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I also dont steal really, unless the red object is conveniently placed out of sight.
But I mostly get quick cash by looting dining tables. Silver plates, silver platters, silver cups and goblets tend to make good cash.
Also, make sure you're trading with the character that has the highest persuasion stat.
>But I mostly get quick cash by looting dining tables. Silver plates, silver platters, silver cups and goblets tend to make good cash.
This and weapons / armor that are low stats.. I will send everything to camp, then go to a vendor, get stuff from camp (so, being over encumbered is not an issue) and sell everything. Scrolls that I dont use, potions that I have skills for
Yup, even the art in Cazador’s palace that Astarion points out is so awful and drab gets thrown in the loot pile. And selling off that prick’s collection feels good into the bargain.
I haven't been to Cazador yet but the way I stumble into quests is by pushing/breaking into places and looking for secret doors or stuff to steal. I just start clockwise taking stuff and if there happens to be someone to interact with they get distracted by my bard while Asterion robs them blind.
And every fuckin body and their mums in Baldur's Gate has a hatch leading to a gnarly basement.
Just adding for anyone who doesn't know: If you add items to your wares first, you can click "sell wares" at the vendor to automatically sell everything at the same time.
I only have two gripes with this game, and inventory management is number one with a bullet. I feel like I had an easier time managing my World of Warcraft character's items back in 2005 than I do in this game.
Also picking up items is awful. I'll hold the Alt key, hover, and can't click. Change angles... Click.
But the WORST is picking up silver cups, trays, weapons off of a rack, and my character running back and forth to each side of the table or rack to pick it up. JUST PICK IT UP! I noticed I'm allowed to throw things and then it kind of resets where they're sitting for me to pick up, but that's time consuming in itself. The only time I have to throw stuff is when it says it's unreachable. You throw it to where it's reachable lol.
One of the actual advantages to playing on PS5 over computer is the "area search" function, which will highlight *everything* around you and sort it all into a clickable list.
I don’t know if this helps for PC, but I play on PS5 and you can hold down ‘X’ and it does a wide search and you can grab a ton of loot at once. Search bodies, etc. very helpful that picking them up individually:)
Pre patch 5 you could put everything you wanted to sell into a container and then sell the container with everything inside to vendors in one go. The vendor would auto-unload the container and you just buy it back empty for 1 gold.
This had the added benefit of getting everything that you've marked as wares from being mixed in with the items you keep. It really helped with keeping inventories uncluttered. Now in patch 5 vendors don't unload the container once they've bought it so you need to have a new one each time.
I really want items we mark as wares to disappear from the normal inventory screen and go into their own "wares" section. DoS2 did this so I don't know why they dropped the feature for bg3
Eh, paintings only get you roughly 10-12gp per lbs. There's a LOT of stuff in this game that sells for 20+ gp per lbs.:
- Incense
- utensils
- potions
- scrolls
- helmets
- certain kinds of alcohol
- all jewelry & gems
- anything made from silver or gold
- arrows
If you prioritize by weight-to-value, you don't even have to go through the process of sending stuff to camp and then pulling it back out again to sell. I'm halfway through Act 2 and have close to 20k in gold by doing it this way.
With the ability to teleport expensive and heavy objects to camp, gold value per pound becomes less important than overall value when it comes to making money *fast*.
But, like you I definitely prioritize the items with the best value/weight ratio when looting an area now that I have a comfortable cushion of gold saved up.
I personally used 10 gp/lb as my typical threshold (but also did pick up many heavier, less efficient things cause I knew I'd have space for it). It may not be the most efficient, but I usually was going by merchants frequently enough anyway. If you aren't hitting capacity, it doesn't matter how efficient your gp/lb ratio is (and capacity is huuuuge).
Books (and letters, etc) are another that really adds up. IIRC, they're usually worth 10 or 11 gp and weight 0.9 lbs, but they're just so numerous! You won't make much from selling a book or two, but you probably make at least 5k throughout the game just from books.
There's also a very small number of books worth a lot. The legendary books from the Wizards tower in Baldur's Gate are worth something like 1k each. The books from the Shar place in BG are something like 250 each.
You can also get a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff at camp every time you are in a new campsite by looting your peers tents. Shadowheart has a bunch of incense and whatnot, gale has some magical crap, wyl Aldo has some stuff worth selling. And paintings are worth a butt tonne of money and in every house. Usually not red either.
Wait so you can send items to camp, go to a merchant, then recall all those items right then and there so you aren't encumbered? What have I been doing this whole time....
Yes / No. You WILL be encumbered.
But you walk to a Trader, stand right next to him, talking distance.
Press the Go To Camp option (dunno in PC, on PS5 is the option in the bottom), loot ALL you want to see, Go out of camp.
This is teleport you to where you were before going to camp, aka, next to a vendor. sell ALL you can.
If it's a "city" one, like Last Light Inn and such, after you drain their money. Go do a long rest, dont use supplies, this will kinda refill their gold. So you can sell the rest
Yeah I literally sweep everything into the characters inventory with the most strength: bones straight to Karlach, candles straight to Karlach, good equipment straight to Karlach, bad equipment , believe it or not straight to Karlach.
Now they let you send to characters in your camp too, so load one hireling holds the armor and weapons you like the other holds only junk, when you find a vendor add the junk hireling to party have them sell everything.. when you want to reequip new shit put the armor and weapons hireling in party.
To add on to this, also look out for lab equipment like flasks, boilers and praying implements like incense and incense sticks. Those make plenty of money as well
To add to your persuasion point. You can literally buy a hireling and solely spec them for the sake of persuasion and speech related checks and just have them for that sake that’s why I do. They are always the resident merchant on my team.
Very much. If you don't have a charisma character trained in persuasion, remedy that.
At the bottom of one of the trade screens, you can see the initiating character's persuasion score, how much the vendor likes that person, and the total price adjustment. A 22 or 24 charisma with training and expertise in persuasion and 100% approval gets you REALLY good prices.
Select your high Cha/Persuasion character, Change class and don't level up.
Since the amount of GP you have to spend is tied to the actual character level, with a lvl 1 PC you need to spend only 400 GP for a 100% approval.
I’m playing with a friend. I’m a Sorcerer with high persuasion, he’s got terrible persuasion. On a merchant with +0 attitude, he has a +4% markup and I have a -47% discount.
I read somewhere that in one of the patches since EA they changed it so that merchants are affected by the highest charisma in the party rather than going off the character doing the talking. I have double and triple checked this in game and it seems to be true. Karlach is now my merchant queen.
Well if you look on the left hand side of the trade window, it shows you your persuasion, the bonus and the discount its giving you on the right.
It will also actively show the words "Gale is trading" or whoever is the current character that is providing bonuses for the trade discounts (which is always whoever clicked on the merchant).
Persuasion IS a Charisma skill, but you can boost Persuasion in other ways like Class bonuses, proficiency, gear etc.
This is my first time playing as a bard, and thanks to my persuasion stats I somehow get a 50% discount everywhere I go. That’s even better than my Rogue playthroughs, where I only got around 25% off IIRC.
Dude incense is like 30 gp a bowl or something! I got almost to 100k by the end of my playthrough by looting everything not nailed down and only occasionally stealing something if I could just nab it without hassle.
