Vendor Price and Pricing Strategies Guide : Lineage 2 General Discussions

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:

..............................Markup.....Castle Tax

Starting Villages:......+15%
Gludin Village:..........+15%.........+5%
Floran Village:..........+15%.........+5%
Gludio Village:..........+15%.........+5%
Dion Village:............+15%.........+5%
Oren Village:...........+15%..........+5%
Ivory Tower:...........+15%
Hunter's Village:......+30% (that's why items are so expensive here!)

EX:
..............................................Starting...............Gludio..............Hunter's
.......................Base Price......Village Price......Village Price.....Village Price
Markup: ................0%................15%.................20%................30%
Forest Bow......136,000a........156,400a.........163,200a..........176,800a

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!

-Sirat

What about Giran? Stuff is cheaper there, it must be 10%.

yeah i was just going to say u forgot Giran but i think its 15% and u have the scale a bit off but im probably wrong

no, giran is 10%, which is why its the cheapest place to get upper (d grade) stuff

yeah ok i knew it was cheapest just didnt remember the tax

at work atm...when i get back i'll fix it and expand on other villages