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This guide won't tell you how to play the game or where to pick up the various items that are sold. This route assumes slots. The route listed below assumes 45,000 coins. I detail coin purchases at the end of this document.

Rim Elm:

Sell: 2x Healing Leaf Buy: Survival Knife, Warrior Boots (points = 30)

Drake Castle: Sell: Survival Knife, Shield Elixir, Scarlet Jewel, Wisdom Water (3,090 G) Buy: Defender Chain x3, Electric Shoes (cost = 4160, points = 208, total = 238)

Biron Monastery (after Mist) Sell: Azure Jewel, Phoenix x1, Life Water, Power Elixir, Shield Elixir, Magic Amulet, Cure Amulet, Earth Jewel, Survival Club (total = 8,880 G) Buy: Healing Leaf x59 Deep Sea Jewel x2 (cost = 9,900 points = 495, total = 733) Sell: Healing Leaf x55 (get 2,750 G) Buy: Savior Clothes (points = 90, total = 823) Sell: Hunter Clothes (get 550 G) Buy: Power Shoes (points = 65, total = 888)

Ancient Wind Cave: Sell: Wisdom Water (1,000G), Buy: Green Clip, Tempest Shoes (2900 G, points = 145) (should have ~850G left)

Ancient Water Cave: Sell: Deep Sea Jewel x3, Mettle Ring Buy: Earth Jewel x2, Golden Compass (7,000 G, points = 350, total = 495) (~2850G)

Vidna: Sell: 99 Phoenix, Guardian Ring, (+83,200 G) Buy: Expert Seal, Fighter Claw, Fighting Plate, Master Boots, Red Club, Warrior Armor (20,400 G, points = 1,020, total = 1,515) Should have ~66,000 G left Buy: Mettle Ring x3, Forest Amulet x2, Door of Light x11, Door of Wind x25, Healing Flower x35 (about 5,000 G left) (points = 3,060, total = 4,575) Sell: Mettle Ring x3, (+18,000 G, 23,000G remaining) Buy: Silver Compass x3 (9,000 G, 450 points, total = 5,025, 14,000 remaining)

Get ~3,000 G from Berserker & Orb fights

Underground Octam Sell: War Soul, Phoenix x95, 3x Silver Compass (110,500 G, total = 125K)) Buy: Fighter Band, Fighter Boots, Force Blade, Hard Beat, Ironman Armor, Jeweled Clip, Olive Shoes, Scarlet Robe (31,400 G, points = 1520, G remaining ~ 94,000) Buy: Ebony Jewel x23 (G remaining = 2,000, points = 4600, total = 6120) Sell: Ebony Jewel x23, all armor not needed (G remaining = 50000) Buy: Ebony Jewel x12 (G remaining = 2,000, points = 2400, total = 8520) Sell: Ebony Jewel x9 (G remaining = 20,000) Buy: Luminous Jewel x2, Burning Jewel x1, Magic Leaf x10 (G remaining = 0, points = 1000, total = 9520)

You shouldn't need to buy or sell anything else until Sol

Get 22,300 from Songi 2, Kemaro, Saryu, Dohati Get 13,000 from tree + dance competition = 35,000 G

Sell: 12x Vitality Ring + 91x Soru Bread = 573,000 G (total = 608,000 G)

Buy: Stone Amulet x21 (315,000 G, remaining = 293,000 G points = 15,750) Buy: Beast Buster, Bloody Claw, Hero Boots, Master Armor, Royal Crown, Survival Axe, Tempest Robe (88,500 G, 205,000 G remaining, 4425 points, 20,175 total)

Gaza gives 4500 (209,500 G)

Gaza 2 gives 7500 (217,000 G) (177 points remaining)

Sol Tower - Second Floor Armory Sell: Stone Amulet x21, Wonder Amulet, Golden Book (202,500G, total G = 419,000) Buy: Battle Axe, Expert Armor, Hero Seal, Holy Claw, Steel Boots, War God Plate (114,100, 5705 points, 5882 total) Total G remaining = 305,000

Usha: Sell: All Armor, Magic Grail, Spirit Jewel (~75,000, total = 380,000 G) Buy: Healing Berry x91 (273,000, G remaining = 107,000, points = 13,650, total = 19,532) Sell: Healing Berry x70 (105,000 G, remaining = 212,000) Buy: Magic Fruit x42 (210,000 G, remaining = 2,000, points = 10,500, total = 30,032)

Use on Delilases (remaining = 0)

Delilases + Koru give 37,500 G (remaining = 39,500 G)

Zora + Puera give 9,750 (remaining = 49,250 G)

Soren Camp (last shop!) Sell: E. G. Icon, Warrior Icon, War Soul, Mettle Gem, Rainbow Jewel, Wonder Amulet (157,500 G, remaining = 206,250 G) Buy: War God Band, War God Boots, Triumph Boots, Pronged Crown, Heavy Strike, Battle Robe (168,000, remaining = 38,000 G, 8400 points, 8400 total) Sell: All bad armor & weapons (to ~80,000?)
Sell: 25 Magic Fruit (gain 62,500G, to 140,000 or so) Buy: 58 Healing Fruit (139,200 G, 6,960 points, 15,320 total) Sell: 58 Healing Fruit (69,600 G) Buy: 29 Healing Fruit (3,480 points, 18,700 total; this is enough to kill Rogue with 2 ESM casts.)

Coin Shopping:

Vidna 1: War Soul, Spirit Jewel, Guardian Ring, 99 Phoenix, 7 Fury Boost, 76 Power Elixir, 6 Shield Elixir = 14,760 coins

Vidna 2: 99 Phoenix = 4,950 coins (19,710 total)

Sol: Gold Card, Muscle Dome Entry x3, 99 Soru Bread, 12 Vitality Ring, 12 Incense = 24,650 coins (44,360 total) stop at about 44,000 coins; if extra coins remain, get more Incense