Chapter 153 – Exchange Market
“It's 2 o'clock . I'll be going off too then?” Su Mucheng said .
“How are you leveling your account?” Ye Xiu asked her . Su Mucheng shouldn't have the time to level her low-leveled account . But right now, her Cleansing Mist was very close to Lord Grim's level, not a step slower .
“You don't need to worry about that!” Su Mucheng hummed a tune and then logged out .
“Dungeon again?” Tang Rou asked . Now that they were Level 30, running Frost Forest was no longer a viable option, but Boneyard could still give some experience . Apart from this, they could enter a new dungeon, the Level 30-33 dungeon Line Canyon .
This dungeon was still a five-member dungeon and could only be run three times every day, the same as Desolate Land . Yesterday, after leveling to 30, Ye Xiu and the others had already began running it . The unfamiliarity of the dungeon for the first three runs naturally made Tang Rou feel challenged by it, so she was now quite interested in going to Line Canyon .
“No rush . We're going shopping . ” Ye Xiu said .
“Shopping?” Tang Rou stared blankly .
“We're Level 30 now . You two should start paying attention to your equipment now . ” Ye Xiu said, “For equipment, higher-leveled doesn't necessarily mean that it's better . True experts have to know how to choose equipment that fit their play style . Movement speed, attack speed, these types of speed-related stats, higher doesn't necessarily mean better either . When the speed is too high, it's pretty common for players to go out of control and expose an opening . Experts don't chase after equipment with the highest stats . They chase after equipment that suits them the best . Why are self-made equipment so strong? It's not just because their stats are higher than an Orange equipment by a level . More importantly, it's because they're custom-made specially to suit the player's style . Take my Thousand Chance Umbrella as an example . If you don't have enough experience in the game, it wouldn't be possible to fully utilize this weapon's might . ”
“For weapons, normal players usually choose the weapon with the highest attack . But for experts, attack isn't the only thing to be considered because it doesn't how they use the weapon . What truly affects their weapon choice is the weapon's attack speed, length, weight, etc . These sort of properties are all necessary to consider in real battle . Let's say I give you a Lance with an attack twice as high as your current one, but with a length that's a third of yours . If you used the one I give you, do you think your strength will increase or decrease?” Ye Xiu explained and then suddenly quizzed Tang Rou .
Tang Rou heard the question and was stumped . Whether she'd be stronger or weaker, she had no way of judging that . But she at least understood what Ye Xiu was trying to get at .
“The greater the expert, the higher the expert's awareness towards how different weapons feel . Because I'm not you, as a bystander, I can only give you some suggestions, but what exactly you choose depends on you . This means that you're going to have to try out lots of different weapons . What you're looking for is the most suitable equipment . Either that or you're going to need to adjust your playing style to the equipment you choose . In the end, it all depends on you to decide . ”
They walked while they talked, until the three characters finally arrived at Congee City .
Congee City was much larger than Bulls Town . This was one of the major cities in Glory . It was also the first major city that players would come across and a gathering place for low to mid level players .
From Level 30 onwards, players paid closer attention to equipment and so the Exchange Market would become much more popular . Lots of messages for buying and selling would begin to appear on the world channel too . Once a player entered Congee City, the player would see players buying and selling items everywhere around them .
However, the prices for many of the items were extremely high . The new servers had lots of new players . But even though new players didn't understand, they weren't stupid . There were very few fools who sold items as if they were trash . Most players who didn't know of an item's price would look around first . They would go to the market and ask around . Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were both left speechless after looking at the marked prices .
Along their journey to Level 30, they hadn't gotten any super-lucky gains . Besides the rewards from quests, their only source of income was from monster drops . However, these were all just chump change . The money they had accumulated up until now didn't exceed 10 Gold coins . Buying potions and so on usually used Silver coins as the unit of measure . In the beginner village, the lowest leveled health and mana potions were 1 Silver coin a bottle . 1 Gold coin was equal to 100 Silver coins . 10 Gold coins were enough to buy a lot of these potions . However, these were all the lowest-leveled potions . For Level 30 players, it wasn't worth buying them .
For Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion to have been able to accumulate that much money was already considered quite good . Their skill levels were high, so they were able to dodge most attacks in real battle . If not, then if they were normal new players, they would have used up all of their money from quests and drops on potions . If they didn't do any reselling for profit trading, then they wouldn't be able to afford anything . 10 Gold coins was already considered quite rich among these normal players .
Ye Xiu looked through several booths . He discovered that even though the market had already taken form, Level 30 and up items were still rare . The reason was because Level 30 players were currently a very small part of the player population . The majority of players were still trying to reach Level 30 . At this moment, there were quite a lot of booths, but most of them were players under Level 30 setting up booths after seeing others do it . As a result, the majority of equipment sold weren't Level 30 . Besides a few unique equipment, the rest weren't anything remarkable .
Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion at least knew to look for equipment based on their levels . They ignored everything under Level 30 and only looked at equipment Level 30 and above .
“So expensive!!” Seeing the prices on the equipment, the two expressed their regrets .
A normal Level 30 Blue piece of equipment cost 10 gold coins, their entire fortune . Class-set equipment were even more expensive . They varied from 20 Gold coins to 40 Gold coins for one . Why was there a difference? This was because even though Glory's 24 classes were balanced well, there were still classes more popular than others . For example, Blade Masters and Sharpshooters were the two most popular classes in Glory . It was the same in the new server . With a greater demand, the equipment for those classes were naturally a bit more expensive .
Armor was like this . Weapons were even more so . A Level 30 Blue weapon cost between 30 gold coins to 50 gold coins . The variance was also because of the difference in classes . As for Purple weapons, normal ones cost 100 gold coins . For ones with more outstanding stats, those could cost nearly 200 gold coins .
These prices were a bit more fair . After all, the vast majority of players that had hit Level 30 were veterans from the big guilds . Under the standards they set, those crazier players that had hit Level 30 too set their prices in the same way . There weren't too many with ridiculous prices .
“If I wanted to buy a weapon, how long would I need to save up money?” Tang Rou said .
“It looks like it'd be better to just save up points in the Arena!” Steamed Bun Invasion was still using that Level 25 Purple Claw he got from the Arena .
“Ha ha, as long as the equipment isn't binded, then you can always resell your equipment later!” Ye Xiu said .
In Glory, equipment from the normal servers could be binded . After being binded, the equipment wouldn't drop if you died . But it also meant that it couldn't be traded . Once the equipment was bound, it wasn't possible to unbind it, which was why at this stage of the game, practically no one bound their equipment . Everyone wanted to sell their equipment later after it grew outdated . But because of this reason, the price for low-leveled equipment would eventually take a dive as the equipment grew outdated . For example, in the oldest first server, the equipment that Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were gasping at were ten times cheaper . Moreover, most players didn't want to waste their time peddling them and directly sold them in the NPC stores .
“Then what do we need to buy?” Tang Rou asked .
“Weapons . ” Ye Xiu said . After witnessing Maple Tree's performance three times, Ye Xiu didn't want to put his entire trust onto whether that guy would improve . In the end, he decided that they should upgrade their equipment and be more ready .
“Where are we going to get that money?” Tang Rou said . She had seen a Purple Lance being sold for 120 gold coins . Blue Lances were a lot cheaper; they were all under 40 gold coins . But a Level 30 Blue weapon was about the same as her Level 25 Purple weapon, so there was no point in buying one . If she were going to switch weapons, she'd had to buy a Purple Lance .
“Money isn't a problem . Just look for a weapon that you like! If you think the one you're using right now is good, then you should choose the Level 30 Scarlet Moon Lance . It's the around the same length and weight as your current one . ” Ye Xiu said .
“Oh? Them I'm going to go look around . I'll pay you back later . ” Tang Rou said .
“Buy me a cigarette pack and that'll be enough . ” Ye Xiu said .
