BDO Trading Life Skill | GrumpyG (2024)

BDO Trading is one of 11 Life Skills that allows players to profit by obtaining trade items and selling them to special NPC traders.

IMPORTANT UPDATE in Trading: Trade Manager items can no longer be purchased from Trade Managers and trading is somewhat disabled as they rework it. (Source.)

Obtaining Trade Items:

• Fishing Life Skill.
• Craft trade crates using workers and processed goods.

Trading Using Processed Trade Crates

Crate trading is the major form of trading available in the game.

There are many steps in creating trade crates:

1. Use CP to buy nodes and worker lodging.
2. Use energy to hire workers.
3. Obtain T1 materials and process up to T3.
4. Obtain Black Stone Powder. (Processing → grinding crystals or Black Stones)
5. Use CP to buy workshops for workers to package the materials into trade crates.
6. Transportation and delivery of crates via wagon etc.

There are trade crates for almost every T1 through T3 material. Many crates aren’t profitable.

Popular Trade Crates for Money

The prices listed can be greatly improved by distance bonus + bargain bonus.

Trade Crate Example:

Crate example source: https://www.somethinglovely.net/bdo/crates/

How Profitable it Crate Trading?

The majority of profit from crate trading will primarily be obtained from gathering or worker nodes. More silver value can be added when T1 materials are processed into higher tiers. Finally, trading can add a bit more silver, but not nearly as much as workers and processing alone and selling on the market.

Typical Value Distribution from Profitable Trade Crates:

• Workers or Gathering: 56%
• Processing to T3: 39%
• Trade Crate Production: 5%

Silver from trading alone is only a small portion.

To view which crates are profitable, factoring in costs, see gpw’s Trade Crate Calculator pictured in this guide. Thanks for the awesome work gpw!

Trade Crate Workers

Hiring the best workers is part of the fun in building a trading empire. Higher tier workers can make more boxes at one time if they are lucky to learn a trade crate skill.

• Green Grade Worker Crate Skill: Make 2 crates with 2x the ingredients in 1 work cycle
• Professional Worker Crate Skill: Make 3 crates with 3x the ingredients in 1 work cycle
• Artisan Worker Crate Skill: Make 4 crates with 4x the ingredients in 1 work cycle

Trade Crate Skill List for Artisan Workers

Worker Skill	Icon	Grade	Worker Skill In-game Description	Worker Skill Explanation
Adv. Herb Packing Skill		Artisan	Extra Work (+3) Done for herb crates	Makes 4 with 4x the ingredients in 1 work cycle
Adv. Mushroom Packing SKill		Artisan	Extra Work (+3) Done for mushroom crates	Makes 4 with 4x the ingredients in 1 work cycle
Adv. Ore Packing Skill		Artisan	Extra Work (+3) Done for ore crates	Makes 4 with 4x the ingredients in 1 work cycle
Adv. Produce Packing Skill		Artisan	Extra Work (+3) Done for grain/veggie/fruit crates	Makes 4 with 4x the ingredients in 1 work cycle
Adv. Timber Packing Skill		Artisan	Extra Work (+3) Done for timber crates	Makes 4 with 4x the ingredients in 1 work cycle

Trade XP Nerf for Mass Selling

Don’t mass sell your trade items at once recklessly.

Sell just enough crates to hit the next Trading level without selling too many to avoid XP loss. (https://youtu.be/gLuia2rGifk)

Origin & Node Connections

Trade items have an Origin that tells you where the trade item was obtained or in which city the worker who crafted it is from.

Origin is important for determining distance bonus and required node connections.

WARNING: If you attempt to sell at a location in which you haven’t purchased a node connection to, you will get a penalty, reducing the price to 30% of the Original Price.

Fish are excluded from this node connection penalty. You can fish anywhere and sell it at any Trade Manager.

After you have discovered an area and removed the fog over the map, node connections show as thin white lines that curve between the map icons. If you own that connection, it becomes a possible trade route and turns yellow. All your invested node icons are highlighted in yellow as well.

