atleast i only took them to give free arcspheres to low levels so it doesnt affect me, but still
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Let’s just delete merchant at this point
took one cuz active abilities are lame
cant really imagine using one except to buy notebooks tho
could be useful for uncommon catalysts and coal
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How on earth is merchant supposed to even compare to the utility the other professions offer if it can’t even sell rare tier???
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To make em useful they should sell stuff equal to their rarity 
I feel like they should start with common shit so you can get notebooks, then some uncommons, then rares and small chance to get scrolls, then the exotic enchants and sky pumpkins, and at legendary they should sell those scorched fragments and Gaia tears and a very small chance to sell acrimony
It’s not like theyre giving it for free, you still gotta buy the shit. Maybe make the scrolls, vindicator, and acrimony and stuff cost triple, but at least sell them.
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mfw merchant cant be good for a single day before getting gutted 
Coal especially man
Cannoneer was a nightmare and if I have to get another one on Vega
k that does sound op, unless vetex makes them so over price to the point u will only take them bc of desperation, i cant see that balanced
I mean legendary scales are basically a 24 hours late drop from castaways, those guys be loaded with legendary fish, and scorched fragments can literally be found in chests. Gaia tears can be found all over the floor in the dark sea, idk why they’re legendary to begin with. The acrimony can be sold for triple for all I care, and at 0.5% to even be offered each refresh, just make him useful
Plus if you leveled a merchant to legendary he should be legendary.
Come on Vetex. At least make the items farmable in some way! I was all like “oh yay it’ll finally fix the supply issues of rare reagents and catalysts” but no of course it won’t. If you’re not going to give us a way to gather the items naturally, try putting them somewhere that isn’t random fucking chance from chests please
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I too enjoy Merchants being gutted more than they already were, to the point that they’re only good for getting the Coal and Notebooks needed for other deckhand upgrades.
Really, they should be able to sell stuff higher than Uncommon, but only if that stuff isn’t Dark Sea-exclusive. It’d be nice to finally have a semi-reliable source of Golden Apples and Scorched Metal Shards.
I disagree, your deckhand is going right out into the dark sea with you, why wouldn’t they have dark sea items?
Lore/logic aside, if they can’t sell sought after and valuable resources, then nobody is going to want it.
Limiting off acrimonies from the list is as far as it has any reason to go.
Sure, I agree, acrimonies shouldn’t be something you have alot of because it isn’t something you need alot of.
One acrimony and a player could be set for real world weeks/months.
This applies to no other dark sea reagent.
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merchants should have like a very rare chance to sell rarer stuff, like yknow I’d be pretty disappointed in my merchant if they couldn’t get better stuff than some dark hunting armour
Good point, but why would the Deckhand (or your crew in general) ever consider stepping off the ship? The only profession that would truly benefit from it would be Merchant, funnily enough, but there’s also a high risk of Atlanteans on the islands.
I just made a suggestion
alternatives considered: make it so it “distributes” items
so at max level it sells eg… 4 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare
the main reason vetex did this was cause you could redock to instantly refresh items
this means that you could have infinite exotic gems or arcspheres or whatever
bruh so instead of patching that exploit, he fucking guts the profession, i have respect for vetex for making good games and u can see the hard work, but that just extremely dumb
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Merchant deckhands got gutted before they even got the chance to be good with the ship docking fiasco in 1.14.36, and this man dedicated a whole patch just to murder the profession.
Idk man first the lack of compensation for Atlantean+Virtuos and now this. He could’ve just reversed the change and implemented a better solution if it fucked up the economy so much, but decided to go with such a bad band-aid solution instead.