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V
endors
Your current money supply is dis-
played below your character image
in your Character Journal and
in any Vendor window that you
open. You can use money to trade
with other players or spend at
vendors to buy items like weapons,
armour and crafting ingredients.
BUYING &
SELLING ITEMS
You can buy and sell items at any
of the many vendors in Middle-
earth. To interact with a vendor,
double-click on her and the Vendor
window will open with four tabs
at the top: Sell, Buy, Buy Back and
Repair (at items vendors only).
In all cases, your total coin on hand
is listed at the top of the window,
as Your Money. The denomina-
tions (in order) are gold, silver
and copper. As you sell, buy and
repair items, this total increases and
decreases. The cash listed at the
bottom of the Sell, Buyback and
Repair tabs is how much you will
make by selling the items selected
(for Sell) and how much it will cost
to Buy Back or Repair the selected
items (for Buyback and Repair).
Click on the Sell tab to show a list
of the (unequipped) items in your
inventory. The price that the vendor
will pay for an item is listed beneath
its description. To get more informa-
tion about an item, hold your cursor
over it. Double-click on an item to
sell it (or select the item, then click
the Sell button at the bottom of the
panel). The Sell All button sells all
of the unlocked items in your inven-
tory to the Vendor.
Click on the lock icon next to an
item to prevent you from selling it
with Sell All. (This will prevent you
from accidentally selling items you
want to save.) To unlock the item,
click on the lock icon again. You
can hide all locked items using the
Options window.
Click on the Buy tab to show a list
of the items for sale from the vendor.
The cost of an item is listed beneath
its description. To get more informa-
tion about an item, hold your cursor
over it. (As with unequipped items in
your inventory, this also triggers a sec-
ond tooltip box with info about the
equipped item(s) it might replace.)
Double-click on an
item to buy it; it appears
in your inventory.
B
uy Back
Use this tab to re-pur-
chase items you may
regret having sold to
the Vendor. This pro-
vides some insurance
against accidentally
selling off important
goods. Sold items will
appear in this tab for only a limited
time, and if you sold a lot of items,
not all of them will be available
again. (You will be warned if you
are selling more items than you will
have the opportunity to buy back.)
REPAIRING ITEMS
As you adventure and battle certain
monsters, your equipment will wear
out. Examine an item (hold your
cursor over it) to check its worn
status, listed as a Durability gauge in
the item description. When an item’s
durability is reduced to 0, the item
is broken and you can no longer use
it until it has been repaired. Worn
items also show up as an alert on
your game window. A simple image
of a “knight” appears, with yellow
or red items to show damaged or
broken equipment, respectively.
To repair damaged equipment, talk
to an item vendor and click on the
Repair
tab. You will be charged a fee
based on the value of the item and
amount of damage it has
sustained. You can use
the Repair All button
to quickly refurbish your
entire outfi t.
Vendors pay less for
damaged items than for
undamaged items, but it
usually is not worth the
cost to repair an item
before selling it — the
repairs cost more than
they increase the value of the item.
VAULTS
In many towns you can fi nd a Vault-
keeper. Use the vault as extra storage
for items that you wish to keep, but
are not planning on using in the
immediate future. Your vault can
hold 30 items, and those items are
accessible at any Vault-keeper. (You
cannot store quest items for active
quests in the vault.)
AUCTION HALLS
In some towns you can fi nd Auc-
tioneers who will put your items up
for sale or allow you to purchase
items from other players. You can
have up to 50 bids and 50 posts at
one time. A nominal fee is charged
for each auction you post. Items
you win are delivered to you via the
mail. (See Mail, p. 78.) Note that
bound items may not be auctioned.
Auctions are a great way for players
to acquire a hard-to-fi nd item, or sell
an item that they have outgrown.
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