Best merchants to recharge items?

[cmccorkle66]

Any recommendations?

[Fammaden]

On blue I liked to use Rivervale, there's a vendor who walks around inside the hut near the water that was nearly always empty or close enough to it to buy him out easily.

[Bigsham]

Find a nice hut in kelethin like the jewel vendor or something

[Polycaster]

Mentioning a merchant in this thread will make it an incorrect answer.

[Smellybuttface]

It can be pretty much any merchant right, since you’re buying it back almost immediately?

[Polycaster]

There are 2 potential problems.
1. There has to be an empty slot for the item. Popular merchants get their slots filled quickly. If you sell an item to a merchant w/ no slots, it is gone.
2. Someone can come by and buy your item while you are selling the depleted items to be recharged. I seem to remember some drama about this on blue, where some people would lurk behind a guild going to recharge their items to scoop up a few.

[Clumpoid]

There are 2 potential problems.
1. There has to be an empty slot for the item. Popular merchants get their slots filled quickly. If you sell an item to a merchant w/ no slots, it is gone.
2. Someone can come by and buy your item while you are selling the depleted items to be recharged. I seem to remember some drama about this on blue, where some people would lurk behind a guild going to recharge their items to scoop up a few.

Oh man that sounds like fun

[Wallicker]

I like the merchants in OOT easily kill one on brother island, no one is bound there, no one can port there, so no shady fuckers. The merchant in runnyeye is good too bc you’ll be only person in zone. Think spots like barbarian fishing merchants in WK/EK/NRO are good hidden spots too. Just be quick and sometimes if it’s a very valuable recharge use a friend so you don’t have that 30sec delay

[Tecmos Deception]

I prefer Bubar, Shady, the merchant by the pond in overthere, etc. Nobody else ever recharges on those guys for some reason.

[Danth]

1. There has to be an empty slot for the item. Popular merchants get their slots filled quickly. If you sell an item to a merchant w/ no slots, it is gone.

It's not necessarily gone (unless it's been changed very recently?). A bit over a year ago a guildmate mistakenly vendor'd a high-value item to one of the worst-possible merchants, one of Kelethin newbie merchants. A couple thousand platinum and much buying later the item was found and recovered.

Danth

[Videri]

I recently sold a charged item to a Halfling mold merchant in Rivervale and, despite apparently having many slots open, she didn’t display the item I had sold. What’s up with that?

[eqravenprince]

I recently sold a charged item to a Halfling mold merchant in Rivervale and, despite apparently having many slots open, she didn’t display the item I had sold. What’s up with that?

Is there a fixed number of slots every merchant has?

[YendorLootmonkey]

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2. Someone can come by and buy your item while you are selling the depleted items to be recharged. I seem to remember some drama about this on blue, where some people would lurk behind a guild going to recharge their items to scoop up a few.

This is a thing here, too. I wouldn't risk a recharge unless you are the only one in the zone or know where everyone is at, have see invis, or can track by distance.

There are quite a few sociopaths stalking vendors waiting for someone to recharge something, and they know they're not petitionable since you sold the item to the merchant and its fair game for anyone to buy.

[damus1]

i just use an out of the way neriak booze vendor that no one uses. using any in open zones is asking for trouble, be quick about it and have see invis up if you insist on the convenience

[Taiku]

There are 2 potential problems.
1. There has to be an empty slot for the item. Popular merchants get their slots filled quickly. If you sell an item to a merchant w/ no slots, it is gone.
2. Someone can come by and buy your item while you are selling the depleted items to be recharged. I seem to remember some drama about this on blue, where some people would lurk behind a guild going to recharge their items to scoop up a few.

Oh man that sounds like fun

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=221029

and another i dunno how good it is

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=319315&highlight=stole+recharge

[Canelek]

Someone recently had this happen to them twice while red wood wanding specs in Oasis. They continued to use Gypsy vendors despite the same person lurking and buying the wands. No sympathy for that person since they opted to continue doing the same thing despite the obvious lesson learned that most people would enjoy.

[Wallicker]

Recharge in a zone where you are the only person in the zone and far from a zoneline

[Swish]

The best vendors are empty vendors, out of the way obscure ones in quiet cities.

Think Felwithe or the back end of Neriak.

[Canelek]

Then again, people are lazy and never stray far from high ZEM zones.

As you were.

[branamil]

I only recharge from the bartender at the bottom of Runneye

[Tethler]

This is a thing here, too. I wouldn't risk a recharge unless you are the only one in the zone or know where everyone is at, have see invis, or can track by distance.

There are quite a few sociopaths stalking vendors waiting for someone to recharge something, and they know they're not petitionable since you sold the item to the merchant and its fair game for anyone to buy.

Yeah, I need to make an alt with some money to park at oot and oasis vendors. I only have 1 wand i got when i randomly ran into Mina while running through lfay. Need me a couple more so I can PL myself!

[YendorLootmonkey]

Yeah, I need to make an alt with some money to park at oot and oasis vendors.

Ugh, don't be "that guy", fellow Ranger. :(

[firesyde424]

I use Gambel Quick in Neriak Foreign Quarter. Even after the server has been up a while, he is almost always empty.

[Videri]

Is there a fixed number of slots every merchant has?

I thought so.

I actually bought one item from her to clear a slot, and it didn’t reveal the item I sold.

[Natewest1987]

I've heard the best place to do it is in Oasis at a busy gypsie

[uygi]

I thought so.

I actually bought one item from her to clear a slot, and it didn’t reveal the item I sold.

That’s because they go in order; every item sold to the vendor before yours will show up first. If you dig through long enough, the item you sold will show up.

[Videri]

That’s because they go in order; every item sold to the vendor before yours will show up first. If you dig through long enough, the item you sold will show up.

Sure, but all she had was a bunch of smithing molds and 4 fine steel weapons. I sold her a Bracelet of Beetlekind, it didn't show up, I bought a fine steel weapon and luckily it was her last one of that type; but the bracelet still didn't show up even though I had cleared one inventory slot.

[cd288]

That’s because they go in order; every item sold to the vendor before yours will show up first. If you dig through long enough, the item you sold will show up.

I'm not sure that's the way it works otherwise things would always show up once you bought something to clear the slot. Or does it take awhile to update?

[Castle2.0]

Sure, but all she had was a bunch of smithing molds and 4 fine steel weapons. I sold her a Bracelet of Beetlekind, it didn't show up, I bought a fine steel weapon and luckily it was her last one of that type; but the bracelet still didn't show up even though I had cleared one inventory slot. Have had this happen before. Exiting vendor and re-entering vendor window will sort that out. Sometimes they will still be full and you'll have to buy more, sometimes your item will be there since there are no other items on them besides the one you just sold.