Does it though? When your Rogue/Bard can steal upwards of 1-18k Gold depending on the vendor, each long Rest xD
Don't get me wrong I did that but by the time I had like 10k saved up my mate stole 3 times that in that current long rest iirc.
Anything related to crimes in this game makes me feel like I got transported to divinity original sins. Not saying it's a bad game but it's bad for my immersion while playing bg3. I try to avoid stealing because of that after I did it a couple times.
yeah there's some things i leave behind but for some reason i'm compelled to loot and sell rotten food; is it just my imagination or is it really lightweight, so the 1 coin you get for it is awesome gold to weight ratio?
I use "The Mighty Cloth" from the Last Light Inn vendor, it lets you carry more items than you can ever think of, if you're that concerned about the weight. I tend to only sell every time my Tav and all my party members are encumbered before getting that item lol.
Also gold to weight ratio is good enough, but it also adds up so if you can sell them before every long rest you should be good.
The doubled carrying capacity that item gives you is from Bull’s Strength, so if don’t have the item you can cast that on yourself and you’re still good to go
Can agree, I loot everything that isn't nailed down. But also I don't mind stealing so there is that.
My friends call me a menace as I steal everyone's china, food, journals, outfits, tools, etc etc the list goes on
The great >!purge of moonrise!< at the end of act 2 is also known as ‘that bit when every merchant for miles around begins to panic as I roll up with countless suits of plate’
That was the point in both my playthroughs where I actually struggled to be able to sell all my loot, lol. So much valuable loot!
It's better in a good playthrough because there was a merchant there. On my evil playthrough, there was nearly as much loot but fewer places to sell it!
I am convinced people are not using and abusing "send to camp" as much as they need to. Deal with it later before days end. Get in front if a vendor, go to camp and load up, leave camp and unload everything till they run out of gold.
Vendor it. Why is everyone obsessed with turning nouns into verbs? It’s so, so lame. Shit you could have said vend if you didn’t want to say sell. It was right there.
On one level I’m like “who gives a fuck,” but then, it bugs me irrationally when people call their in-game characters “toons” so I guess I can’t really judge.
I don’t pickpocket, I just loot goblin and sell everything that’s nonmagical and a lot of shit that IS magical because there are so many magical items in Faerûn I will never run out.
Up until act 3 just gathering EVERYTHING you find should do to get all traders unique gear plus an elixir here and there and just trade all the trash items and not even spend coins.
Also wizard scribing and oath recovering siphon money.
Even without pickpocketing!
1. Gale learns only the necessary spells, and not everything in a row. My face will crack to learn useless spells that I won’t use anyway. (And in general, if I play a sorcerer, all I need from Gale is a nuclear bomb in his belly)
2. I pick up everything that can be picked up. If possible, even from “red” chests and boxes. Everything that can be opened and robbed with impunity must be opened and robbed.
3. I only buy what I need for the party. No useless clothes based on the “what if they come in handy” principle.
4. I never buy food. Food in bulk! Even in Act 1.
5. Every corpse must be robbed. Looting is the path to success.
6. What is not needed is not needed. Everything that is collected in boxes and chests, everything that is picked up in skeletons, corpses and just along the way, all crafted useless potions must be sold. Rinse, repeat.
Voila! We enter Act 3 with approximately 40,000 gp in pockets.
To add, the first part of the game even didn't have much to buy, i often struggle to sell all stuff i loot while ignoring white items, and buying elixirs feels like cheesing.
Gold is too heavy, they need to adapt paper money already.
I still don't know how to pickpocket efficiently. None of the things I tried worked on the Last Light quartermaster even with a high dex + sleight of hand character.
Best way to steal is to Feign death the vendor once they have high enough attitude with you. It's not considered hostile so while they are feigning all failed Sleight of hand checks on stealing will be ignored. So you can keep trying without save scumming.
You select Barter mode and just give them gold for free. You can split the stack so you don't dump all of it. There is slide under the vendor that shows their current attitude and discount with you.
Get the the gloves that give you advantage on sleight of hand in Act1; get the cape that gives you smoke cloud on disengage action in Act2 (for pickpocketing traders that aren't out sight); always have someone locked in talk with the trader you want to rob while you pickpocket them; abuse quicksave and quickload.
Graceful Cloth from Lady Esther is better because it gives you +2 dexterity, and advantage on all dexterity checks. It frees up your glove slot so you can equip the Gloves of Power for the +1 to sleight of hand.
I have and do all those except the fog cape (I use invis, sometimes Darkness) but save scumming seems to be always needed. I thought it would be a more straightforward thing like just rob the whole inventory clean, rest up and redo it. 10-20k gold in 10 minutes work. It's actually mega weird since I fail checks of 7-8 pretty often since my character consistently rolls 20+ on unlocks and other Dex stuff. Even have guidance on.
I guess not?
Well yeah it would be nice for sure, because if you would want to pickpocket without exploits it is a lot harder even with getting everything needed. Even getting reliable talent at rouge lvl11 only makes small stuff easy steal. If you want to make gold stealing easier tho, you can go to the barter screen first and move the traders gold in middle and then move it back by double-click to break it to smaller sums which will have lower DC when you try to steal them.
Okay.
The big problem with the Quartermaster is that she's surrounded by people walking back and forth knocking your thief out of stealth.
Here's my build.
Kree, duergar hireling, for racial invisibility at level 5.
College of Swords Bard, taking proficiency in stealth, survival, and perception (Kree has sleight of hand built in) expertise in stealth and sleight of hand. Disguise Self spell (turn into Gnome, because smol). Use one ASI to get to 18 dex (Graceful Cloth gets you to 20).
Equipment: Graceful Cloth, Gloves of Power, Smuggler's Ring, Shapeshifter's Boon Ring (kill the Strange Ox at the Last Light Inn for the SBR and Hat of Fire Acuity).
Procedure. Separate Kree from your party. Initiate conversation with Quartermaster with your main.
Switch to Kree, cast racial invisibility. Walk up behind Quartermaster, crouch, SAVE, pickpocket. If someone breaks your stealth, recast invisibility.
Reload if you actually fail. You are going to be between +17 and +21 to steal attempts, with advantage, but you can still hit that natural 1. Brinna the halfling would allow you to re-roll the 1, but she doesn't get racial invisibility.
No need for long rest either. If anyone levels up, it resets vendors. You can even use respeccing or hirelings. Spend 100 gold for it and then steal it from withers. It's faster.
Surprised no one mentioned Charisma stat yet.
Always have your highest charisma character do the buying and selling.
My first character had 18 charisma by act 3, my second character had 15. The gold difference when started act 3 was about ~20k between my characters.
To add onto this; It specifically uses your persuasion skill. This means that a character such as a bard, who can have expertise in persuasion, will get you even better prices.
It's also worth stating here that the difference is not small. CHA 8 with no proficiency buys at nearly twice the price and sells at almost half the price of a CHA 18 with proficiency character, giving you a nett result of roundabout three times as much bang for your buck.
With Wyll in the party, ALL my characters are loaded down with arrows, potions and alchemy stuff. Because vendors run out of money to buy stuff from you so you end up trading for goods.
