Merchant Archive
Thread: Merchant Grind (what i found as of 5-23-04)
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xstormbringerx
Mon May 24, 2004 12:39 am
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Hi all. I had some difficulty going from grinding some professions in 3 days, give or take. to having to grind merchant. in 23 days So here goes.
This is what i have found out (too bad it wasn't until 4244 that i found this out but..)
Hope this helps someone get thru the hell they call Master Merchant. (hell because i'm an impatient F*ck)
Pre-novice-merchant - i believe you can craft something or other to get ur novice merchant xp fairly quickly
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1. Put up as many vendors as u can. 6 is ur max i believe, and if u grind out the management column first (4th column)
2. Put up your vendors all at seperate locations is best (see 3d on why)
3. Set entry fees on every structure u can where u have a vendor since u gain 50xp per person per entry fee cycle. (meaning you can set your entry fee to the lowest time alloted which is 15 min. eg. so every 15 min u can have someone go back there, and generate another 50 xp for you by paying the fee.)
3a. You will get i believe another 50xp each time someone browses each of ur vendors (i believe this is on an hourly cycle. correct me if i'm wrong please someone)
3b. You can get an additional 150 xp for each time someone browses a vendor of yours for 15min. (i believe this is on an hourly cycle. correct me if i'm wrong please someone)
3c. You will also get a certain amount of xp per hour , just for having your vendor up i believe is a couple few hundred xp per hour
3d. Here's the good part, YOU CAN GENERATE YOUR OWN MERCHANT XP, place your maximum 6 vendors at 6 different locations (they can be right next to one another in different structures) I have only tested this accuratly to twice a day (i was so far along in merchant already it just didn't go any further but the cycle might be shorter than twice a day.) at any rate, for each of your 6 vendors at the 6 differnet locations, do a status check on them and also put in maintinence, even if u don't need to. do this twice a day (you might find that you can do it more than twice a day, you'll have to test) you will gain a couple / few thousand xp each time u do it for each vendor at a different location.
* note for 3d. it does sometimes take a second for the xp to appear. just check ur xp prior to and after doing status checks and putting in maintinence (i usually just put in 5k each time, since its easy enough to just withdraw your credits at a later time.)
some notes : not sure if an empty vendor can be browsed or generate xp. i did and do sell quite a bit of resources and loot, however i didn't have 6 vendors worth of items to justify having another vendor for legite sales. so i loaded them up with misc stuff as a precaution.
I hope this helps someone -
let me also thank everyone who saw my sign and stoppped in just to browse to help me out with merchant xp. it was very much appreciated
xstormbringerx
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Vendor Located -1555, -6020
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Vendor Located -1555, -6020
100m NE of Mos Chowbasa Tatooine Shuttleport
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Message Edited by xstormbringerx on 05-23-2004 01:07 PM
bline163
Mon May 24, 2004 10:14 am
#2
Good post! I will have to try this out once I grind merchant. I'm currently working on prof 27, and merchant will be prof 29 for me. My guild has about 170 people so with a guild wide mail I'm expecting to get a good turn out on help.
JmboTJ
Tue May 25, 2004 10:39 am
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Thought this was just because the merch xp didnt refresh in a timely fashion and showed up in a chunck when you check a vendor...
have to check this...thx
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