Merchant Archive

Well i have never been an artisan before and now i have to master merchant. I have no idea how to get "Merchant XP" so please help me out and let me know the fastest ways to getting to master. Someone told me it just comes without you doing anything and i find that hard to believe so please help a nOOb Merchant here. BTWi have buisiness 1+2 and i will have up to 4 in about an hour lol.

someone help please!!

Place a vendor. Then place more vendors when you can. If you want to know more details, read back on the forum.

Read the guide. It is why we made it. I even add a section for the Holocron crowd.

Misery loves company... so guess what... my holocron just told me to do merchant too!

-- A6

same here. Luckily I already had 10K of XP.

As another newcomer to Merchant can I just thank those involved in making the guide

And you are welcome. Expect another update soon. I will also have to due a major re-write after the patch.

I got it too and was making XP every hour until tonight. I am 0/2/0/4 (got my vendors first). But now I get NO XP just for having the vendors up. I have 6 up and 2 hours have gone by and NO XP. Any help with this would be appreciated. Im at 12000 and need 30000 to make 0/3/0/4.

Experience comes in lumps, and often doesn't show till after the server reset.

You guys are lucky. You can basically log out of the game for a week and come back with master.

I'm switching to my musician until I hit master (though, asstated in another thread, I'm a merchant anyways. Just not a very good one.)

Lucky? This isn't lucky at all.

Once you qualify, we'll assume you take the optimal plan.

So first we do the 4th line with 2 vendors.

10,000 xp / 300 xp / hr = 33.3 hours

Now we have the next skill with 3 vendors.

20,000 xp / 450 xp / hr = 44.4 hours

Now the third with 4 vendors

30,000 xp / 600 xp / hour = 50 hours

Now the fourth with 5 vendors

40,000 xp / 750 xp / hour = 53.3 hours

Now we do the rest with our 6 vendors...

300,000 xp / 900 xp / hour = 333.3 hours

Add them up and we get the total time needed...

514.3 hours

514.3 / 24 = 21.4 days.




21.4 fricken days! We can speed it up a little, but not much without some major help.

I'd rather do anything else, muscician, medic, pistoleer, squad leader, anything!

At least those skills I can grind away and finish in 1-10 days no problem.

With merchant I'm looking at around 3 weeks of waiting to finish it up... and that's assuming that the bugged vendors even grant xp, which they seem to forget to do a lot of times.

-- A6

Add to that the very buggy nature of the experience earned. For example two vendors placed and intialised ran for 24hours after freshly placing them - total experience shown as earned 800.