Trading Distance Bonus Between Major Towns (%)

A distance bonus is calculated when you sell a trade item. The longer the distance, the more silver you will earn.

NPC trade items get a penalty to this bonus. They only get a distance bonus equivalent to approximately 8.8% of the value in the table below.

Distance also increases Trading Exp earned when selling trade items.

Highest Distance Bonuses for City to City Trade:

• Grana ↔ Valencia City (113%)
• Old Wisdom Tree ↔ Valencia City (104%)
• Trent ↔ Valencia City (99%)
• Port Epheria ↔ Valencia City (94%)
• Grana ↔ Shakatu (89%)

NOTE: The highest distance bonus is 150% from Valenica City to Nampo Harbor, which is across the ocean in Land of Morning Light.

Trade Item Transport

Stacks of trade items have high LT.

Place the trade items on a Mule, Horse, Wagon, or Elephant nearby to transport the trade goods.

You can transport Trade Goods via the Storage Manager’s Transport function. Make sure “Trade Wagon” is selected under “Transportation.” This will cost silver, depending on the distance.

Connected trade routes make transporting bank items via the Storage Keeper from city to city cheaper.

Storage Keeper Trade Wagon Limits:

• 15LT: 2100 trade items
• 30LT: 1050 trade items

Horse Trade Crate Overstacking:

• 30LT: 7157 trade items
• 20LT: 10736 trade items
• 15LT: 14315 trade items

WARNING: remote collection and mount death while transporting will destroy trade items. PVP can occur for characters level 50+

Trading Bargain Mini-Game

When you reach a Trade Manager with your trade items you can bargain for a better price to increase your profits.

Bahar<Trade Manager>

For example, visit Bahar in Velia and select Trade option. Click on “Bargain Game” button on the bottom right.

Each Bargain attempt will cost 5 Energy.

Bargain attempts are limited to 3 before you have to pay more Energy. (Increase this to 7 if you have full Amity with Bahar. You can also get 1 to 3 extra bargain attempts from Luxury Vendor clothes.)

Available Bargain attempts are viewable as “Remaining x times” notice.

Trade Bargain Bonus

The silver amount you gain from bargaining is determined by your character’s Trading level. Less is given for NPC trade items.

Lowered Bargain Amount for NPC Trade Items

Bargain Bonus for NPC Trade Items = bargain bonus * 14.2%

For trade items purchased from an NPC, the bargain amount is reduced. For example, Professional 1 Trading level gives a bargain bonus of 20.5%. However, this is multiplied by 14.2% for trade items purchased from an NPC, leaving you with a bargain bonus of only 2.911%.

Increase Trading Level

Trading Exp can be earned through selling trade items and via quests.

The Leap Quests for Trading are available after you reach Apprentice 2 level.

They give anywhere from 20% to 80% of the level in their quest name.

Start the Trading Leap Questline: Quests (O key) → Suggested → [Life][Leap] Trading Guru.

Trading Leap Quests

Trading Leap quests require you to travel and talk to different Trade Manager NPCs.

Trading Leap Item Rewards

After completing the trading quest for Apprentice 10, you can pick up another quest for items. You can get more as you level up trading.

There are 5 Trading Quests at the following trade levels:

• Apprentice 10
• Skilled 5
• Professional 1
• Professional 10
• Artisan 10

These quests are easy, requiring you to speak to the quest giver.

Trading Gear & Items

There are many items you can use or wear to improve trading.

Anything that gives Life Exp or Trading Exp can be used before selling a trade item to level Trading faster.

Artifacts & Lightstones for Trading

Lightstones for Trading improve Trading Exp. Life Mastery has no impact on Trading unless the item has Life Exp on it. Trading Mastery is not available in the game.

TIP: You can also benefit from items that aid in horse training.

Trading & Training Lightstone List

Obtaining Trading Lightstones

Lighstone of Flora can be obtained in a variety of ways.

