General FAQ and Game Guide
Trading
How do I sell valuable items?
The lack of exceedingly rich merchants is purposeful, since valuable weapons and armour can be worth several tens of thousands of
drakes, and full price sale of these could allow you to train several levels just from finding one good item. Great artifacts are to be hoarded, not sold. If you
really want to make full money, go to Creeper or Mud crab (since they both buy and sell at marked price). Now sell some medium priced items (Indoril armour is
a good choice) to them. Rest for 24 hours until the merchant's money respawns. Now sell your expensive item, and with the surplus value, buy back
the medium priced items you sold earlier. Rest again, and then sell back the medium priced items again. You will need more medium priced items for very
valuable items, but this way you will eventually get full price for whatever you want to sell.
Where is The Mud crab?
The Mud crab lives slightly South of the Mzahnch Dwemer ruins, directly north of the shipwreck marked by an X on the map. He has ten thousand gold, and
buys and sells at the marked price of any item. He looks like a mudcrab and is labelled mudcrab, so you may have accidentally killed him. You know it is him
because the corpse is carrying Sujamma and other minor items. Once you have found him, mark the location so you can teleport back quickly.
Where and what is a creeper?
Creeper is a jolly scamp (literally) who lives in the Ghorak manor in Caldera. He has five thousand gold, and buys and sells at full price. He is much easier
to reach than the mudcrab, so you can actually use him to store items, by selling them to him and buying them back later with no loss of money.
What other good shopkeepers are there to sell to?
Aside from these two super merchants, there is an ashlander at the Zainab camp who has nine thousand drakes, but he is a master merchant, so you will not get
good prices from him. In Balmora, the salesman in the Fighters' Guild has 2000, which should be sufficient for the early game. The Vivec Foreign Quarter
Plaza has two smiths, each with 2000 or 2500 drakes. Also, Nalcarya of White Haven, the alchemist on the hill in Balmora has 3000, making her an excellent
alchemy money maker, and a great place to sell gems and rare monster parts.
Where can I buy good weapons or armour?
The only place to actually buy, rather than find, good items is at Ghostgate, where you can buy a full suit of
glass armour, and a variety of glass weapons. Also, Balmora temple sells an enchanted ebony shield.
Shopkeepers attack me when I am selling legitimate items, why?
If you have ever stolen an item of a certain type, any other items you find of that type will become flagged as stolen. This means that if you steal a steel helm
from a smith, you can never sell any steel helms to that smith again and if you are caught stealing, ALL steel helms are flagged as stolen and will be taken.
This makes it inadvisable to steal valuable alchemy ingredients from Nalcarya (Balmora) since you will be selling most of your ingredients to her in the future.
What is a good way to make quick and easy money?
There are several big ways of making money, varying in profit and effect.
1: Early game: steal the orc and dreugh armour from Meldor in Balmora, for a handy starting boost of several thousand.
2: Early game: Buy saltrice and another health or fatigue restoring ingredient for a very low price. Make potions out of the ingredients and sell them
on for a vast profit.
3: Midgame: Once you have a good supply of soul gems and are able to take on Lesser Daedra you can make enormous quantities of money very easily.
Common soul gems can be found fairly easily, and soul trapping a scamp, ancestral ghost, ogrim, dremora, bonewalker or other low/medium level creature will
make that soul gem worth from three to four thousand drakes. Sell the full gem to creeper for full price, and you can make thousands very easily.
4: Mid/High levels: Once you can kill ordinators, and are not averse to slaughter, you can make lots of money by killing them and selling on their sacred
armour. If you don't want to start the fights yourself and gain a bounty, wear a piece of their armour, and they will forever attack you on sight.
Where can I sell the drugs moon sugar and skooma?
Any Khajiit merchant will buy drugs from you, so I advise Ra'Virr in Balmora, or Ajiira, the alchemist downstairs in the Balmora Mages'
Guild.