Money making guide (Enderal)

This guide explains how to make money in Enderal, as a lot of money is needed to buy learning and crafting books, spellbooks and maybe a house in order to develop the abilities of The Prophet. Depending on how much time the player wants to invest in crafting skill, the player will probably need vast amounts of money, as only adventurering beyond level 40 is not enough to earn the gold needed. This guide attempts to explain many different methods available in the game.

Each header in this article gives information about a method of earning money. The first header deviates from that, that section of the pages goes into details of getting better prices and shop restocking.

## Better prices and shop restocking

The best of increasing money and spending less on crafting materials, ingredients or the items needed to improve the capabilities of The Prophet is by increasing the buying/selling ratio's in your favour. Equipment which increases buying and selling ratio's are the following:

#### Consumables

* Charisma Potion, due to its low item value of 20, it should be quite easy to earn more money and spend less money with this consumable. It provides a boost of 12%.

#### Equipment

* Endralean Sublime Garb
* Eyes of the North, Face of the Tracker, Hood of the Venturer and Veil of the Ash Warrior increases prices by 8%.
* Fists of the North improve the ratio's by 15%.
* The whole North set increases prices by 18%.
* Amulet of the Meadow Spirits increases Rhetoric and prices by 11 levels and 11%.
* An amulet enchanted by the player character itself.

#### Memories, skills and spells.

* The Mesmerize spell if cast hidden, improves prices significantly.
* Increasing Rhetoric will increase the ratio's temporarily.
* The Infiltrator branch of the rogue tree has the memory Devious which increases prices by 12% max. and the memory Seducer, which increases prices for the opposite sex by 10%.

### Shop restocking

In case you need to buy and/or sell items to shop, know that the game resets the stock and the amount of gold when the game is started up again. This way, it's possible to sell all wares and buy new materials multiple times in a single in-game day. When all shops have been visited, save the game, quit the game, restart the game and visit the shops. This is also works for purchasing hard to find items.

## Alchemy

The Alchemy skill allows the player to create potion right from the start at any Alchemy workbench. There are plenty of mixtures which can be made from expensive ingredients with a high price and recipes with a low selling price, but inexpensive and easy to acquire yourself ingredients. When the skill increases or mixtures become better due to perks, more combinations shall become profitable. The recipes decribed here are limited to making profit either from high value potions or mass production. Alchemy recipes goes further into detail and will provide more recipes than mentioned here.

### General tips for alchemy

* In case you have found an alchemy boosting potion, do the experimentation with ingredients first before drinking the potion and proceeding with making profitable mixtures.
* Items which boost alchemy when equipped are, Eye of the Scarlett Night or Coat of the Bloodmoon, Arveldhiinn's Heart, Seven Things and Traces from the Venturer set. They boost the strength by 7% and 10% and can be worn at the same time, with the exception of the Eye and the Coat.
* The city of Ark is the best place to buy ingredients in large quantities. Visit Graybeard's Potion Palor, Miracle Mixtures and the Alchemist & Magic in the Sun Temple.

### High profit potions and poisons

1. A potion suited to the needs of one-handed weapon fighter is a combination of Hanging moss with bear claws, which will boost one-handed damage and Health. Top it off with an ingredient which restores stamina (such as firefly) and a potion is created with a value of about 90 gold. The only problem is that the two ingredients can't be bought and have to be acquired by yourself.
2. There are plenty of cheap ingredients for damage mana renegeration poison, with blue butterfly wings and chicken eggs being the most cheap and easy to buy. The resulting mixture has a value of 70 gold at a low level. Expensive ingredient can be used as well, but they should be reserved for other purposes if desirable.

#### Nightshade potions and poisons.

1. One of the high profit poison early available is nightshade with Stain mushroom. The Stain Mushroom has the highest damage rating and makes the poison quite valuable. It should be combined with an ingredient which has the property damage mana regeneration, such as spider or chicken eggs, or blue butterfly wings. Even as an apprentice in Alchemy, this poison should be worth about 150 gold each flask.
2. A valuable potion also early available is a mixture of nightshade with Ghost wrapping, to make potion with boosts Elementarism and reduces Arcanist's Fever. This potion can be made a bit more valuable with either Lavender to boost magic resistance or any ingredients which restores stamina, but the letter makes the potion more valuable. This potion should be worth around 110 gold at apprentice levels.
3. Nightshade does also have the effect of ambrosia and it's combined with Baldris root, you basically make a simple ambrosia potion, depending on your skill, is worse or better than the normal ambrosia potion sold by potion vendors.

