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MerchantsinBaldur’s Gate 3are people who are willing and able to barter a deal with theplayer’s party. For a sum of cash and some valuables, a vendor is willing to fork over that +3 Flaming Sword their family has been hoarding for the past hundred years.
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Gold is not the only currency a merchant is willing to accept. No, the residents of Faerun are a sensible sort, ready to see what you have for barter in terms of valuables. Everything has a price, and the vendor knows what the wares you’re carrying are worth. You just need to know how to present them.
What Are Wares?
Wares are items you’ve marked in your inventory as stuff that you want to sell to vendors. When marked, these items gain a silver mark on top that denotes them as being added to wares.
Equipment or gear you have actively equipped on one of your characters will automatically be removed from “Wares” if it was tagged as such before.
How To Add Items To Wares
Whenever you loot a dead body or open a locked chest to find the loot inside, you’ll get the option to"Add to Wares" an item if you right-clickon it. Clicking this button makes it so that the item you picked up gains a behind-the-scenes tag, and the next time you visit the vendor, you can sell these items in one click.
For items you already have in your inventory, there aretwo main waysto mark them as wares.
How To Sell Wares
When you visit a vendor, you’ll see atoggle at the topwith Trade on the left and Barter on the right.Flip the switch to enter the Trade Menu. At the bottom, you’ll see the"Sell Wares" button. Clicking this will automatically sell all items you had marked as wares in your inventory.
Make sure not to mark any important equipment or something you don’t want to sell. However, if you do end up making a mistake, theitem you sold will be in the merchant’s inventory, and you may buy it back. Just be ready to pay four times as much to get it back.