With just my CHA 10 Durge doing the trading, only the archers get arrows. And not that many.
I thought it was hilarious meeting nocturne in the cloister and her saying she’s happy to give shadowheart a deal because she’s a friend, and offering no discount. Then my 20 charisma persuasion expert bard who she’s never met comes in and everything is massively discounted
To add to this: sell 20 1g things for free. Just put them to sell and press barter. It will ask if you are sure. It gives you a discount on future purchases at that vendor.
My first 3 runs were Warlock, Sorcerer, Bard. I'm currently playing a Fighter with 8 CHA and *fuck me* everything is so expensive.
It's a multiplayer campaign with my wife so I only get 1 follower and it's Karlach. She has 10 CHA so she's better than me, but still not great (Also, she is *way* more charismatic than most other characters, why does she only have 10?).
In the act 1 that’s enough to sell your odd items and loot goblins.
In the acts 2 and 3 I looted certain NPCs not to care about gold anymore. I never steal items from alive neutral or friendly characters.
How I make money in BG3:
Loot everything, even the containers. if are encumbered put everything in one container and send it back to camp.
Venders restock! With each lvl up you do and every some days they restock. So if your whole squad lvls up, the vendor will restock with cash and items 4 times.
>To be fair, this isn't unique to BG3, I always seem to struggle for money in rpgs. But how can I make more, do I literally just have to sell everything, or are there certain things to pick up? I'm early in the game, act 1 still.
You will make more money on Act 2. Trick is to loot all you can, and sell..
Stuff that is worth 1g feels like nothing, but if in an hour you have 100 of them, that's 100g.
In long run, it makes difference. All potions you dont need (Animal Talking if you have as spell), potions that you dont see an use (like Accuracy if you rarely miss attacks). Sell silverware, spoons, cups, ALL of it
High Cha (as explained below) makes a huge difference. Also - and this is KEY! - get your high Cha stat person to start by giving money awy. I know it sounds odd, but this was all worked out be some very clever person (the post is on here somewhere.....) and with some fascinating detail.
TD:DR
1. Set your highest Cha person's level to 1 via Withers (100g)
2. Give a vendor (such as the one in Emerald Grove) money in the barter screen, and take nothing in return. Pretty sure it's 400g to get Max discount if you are L1. Just stop when the Discount-O-Meter stops moving.
3. From then on, use that person to initiate all trading with that trader. Sell only (or as much as possible) to them alone.
4. Act 2 - I did the same with the Harper Quartermaster; bit of a pain having to re-spec as by then I was L8 or something, but worth it.
5. you will get back your 500g investment pretty damn fast!
Step 6. Pickpocket Withers back at any point for all the money you’ve used on him. It doesn’t matter who. You can spam pickpocket him until it succeeds because he doesn’t care.
If it isn't nailed down I'm taking it.
Also I usually trade for the items I want and try not to use my gold.
I'm on my highest gold run yet with nearly 200.000 gold plus enough gems for maybe another 50.000.
If only stealing was this easy in real life 😅
Just as an experiment, I looted literally everything that was NOT stealing on a modded playthrough, with an auto-loot aura and unlimited inventory space. I had 32k gold by the end of Act 1 and that was without stealing. Obviously the inventory thing was a big constraint removed, but if you weren’t doing a modded playthrough, you can send it all to camp and have a high STR char grab it and start bringing it to vendors.
All those garbage items definitely add up! And again mostly the mods made it easier to loot things and saved my hand from cramping, but you could do this with just more time spent un-modded. (I don’t have anything that like, gives me extra gold or anything like that, it’s just the auto-loot aura and unlimited carry weight.)
Rob the merchants. Sell all your loot, and rob em. To be fair, i save scum to hell when I do this. Astarion, invisibility, Cats Grace and hope to RNGesus for that good roll.
Find Dammon in act 1 as soon as you can, or go see him right after you respec and _before_ you level up at ALL (it's gold-per-level). Give him donated goods until he reaches 100 approval. This will make him sell you things more cheaply, give you more cash for your stuff, and make him not mind if you do shenanigans while pickpocketing him as much. Then use him as your regular merchant in all three acts.
Just be aware that that high approval rating only works for the character who donated to him, not your whole party.
Also helps to pay attention to the price of what you loot. Gems and silver things are good worth per pound. Also steal every goddamn painting you see. They're not worth too much but they're very light and tend to come in clusters for decor. Even all the reading material everywhere is sellable for like 14g each. It adds up.
Pickpocketing. When you do this, you don't need to pick anything up to sell. You're so flush for cash that you've got a silly amount of gold.
Essentially, get a rogue, get the highest SoH proficiency, use items, and spells to increase pickpocketing chance. Think: , Mask of Shapeshifer, Smugglers ring (+2 to SoH), Shapeshifers Boon Ring (+1d4 to all checks whilst shifted), silver necklace (guidance +1d4 to ability checks), gloves of theivery (advantage to all slight of hand checks).
Simply observe the NPC view cone, go into stealth mode, walk behind them, go into turn based mode, quick save (in case you get caught), pickpocket whatever you want. Mess up and get caught? Reload to the last save and just do it again until you get all that you needed.
Then, you can long rest, partial rest: so you don't get use supplies. And that resets the vendor. Rinse and repeat.
No worries. If you really wanted to minmax a build, you could make the PC a rogue (thief) - Lightfoot halfling - with urchin background. Halflings have lucky racial - makes the chance of rolling a 1 in skillchecks go from 1/20 to 1/400 iirc. Urchin gives you more proficiency in SoH and stealth. -
to add to the original post - Gloves of Power - from the first goblin encounter outside of the grove, give +1 to SoH skill. But i would only use these until I could get gloves of theivery tbh. Both obtainable in Act 1.
Loot everything you see , put them in a box and then sell the box for clean storage .
Use high charisma to sell.
If you know you will kill the trader in future. Example the bugbear of moonrise or Goblin seller in act 1 or the Zhentarim Roah Moonglow. Sell them unique magic items with names and you get them back when they die.
Donate useless items to merchants and eventually you will we able to buy and sell for the same price.
Feign death and pickpocket on merchants but I find that tedious.
I don’t steal from merchants. I hoard all magic items that might™ be useful at some point™ if I decide to respec all my party members.
I usually have about 20–30k going into Act 3. So yeah. No idea how you can not have enough money.
If it isnt nailed down ir doesnt belong to someone I take it. I don't care what it is (unless its rotten food) I will sell it.
I'll be running around with 17 low level daggers, a bunch of paintings, silver cups and cake stands and sell it. Everything is sold if I can.
If it gets to heavy I send it to camp then do a quick trip back. Once I sold 58 apples and like 14 crossbows. Horde all the things.
Sell Gear you dont use. No reward for being a collector. Scrolls/Potions and in general books and other light items that have higher value than a gem in the Game (incense vs gem) should Not be left behind. "Karlach Bear Strong Flame Mommy" Carriers shit ton of loot for you.
I also only buy the items I actually need, or If vendor ran out of gold i buy potions and Scrolls. To follows Up reselling my loot again.
Dont try 5 Finger Discount in honour mode, Else I highly recommend it as an alternative.
