BDO Barter Life Skill: Making Money with Sailing

Barter Basics

Barter Routes are visible via the World Map. If there is a Barter available, it will show over the island or NPC. But, it’s easiest to use the “Barter Search” button to get a detailed listing.

Barter Chains / Barter Routes

The Barter Search window will show you available Barter Chains or Barter Routes. You start with items you have gathered or prepared on the mainlaind and transfer them to your ship’s inventory.

Transfer goods to your ship’s inventory via the <Wharf Manager>.

Full Level 5 Barter Chain:

Gathered Goods → [Level 1] → [Level 2] → [Level 3] → [Level 4] → [Level 5] → Sea Coins

When you arrive at the Barter NPC, and you are still behind the ship’s wheel, a button will appear. Press “Anchor” and then “Barter”.

Barter Exchanges Limited by Goods Level

Exchanges Remaining:

Note that you can perform the same Barter multiple times while you are at the Barter NPC. You will have to multiply your goods by the “Exchanges Remaining” amount. Be sure to hover over the items and add up their LT. Your ship will need to have enough inventory and weight to hold multiple Barters.

Barter Exchanges (multiples of the same Barter at one time) is limited by the level of the goods being Bartered.

Note that Level 2 Barters are only 2, which may hinder you completing a full route.

Level 1 and 2 goods can’t be sold, so make sure you have enough inventory to store them. (Level 1 to 4 like goods do stack.)

Barter Weights & Silver Value

Barter Weight (LT) and value is determined by the Barter item’s [Level]. The most treasured item is obtained at the end of a Barter Chain, when you exchange your [Level 5] item for Sea Coins.

For an indepth listing of available items you can purchase with Sea Coins, please view our Sea Coin Guide.

Barter Usable Goods for Usable Goods

There will also be Barter optons that are not part of a Barter Chain and are there to hopefully give you an item you have need of. The option may or may not be profitable for selling on the Marketplace, so you will have to do some research and math.

EXAMPLE: In the image above it shows a Barter option of buying 1,155 Old Tree Bark (20k each) in exchange for 3,000 Vinegar (1.5k each). When we do the math for this Barter, we can see that we’re trading Cooked items worth 4500000 Silver for items obtained rarely through nodes and gathering worth 23100000 Silver. Total profit using pricing as I write this: 18,600,000 Silver.

This is an interesting Barter option because you may have to factor in the time it would take you to Cook the Vinegar. Vinegar was in good supply at the Marketplace at time of this writing.

Special Barter

Special Barters appear infrequently, depending on your completed Barter count. They do not disappear after Barter refresh and stay until you complete them or there is an option to skip a Special Barter.  (If you have a Value Pack activated, you can skip remotely.)

 Thank you to bdocodex.com for the data below:

