A process has been added to increase the purchase price of certain items to five times the set price. This applies to all staves, except Heal, Mend, and Recover, as well as special weapons that can be purchased in the secret store.
Only the purchase price will increase drastically, while the sale price will become one-tenth of the purchase price (one-twentieth in Hard and Maniac mode).
The purpose of this process
Previously, powerful staves were kept at a lower unit price. This may have been for two reasons:
- They are easy to rob, so if they sell for a high price, it's easy to earn money.
- The unit price was used to calculate the experience gained when using them.
For these reasons, if staves that were not originally sold in stores were made available, they would be offered at unusually low prices. However, raising the unit price would have caused another problem. This change made it possible to increase only the price of the staves when buying them in secret stores, without increasing their resale value.
A related change was made to allow the sale of special weapons, which could be obtained in multiples but could not be sold or discarded, at a reduced price. These include a Devil Axe, a Ballistaslayer, a Ragnarok, a Dire Thunder, a Grafcalibur, a Hel, and a Repair. These items used to burden the inventory because they could not be sold or discarded, even when broken. Now, they are easier to dispose of.
