So, you've been itching to advance with your Rogue but can't seem to afford that new equipment. Money is tight, even after skimping out on meals-- what's a merchant to do when everything they make costs and sells for garbage? Not to worry! This guide, with help from the community, will teach you all about how to make the best of your funds and give you a reason to come back to earlier stages. It'll also talk about crafting enchantments, rarities and +1 gear: everything in a day's work! You should be serving the highest quality equipment to your customers in no time!

You may not know this, but there are actually different material rarities-- really! When you beat a quest with a better rating, you get the same drops as normal... but of a much higher quality! Barely beating an area or beating it with a terrible score will give you low quality trash that can only make garbage, common equipment. Beating an area comfortably will net you high quality treasure that can be used to make amazing enchanted equipment nearly every time! That's the long and short of this guide, but the rest of the guide goes more into detail about the actual mechanics of crafting and looting with the best efficiency possible. A clever merchant is a powerful merchant!

Ocassionally, you'll get an opportunity to slay a rare monster! Whether it's Venom the Snake or Hoggart the Boar, you'll get fantastic S-rank drops whenever you beat one of these creatures. They're tougher than their typical variants, so make sure you keep your heroes at half-health or higher to beat these baddies.

Rare monsters spawn under an as-yet unknown condition, but from what I can tell they spawn relatively frequently. Once we figure out the condition, I'll update it here!

To tell what kind of equipment rarity you have (and what the quality of your materials are), you need to look at the borders and the ranking. The ranking ranges from D to S and can be found in your Stock page if you hold down left click on an inventory object. If you have multiple rarities of potion or ingredient, you'll get to see how many you have of each-- the game uses the highest rarity drops first, so make sure that you craft the best equipment you can with those S-rank drops!

Next, your borders will tell you the rarity of your equipment. Any equipment can become a higher rarity-- I have a blue rarity Ashe Wand, for example. Higher rarity equipment won't just have new enchantments-- it also has higher base stats! A +1 wand is as strong as a wand 4 levels above it, so you should really be trying to get those +1s whenever possible!

Inspecting merchandise from other merchants, unfortunately, is impossible. You should not trust other merchants! If you're planning to craft high quality gear or equip your heroes with their gear, get the ingredients yourself! Don't rely on the shoddy work of others to keep your heroes from dying.

This section will have a quick reference of what values are needed to get an 'S' rank on every individual monster. It'll take some time to build, so why don't you come back later? Thanks for stopping by!

Obviously, I'm not the best person in the world. I can get plenty of things wrong! There's also going to be a lot of helpful contributions from community members who are a lot further along than I am. If you help contribute, your name will be here!

Please note this guide is currently under construction, but help you can provide to other players would be amazing! Please check out the comment section down below to see what you can do for fellow merchants everywhere.