Chance	Special Barter Price		Special Barter Reward	Barter Reward Details
0.005%	Gold Bar 1,000G 1pc.	→	Khan’s Concentrated Magic	Ingredient In: Khan’s Heart: Destruction  Khan’s Heart: Life Khan’s Heart: Protection
0.0252%	Gold Bar 1,000G 5pc.	→	Khan’s Concentrated Magic	Ingredient In: Khan’s Heart: Destruction  Khan’s Heart: Life Khan’s Heart: Protection
0.0502%	Gold Bar 1,000G 10pc.	→	Khan’s Concentrated Magic	Ingredient In: Khan’s Heart: Destruction  Khan’s Heart: Life Khan’s Heart: Protection
0.1002%	Gold Bar 1,000G 20pc.	→	Khan’s Concentrated Magic	Ingredient In: Khan’s Heart: Destruction  Khan’s Heart: Life Khan’s Heart: Protection
0.1004%	Gold Bar 1,000G 1pc.	→	Devil’s Draught	All AP +100 – Duration: 60 min. – Expiration: 30 days – Cooldown: 60 min.
0.1006%	Gold Bar 1,000G 1pc.	→	Mermaid’s Tear	All Damage Reduction +150 – Duration: 60 min. – Expiration: 30 days – Cooldown: 60 min.
2.0154%	+2 Shrine Guardian Token	→	+2 Geranoa Ring	Life EXP +3% All Life Skill Masteries +22 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
2.099%	+1 Belt of Shultz the Gladiator	→	+2 Geranoa Belt	Weight Limit +80LT All Life Skill Masteries +26 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
2.1889%	+1 Mark of Shadow	→	+2 Geranoa Ring	Life EXP +3% All Life Skill Masteries +22 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
2.2856%	+1 Necklace of Shultz the Gladiator	→	+2 Geranoa Necklace	Life EXP +3% All Life Skill Masteries +26 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
2.3902%	+1 Kagtum Submission Ring	→	+2 Geranoa Earring	Life EXP +3% All Life Skill Masteries +22 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
2.5033%	+1 Rainbow Coral Ring	→	+2 Geranoa Earring	Life EXP +3% All Life Skill Masteries +22 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
2.6261%	+1 Tree Spirit Belt	→	+2 Geranoa Belt	Weight Limit +80LT All Life Skill Masteries +26 – Set Effect: every 2 Geranoa Life EXP +3.5%
9.0977%	[Level 5] Supreme Gold Candlestick	→	900 ~ 1100pc.	Ravinia Sea Coin Shop Guide
10.9146%	[Level 5] Faded Gold Dragon Figurine	→	900 ~ 1100pc.	Ravinia Sea Coin Shop Guide
13.4083%	[Level 5] 102 Year Old Golden Herb	→	900 ~ 1100pc.	Ravinia Sea Coin Shop Guide
17.102%	[Level 5] Golden Fish Scale	→	900 ~ 1100pc.	Ravinia Sea Coin Shop Guide
100%	Gold Bar 1G 1pc.	→	Golden Galley Figurine	Sell price: 100,000,000

Barter More with a Value Pack

 [Event] Value Pack(30 Days)

Barter Buffs from an active Value Pack:

• Allow 1 extra Barter Refresh each day (4 instead of 3)
• Parley cost decreased by 10% for each barter.
• Remotely check or skip Special Barter via the Barter Search window, so that you don’t have to travel to the bartering location.

Barter Parley Points

We start with 1,000,000 Parley Points that are depleted upon each completed Barter.

• Every node has a certain Parley cost for each Barter you do there.
• Even if the node shows an available Barter, you must have the required Parley in order to complete the Barter. (I don’t see any way to determine Parley cost so far. Hopefully, this will be added soon.)
  Patch Notes state:
  “There will be mouseover tooltips in the Bartering Information window with information about how your Bartering level (and Value Pack effect, if applicable) affects the number of parley points needed.”
• Parley fills up to 100% and is refreshed each time you press the Barter Refresh button.
• Parley Cost decreases as you gain levels in the Barter Life Skill. See Parley Chart below.

Barter Parley Chart: Barter Mastery

Barters are limited by Parley. You have 1,000 Parley and each Barter takes away from that number. You must have enough Parley to continue doing Barters. Parley refeshes with the Barter Refress button, which has a 4 hour cool down.

Thank you to bdocodex.com for the following data:

Replenishing Parley Points

Crows Trade Voucher is the only item that restores Parley. The voucher is created from an item that’s not easy to obtain except via the Pearl Shop, Node Wars, and Dark Rifts.

Processing > Manufacture of 1 Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) will provide 1 Crow’s Trade Voucher.

Crow’s Trade Voucher Restores 250,000 Parley

Obtain by Processing > Manufacture: – Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min)

Crow’s Trade Voucher:

• Adds 250,000 Parley
• 4 hour Cooldown
• The increased Parley will reset once the barter list resets.
• Using Crow’s Trade Voucher will not increase over the maximum allowed Parley of 1,000,000.
• NOTE: [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) will NOT work to create a Crow’s Trade Voucher.