• Alchemy Life Skill with recipes using Imperfect Lightstones
• Simple Alchemy on Artifacts
• Turn Imperfect Lightstones into Lightstones via NPC + silver
• Give NPC 3 unwanted Lightstones for an RNG one.
• 1 time family quest line
• Rare drop from bosses and mid to high AP Grinding Spots (excludes Flora type)
• Guaranteed Resplendent Lightstone drop from a Guild Boss. (might not be Flora type)
• Marketplace

Sethra’s Trading Artifacts

* Many Life Skill activities can reward an Artifact that has Life Exp.

Trading Exp Artifact Combinations

Use Lightstone Combos to obtain some helpful buffs!

Lighstone Effects are added to the combos below.

Training & Horse Lightstone Combo List

Lighstone Effects are added to the combos below.

Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes

Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes can be purchased at the marketplace or crafted by a worker in a level 1 Costume Mill in major cities.

Workshop Recipe:

10- Cotton Fabric
10- Powder of Rifts
15- Black Stone Powder

Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes can be enhanced up to level 5.

Use another Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes to enhance. If enhancement fails, both clothes are destroyed.

There are no safe options to enhance these clothes. Crons can’t be used.

Trading Clothes Enhancement Levels & Buffs

Luxury Trader’s Clothes

Purchase Trader’s Clothes at any Luxury Vendor in a major city.

You can use an Equipment Tailoring Coupon from the Pearl Shop to turn it into a costume. This will free up your armor slots so you can wear Silver Embroidered Clothes with it.

	Trader’s Clothes	Buffs
	Apprentice Trader’s Clothes Requires Trading Beginner 7	1 extra chance at Bargain mini-game Luck +1
	Skilled Trader’s Clothes Requires Trading Apprentice 5	2 extra chances at Bargain mini-game Luck +1 Trading EXP +5%
	Professional Trader’s Clothes Requires Trading Professional 5	3 extra chances at Bargain mini-game Luck +1 Trading EXP +10%

Trading Crystals

Trade items can get heavy. Crystals may help you squeeze more into your inventory as you make a delivery.

There are many crystals that add +15 to +75 LT (ex. Gervish).

NOTE: certain trade items held in your inventory will cause you to carry a backpack and slows movement speed, no matter how much LT your character has. However, other trade items don’t have this effect.

How about an entire gear set that adds Weight Limit +1090 LT to your base LT?

+400 LT Weight Accessory Set:

• Root Treant’s Leaf Earring
• Root Treant’s Leaf Earring
• Root Treant’s Stem Ring
• Root Treant’s Stem Ring
• Root Treant’s Petal Necklace
• +2: Manos Golden Coral Belt

+200 LT Gear Set:

• Helmet of Hercules’ Might
• Armor of Hercules’ Might
• Gloves of Hercules’ Might
• Shoes of Hercules’ Might

• OR +2 Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes

+490 LT Weight Crystal Set:

Cobelinus (limit 2):

WON Magic Crystal – Cobelinus x2

Hystria (limit 2) :

BON Magic Crystal – Hystria x2

Unlimited & Budget Friendly:

Ancient Magic Crystal – Hystria x4

Gervish (4 set buff limit):

HAN Magic Crystal – Gervish x 4

Weight Limits for Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes:

Life Skill Crystal Mat

100 Magical Lightstone Crystal is required to make 1 Life or Vital Crystal.

More powerful Life Skill Crystals were introduced with the Land of the Morning Light patch.

• Life Crystal → Life EXP +5%
• Vital Crystal → Life Mastery +10

NOTE: Life Crystal and Vital Crystal do NOT have a crystal group and have no limit!

Life Skill Crystal

16 crystal slots:
+80% Life Exp or +160 Life Mastery

Vital Crystal Materials

Vital Crystal that gives Life Mastery +10 can be crafted by processing Forest Crystal with 4 other materials.

Processing (L) → Simple Alchemy:

• –Magical Lightstone Crystalx 100
• –Magical Shardx 50
• –Trace of Naturex 50
• –Forest Crystalx 1
• – Bloody Tree Knot x10

Life Crystal Materials

Life Crystal that gives Life EXP +5% can be crafted by processing Forest Crystal with 4 other materials.