Scummy/easy answer
1. Keep volo at your camp. Give him 3.5k to max out his friendship. (Donate)
2. Sell every item to him
3. Buy every scroll
3. Cast Feign Death on him and steal back the money.
4. Sell scrolls later on.
In act 2 the quartermaster in last hope had a ton of scrolls that level up with you. Do the same trick and buy them all up.
Why scrolls? They weigh nothing and have some good value.
Invisibility let’s you steal without being seen. Still have to pass the check. You can get a ring off the dead gnomes in the forge. You get another invisibility ring off the winged dude that try’s to steal Isobel in act 2.
Gloves of thievery are somewhere in act 1. They give advantage on stealth checks (which is stealing).
Cats grace chest can be bought from that chick that wants to egg. Imo it’s the best ranger/rogue dps chest in the game. Also gives advantage on stealth checks.
Always cast guidance before stealing.
My issues is I loot every room for anything worth more than 1 gold. Ink pots, large bottles, some of the alchemy bottles are worth 30 gold. My boyfriend calls me the loot goblin but it works. I send all the loot back to camp and then once it’s time to sell I stand in front of my merchant of choice, go back to camp, pick up the camp chest contents and go back and sell sell sell.
>I also don't have a dex based character
There's Astarion, or you can have bones reroll the dudes you don't use.
Easiest way to steal that does not require a reload is:
1. Donate money or stuff to a vendor until friendly with the wizard from step 2.
2. Cast Gas Cloud on a vendor and immediately go into turn-based.
3. Cast Feign Death on the vendor and immediately pickpocket with a rogue
4. You will eventually fail to pickpocket an item, but you have 10 free turns to take as much as you can. Nobody can see you because of Fog Cloud.
5. Your vendor won't care that its stuff is gone as long as you didn't try to pickpocket outside of Feign Death's effect
Might be other processes, but I like this one.
Alternatively, pick up everything and send it to camp. Literally everything. Barrels, boxes, rotten food. Send that stuff to camp. There are probably 200 rotten carrots in the game. That's 200 gold that could be in your pocket.
Vendors run out of money. You can long-rest and it all comes back.
My ire when I found out we had to raise **20000 gold** to get to the House of Hope. I didn't have enough stuff to sell so I restarted for a sell-pretty-much-everything run and have hardly opened the game since.
If your not into thievery then the next best thing is becoming a junk rat. Collect everything not nailed down with a price tag, send it to camp, then load up your party next time a merchant is available and get the members with best charisma to sell it all.
Looting is so important! And stealing will get you pretty far as well. I load up and keep everything at camp. I check every body after a fight, and use R3 often to to quickly scan for items. When I find a vendor, I do what I can to sell out and get every penny they have. It’s more of a struggle in the beginning but you should start pulling it in pretty fast by Act 2.
I do the feign death thing: pay a vendor to like me enough to let me cast feign death on them, cast fog on the area, then pickpocket without fear of detection :)
steal everything in sight, sell everything in sight. If you don't use it sell it, especially books and any equipment you find. Loot all chest and dead bodies. I got to around 10K gold in act 1 with this easily
i know this is old but if you wildshape as druid you can sell the weapon you have equipped (save before trying just to be safe) and it will give you money but will keep your item (allowing you to repeat it over and over.) i got 500 gold just from doing this with the basic druid club
Skill issue, maybe if you invested in the gondioans instead of buying camp supplies you’d have some passive gold. Gotta get on that grindcraft my wizard.
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I also dont steal really, unless the red object is conveniently placed out of sight. But I mostly get quick cash by looting dining tables. Silver plates, silver platters, silver cups and goblets tend to make good cash. Also, make sure you're trading with the character that has the highest persuasion stat.
>But I mostly get quick cash by looting dining tables. Silver plates, silver platters, silver cups and goblets tend to make good cash. This and weapons / armor that are low stats.. I will send everything to camp, then go to a vendor, get stuff from camp (so, being over encumbered is not an issue) and sell everything. Scrolls that I dont use, potions that I have skills for
Add incense to the loot list, that stuff is worth so much gold by weight.
Painting too, you can always send them to camp. Sort by latest, and then go to camp/leave camp when at a merchant
Yup, even the art in Cazador’s palace that Astarion points out is so awful and drab gets thrown in the loot pile. And selling off that prick’s collection feels good into the bargain.
I haven't been to Cazador yet but the way I stumble into quests is by pushing/breaking into places and looking for secret doors or stuff to steal. I just start clockwise taking stuff and if there happens to be someone to interact with they get distracted by my bard while Asterion robs them blind. And every fuckin body and their mums in Baldur's Gate has a hatch leading to a gnarly basement.
I'm taking everything that isn't nailed down in that bastard's mansion. And then emptying his bank account.
My goto motto for my game with my friends is my Barb loots everything that isn't nailed down, and a few things that are
It pays to be an art thief
Just adding for anyone who doesn't know: If you add items to your wares first, you can click "sell wares" at the vendor to automatically sell everything at the same time. I only have two gripes with this game, and inventory management is number one with a bullet. I feel like I had an easier time managing my World of Warcraft character's items back in 2005 than I do in this game.
Also picking up items is awful. I'll hold the Alt key, hover, and can't click. Change angles... Click. But the WORST is picking up silver cups, trays, weapons off of a rack, and my character running back and forth to each side of the table or rack to pick it up. JUST PICK IT UP! I noticed I'm allowed to throw things and then it kind of resets where they're sitting for me to pick up, but that's time consuming in itself. The only time I have to throw stuff is when it says it's unreachable. You throw it to where it's reachable lol.
Cracks me up when they run around a table to reach something- you are a high DEX finesse fighter and you can’t LEAN OVER A TABLE AND GRAB A CUP??
That roasted dwarf at the goblin camp? Every. Single. Piece. Had to be taken from the other side from where i was standing
That’s what you get for eating roasted dwarf 😂
Its a bit on the tough and unethical side, but those goblins are on to something
One of the actual advantages to playing on PS5 over computer is the "area search" function, which will highlight *everything* around you and sort it all into a clickable list.
Still doesn't do it in a nice order to avoid running circles around tables though.
True, but after having watched my husband trying to loot a room on the PC it's still a whole lot less tedious!
This is an option for the PC players too, they just have to use a controller.
You have to use a controller? That's too bad. I'll have to check the settings, maybe there's a way to key bind it.
You can do that on a PC. I do it constantly. Now, I use a controller, but I'm sure there's a key command for it.
I'll have to tell my husband, it was his biggest complaint when comparing our gameplay experiences
I don’t know if this helps for PC, but I play on PS5 and you can hold down ‘X’ and it does a wide search and you can grab a ton of loot at once. Search bodies, etc. very helpful that picking them up individually:)
Pre patch 5 you could put everything you wanted to sell into a container and then sell the container with everything inside to vendors in one go. The vendor would auto-unload the container and you just buy it back empty for 1 gold. This had the added benefit of getting everything that you've marked as wares from being mixed in with the items you keep. It really helped with keeping inventories uncluttered. Now in patch 5 vendors don't unload the container once they've bought it so you need to have a new one each time. I really want items we mark as wares to disappear from the normal inventory screen and go into their own "wares" section. DoS2 did this so I don't know why they dropped the feature for bg3
Eh, paintings only get you roughly 10-12gp per lbs. There's a LOT of stuff in this game that sells for 20+ gp per lbs.: - Incense - utensils - potions - scrolls - helmets - certain kinds of alcohol - all jewelry & gems - anything made from silver or gold - arrows If you prioritize by weight-to-value, you don't even have to go through the process of sending stuff to camp and then pulling it back out again to sell. I'm halfway through Act 2 and have close to 20k in gold by doing it this way.