• WARNING: Crow’s Trade Voucher must be used in 24 hours! If not used it will expire and become useless. 🙁

Item Collection Scroll via Dark Spirit’s Greed

You earn an item from Dark Rifts that will reward Dark Spirit’s Greed, which can be exchanged for an Item Collection Scroll. (Item Collection Scroll is used to craft Crow’s Trade Voucher.)

Dark Spirit’s Greed 10 →  – Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min)

Exchange Dark Spirit’s Greed:

Exchange Dark Spirit’s Greed for items with the following NPCs.

Location	NPC
Western Guard Camp	Cliff
Heidel	Cruhorn Wyrmsbane
Calpheon	Valks
Altinova	Sarma Anin
Valencia	Barhan Nesser
Grána	Hazel Azealia
Duvencrune	Odelphin

Item Collection Scroll Via Node Wars

Shining Medal of Honor is earned from participating in a Node War.

Exchange 25 Shining Medal of Honor for 1 Item Collection Scroll.  (Item Collection Scroll is used to craft Crow’s Trade Voucher.)

Shining Medal of Honor 25 →  – Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min)

Shining Medal of Honor Pay Outs:

• Loosing guild members still get 1 Shining Medal of Honor
• Level 4 wins pay out 9 Shining Medal of Honor

• Select the Participation Reward in the guild window after Node War ends.
• If you achieve the top 5% of the winners, then you will be awarded extra. However, you will not be awarded additional medals, if there is a tie. For example, if 1st-5th place all have 5 points, then no one will get the 1st place reward.
• Exchange Shining Medal of Honor with a <Guild Manager>, located in each town.

Item Collection Scroll Via Pearl Shop

At the time of writing this, there was an Event sale with 15 Item Collection Scrolls. Item Collection Scrolls are commonly found with other Pearl Shop bundles, packs, and event items.

Barter Exp and Leveling

Barter became a Life Skill shortly after its release.

• Barter Exp is earned each time you complete a Barter.
• Special Barters do not give Barter Exp.
• Barter Exp depends on the level of the item being Bartered.
• Increase Barter Exp by using any Life Skill Exp item or buff (Ex. Extra Life EXP Scroll from Loyalty Shop)
• Barter Level is seen in your Character Profile window (P)
• Barter Rank is also viewable in the Rankings window.

Leveling Barter Life Skill

Since Barter is considered a Life Skill, we can use all the many Life Skill Exp items available to us. Many professions have clothing, but not for Barter. (Hopefully in the future.)

Short & Sweet: Life XP Item List:

• Perfume of Swiftness: 20% (stacks with Elixir of Flowing Time or Verdure Draught)
• Verdure Draught: 20% or Elixir of Flowing Time: 15% (these stack with Perfume of Swiftness, but can’t be stacked together or with other elixirs)
• Loyalty/Event Extra Life EXP Scroll: 50%
• Sute Tea: 8% (or Whale Salad/Seafood Cron Meal: 10%, +15% for crit version)
• T4 cat gives 4% Life XP. 5 T4 Cats = 20% Life Skill Exp
• Villa Life EXP Buff: 10% (via Tent or traveling to Valencia)
• Value Pack: 10% Life XP
• Guild Buff (Experienced Cry): 10% Life XP
• GM’s Blessing/Event Buff (rare reward): 10% to 15% Life XP
• Six Leaf Clover or other similar event items – 8%

Conservative, Easily-Obtainable Total: +78% (Verdure Draught, Sute Tea, Scroll)

Possible future updates:

• Luxury Vendor’s Clothes: Example Trader’s Professional 5 Clothes is 10% or Skilled 2 Trading Clothes for 5% XP (optional conversion into a Costume, which can then be stacked with Silver Embroidered Clothes, costs 1,500 Pearls)
• Silver Embroidered Clothes: – 5/10/15/20/25/40% EXP (0 to +5)