“I'm waiting for my pay to come… . . ” Tang Rou said gloomily . She currently had no money . She had lost it all to Ye Xiu .
“Steamed Bun! Look for a weapon you like, it'll be my gift!” Ye Xiu said to Steamed Bun Invasion .
“Ha ha, I get one too!!” Steamed Bun Invasion cheered .
“Of course . ”
“Then I'm going to go look . ” Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't as polite . He had gaming experience . Even though it wasn't in Glory, he could still infer one thing from three in many places . In his eyes, Ye Xiu and him were at a completely different level . Ye Xiu was an expert . A god . Experts gifting new players equipment was a very common occurrence, so there was no need to be polite .
Steamed Bun Invasion returned after a short while and said he found a weapon that he liked . Ye Xiu followed him to go look and immediately regretted what he had said: “Steamed Bun, you really aren't polite at all!”
“Ha ha!” Steamed Bun Invasion laughed . He had found an Orange weapon . Ye Xiu had looked around all day and this was the first Orange equipment he had seen . How did Steamed Bun Invasion smell that out? In just a minute after he heard that he'd be gifted an equipment, he fished this out .
Level 30 Orange weapon Vampiric Claw, 800 gold coins . How could the price of Orange weapons be similar to Blue or Purple weapons?
“Can I?” Steamed Bun Invasion asked .
“Of course not! I only have 15 gold coins on me . I have to go sell things to buy you guys weapons . 800 gold coins . Do you want me to sell myself!!” Ye Xiu said . The only reason he had 5 more gold coins than Steamed Bun Invasion and Tang Rou was all because he had consumed even fewer potions and food than them .
“Really? Then I'll go look around again . ” Steamed Bun Invasion ran off .
“Orange weapons are no good!!” Ye Xiu stressed .
“Got it!” Steamed Bun Invasion's voice came from far away .
Ye Xiu shook his head and then immediately let Lord Grim head to one corner of the market . He had noticed a booth with a sign: Buying Uncommon Materials .
“How are you buying Strong Spider Silk?” Lord Grim walked forward and then asked .
The other side turned his character to look at him . After a short moment of silence, he said: “Lord Grim… . . Didn't you earn these Strong Spider Silk from us? And now you want to sell it back to us?”
Chapter 153 Exchange Market It s 2 o clock . I ll be going off too then Su Mucheng said . How are you leveling your account Ye Xiu asked her . Su Mucheng shouldn t have the time to level her low leveled account . But right now, her Cleansing Mist was very close to Lord Grim s level, not a step slower . You don t need to worry about that Su Mucheng hummed a tune and then logged out . Dungeon again Tang Rou asked . Now that they were Level 30, running Frost Forest was no longer a viable option, but Boneyard could still give some experience . Apart from this, they could enter a new dungeon, the Level 30 33 dungeon Line Canyon . This dungeon was still a five member dungeon and could only be run three times every day, the same as Desolate Land . Yesterday, after leveling to 30, Ye Xiu and the others had already began running it . The unfamiliarity of the dungeon for the first three runs naturally made Tang Rou feel challenged by it, so she was now quite interested in going to Line Canyon . No rush . We re going shopping . Ye Xiu said . Shopping Tang Rou stared blankly . We re Level 30 now . You two should start paying attention to your equipment now . Ye Xiu said, For equipment, higher leveled doesn t necessarily mean that it s better . True experts have to know how to choose equipment that fit their play style . Movement speed, attack speed, these types of speed related stats, higher doesn t necessarily mean better either . When the speed is too high, it s pretty common for players to go out of control and expose an opening . Experts don t chase after equipment with the highest stats . They chase after equipment that suits them the best . Why are self made equipment so strong It s not just because their stats are higher than an Orange equipment by a level . More importantly, it s because they re custom made specially to suit the player s style . Take my Thousand Chance Umbrella as an example . If you don t have enough experience in the game, it wouldn t be possible to fully utilize this weapon s might . For weapons, normal players usually choose the weapon with the highest attack . But for experts, attack isn t the only thing to be considered because it doesn t how they use the weapon . What truly affects their weapon choice is the weapon s attack speed, length, weight, etc . These sort of properties are all necessary to consider in real battle . Let s say I give you a Lance with an attack twice as high as your current one, but with a length that