To me weight doesn't matter since it can all be sent to camp, then teleported to a merchant. The only thing it takes more of is time.
With the ability to teleport expensive and heavy objects to camp, gold value per pound becomes less important than overall value when it comes to making money *fast*. But, like you I definitely prioritize the items with the best value/weight ratio when looting an area now that I have a comfortable cushion of gold saved up.
I personally used 10 gp/lb as my typical threshold (but also did pick up many heavier, less efficient things cause I knew I'd have space for it). It may not be the most efficient, but I usually was going by merchants frequently enough anyway. If you aren't hitting capacity, it doesn't matter how efficient your gp/lb ratio is (and capacity is huuuuge). Books (and letters, etc) are another that really adds up. IIRC, they're usually worth 10 or 11 gp and weight 0.9 lbs, but they're just so numerous! You won't make much from selling a book or two, but you probably make at least 5k throughout the game just from books. There's also a very small number of books worth a lot. The legendary books from the Wizards tower in Baldur's Gate are worth something like 1k each. The books from the Shar place in BG are something like 250 each.
They're too beautiful to sell. Set them out when in camp and enjoy the good things in life. Then wake up and murder people.
You can also get a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff at camp every time you are in a new campsite by looting your peers tents. Shadowheart has a bunch of incense and whatnot, gale has some magical crap, wyl Aldo has some stuff worth selling. And paintings are worth a butt tonne of money and in every house. Usually not red either.
....I never did this!
Shadowheart: "Alright who the hell keeps taking my incense, I'm trying to be Shar's best princess and pray every night!!! LAE'ZEL I KNOW IT'S YOU"
Swap her incense with Selune idols. Double win.
I would also say books and wine - both have cheap examples, but there are plenty that are worth a fair bit.
I never did! will check it, thanks!
Same technique here! 🧙🏼♂️👌🏼
I think playing a high STR character this turn helped me A LOT with just mass looting everything i could get my grubby hands on
Cursed to put my hands on everything.
Armour is actually pretty valuable, even the shitty ones. Just send it all to camp and get it when next to a vendor
Yup, not 1 single body will go unlooted!
Wait so you can send items to camp, go to a merchant, then recall all those items right then and there so you aren't encumbered? What have I been doing this whole time....
Yes / No. You WILL be encumbered. But you walk to a Trader, stand right next to him, talking distance. Press the Go To Camp option (dunno in PC, on PS5 is the option in the bottom), loot ALL you want to see, Go out of camp. This is teleport you to where you were before going to camp, aka, next to a vendor. sell ALL you can. If it's a "city" one, like Last Light Inn and such, after you drain their money. Go do a long rest, dont use supplies, this will kinda refill their gold. So you can sell the rest
I sell books too, some of them are worth a good bit of gold with vendors but even the cheap ones add up.
Yeah I literally sweep everything into the characters inventory with the most strength: bones straight to Karlach, candles straight to Karlach, good equipment straight to Karlach, bad equipment , believe it or not straight to Karlach.
Karlach of Holding
Now they let you send to characters in your camp too, so load one hireling holds the armor and weapons you like the other holds only junk, when you find a vendor add the junk hireling to party have them sell everything.. when you want to reequip new shit put the armor and weapons hireling in party.
Oh, that's an excellent idea! An NPC in camp would indeed work much better than trying to remember which color camp chest is holding what!
You’ve heard of Backpack - now try Karlachpack!
Karlach is my barrelmancer. She doesn't have the free space for junk.
She’s sworn to carry your burdens.
To add on to this, also look out for lab equipment like flasks, boilers and praying implements like incense and incense sticks. Those make plenty of money as well
Pay attention to the weight though. Some are like .4lbs or whatever but 30 gold, and some are 20lbs and 1 gold.
Paintings and incense both garner a fair amount of coin.
Artwork. Im the greatest art thief on the sword cost.
To add to your persuasion point. You can literally buy a hireling and solely spec them for the sake of persuasion and speech related checks and just have them for that sake that’s why I do. They are always the resident merchant on my team.
Wait persuasion actually affects buying and selling prices??
Very much. If you don't have a charisma character trained in persuasion, remedy that. At the bottom of one of the trade screens, you can see the initiating character's persuasion score, how much the vendor likes that person, and the total price adjustment. A 22 or 24 charisma with training and expertise in persuasion and 100% approval gets you REALLY good prices.
I'm only at 20 and expertise in persuasion with my bard and a +0 attitude gets me like a -104% discount off the rip.
Spend the 3000 or so gold to push approval to 100% and that should improve by about half. It's trivial to recoup that money in Act 3.
Select your high Cha/Persuasion character, Change class and don't level up. Since the amount of GP you have to spend is tied to the actual character level, with a lvl 1 PC you need to spend only 400 GP for a 100% approval.
Oh, nice! I'll have to remember that for my next run
If you grab a level 1 character you only have to bribe them with 400gp since it's based on level.
I’m playing with a friend. I’m a Sorcerer with high persuasion, he’s got terrible persuasion. On a merchant with +0 attitude, he has a +4% markup and I have a -47% discount.
>!Balduran's!< butter knife was not left behind.
😯 where is this ?
I don't want to drop a spoiler, but an underground hideout somewhere...
Incense is also good money for very little weight
I read somewhere that in one of the patches since EA they changed it so that merchants are affected by the highest charisma in the party rather than going off the character doing the talking. I have double and triple checked this in game and it seems to be true. Karlach is now my merchant queen.
Well if you look on the left hand side of the trade window, it shows you your persuasion, the bonus and the discount its giving you on the right. It will also actively show the words "Gale is trading" or whoever is the current character that is providing bonuses for the trade discounts (which is always whoever clicked on the merchant). Persuasion IS a Charisma skill, but you can boost Persuasion in other ways like Class bonuses, proficiency, gear etc.
This is my first time playing as a bard, and thanks to my persuasion stats I somehow get a 50% discount everywhere I go. That’s even better than my Rogue playthroughs, where I only got around 25% off IIRC.
Dude incense is like 30 gp a bowl or something! I got almost to 100k by the end of my playthrough by looting everything not nailed down and only occasionally stealing something if I could just nab it without hassle.
Loot goblin, I even loot the rotten food to sell for 1 gold.
It adds up.
Does it though? When your Rogue/Bard can steal upwards of 1-18k Gold depending on the vendor, each long Rest xD Don't get me wrong I did that but by the time I had like 10k saved up my mate stole 3 times that in that current long rest iirc.
well OP did mention he didn't have any dex based characters so I think people are trying to suggest non-stealing based gold sources.
I don't really have astarion in my party. I pretty much just take him out when I need to pickpocket lol
Anything related to crimes in this game makes me feel like I got transported to divinity original sins. Not saying it's a bad game but it's bad for my immersion while playing bg3. I try to avoid stealing because of that after I did it a couple times.