Detailed Life Skill XP Item List

Below is a detailed example of some Life Exp items for a different Life Skill, Trading. Hopefully, Barter clothes will be coming our way soon from the devs! *hint hint*

Life Skill XP Item	Life Skill XP Buff	Duration	Ingredients	Acquisition
+2: Silver Embroidered Trader’s Clothes	Trading EXP +15% +200LT +2 Movement Speed	Armor, Gloves, Shoes, Helmet	10 – Cotton Fabric 10 – Powder of Crevice 15 – Black Stone Powder	● Marketplace ● Worker Crafted: Level 1 Costume Mill NOTE: cannot use tailoring coupon on this
Elixir of Time	Life Skill +10% Life Skill +15%	5 min. [10 min.] 8 min [15 min.]	– Wise Man’s Blood 6 – Fire Flake Flower 2 – Powder of Time 5 – Maple Sap	● Marketplace ● Alchemy Tool (Apprentice 1, Crit: Professional 1)
Verdure Draught	Life Skill +20% Movement Speed +3 +200 LT	15 min.	Simple Alchemy Recipe: Worker’s Elixir x3, Elixir of Time x3, Elixir of Swiftness x3, Tears of the Falling Moon x1 2 other Simple Alchemy recipes on bddatabase.net	● Marketplace ● Processing > Simple Alchemy
Sute Tea	Life XP +8%	90 min. 110 min.	Cooking: Tea With Fine Scent x2 + Milk x3 + Salt x1 + Butter x2 view recipe on bddatabase.net	● Marketplace ● Cooking Utensil: Skilled Lv.1 (Crit: Professional Lv.7)
Value Pack	Life XP +10%	1-90 Days	Purchase Pearls with real $$$ or obtain via Loyalties (you earn 100 Loyalties per day for logging in). Rarely through events, rewards, etc.	● Marketplace ● Loyalties: 1,400 (14 Days) ● Pearls: 1,500 (30 Days, $15)
[Costume] Trader’s Clothes	Trading EXP +5% Trading EXP +10%	Armor, Gloves, Shoes, Helmet Costume (Appearance) with Pearls	Apprentice Trader’s Clothes: +0% XP, Beginner 7, 1 extra Bargain Skilled Trader’s Clothes: +5% XP, Apprentice 5, 2 extra Bargains Professional Trader’s Clothes: +10% XP, Professional 5, 3 extra Bargains	Purchase Apprentice to Professional Trader’s Clothes at the Luxury Vendor. To convert into a costume for appearance slots, purchase Pearls with real $$$ and buy an Equipment Tailoring Coupon: 1500 Pearls ($15) – pre-order at Market
[Villa] Turning Gates	Life EXP +10%	90 min. 180 min.	3x Gold Bar 1G (300k) 9x Gold Bar 1G (900k)	Villa Rental (7 Days): 1x Villa Invitation 1x Gold Bar 100G (10 mil.) Villa Buff Locations: Karashu, Shakatu, Kiyak, Muna, Marzana, Talia
Perfume of Swiftness	Life Skill +20% Movement Speed +5 +200 LT	20 min.	– Blue Whale Oil 4 – Powder of Time 6 – Everlasting Herb 4 – Purified Water 2 – Clear Liquid Reagent	● Marketplace ● Alchemy Tool (Skilled 1) ● Blue Whale Oil: or butcher Blue Whale with a butcher knife (requires group matchlock hunting) Dulfy’s Blue Whale Guide
Extra Life EXP Scroll	Life XP +50%	60 min.	Earn 100 Loyalties per day for logging in. Life scrolls are rarely obtained through events, Challenge rewards, etc.	● Loyalties: cost 300

Barter Location Map for Great Ocean

Click image to enlarge. Thank you to Zephyro, who posted the following image in the Sailing Discord:

SOURCES & ADDITIONAL INFO

• Great Expedition Guide Google Doc
• BDO Sailing/Vell Discord