Processing (L) → Simple Alchemy:

• –Magical Lightstone Crystalx 100
• –Magical Shardx 50
• –Trace of Naturex 50
• –Forest Crystalx 1
• – Spirit’s Leaf x10

Forest Crystal

1 Forest Crystal is used to craft 1 Life Skill crystal that buffs +5% Life EXP or +10 Life Mastery.

Obtain Forest Crystal:

• Sniper hunting in Land of the Morning Light – about 1 every 1.5 hours.
• Send worker to Dokkebi Forest node – 1 every 2 to 3 weeks.
• AFK Fishing in Land of the Morning Light – 1 every week.
• Special Barter – is this real? Not in my experience, but I have proof it exists.
• Exchange 1000 Sangpyeong Coin to Hyunyong in Moodle Village.

Magical Lightstone Crystal

100 Magical Lightstone Crystal is also required to craft a Life Exp or Mastery Crystal.

Obtain Magical Lightstone Crystal:

• Exchange Imperfect Lightstones or Lightstones you no longer need toDalishain the Wandering Alchemist.

Trading Mounts

Forest Path Wagon is considered the best mount to use for trading because it has an unlimited lifespan and many other benefits.

Forest Path Wagon Benefits:

• Level 4 horses at once.
• Best Inventory and Weight Limit.
• Unlimited Lifespan (It never needs to be replaced.)
• Wagon Gear to improve stats.
• The skill Forest Rush is a special ability like sprint for horse. Press SHIFT key to consume player stamina to temporarily speed your wagon.

Forest Path Wagon

Speed/Accel: 105%
Turn/Brake: 110%
Weight Limit: 5,000LT
Inventory Slots: 22
Horses: 4
Special Skill: Forest Rush
Lifespan: Unlimited

Trading Mount Comparison

Minature Elephant has the same LT as the Shabby Wagon after he is leveled to 15. Forest Path Wagon is considered BIS and has the largest weight capacity and excels in every stat except for base Speed. (This can be improved with gear.)

Trading Byproduct

When selling trade items in each major city, Stained Silk can be obtained based on a set probability depending on the type of trade item.

Exchange Stained Silk with Liana located in every major city.

Trading Byproduct	Reward (Select one)
Stained Silk x1	[Guild] Special Iron Ingot from Calpheon Workshop x1
Stained Silk x10	Trace of Nature x10
	Trace of Nature x10
	Trace of Nature x10
	900 Contribution EXP + Trading EXP x450

Archive of Old Trading System Using Trade Manager Goods

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Specific node locations outside major cities have NPCs like Node or Trade Managers that offer trade items for sale.

To start trading, interact with the trading NPC and click “Trade” button.

Each NPC gives you access to a seperate storage that holds up to 20k LT of trade items purchased from their shop.

• NPC trade items weigh 300 LT and have a 7 day time limit.
• Each node storage has 5 slots that will stack 5 different trade items.
• Trade items with different names or different time remaining occupy different slots.
• You can store a total of 66 trade items inside each node storage.
• A maximum of 50 of the same trade item will be available to purchase at one time, and you can’t switch servers to buy 16 more of the same.
• Some trade items require a Trading level to purchase.

Trade Manager NPC List & Locations

You can purchase trade items at any of the below Node or Trade Managers.

8 regions have three different NPC’s to buy trade goods from. Trade Managers of capital cities purchase the trade goods you bought from any region but their own.

	Node	Trade Manager NPC
Balenos	Western Guard Camp	Luke <Trade Manager>
	Bartali Farm	Emma Bartali <Node Management>
	Olvia	Lolly <Trade Manager>
Serendia	Glish	Larc <Trade Manager>
	Eastern Gateway	Breman <Trade Manager>
	Alejandro Farm	Amadeo Alejandro <Node Management>
Calpheon	Keplan	Hamir <Trade Manager>
	Behr	Triee <Trade Manager>
	Northern Wheat Plantation	Norma Leight <N Wheat Plantation Owner>
Mediah	Stonetail Horse Ranch	Asran <Node Management>
	Tarif	Brorum <Trade Manager>
	Kusha	Chakra <Trade Manager>
Valencia	Shakatu	Taphtar <Trade Manager>
	Sand Grain Bazaar	Atui Balacs <Katan M Trade Manager>
	Arehaza	Surondula <Trade Manager>
Kamasylvia	Old Wisdom Tree	Obi Bellen <Trade Manager>
	Acher Guard Post	Munanslyn <Acher Trade Manager>
	Grándiha	Titu <Trade Manager>
Drieghan	Ahib Conflict Zone	Selena Aer <Node Management>
	Marcha Outpost	Ladar <Node Management>
	Dormann Lumber Camp	Dormann <Node Management>
Everfrost	Pilgrim’s End	Lisae<Trade Manager>
	Awina’s Tail	Huan <Trade Manager>
	Camp Balacs	Jorg <Trade Manager>

