Author - kixor

Foreword and Disclaimer:

first off, let me apologize: i'm always, always, always very long-winded, and can take three sentences to describe something simple just because i never want to not give enough information. so, this may be long, but a lot of it is just clarification. you can skim over most of it and get the most important information easily enough.

i have been lurking around on the Tips and Guides section of the forums since i've started playing, since i'm the kind of person that loves knowing as much as i possibly can about anything. in this time, i've noticed that there has never been a good, explicit guide that teaches the inexperienced what they are vendoring that really might be worth some cash. hence, i've decided to write this little guide to help those that don't know what they have, or those that have an item and they don't know what to sell it for. since this guide is written from my own experience, i can only speak for the starter areas that i've spent enough time in to become familiar with the loots and quests. just because i don't mention a specific item as being part of a quest doesn't mean that it's not, it just means that it wasn't for me. please note, however, that i cannot be held for changes in the ingame economy, due either to more people playing, people getting to a higher level, or more items being introduced to the market. all price guidelines i offer in this guide are only valid as of the latest edit date. past this date, all prices are subject to market demand.

Once upon a time...: (aka inside the starter town)

when you first start the game, you have nothing but the clothes on your back - literally. you don't have any gold, and you have no weapons; not only that, but the clothing you're wearing has no pockets for accessories, nor any stat modifications. so, how do you go about making money? well, there's one key about this game: when you level up, as mobs get too far below you, they will stop dropping items, but some quests may still require those items. so what's this mean? someone with that quest either has to make a new character to get these items, or the items have to be bought. we hope it's the second one Smile at the very beginning, don't sell any of your loots until you've done almost all of the quests in your town, at least, and this is for the exact reason i've already mentioned. not only might you end up using them for a quest, if you don't, you might be able to sell them to someone that will! i've ended up with over 200 of some items from certain mobs, just because i had the feeling it might be used for a quest. i found out later that it wasn't, and let me tell you, it really felt nice to get over 5,000 gold all at once from selling the 200 of them at the same time. now of course, if you're in dire need of money because you just saw the most awesome +7 blue weapon and the guy left off a zero on the price, then you can ignore that rule.

items to watch for, and collect, while leveling:
- Big Pouches: these are used in a "Collection" quest that allows you to get elixers, but you need 100 of them. by the time you'd do the quest, you won't find any more big pouches from mobs, so save these! if you sell them in bulk (it's a pain to buy 3 from one shop, 12 from the next, etc. when you need 100), you can get 30-40 per pouch (3-4k/100), which is a nice bit more than the 16 from the shop.
- Cotton Pouches: same deal as before, and i've often seen them selling upwards of 50 each, even up to 100 each (5-10k/100; but they were still in the guy's shop after some time, so that was probably too much)
- Viper Skins: haven't seen these being sold too often. can probably fetch 60-70 per, for 6-7k/100.
- Golden Cases: the only starter town that i know for sure where these drop is Mt. Yanmo, so if you're HD (Heavenly Demon), this is something to watch out for. these are used both in the quest to join HD clan, as well as the collection quest, meaning there's extra demand. however, those doing the HD quest are usually GC8-10, meaning they won't pay as much as those for the collection quest. the catch here is that those doing the HD quest will buy them a lot faster than people buying items for the collection quest, so if you need quick cash, set up a stand near the HD quest NPC. being on the rarer side, these can fetch 1-2k easily, and i've even seen some disappear in shops priced at 5k (20-40k/20). when in Mt. Yanmo, they are generally found at 200-500 per, for 1k-2.5k/5. (Norus says: Golden Boxes also drop in the League of Beggars starting town.)
- Small Cases: another HD quest item. these tend to be very common, so you can probably sell for 50-100 each (1k-2k/20)
- Fox Skin: a Wu-Tang quest item, these drop off the foxes you'll be killing from the get-go. the quest requires 15 of them, and for the level the quest appears, you can probably sell them for 20-40 each (300-600/15)
- Fir Tree Seedlings: these are leftovers from a Christmas Event, with no indication how long they will last. i strongly suggest that you turn in 10 of them yourself to an NPC in Hefei (he's the only one with a quest icon on the minimap) not for the Christmas Suit, which is nice for covering your gimp clothing if you're like me, but for the 5 slices of cake that he gives you. these will give +10 to all attributes for 30 minutes, making a huge difference in the lower levels. these cakes cannot be traded, do note, so if you do the quest, you'll just have to use them, as you can't sell them off Wink turning in each extra 10 seedlings will offer you the choice of a Silver Conqueror's Chest, or a set of 3 Conqueror's Keys in the color of your choice. a very nice reward, making the seedlings themselves worth 1,000 each on the standard (10k/10).
- White Shadows Masks and Relics: these are used in a collection quest. i never really killed white shadow mobs that often, and i don't see them being sold, so i don't know what you c