BDO Barter Life Skill: Making Money with Sailing

• Barter Refresh count is reset every day at 06:00 UTC.
• The Barter Routes shown will not change unless you press “Barter Refresh” button

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 via World Map (M) > “Barter Search” button in the bottom right corner.

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.

Goods placed in your Storage can be transfered to your ship’s Inventory via the <Wharf Manager>.

Goods can be transfered from your character’s Inventory to your ship’s Inventory via the Ship Info window, by pressing P while behind the wheel.

Full Level 5 Barter Chain:

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

For your first Barter, you will want to look at the Land Goods required to obtain a [Level 1] Sea Good.

Most of the land goods are obtained via rare procs from worker nodes.

View a full list of Land Goods & Quantities for Barter.

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 Refresh Options

Barter Refresh erases the current Barter List and randomly gives you a new one. The amount of Barters you obtain is dependant upon your completed Barter count.

3 Barter Refresh Options:

• Regular Refresh: Use 1 Barter Refresh to immediately refresh the list. (4 hour Cooldown. Limited to 3 per day or 4 with VP)
• Instant Refresh: Use 2 Barter Refresh to immediately refresh the list, when you are unable to Refresh due to the 4 hour Refresh Cooldown
• Reduce Refresh Cooldown: Use up to 50k Parley from one button press to reduce the Refresh Cooldown. (There is no option to choose how much Parley is consumed. You can press the button multiple times in a row, as long as you have enough Parley.)
  • 10k Parley for 1 minute
  • 50k Parley for 5 minutes. (1 button press)
  • 30 minutes = 300k Parley (6 button presses)
  • 60 minutes = 600k Parley (12 button presses)

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.

It is common to have some left over barter goods, if you do every available Barter.

Barter Goods to Keep

Certain Barter goods are used to obtain a better ship. You may want to keep these in Storage/Alts/Wagons, if your goal is to upgrade your ship. Then it’s a waiting game, to see when your desired Barter Route will appear, after pressing Barter Refresh.

Barter Good Storage Tips:

• Barter items can be transported at the <Storage Keeper>, although the price of transporting can get pricey. (It costs about 80k for transporting 1 [Level 5] Barter Good from Port Epheria to Ancado Inner Harbor.)
• Level 1 and 2 barter items can’t be sold, so make sure you have enough inventory to store them, if that is what you want to do.
• Level 1 to 4 of the same goods do stack.
• [Level 5] goods do NOT stack, but you can sell extras at the <Wharf Manager> for 5 million silver each.
• You can utilize character transport from city to city on an Alt. (Takes one hour. Esc > Portrait > Transport)
• You can utilize character tagging. (Portrait icon on the top left) Tagged characters can hold barter goods. They will become severely over weight, but if you swap to them at a <Wharf Manager>, you may save yourself a trip, depending on your tagged character’s LT.
• You can transport or sail an extra Epheria Sailboat/Bartali Sailboat to Ancado Inner Harbor for your Alt to use for your [Level 5] Barter Routes that spawn in that area. (Sea Coins and Barter Routes share across all characters.)
• WARNING: Remote Collection of a ship (or any mount) with Barter goods on it will destroy the goods and your ship (or mount) HP/Durability. Any Sailors on board will get sick and will require a rare elixir to cure.

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.

* It’s important that you hang on to your Sea Coins and NOT spend them on a whim. It may be tempting to buy a compass, for example. But some materials that are needed to upgrade ships are quite rare and you may find yourself using Sea Coins for those.

For a detailed guide and listing of available items you can purchase with Sea Coins, please view our Sea Coin Guide.

Barter Land Goods for Land Goods

There will also be Barter options that are not part of a Barter Chain. This often includes items that are needed for ship upgrades. For example, a common one is the “Old Moon Guild Carrack” exchanges for tree sap.

These lands good barters often give items that are in the Land Good List for [Level 1] Barters. So chances are, you will see a Barter Route open up to request the given item.

Silver Profitability:
Land Goods for Land Goods are often profitable, if you sell what you obtain on the Marketplace. But be sure to do research on each Barter option, because supply/demand and pricing changes all the time with game events, etc.

MONEY MAKING 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 for each completed Barter. (there were 3 Exchanges Remaining, so 55.8 million.)

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

Also note that this trade is located at Old Moon Guild Carrack in Margoria, where it’s not easy to sail and map functionality is disabled, unless you have a compass. Traveling there can take plenty of time, depending on your experience, luck, sailing skill, and boat.

Weight Limit Gear Set Example

The following adds Weight Limit +830 LT to your base LT.

Thanks to bddatabase gear planner for the image below. View details of this set on bddatabase.net

• Helmet of Hercules’ Might
  • HAN Magic Crystal – Gervish
  • HAN Magic Crystal – Gervish
• Armor of Hercules’ Might
  • WON Magic Crystal – Cobelinus
  • WON Magic Crystal – Cobelinus
• Shoes of Hercules’ Might
  • BON Magic Crystal – Hystria
  • BON Magic Crystal – Hystria
• Gloves of Hercules’ Might
  • Magic Crystal of Infinity – Strength
  • Magic Crystal of Infinity – Strength
• Rosar Florang
  • HAN Magic Crystal – Gervish
  • HAN Magic Crystal – Gervish

Special Barter

Special Barter allows you to trade for a large amount of Sea Coins and other goods. You have an RNG chance to obtain high value Special Barters. View some of these in the table below. Some Special Barters you will want to avoid, but some can be very helpful for upgrading a ship.

Player reports seem to be all over the place with RNG as to how often Special Barter spawns and which ones they get.

The islands that have Special Barter will display a gold badge on the World Map (M).

You will see the items you can exchange through the Special Barter, only when you have reached the relevant island.

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.)

Below is just a sample of some high value Special Barters. For a complete list, please visit bdocodex.com

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 Chart: Barter Mastery

Barters are limited by Parley. You have 1,000,000 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. (Instant Refresh or Reduce Cooldown options will eliminate or reduce this Cooldown.)

To decrease your Parley cost, increase your Barter Mastery. Barter Mastery is increased via Life Mastery items (like Loggia Mastery Gear) and Barter Life Skill levels. (A Value Pack gives -10% Parley cost.)

Replenishing Parley Points

Crows Trade Voucher is the only item that restores Parley. (Besides pressing “Barter Refresh”)

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
• All Parley refreshes after you press “Barter Refresh”.
• 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.

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

Shining Medal of Honor 20 →  – 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, etc. In other words, hidden from easy view.

Take careful note that if you are buying for this purpose that some Pearl Shop scrolls say [Event] Scroll. These will NOT work!

It’s a bit confusing. The image below says [Event] Lucky Fortune Pack. But notice the scrolls themselves do not have this label! These would work fine for making the Parley item.

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.)

Quick 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%

Total Barter Exp: +78% (Conservative, Easily-Obtainable: 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

Here is a table to show a few more details about the Life Skill exp items available, that can be used to increase Barter Life Skill level.

Life Skill XP Item	Life Skill XP Buff	Duration	Ingredients	Acquisition
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)
[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

Possible Future Clothing? Maybe, we hope! 🙂

Below is an example of the clothes available for the Trade Life Skill. 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
[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

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

• Info searches on bddatabase.net
• Thank you to bdocodex for the Barter Mastery & Special Barter info
• Great Expedition Guide Google Doc – Thank you to BDO family name: Airie (SEA), Akiri (Global-Lab), Discord: Kiri Airie#6217
• Official BDO The Launch of a Great Expedition
• Official BDO The Great Expedition Update
• BDO Sailing/Vell Discord – talk and chat web app for everything Sailing