Game Mechanics: Faction not affecting merchant prices

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I just wanted to report this because I remember very well in classic that the higher your merchant faction was, the better prices you received whether you were selling trash to merchants or purchasing from merchants.

How I found this out was that I was collecting greater lightstones to turn in to the evil merchants in Sro to get a concordance of research to sell back to make some plat and since they're containers, I had to sell some back to the merchants in Sro because I didn't have enough room for 14 containers obviously. But I held onto a few of them so I could go get a better price in neriak because I did the wine quest to get my faction to ally with the merchants in Neriak.

When I got back to Neriak I noticed that the NPCs were giving the exact same price as the evil merchants in sro even though the neriak faction levels were ally, and the evil merchants in sro were indifferent.

Below is the only proof I was able to find on this, and I don't have time to look through the archive of old patch notes for when this was changed (it was in the PoP era I believe when they changed it so faction no longer modified prices on merchants. I believe it was do to PoK being the central point for everyone and there was no way to increase faction with PoK merchants).

Tips on Commons Residents faction
Posted: Aug 28 2000 5:13pm
DinkumThinkum
Scholar

check prices with different merchants when you have valuable loot (such as a cracked staff) to sell: the center merchants in the inns will usually give you a better price because of your improved faction.

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/fa...ml?faction=133