Trading Order Contract

Each trading node has their own seperate “storage” for trade items with up to 20k weight and 5 slots.

This “Order Contract” storage is viewable at the Trade Manager NPC after purchasing a trade item.

Withdraw Trade Items:

You withdraw trade items from the Order Contract by right clicking them. Make sure you have a horse or wagon nearby. Trade items that go into your inventory greatly slow your movement speed and you can NOT use a mount with a trade item on your back.

WARNINGS:

• Trade items withdrawn from an Order Contract can NOT be put back inside the Order Contract.
• Withdrawing a trade item from the Order Contract storage will give the trade item a 3 hour time limit.

TIP: You can purchase items to put inside the Order Contract at any time, but be sure to come back later to transport them with a mount.

Trade Item Properties

Each trade item has certain properties that you must know in order to be successful in trading.

Original Price

Original Price is the price of the item at 100% and never changes.

Original Price can be viewed whenever you hover your mouse over the item.

The Original Price is in the item detail window in yellow color.

Trade Item In Stock

In Stock number tells you how many trade items you can buy at one time on the current server.

With a 20k LT weight limit in the Contract Order storage, you can store up to 66 trade items.

You can purchase up to 50 at one time. Switching servers doesn’t allow you to buy the remaining 16.

In Stock is refreshed every four hours with the trading reset cycle.

Purchase Price

Purchase Price is the price at which you originally purchased the trade item for.

The Purchase Price will never change.

It can be viewed inside the trade item’s mouse hover window and also as a blue number in the Order Contract storage.

Current Price

Current Price is the price that you can sell the trade item for currently in any major city of a different region than where you purchased it.

Current Price can fluctuate from 30% to 300% of the Original Price. This price fluctuation is seen beside the Current Price in parathesis in many trade interfaces.

Trading Reset Times:

Current Price updates every 4 hours at 02:00, 06:00, 10:00, 14:00, 18:00, and 22:00 (UTC).

Depleted In Stock Mechanic

If a trade item stays at 30% to 40% current price for more than 12 hours, it will be bought up by the “Huge Merchant Guild”.

The In Stock number will drop to 0 for 3 days. This means you will have a penalty preventing you from purchasing that item for 3 days.

After the 3 day penalty, the stock will return to 50 with a current price of 100%.

Because of this mechanic, you may want to frequently check trade item price fluctuations so you aren’t locked out of buying that item for 3 days.

Standby Fee

A Standby Fee of about 7k silver is charged immediately after purchase, and an additional fee is added every 4 hours from the time of purchase.

Standby Fee is deducted from your family silver when you retrieve the trade item from the Order Contract storage.

The Standby Fee is the number in yellow.

Remaining Standby Period:

• Each trade item has a 7 day time limit.
• Trade Items that are expired are worth 30% of the cost.
• A Standby Fee is charged every 4 hours during the 7 day Standby time.

3 Hour Price Guarantee

When a trade item is withdrawn from a Contract Order and put on a mount or character inventory, it is given a 3 hour time limit.

This is seen as the “Price Guarantee” whenever you hover your mouse over the item.

After the 3 hour time limit expires, the current value declines in increments to 30%.

Because of this trading mechanic, make sure you are ready to deliver your goods after you withdraw them from the Order Contract.

How Profitable is Trading?

Trading is profitable when you can purchase trade items at a low price and then sell them after one or more trading cycles if their price increases. (Within 7 days.)

