Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Merchant (george) Newbee so please be kind

Well I have all 3 of the orbs and manage to unlock the door so again, I thank you Raze. But I'm having trouble buying from the merchant don't understand how it works. I tried to look up the manual at www.hip-games.com/downloads.php but nothing was there. And I need some health and mama and don't know how to do it. So please be kind with your answers.

It's been a long time since I played DD, but here's what I can dredge up from the depths of my memory.

George is the merchant in Aleroth, right? In which case, did you agree to get the plant for him? I think I'm right in saying that he gets stroppy about trading with people who won't help him feed his habit.

Or do you mean you are having problems actually doing it? When you talk to him, there should be a trade icon on the left hand side of the dialogue box (looks like coins and a purse, or something like that), or a dialogue option to 'see your wares' or words to that effect. Clicking on either should get the trade window (also allows repair and identifies). You just click on what you want to sell, and what you want to buy, and then click on the scales for whoever's currently got the lower value to balance things out and then just hit the tick.


If you didn't mean either of those, then please explain further and I'm sure we'll be able to help between us.

Yup thats who I mean. Do I have to give him more herbs everytime I trade with him. Because I bought health potions from him once then thats it. When I'm asked if how many I want to buy, I bring up another window with the more or less signs. It tells me how many I want so I say 5 if there's 5 ( I make sure I have the funds first) but on the 2nd line for more or less won't let me enter the dollar amount???? Did I explain that clearly???

You don't enter values of anything. The simplest way to adjust numbers to purchase is to move the slide bar - either click and drag (when you're dealing with large numbers) or just click on the greater than/less than signs at either end. It will increase or decrease the number of units that you want to buy/sell (that is, number of potions, number of lockpicks, etc). The price will adjust accordingly automatically.

Does that help? If not, let's try again.

this happened to me too. i just stopped trading with George and ran to the Market area in Rivertown. then i activated the teleporter there, and then i could go back there anytime i wanted.

I'll give this one a try too . . . I hope I don't insult anyone, by explaining it in simplistic terms.

When you trade with anyone in the game, the trade screen pops up. On the left side is stuff you can offer (this includes gold, potions, armor, weapons, etc. . . ). On the right side, it shows what the shop keeper has (not necessarily a shop keeper, due to the fact you can trade with just about anyone in the game).

The trade screen opens up to Trade, as a default. I say this so I can explain two other functions of the trade window. You can have some traders (people you trade with), identify items for you, and/or repair them. There are more people who will identify and trade, than there are those that will do all three (trade, identify, and repair). George is one of the few that I can think of, that will do all three functions.

At any rate, you begin to trade with someone, and the trade window pops up. You look on the right side of the screen, and see, oh, let's say, a sword you want to buy. You click on the sword, and it pops into the right side, of the middle window. This is what you have selected as being the active item(s) for the current trade.

In order to get that item, you have to give the trader, an item, or items, of greater or equal value. This would include trading him another sword, gold, or tons of other stuff. The important thing is to remember the greater than or equal value.

Look at the top of the trade screen, and it will show your current trade value (which is the gold value of all the items you have put up to trade), it will also show the current trade value of the trader (it'll tell you how much the sword costs). Once the values are balanced, or your side is greater, you can click the accept button.

The trade window will close, and the sword will pop into your backpack, under the weapons tab.

That's how you trade. The process for repairing and identifying objects, is very similar.

If you weren't talking about that, perhaps you came to George, after he had been visited by the vampire, for the second time (I won't spoil it for those of you who don't know what I mean).


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Whether necessary or not - just to make the above complete:

when trading - items you wear have their value marked in yellow (all other white)
when repairing - items requiring repair are highlighted in red
when identifying - unidentified items are highlighted in blue

Now that should be the complete picture! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Oh my goodness so much help. And so nice about it too lol. I think I finally got it figured out. Never had to deal with a merchant quite like this, and I have played quite a few of role playing games. First time I had to deal with food also but then it makes since everyone needs to eat sometime lol. So thanks for the help guys.

I used meat and bread near the start of the game to boost health, and chicken meat for mana (other food I sold), but since potions are more effective, I eventually stopped eating (and sleeping) in the game.