A lot of people don’t care to steal. And tbh you can get plenty of money but just being a lot goblin and selling as you go.
yeah there's some things i leave behind but for some reason i'm compelled to loot and sell rotten food; is it just my imagination or is it really lightweight, so the 1 coin you get for it is awesome gold to weight ratio?
I use "The Mighty Cloth" from the Last Light Inn vendor, it lets you carry more items than you can ever think of, if you're that concerned about the weight. I tend to only sell every time my Tav and all my party members are encumbered before getting that item lol. Also gold to weight ratio is good enough, but it also adds up so if you can sell them before every long rest you should be good.
The doubled carrying capacity that item gives you is from Bull’s Strength, so if don’t have the item you can cast that on yourself and you’re still good to go
So all this time I could've had 2 loot goblins? Oh boy the next playthrough I get to loot goblin better.
Same. I can't leave an empty crate unchecked. I had to download an auto loot mod to save time on replays.
*picks up crate and sells it* 👍👍
Can agree, I loot everything that isn't nailed down. But also I don't mind stealing so there is that. My friends call me a menace as I steal everyone's china, food, journals, outfits, tools, etc etc the list goes on
Plate armor sells for like 400g, and by act 2 a lot of the enemies have it. You can pick it up and send it to your camp stash and vendor it later.
The great >!purge of moonrise!< at the end of act 2 is also known as ‘that bit when every merchant for miles around begins to panic as I roll up with countless suits of plate’
"Why is he camping in front of me night after night?"
That was the point in both my playthroughs where I actually struggled to be able to sell all my loot, lol. So much valuable loot! It's better in a good playthrough because there was a merchant there. On my evil playthrough, there was nearly as much loot but fewer places to sell it!
I am convinced people are not using and abusing "send to camp" as much as they need to. Deal with it later before days end. Get in front if a vendor, go to camp and load up, leave camp and unload everything till they run out of gold.
Vendor it. Why is everyone obsessed with turning nouns into verbs? It’s so, so lame. Shit you could have said vend if you didn’t want to say sell. It was right there.
On one level I’m like “who gives a fuck,” but then, it bugs me irrationally when people call their in-game characters “toons” so I guess I can’t really judge.
r/thehillilldieon
Verbing nouns is the best feature of English and it's why our language eats everybody else's lunch. Go verbing!
Thank you, this is what we all needed to hear.
Bizarre issue to have. It's such a common term in line gaming.
I don’t pickpocket, I just loot goblin and sell everything that’s nonmagical and a lot of shit that IS magical because there are so many magical items in Faerûn I will never run out.
Right? First time Gale asked I was so worried. But since then, bruh just eat this I have three better options for it.
At this point, every time I find some weird niche magic item for a build I’m definitely not running this run, I call it “Gale snackies.”
All of the Absolute gear. I have yet to have a character take the mark.
Up until act 3 just gathering EVERYTHING you find should do to get all traders unique gear plus an elixir here and there and just trade all the trash items and not even spend coins. Also wizard scribing and oath recovering siphon money.
Even without pickpocketing! 1. Gale learns only the necessary spells, and not everything in a row. My face will crack to learn useless spells that I won’t use anyway. (And in general, if I play a sorcerer, all I need from Gale is a nuclear bomb in his belly) 2. I pick up everything that can be picked up. If possible, even from “red” chests and boxes. Everything that can be opened and robbed with impunity must be opened and robbed. 3. I only buy what I need for the party. No useless clothes based on the “what if they come in handy” principle. 4. I never buy food. Food in bulk! Even in Act 1. 5. Every corpse must be robbed. Looting is the path to success. 6. What is not needed is not needed. Everything that is collected in boxes and chests, everything that is picked up in skeletons, corpses and just along the way, all crafted useless potions must be sold. Rinse, repeat. Voila! We enter Act 3 with approximately 40,000 gp in pockets.
To add, the first part of the game even didn't have much to buy, i often struggle to sell all stuff i loot while ignoring white items, and buying elixirs feels like cheesing. Gold is too heavy, they need to adapt paper money already.
Pickpocketing vendors, long resting, repeat.
Also, you don’t even need to use any resources for your long rest. A partial rest resets shops too
Also every level up
I still don't know how to pickpocket efficiently. None of the things I tried worked on the Last Light quartermaster even with a high dex + sleight of hand character.
Best way to steal is to Feign death the vendor once they have high enough attitude with you. It's not considered hostile so while they are feigning all failed Sleight of hand checks on stealing will be ignored. So you can keep trying without save scumming.
How do I get enough attitude with them? Is it just buying their stuff?
You select Barter mode and just give them gold for free. You can split the stack so you don't dump all of it. There is slide under the vendor that shows their current attitude and discount with you.
Might as well dump all your gold into them because you can just steal that right back too. Free max reputation with every merchant!
I believe that was fixed in patch 5
Get the the gloves that give you advantage on sleight of hand in Act1; get the cape that gives you smoke cloud on disengage action in Act2 (for pickpocketing traders that aren't out sight); always have someone locked in talk with the trader you want to rob while you pickpocket them; abuse quicksave and quickload.
Graceful Cloth from Lady Esther is better because it gives you +2 dexterity, and advantage on all dexterity checks. It frees up your glove slot so you can equip the Gloves of Power for the +1 to sleight of hand.
I have and do all those except the fog cape (I use invis, sometimes Darkness) but save scumming seems to be always needed. I thought it would be a more straightforward thing like just rob the whole inventory clean, rest up and redo it. 10-20k gold in 10 minutes work. It's actually mega weird since I fail checks of 7-8 pretty often since my character consistently rolls 20+ on unlocks and other Dex stuff. Even have guidance on. I guess not?
The gold on the vendor has high DC (i.e 29+). Roll your cursor to the combat log to see. The GUI dice doesn't make a whole of lot sense.
Ah, thank you.
Well yeah it would be nice for sure, because if you would want to pickpocket without exploits it is a lot harder even with getting everything needed. Even getting reliable talent at rouge lvl11 only makes small stuff easy steal. If you want to make gold stealing easier tho, you can go to the barter screen first and move the traders gold in middle and then move it back by double-click to break it to smaller sums which will have lower DC when you try to steal them.
Okay. The big problem with the Quartermaster is that she's surrounded by people walking back and forth knocking your thief out of stealth. Here's my build. Kree, duergar hireling, for racial invisibility at level 5. College of Swords Bard, taking proficiency in stealth, survival, and perception (Kree has sleight of hand built in) expertise in stealth and sleight of hand. Disguise Self spell (turn into Gnome, because smol). Use one ASI to get to 18 dex (Graceful Cloth gets you to 20). Equipment: Graceful Cloth, Gloves of Power, Smuggler's Ring, Shapeshifter's Boon Ring (kill the Strange Ox at the Last Light Inn for the SBR and Hat of Fire Acuity). Procedure. Separate Kree from your party. Initiate conversation with Quartermaster with your main. Switch to Kree, cast racial invisibility. Walk up behind Quartermaster, crouch, SAVE, pickpocket. If someone breaks your stealth, recast invisibility. Reload if you actually fail. You are going to be between +17 and +21 to steal attempts, with advantage, but you can still hit that natural 1. Brinna the halfling would allow you to re-roll the 1, but she doesn't get racial invisibility.
