Merchant Archive

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LordScotticus wrote:
...the 4th longest grind in the game. Grrrrr

1. Politician
2. Jedi (Knight-ready full template)
3. Force Sensitive (6 full branches for exit quest)
4. All you money-grubbing bean counters reading this!!

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LordScotticus wrote:
Oh I completely agree that it's easy. It's sinfully easy, to be honest -- one need only wait and be patient.

...neither of which am I very good at.

Any other profession can be mastered in the course of a few hours to not more than a few days. Merchant takes around 2 weeks and there's no (legal) way to speed it up. I suppose you could have a few guildies using 3rd party macros to automatically list one of your vendors every 10.5 minutes, but I'm sure noooooobody here would stoop so low just for some extra xp...

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My point is that this prof takes time to master and is gaited by the player's patience rather than his abilities as a player. Indeed, one need not play at all. This is for my 34th and final profession badge, and of *course* it had to be unnaturally long, grrr!

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Who needs to wait or have patience? I ground out merchant in less than a few days - if you are willing to spend a few bucks to do it. Just like crafting profs take some cash to grind - a few credits can be your best friend in this grind. Basically I spammed in "noob" cities (i.e. on Tat and Naboo) - a lot of new players are looking for an easy way to make money - basically I offered 5k for clicking on my vendors - repeatable every 15 minutes (when I ground it out that was the timer for booting them out of the house that had an entry fee and reset the vendors). Basically I just sat and spammed while I ground out a crafter prof in Bestine - where there is a merchant trainer and a lot of crafting trainers. Had merchant done in no time. Then I became a M. weaponsmith and provided nades, back in the days when everyone was doing the nade FS grind - more than made up for the cash I spent to grind merchant. Evenetually I had 18 factories making nades andd was capping the 80k merchant exp 2-3 times a day - made the FS grind easy as pie too.

Message Edited by DarthFierce on 07-15-2005 07:59 AM