchant it took me considerably longer (probably 2 months) but I knew nothing and I was fighting with vendors that stopped giving you xp all the time.

I just did it again on another character last month and it took me about a month to do it.

My alt got Master Merchant for his holocon, so I started mid-afternoon last Saturday. Set up 10 houses with access fees (1cr/15 minutes) and created vendors as I got the skills that gave me more. Whenwe can, myself and a friend run through all the houses. We also ping a vendor every 10 minutes to get the 50 xp for browsing.

I should be Master Merchant tomorrow around mid-afteroon, so that will have been 6 days to master (405,000 merchant xp).

I was the third Master Merchant on my server (Ibelieve) and probably the last of the intial 10 to still be there. It took me a little more than a month, and that was as we learned how to be a merchant (no guides) and deal with coutless bugs.

Three weeks, almost to the day.

Keep my vendors stocked every day.

Haven't Mastered yot, but I don't see it taking 3 weeks. Less than a week and I'm 3003, almost 3004. Well, maybe it will.

I'm not sure you all realize the entrance fee trick still works. I saw it in action last nite.

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glidingpiglet wrote:

Haven't Mastered yot, but I don't see it taking 3 weeks. Less than a week and I'm 3003, almost 3004. Well, maybe it will.

I'm not sure you all realize the entrance fee trick still works. I saw it in action last nite.

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Which trick?

Most of us had no desire to use any tricks we didn't do anything other than build up a business and work to get people to come in to our shops.

Yeh and that entrance fee is troublesome. I went up in about 3 weeks just by running the business. It might have been a month, but I doubt longer. And I actually had fun working through Merchant(so much fun that I literally took my DE climb to a halt for about 2 months).

To get all the tree, pretty fast. But to get the last appr points for Master Merchant, dang forever!

Taking the complete "slacker/non-aggressive/only doing it because my second holo told me so" approachI will have completed it in three and a half weeks. I went up the Management Tree as suggested to get my 6 vendors, but I have not gone out and bought houses and set up entrance fees and such. Nor do I have anything on my vendors, the just sit there and collect exp at a slow but steady rate.

Bit over a month for me. Would have been quicker 'cept for the apprentice points.

AsI recall I went to Mgmt2 to get 2 vendors in each of my 2 locations, then went for Advertising3 to get on the map, then Efficiency4 for my harvesters before going back and getting Mgmt4 and then up the Hiring line. Almost certainly would have been quicker going straight up the Management line, although my traffic may have offset the straight xp/vendor/hour payouts.

what is the maintenence fee trick?