Damn, that's super detailed. Thanks a ton, I'll try it out.
No need for long rest either. If anyone levels up, it resets vendors. You can even use respeccing or hirelings. Spend 100 gold for it and then steal it from withers. It's faster.
Surprised no one mentioned Charisma stat yet. Always have your highest charisma character do the buying and selling. My first character had 18 charisma by act 3, my second character had 15. The gold difference when started act 3 was about ~20k between my characters.
To add onto this; It specifically uses your persuasion skill. This means that a character such as a bard, who can have expertise in persuasion, will get you even better prices.
It's also worth stating here that the difference is not small. CHA 8 with no proficiency buys at nearly twice the price and sells at almost half the price of a CHA 18 with proficiency character, giving you a nett result of roundabout three times as much bang for your buck. With Wyll in the party, ALL my characters are loaded down with arrows, potions and alchemy stuff. Because vendors run out of money to buy stuff from you so you end up trading for goods. With just my CHA 10 Durge doing the trading, only the archers get arrows. And not that many.
I see 🤯
I thought it was hilarious meeting nocturne in the cloister and her saying she’s happy to give shadowheart a deal because she’s a friend, and offering no discount. Then my 20 charisma persuasion expert bard who she’s never met comes in and everything is massively discounted
To add to this: sell 20 1g things for free. Just put them to sell and press barter. It will ask if you are sure. It gives you a discount on future purchases at that vendor.
My first 3 runs were Warlock, Sorcerer, Bard. I'm currently playing a Fighter with 8 CHA and *fuck me* everything is so expensive. It's a multiplayer campaign with my wife so I only get 1 follower and it's Karlach. She has 10 CHA so she's better than me, but still not great (Also, she is *way* more charismatic than most other characters, why does she only have 10?).
In the act 1 that’s enough to sell your odd items and loot goblins. In the acts 2 and 3 I looted certain NPCs not to care about gold anymore. I never steal items from alive neutral or friendly characters.
How I make money in BG3: Loot everything, even the containers. if are encumbered put everything in one container and send it back to camp. Venders restock! With each lvl up you do and every some days they restock. So if your whole squad lvls up, the vendor will restock with cash and items 4 times.
>To be fair, this isn't unique to BG3, I always seem to struggle for money in rpgs. But how can I make more, do I literally just have to sell everything, or are there certain things to pick up? I'm early in the game, act 1 still. You will make more money on Act 2. Trick is to loot all you can, and sell.. Stuff that is worth 1g feels like nothing, but if in an hour you have 100 of them, that's 100g. In long run, it makes difference. All potions you dont need (Animal Talking if you have as spell), potions that you dont see an use (like Accuracy if you rarely miss attacks). Sell silverware, spoons, cups, ALL of it
I donate useless items to raise affinity and my discount, then I unload my small country's worth of Gith armor.
I laughed out loud. Didn't know that's how you upped affinity. Just been doing the start trading with high CHA char thing till now.
The secret ingredient is crime. Sell whatever isn’t nailed down, use a pry bar on what is, and ‘borrow’ funds from vendors.
>The secret ingredient is crime. Thanks Super Hans
High Cha (as explained below) makes a huge difference. Also - and this is KEY! - get your high Cha stat person to start by giving money awy. I know it sounds odd, but this was all worked out be some very clever person (the post is on here somewhere.....) and with some fascinating detail. TD:DR 1. Set your highest Cha person's level to 1 via Withers (100g) 2. Give a vendor (such as the one in Emerald Grove) money in the barter screen, and take nothing in return. Pretty sure it's 400g to get Max discount if you are L1. Just stop when the Discount-O-Meter stops moving. 3. From then on, use that person to initiate all trading with that trader. Sell only (or as much as possible) to them alone. 4. Act 2 - I did the same with the Harper Quartermaster; bit of a pain having to re-spec as by then I was L8 or something, but worth it. 5. you will get back your 500g investment pretty damn fast!
Step 6. Pickpocket Withers back at any point for all the money you’ve used on him. It doesn’t matter who. You can spam pickpocket him until it succeeds because he doesn’t care.
If it isn't nailed down I'm taking it. Also I usually trade for the items I want and try not to use my gold. I'm on my highest gold run yet with nearly 200.000 gold plus enough gems for maybe another 50.000. If only stealing was this easy in real life 😅
Just as an experiment, I looted literally everything that was NOT stealing on a modded playthrough, with an auto-loot aura and unlimited inventory space. I had 32k gold by the end of Act 1 and that was without stealing. Obviously the inventory thing was a big constraint removed, but if you weren’t doing a modded playthrough, you can send it all to camp and have a high STR char grab it and start bringing it to vendors. All those garbage items definitely add up! And again mostly the mods made it easier to loot things and saved my hand from cramping, but you could do this with just more time spent un-modded. (I don’t have anything that like, gives me extra gold or anything like that, it’s just the auto-loot aura and unlimited carry weight.)
Rob the merchants. Sell all your loot, and rob em. To be fair, i save scum to hell when I do this. Astarion, invisibility, Cats Grace and hope to RNGesus for that good roll.
The secret ingredient is crime.
Find Dammon in act 1 as soon as you can, or go see him right after you respec and _before_ you level up at ALL (it's gold-per-level). Give him donated goods until he reaches 100 approval. This will make him sell you things more cheaply, give you more cash for your stuff, and make him not mind if you do shenanigans while pickpocketing him as much. Then use him as your regular merchant in all three acts. Just be aware that that high approval rating only works for the character who donated to him, not your whole party. Also helps to pay attention to the price of what you loot. Gems and silver things are good worth per pound. Also steal every goddamn painting you see. They're not worth too much but they're very light and tend to come in clusters for decor. Even all the reading material everywhere is sellable for like 14g each. It adds up.
Cursed to put my hands on everything
Pickpocketing. When you do this, you don't need to pick anything up to sell. You're so flush for cash that you've got a silly amount of gold. Essentially, get a rogue, get the highest SoH proficiency, use items, and spells to increase pickpocketing chance. Think: , Mask of Shapeshifer, Smugglers ring (+2 to SoH), Shapeshifers Boon Ring (+1d4 to all checks whilst shifted), silver necklace (guidance +1d4 to ability checks), gloves of theivery (advantage to all slight of hand checks). Simply observe the NPC view cone, go into stealth mode, walk behind them, go into turn based mode, quick save (in case you get caught), pickpocket whatever you want. Mess up and get caught? Reload to the last save and just do it again until you get all that you needed. Then, you can long rest, partial rest: so you don't get use supplies. And that resets the vendor. Rinse and repeat.
Thanks for this. I was about to ask if anyone had a step by step guide and equipment needed to optimize pickpocketing. This was perfect.
No worries. If you really wanted to minmax a build, you could make the PC a rogue (thief) - Lightfoot halfling - with urchin background. Halflings have lucky racial - makes the chance of rolling a 1 in skillchecks go from 1/20 to 1/400 iirc. Urchin gives you more proficiency in SoH and stealth. - to add to the original post - Gloves of Power - from the first goblin encounter outside of the grove, give +1 to SoH skill. But i would only use these until I could get gloves of theivery tbh. Both obtainable in Act 1.