s a third of yours . If you used the one I give you, do you think your strength will increase or decrease Ye Xiu explained and then suddenly quizzed Tang Rou . Tang Rou heard the question and was stumped . Whether she d be stronger or weaker, she had no way of judging that . But she at least understood what Ye Xiu was trying to get at . The greater the expert, the higher the expert s awareness towards how different weapons feel . Because I m not you, as a bystander, I can only give you some suggestions, but what exactly you choose depends on you . This means that you re going to have to try out lots of different weapons . What you re looking for is the most suitable equipment . Either that or you re going to need to adjust your playing style to the equipment you choose . In the end, it all depends on you to decide . They walked while they talked, until the three characters finally arrived at Congee City . Congee City was much larger than Bulls Town . This was one of the major cities in Glory . It was also the first major city that players would come across and a gathering place for low to mid level players . From Level 30 onwards, players paid closer attention to equipment and so the Exchange Market would become much more popular . Lots of messages for buying and selling would begin to appear on the world channel too . Once a player entered Congee City, the player would see players buying and selling items everywhere around them . However, the prices for many of the items were extremely high . The new servers had lots of new players . But even though new players didn t understand, they weren t stupid . There were very few fools who sold items as if they were trash . Most players who didn t know of an item s price would look around first . They would go to the market and ask around . Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were both left speechless after looking at the marked prices . Along their journey to Level 30, they hadn t gotten any super lucky gains . Besides the rewards from quests, their only source of income was from monster drops . However, these were all just chump change . The money they had accumulated up until now didn t exceed 10 Gold coins . Buying potions and so on usually used Silver coins as the unit of measure . In the beginner village, the lowest leveled health and mana potions were 1 Silver coin a bottle . 1 Gold coin was equal to 100 Silver coins . 10 Gold coins were enough to buy a lot of these potions . However, these were all the lowest leveled potions . For Level 30 players, it wasn t worth buying them . For Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion to have been able to accumulate that much money was already considered quite good . Their skill levels were high, so they were able to dodge most attacks in real battle . If not, then if they were normal new players, they would have used up all of their money from quests and drops on potions . If they didn t do any reselling for profit trading, then they wouldn t be able to afford anything . 10 Gold coins was already considered quite rich among these normal players . Ye Xiu looked through several booths . He discovered that even though the market had already taken form, Level 30 and up items were still rare . The reason was because Level 30 players were currently a very small part of the player population . The majority of players were still trying to reach Level 30 . At this moment, there were quite a lot of booths, but most of them were players under Level 30 setting up booths after seeing others do it . As a result, the majority of equipment sold weren t Level 30 . Besides a few unique equipment, the rest weren t anything remarkable . Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion at least knew to look for equipment based on their levels . They ignored everything under Level 30 and only looked at equipment Level 30 and above . So expensive Seeing the prices on the equipment, the two expressed their regrets . A normal Level 30 Blue piece of equipment cost 10 gold coins, their entire fortune . Class set equipment were even more expensive . They varied from 20 Gold coins to 40 Gold coins for one . Why was there a difference This was because even though Glory s 24 classes were balanced well, there were still classes more popular than others . For example, Blade Masters and Sharpshooters were the two most popular classes in Glory . It was the same in the new server . With a greater demand, the equipment for those classes were naturally a bit more expensive . Armor was like this . Weapons were even more so . A Level 30 Blue weapon cost between 30 gold coins to 50 gold coins . The variance was also because of the difference in classes . As for Purple weapons, normal ones cost 100 gold coins . For ones with more outstanding