### Low profit potions and poisons

1. A handy potion for your adventures and your purse is a combination of peaceweed and thistle. It's a cheap ambrosia potion which also offer some resistance to frost damage. Though the ingredients are cheap, the potion itself doesn't fetch that much on the market either, but the ingredients can be bought in large quantities. The potion has a value of 20 gold at low levels.
2. Peaceweed can also be combined with fish scales for a frost resistance and block potion, which will have a value of about 35 gold at low levels. The only problem is that fish scales aren't easy to acquire, nor can they be bought at alchemy vendors in bulk.
3. Restore stamina potions can also be made early, with the cheapest ingredients being firyfly and blue butterfly wings. Beginner versions should have a value of about 30-40 gold.

## Dismantling items

The materials from which equipment are made, are sometimes worth more than the item itself. By taking the item to a Smelter and then dismantling them, the resulting crafting materials can then be sold more coins. For example, take Aeterna Boots. These result in three Glowing Thorium Ingot, which are worth 450 coins, compared to 110 for the boots.

For example, the following items are worth more:

* Silver Sword, 2 Moonstone Ingot are worth 160 coins, while the non-crafted sword has an item value 100.

## Enchanting

With the right enchantment for a weapon, you can make mediocre weapons with a maxed out effect quite valuable, while only using a petty soul gem. For weapons, fire damage is pretty valuable. When picking a mediocre weapon, go for Iron Dagger or other lightweight daggers. Daggers can be regulary looted from opponents encountered during travels. Paralyse is valuable as well, but is quite late available. When lacking cheap weapons, one can also items at a smith with a low price, but it can hurt profits substantially.

For equipment, fortify two-handed and carrying capacy are quite valuable enchantments, but the item and enchantments becomes more useful with more potent soul gems. This can be combined with crafting certain equipment described in the section below.

## Handicraft

All money making methods in this section involve the skill of Handicraft. There are two different methods of making money with the skill:

* Method 1: Crafting gear and then sell it. This only requires the necessary crafting level.
* Method 2: Crafting weapons or armor, upgrading them cheap and then sell the item. This requires at least the necessary crafting level, but for high grade of upgrading, the player needs the best crafting equipment and high as possible.

The Blueprints page also has information on item value and crafting material ratios. If more information is available, more recipes could be added here as well.

### Method 1

#### Jewelry

While jewelry doesn't require blueprints or any skill beyond the minimal level at the beginning of the game, there is still profit in making these. While transforming Gold Ingots and Silver Ingots into rings isn't that profitable, one can craft gold rings with Sapphires and Diamonds with large profits.

#### Shadow Finger

Crafting Shadow Fingers with a ratio of 6.35, is a very profitable item right from the start of the game. The only downside is that a potential better reward from Bad Vibrations has to be sacrificed in order to obtain the blueprint with normal means. The blueprint requires 21 Handicraft and the most difficult material to acquire is Ectoplasm.

#### Vagabond's Sac

One of the most profitable products is creating Vagabond's Sac on a large scale. All materials have an item value of 173 in total, while the backpack itself has value of 1051 coins. Even if all ingredients are bought at the lowest Rhetoric level, it should be profitable to make this. The blueprint can be found when access is gained to the Sun Temple early in the main quest. The only large downside is that level 75 in handicraft is required or many items increasing the skill.

#### Steel Sword

Steel Sword is a relative easy money making method available at the early stages of the game. The item value of a crafted weapon is 169 pennies, whereas the materials needed for it are worth 62 gold and the materials are easy to acquire by the player. This method isn't profitable if all materials are bought, only at higher Rhetoric levels.

### Starling equipment

Although crafting Starling equipment from materials isn't the best way of making money, this can be increased dramatically by upgrading either found or crafted equipment, due to the item value of Metal Ingots of a Forgotten Nation, at 30, being low and the equipment having quite high item values. The upgrade quality can be increased further by increasing Handicraft. The most valuable item value for material item value items in case you want to craft Starling equipment is the Starling Greatsword.

#### Iron gauntlets

Due to iron equipment not requiring a handicraft level, it means that all armor and weapons can be made as soon as the materials and blueprints are acquired. The most profitable of these items are the Iron Gauntlets, with a value of 98 pennies, whereas the materials needed for it are worth 34 pennies. Due to the upgrade material of Iron Ingot being worth 8 pennies, improving handicraft for increasing upgrade materials can make these items even worth more.

### Thief Tunic

Player crafted Thief Tunics have a relative high item value and they only require Leather as upgrade material. This can considerable increase their item value.

## Banking

Banking is probably the easiest method to make money, but it requires 3000-9000 gold to make it worthwhile. At 3,000 gold, store the money in the bank and find a place where the player character can sleep. Evey day slept, the player can make between 80-250 gold everyday. This can be increased with share certificates.

## Other related guides

* Alchemy recipes (Enderal)
* Crafting gear guide