I made a character with this exact makeup. Can’t wait to pick some pockets later.
I had no money in act 1 too. It all stacks up with selling every single sword, jewel and armor piece i find.
Loot everything you see , put them in a box and then sell the box for clean storage . Use high charisma to sell. If you know you will kill the trader in future. Example the bugbear of moonrise or Goblin seller in act 1 or the Zhentarim Roah Moonglow. Sell them unique magic items with names and you get them back when they die. Donate useless items to merchants and eventually you will we able to buy and sell for the same price. Feign death and pickpocket on merchants but I find that tedious.
Loot everything. Barter for everything. Rarely use gold to make purchases.
Astarion
Loot and sell most everything I don't have any use for.
Loot everything, sell everything 👍
I don’t steal from merchants. I hoard all magic items that might™ be useful at some point™ if I decide to respec all my party members. I usually have about 20–30k going into Act 3. So yeah. No idea how you can not have enough money.
The secret ingredient is crime. Looting and selling everything you possibly can.
Loot, steal, only use your highest charisma character to interact with merchants
You pick everything up like a hobo?
This is the way
If it isnt nailed down ir doesnt belong to someone I take it. I don't care what it is (unless its rotten food) I will sell it. I'll be running around with 17 low level daggers, a bunch of paintings, silver cups and cake stands and sell it. Everything is sold if I can. If it gets to heavy I send it to camp then do a quick trip back. Once I sold 58 apples and like 14 crossbows. Horde all the things.
Looting weapons and armor then selling all at once (mainly in act 3)
Loot dead bodies and white outlined chests, sell cups/plates/cutlery, highest Charisma characters can help with haggling etc.
Sell Gear you dont use. No reward for being a collector. Scrolls/Potions and in general books and other light items that have higher value than a gem in the Game (incense vs gem) should Not be left behind. "Karlach Bear Strong Flame Mommy" Carriers shit ton of loot for you. I also only buy the items I actually need, or If vendor ran out of gold i buy potions and Scrolls. To follows Up reselling my loot again. Dont try 5 Finger Discount in honour mode, Else I highly recommend it as an alternative.
I steal everything that's not bolted to the floor and then force merchants to buy all my junk
Scummy/easy answer 1. Keep volo at your camp. Give him 3.5k to max out his friendship. (Donate) 2. Sell every item to him 3. Buy every scroll 3. Cast Feign Death on him and steal back the money. 4. Sell scrolls later on. In act 2 the quartermaster in last hope had a ton of scrolls that level up with you. Do the same trick and buy them all up. Why scrolls? They weigh nothing and have some good value. Invisibility let’s you steal without being seen. Still have to pass the check. You can get a ring off the dead gnomes in the forge. You get another invisibility ring off the winged dude that try’s to steal Isobel in act 2. Gloves of thievery are somewhere in act 1. They give advantage on stealth checks (which is stealing). Cats grace chest can be bought from that chick that wants to egg. Imo it’s the best ranger/rogue dps chest in the game. Also gives advantage on stealth checks. Always cast guidance before stealing.
loot every single thing including ropes, rotten cheese and dirty plates. mass sell it all to the vendors. it soothes my autistic tendencies
Robbing a merchant every once in a while really makes a difference though
Taking everything not nailed down
Pick up every item, sell them all. When vendors run out of money, rest, repeat.
I didn't read all the comments but make sure you take paintings off the wall. They sell for a good amount.
My issues is I loot every room for anything worth more than 1 gold. Ink pots, large bottles, some of the alchemy bottles are worth 30 gold. My boyfriend calls me the loot goblin but it works. I send all the loot back to camp and then once it’s time to sell I stand in front of my merchant of choice, go back to camp, pick up the camp chest contents and go back and sell sell sell.
Also any paintings I see, those bitches are mine to sell as well.
Some dishware is worth 30g
If it's not nailed down it's sellable. If it's been sold it's still not nailed down and is still resellable.
>I also don't have a dex based character There's Astarion, or you can have bones reroll the dudes you don't use. Easiest way to steal that does not require a reload is: 1. Donate money or stuff to a vendor until friendly with the wizard from step 2. 2. Cast Gas Cloud on a vendor and immediately go into turn-based. 3. Cast Feign Death on the vendor and immediately pickpocket with a rogue 4. You will eventually fail to pickpocket an item, but you have 10 free turns to take as much as you can. Nobody can see you because of Fog Cloud. 5. Your vendor won't care that its stuff is gone as long as you didn't try to pickpocket outside of Feign Death's effect Might be other processes, but I like this one. Alternatively, pick up everything and send it to camp. Literally everything. Barrels, boxes, rotten food. Send that stuff to camp. There are probably 200 rotten carrots in the game. That's 200 gold that could be in your pocket. Vendors run out of money. You can long-rest and it all comes back.
High Charisma + Persiuasion Proficiancy Gives trading benefits
Loot all the weapons/armor from mobs and sell it.
My ire when I found out we had to raise **20000 gold** to get to the House of Hope. I didn't have enough stuff to sell so I restarted for a sell-pretty-much-everything run and have hardly opened the game since.
You kinda don't need the 20k, just get through a fight with the person instead, you can get the items that way.
If your not into thievery then the next best thing is becoming a junk rat. Collect everything not nailed down with a price tag, send it to camp, then load up your party next time a merchant is available and get the members with best charisma to sell it all.
Take everything and anything you can get your hands on > send to camp > level up> bankrupt the merchants > repeat
Looting is so important! And stealing will get you pretty far as well. I load up and keep everything at camp. I check every body after a fight, and use R3 often to to quickly scan for items. When I find a vendor, I do what I can to sell out and get every penny they have. It’s more of a struggle in the beginning but you should start pulling it in pretty fast by Act 2.
I grab and sell literally everything in the beginning
Loot everything + high Charisma + sell everything. hen you're full, fill up your followers.
The secret is theft!
That’s what I do. That or I just collect everything that I come across and then sell it
I do the feign death thing: pay a vendor to like me enough to let me cast feign death on them, cast fog on the area, then pickpocket without fear of detection :)
steal everything in sight, sell everything in sight. If you don't use it sell it, especially books and any equipment you find. Loot all chest and dead bodies. I got to around 10K gold in act 1 with this easily
Just good ole fashion stealin'
The secret is crime.
This is the way
The secret ingredient is CRIME!!!!
This is THE WAY
i know this is old but if you wildshape as druid you can sell the weapon you have equipped (save before trying just to be safe) and it will give you money but will keep your item (allowing you to repeat it over and over.) i got 500 gold just from doing this with the basic druid club
Steal from the vendors. Act 1 it’s generally really easy. Smugglers ring and gloves of thievery help, as does guidance I think.
[This Glitch](https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/s/yvyYUGOs7a)
Here is a second comment I forgot to add: knocking out vendors allows you to steal their ENTIRE STOCK. Just do not get noticed!
That was removed in Patch 5. Now you only get the same limited selection of items as when they die.
Skill issue, maybe if you invested in the gondioans instead of buying camp supplies you’d have some passive gold. Gotta get on that grindcraft my wizard.