But how can you guarantee a trade item’s price will increase with the next trading cycle?

Steps to Increase Trading Profits:

1. Read the Old Moon Guild Newsletter.
2. Confirm rumored price hikes by observing NPC chat bubbles.
3. Purchase the items if their value is between 125% to 200%.
4. Wait up to 4 hours for the next trade reset.
5. Sell trade items in a different region from the region it was purchased in.
6. Bargain before selling to the capital city Trade Manager.

Should I Buy Trade Items at 30% to 40%?

Keep in mind, you will earn less silver vs if you bought that item at 200% and sold it during a price hike for 300%.

A good trading cycle can give about 200 to 400 million silver. Sometimes there are no lucky buying options.

There are 6 trading cycles each day in 8 regions (24 trading nodes total).

Trading Silver Example (Rare & Lucky)

• Price hike for two trade goods at one node.
• Buy max allowed of 66 trade items, which is three wagon loads.
• Each trade item is purchased at 150% at a cost of 2,000,000 silver.
• Total silver = 396 million for one node.

Old Moon Guild Newsletter

Old Moon Guild Newsletter is used as a first step in determining upcoming price changes.

View Old Moon Guild Newsletter:
ESC → Life (F6) → Old Moon Guild Newsletter

Current Price updates every 4 hours.

• Normal Price Changes: 0% to 15%
• Special Price Changes:
  • HIKE: 200% (double the Current Price)
  • PLUNGE: 50% (half the Current Price)

Special price fluctuations are added to the normal 15% price changes.

WARNING: the price changes rumored in the newletter can be wrong or the opposite of what it says. That’s why it needs to be verified by NPC rumors.

Hike → Rise → Slight Rise → Slight Drop → Drop → Plunge

For the greatest profit, look for trade items with an upcoming price hike, then verify it with an NPC.

Trading Rumors via NPC Chats

All the price change rumors inside the Old Moon Guild Newsletter need to be verified.

Verify price news by visiting NPCs inside the major city of each region.

IMPORTANT: What the NPCs say is ALWAYS what will happen, while the newsletter can be misleading.

• If the NPCs are not there, then the price will rise or fall randomly.
• NPCs can say the exact opposite of what is reported in the newsletter. A price HIKE specified in the newsletter may actually mean an upcoming price PLUNGE.
• Always believe the NPCs over the newsletter.

• Life Skill Discord has sub channels for community price rumor reporting.

Future Price Increase Chat Bubles

TIP: look for NPCs that have chat bubbles similar to the following:

• Can’t meet the demand for item.
• Item has become more rare.
• Can’t find item.
• Prices are too high.
• Transport of item was interrupted.
• Find something like item somewhere else.

All of these chats indicate the price of the category or item they specify will rise, so you are safe buying them. If NPCs are saying the opposite of these, then that means the price will decline, so don’t buy them!

Trading Rumor NPC Locations

Below is an example of one of the trading regions. For all of them with screenshot examples, please visit this community sourced google doc.

Balenos Region: mostly Velia (A few Olvia locations are noted below.)

• General Goods (increase) – near General Goods vendor Clorince
• General Goods (decrease) – near Luxury vendor Elmos Berry
• Raw Materials (increase/decrease) – near Trade Manager Bahar
• Clothes (increase/decrease) – near Central Market Director in Velia
• Medicine (increase/decrease) – near Material Vendor Zaaira
• Food (increase) – inside Inn, near Nadia Rowen (Olvia City)
• Food (decrease) – alleyway near Lacy the Curio Collector (Olvia City)
• Military Supplies (increase/decrease) – near Blacksmith Tranan Underfoe
• Luxuries (increase/decrease) – near Jeweler Marsella
• Relic (increase) – near the trade manager in Olvia, around the back of the building
• Relic – near the trade manager in Olvia

Trade Item List & Trader Locations

Below is a list of all of the trade items that you can purchase from a Trade Manager NPC located at 24 different node locations.

Price is “Orginal Price” which is 100% Current Price.