stats, those could cost nearly 200 gold coins . These prices were a bit more fair . After all, the vast majority of players that had hit Level 30 were veterans from the big guilds . Under the standards they set, those crazier players that had hit Level 30 too set their prices in the same way . There weren t too many with ridiculous prices . If I wanted to buy a weapon, how long would I need to save up money Tang Rou said . It looks like it d be better to just save up points in the Arena Steamed Bun Invasion was still using that Level 25 Purple Claw he got from the Arena . Ha ha, as long as the equipment isn t binded, then you can always resell your equipment later Ye Xiu said . In Glory, equipment from the normal servers could be binded . After being binded, the equipment wouldn t drop if you died . But it also meant that it couldn t be traded . Once the equipment was bound, it wasn t possible to unbind it, which was why at this stage of the game, practically no one bound their equipment . Everyone wanted to sell their equipment later after it grew outdated . But because of this reason, the price for low leveled equipment would eventually take a dive as the equipment grew outdated . For example, in the oldest first server, the equipment that Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were gasping at were ten times cheaper . Moreover, most players didn t want to waste their time peddling them and directly sold them in the NPC stores . Then what do we need to buy Tang Rou asked . Weapons . Ye Xiu said . After witnessing Maple Tree s performance three times, Ye Xiu didn t want to put his entire trust onto whether that guy would improve . In the end, he decided that they should upgrade their equipment and be more ready . Where are we going to get that money Tang Rou said . She had seen a Purple Lance being sold for 120 gold coins . Blue Lances were a lot cheaper they were all under 40 gold coins . But a Level 30 Blue weapon was about the same as her Level 25 Purple weapon, so there was no point in buying one . If she were going to switch weapons, she d had to buy a Purple Lance . Money isn t a problem . Just look for a weapon that you like If you think the one you re using right now is good, then you should choose the Level 30 Scarlet Moon Lance . It s the around the same length and weight as your current one . Ye Xiu said . Oh Them I m going to go look around . I ll pay you back later . Tang Rou said . Buy me a cigarette pack and that ll be enough . Ye Xiu said . I m waiting for my pay to come . . Tang Rou said gloomily . She currently had no money . She had lost it all to Ye Xiu . Steamed Bun Look for a weapon you like, it ll be my gift Ye Xiu said to Steamed Bun Invasion . Ha ha, I get one too Steamed Bun Invasion cheered . Of course . Then I m going to go look . Steamed Bun Invasion wasn t as polite . He had gaming experience . Even though it wasn t in Glory, he could still infer one thing from three in many places . In his eyes, Ye Xiu and him were at a completely different level . Ye Xiu was an expert . A god . Experts gifting new players equipment was a very common occurrence, so there was no need to be polite . Steamed Bun Invasion returned after a short while and said he found a weapon that he liked . Ye Xiu followed him to go look and immediately regretted what he had said Steamed Bun, you really aren t polite at all Ha ha Steamed Bun Invasion laughed . He had found an Orange weapon . Ye Xiu had looked around all day and this was the first Orange equipment he had seen . How did Steamed Bun Invasion smell that out In just a minute after he heard that he d be gifted an equipment, he fished this out . Level 30 Orange weapon Vampiric Claw, 800 gold coins . How could the price of Orange weapons be similar to Blue or Purple weapons Can I Steamed Bun Invasion asked . Of course not I only have 15 gold coins on me . I have to go sell things to buy you guys weapons . 800 gold coins . Do you want me to sell myself Ye Xiu said . The only reason he had 5 more gold coins than Steamed Bun Invasion and Tang Rou was all because he had consumed even fewer potions and food than them . Really Then I ll go look around again . Steamed Bun Invasion ran off . Orange weapons are no good Ye Xiu stressed . Got it Steamed Bun Invasion s voice came from far away . Ye Xiu shook his head and then immediately let Lord Grim head to one corner of the market . He had noticed a booth with a sign Buying Uncommon Materials . How are you buying Strong Spider Silk Lord Grim walked forward and then asked . The other side turned his character to look at him . After a short moment of silence, he said Lord Grim . . Didn t you earn these Strong Spider Silk from us And now you want to sell it back to us
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