If you have ever traveled from one village to another you may realize that some have lower prices on items and some may have higher. Vendor pricing is usually based on how far the village is from starting areas and how secluded they are. To understand how the vendors price the items there are a few things you need to know:

-Every item has a base price that never changes
-Each village will markup this base price by certain percentages (ex. all starting villages have a 15% markup from the base price)
-Villages that have castles will experience an additional markup (default is +5% EX: the Gludin markup is +15% and +5% of castle tax making it 20%)
-If a castle is controlled by a clan, the castle tax can be increased

The following is the current % markup of items base prices:

EX:

Now when you go to sell your items to the shop, the shop will give you 50% of the base price of the item…EX: Forest Bow 136,000a x .5 = 68000a

So why is this information helpful to you?

1. you know which village to buy fromt that has the least % of markup when buying items (especially useful when marking them up yourself and reselling)
2. You understand the shop pricing mechanics of the game
3. You can use these equations to determine the prices you sell your items at

I hope this guide is somewhat helpful to those wondering about vendors and want to save and make money!

Top 10 Quests
Here are the top 10 Quests to complete which rewards the most Adenas.
Adept of Taste – 7,500 Adena
Dwarven Kinship – 6,100 Adena
Seed of Evil – 6,000 Adena
Totem of the Hestui – 5,200 Adena
Will the Seal be Broken? – 4,900 Adena
Dark Winged Spies – 3,500 Adena
Sweetest Vendom – 3,500 Adena
Blood Fiend – 3,000 Adena
Protect the Water Souce – 2,500 Adena
Trade with the Ivory Tower – 2,000 Adena

Top 10 Mobs
Top 10 mobs that drops the most amount of adena or loot.
Antaras -300,000 – 400,000 Adena
Core – 12,000 – 23,000 Adena
Queen Ant – 10,500 – 21,100 Adena
Pytan Knight – 1,145 – 2,290 Adena
Pytan – 1,125 – 2,251 Adena
Barif – 984 – 1,967 Adena
Barif’s Pet – 862 – 1,722 Adena
Malruk Berserker – 855 – 1,711 Adena
Karik – 848 – 1,697 Adena
Malruk Lord – 836 – 1,672 Adena
Top 10 Most Valued Items
Top 10 Items which values the most based on NPC buy rates.
God’s Blade – 38,000,000 Adena
Yablonski’s Blade – 35,300,000 Adena
The Staff – 35,300,000 Adena
Dragon’s Tooth – 35,300,000 Adena
Shining Bow – 35,300,000 Adena
Dragon Claw Axe – 35,300,000 Adena
Tears of Fallen Angel – 35,300,000 Adena
Dragon Slayer – 27,000,000 Adena
Elysian Axe – 27,000,000 Adena
Branch of the World Trees – 27,000,000 Adena

Basic Mob Hunting
You’ll normally collect more adena if you were to hunt solo rather than grouped. The amount collected is usually less unless your character is really gimp and are unable to solo mobs on its own. Ideally you should target gree/blue con mobs. Although they give you much less SP they do provide a good amount of adena for the time you would take to kill them. Make sure the mobs you are farming are not too tough and that you do not have much downtime. If you are caster, assure that you’re able to kill the mob with out having to use too much power. If you’re a tank, try not to lose too much life or you will end up sitting majority of the time you are farming. Find areas where there are less players and is loaded with mobs. Having to wait for respawns can waste alot of time. You also do not want to run into too many players farming the same mobs as you, hence it’ll reduce the amount of mobs for you to farm. Avoid using soulshots as well, they can cost alot of money and should only be used when you’re in danger of dying.

Questing
There are some quests that are actually worth doing but here are some basic questing tips you should keep in mind while completing them. Always try to complete the quests that provides the highest amount of rewards for adena and/or offers a very valuable item. Always accept quests that involves killing alot of monsters. It helps you level along with some good loots from time to time. You can also combine certain quests if they are within the same area, being able to complete multiple quests within the same route is much better than completing them seperately. Avoid traveling long distances because they take up alot of time, travelling time can be converted to farming time. Always keep a “scroll of escape” around. Good to use when in danger and good to save yourself time from travelling long distances.
Drops
There are many mobs that have good drops, but that doesn’t mean you should solely focus all your time on them. Drop rates are by chance and chances are you will spend more time killing them for nothing than actually being able to get that specific item. However, if you are farming an area with a bunch of mobs and there are some with good drops you would of course choose to hunt those first before the rest.
Buying and Selling
Avoid buying from NPC merchants. They usually tend to cost more than buying from another player in the game. If you are planning to purchase a new set of equipment or any other item, buy them from Giran. Taxes there are only 10% and when you buy in large amounts you tend to save alot more. Do not sell off your loots immediately. Try to find the best bargen for them. Look around for players who are spamming “WTB…”. They tend to offer a higher price than normal since they probably have important use of it. Private stores can be one of your biggest assets in the game. You can easily browse through a wide selection at various prices, although it may lag alot but sometimes it can be worth the time spent. You may also want to setup your own store as well when you want to sell off your items. Would be ideal when you go AFK for a long period of time or planning to go to sleep. Don’t start your store and stare at the screen though, that’s just silly and a waste of time. Avoid selling more than 3 items at a time, set price 5-10% below shop price. You should be able to get a good return within 1-2 hours.
Traveling Merchants
If you have extra adenas laying around and you tend to travel a bit for whatever reason, you can be a travelling merchants. Getting to Giran can take a while and lot of players would rather not travel there to purchase stuff unless neccessay. You can always buy a stock full of some items that are demanded within certain areas and sell them off at a higher rate than being sold at Giran. Arrows, healing potions and soulshots are commonly bought items throughout the game. Ideal to stock up a bit on those and setup a store in caves or where ever when you need to go AFK. From time to time if you know the market well enough, there are players who are in desperate need of adena and will sell their item at a much lower price than normal. You can easily buy that and resell later at a higher rate.