Source: Trade revamp patch notes of April 6, 2023. (The previous trade items purchased from Trade Managers were removed.)

Trading Level Requirements

Level in the charts below represents required Trading Skill in order to purchase that item.

Balenos Trading

Capital City: Velia
Capital City Trader: Bahar <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Balenos Trade Items

Serendia Trading

Capital City: Heidel
Capital City Trader: Siuta <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a further region.

Serendia Trade Items

Calpheon Trading

Capital City: Calpheon City
Capital City Trader: Harden <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Calpheon Trade Items

Mediah Trading

Capital City: Altinova City
Capital City Trader: Quina <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Mediah Trade Items

Valencia Trading

Capital City: Valencia City
Capital City Trader: Yis Kunjamin <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Valencia Trade Items

Kamasylvia Trading

Capital City: Grána City
Capital City Trader: Okiara <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Kamasylvia Trade Items

Drieghan Trading

Capital City: Duvencrune City
Capital City Trader: Tikara <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Drieghan Trade Items

Everfrost Trading

Capital City: Eilton City
Capital City Trader: Bollona <Trade Manager>

NOTE: NPC trade items purchased in this region can NOT be sold to the capital city trader of this region. They must be delivered to a capital city of a further region.

Everfrost Trade Items (Mountain of Eternal Winter)

Trading Partly Disabled on Jan 17, 2024

Source

After January 17 update, Trading has been temporarely disabled while we find new ways to revamp this Life Skill.

• Trade Managers in each town stopped handling general trade goods.
• The Old Moon Guild Newsletter for trade announcements is no longer available.
• You won’t carry a load on your back when you obtain trade goods via gathering or guild drilling.
• With the suspension of general trade, the restrictions related to trade goods have been changed for certain contents:
– Use of Guild Rally Command
– Use of Lafi Bedmountain’s Upgraded Compass/Telescope
– Use of Archaeologist’s/Traveler’s Map
– Character transport between towns
– Use of the Magnus
– Use of Maid/Butler
– Use of Campsite
– Entering the Free Arena, Red Battlefield, Old Moon Grand Prix, and Elvia Realm
– Use of Trainer’s Flute when carrying trade goods on a mount
– Storing a mount in Krogdalo’s Sanctuary when carrying trade goods on the mount
– Storing trade goods in Clorince’s Travel Bag
• The following Trading weekly quests are no longer available:
– Redeeming the Good Name of Xian, Urgent Request from Calpheon Workshop, Must-Haves for Calpheonian Madams, Dreaming Little Girl, Luxuries of the Altinovan Nobles, Parade of Research

Trading Revamp of April 6, 2023

• Old npc trade items replaced with new ones.
• Desert trading buffs removed: “Token of Desert Trading” from Ibellab Oasis and Pilgrim’s Sanctum: Sharing.
• The selling price of regular trade items such as fish, crafting boxes, trade crates, Ancient Gold Coins, etc. was doubled.
• Imperial Trade Delivery and Smuggling were removed from the game.
• NPC trade items are now bought at designated nodes and sold in a different region’s capital city.
  • Price changes depending on time of purchase.
  • Price changes every 4 hours based on probability, max 300% increase.
  • ‘Price warranty period’ provides a limited time to sell items at one price till it expires.
  • Special price fluctuations happen occasionally; info from residents can help predict changes.
  • Players need to decide when to buy, how much, etc., analyze price trends during price guarantee period to make profit.
  • Trade items purchased at nodes will have lower Bargain and Distance bonus.

Sources & Additional Info

Thanks so much to all the content creator’s below!

• Official wiki page on Trading.
• bdfoundry.com trading guide.
• Summer’s Trading guide.
• Life Skill Discord with EU and NA community price rumor reporting.
• gpw’s sheet: Trading/Crates Calculator v1.1
• Patch Notes for Trading Revamp of April 6, 2023 and later Patch Notes for NPC trade item removal and disablling Order Contract systems on January 17, 2024.
• News release detailing old deleted trade items.
• Patch Notes for Giant Merchant Guild + trade item quest changes
• Community sourced sheet for Trade Rumor NPC locations