The Bazaar System

August 16, 2007, 4:39 AM

The secondary way to get great items. What did you guys think of the bazaar system?

As much as I liked how it spouted out rare and often powerful items, it doesn't really fit the idea of a bazaar, with a plethora of goods available. Also, it was incredibly steep priced to be able to buy something cheaper. xD
That's just me though.

Anywho, discuss your likes and dislikes about this and would you like to see this same system, be it having the same name or no, on another FF game.

August 16, 2007, 5:24 AM

I dont like the Bazaar system very much <.<

True, you can great things there (like Bubble or the Cat-Ear Hood), but it's a pain to have to sell all your loot to the bazaar. I never even found out till a few days ago that to get certain stuff there you had to sell your loot to the bazaar itself, and not any old merchant.

I do like the idea of the higher in Clan rank you progress the more stuff you can buy. It's kind of cruel, but it seems pretty logical and it's a good incentive to do the hunts (which i'm actually doing now, i'm only a Ward of Justice though).

August 16, 2007, 5:27 AM

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Originally Posted by VengefulRonin

I dont like the Bazaar system very much <.<

True, you can great things there (like Bubble or the Cat-Ear Hood), but it's a pain to have to sell all your loot to the bazaar. I never even found out till a few days ago that to get certain stuff there you had to sell your loot to the bazaar itself, and not any old merchant.

Are you serious?!

I've been doing this all wrong then, as I've been selling everything to any merchant I come across. Are you majorly screwed if you don't though? How rare are the items you can get in the bazaar anyway?

August 16, 2007, 5:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Warbourne

Are you serious?!

I've been doing this all wrong then, as I've been selling everything to any merchant I come across. Are you majorly screwed if you don't though? How rare are the items you can get in the bazaar anyway?

Yep. I stumbled across that while reading the brady games guide, i let out a big "fuck!" when i read that.

The good bazaar items are pretty rare. They're usually either exclusive to the bazaar, or they're only sold in maybe one or two other places. The "Bazaar" option is dependant on how much crap you've sold at the bazaar. For instance, the Nihopalaoa (reverses item effects, so use a remedy on an enemy and it'll inflict it with every status the remedy cures) is dependent on Clan rank, whereas arrows and bullets are dependent on loot you sell.

So yeah, if you feel like gaining LP, you might as well go to earlier areas of the game and collect items from enemies.

Also, alot of items required to make special equipment are only dropped from Hunt monsters or optional bosses.

August 22, 2007, 1:48 AM

Meh, I thought it was interesting. You kinda have to use it in order to get some of the better weapons and armor in the game… Other than that, nothing really special, in my opinion.

August 22, 2007, 1:53 AM

Whaaaaat, I remember reading somewhere that you could put your own items in the bazaar or something like that. I just never figured out who to talk to to do that. WHOOOO?!

August 22, 2007, 2:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Ainuudar

Whaaaaat, I remember reading somewhere that you could put your own items in the bazaar or something like that. I just never figured out who to talk to to do that. WHOOOO?!

You talkin about recipes?

Actually Warb, i think i told you wrong, i keep reading that you can sell loot anywhere. However, loot can be sold for more in various locations depending on how rare the item is to that area.

Another thing you should watch for is wasting your items. Take for instance you sell enough kinds of loot to make one item appear, we'll call it MOOB. The recipe to make MOOB would go like so:

Random fur x1
Random crystal x2

The bazaar keeps track of how many items you've sold, and resets the counter every time you buy something, so once MOOB is created and you buy it, that resets the counter. So if you had sold 3 random crystals instead of 2, the last crystal would be wasted.

However, you can opt to not buy MOOB, then sell a couple more things that make NOOB, like so:

Random fur x1
Random crystal x2
Chocobo gizzard: x1

Now, the additon of the Chocobo gizzard will result in NOOB being made as well, so now you can buy both MOOB and NOOB and save items.

I know, doesnt make sense, but thats XII for ya

August 22, 2007, 3:12 AM

I'm quite sure that the items you sell to any merchant will count toward the item required for rare items in the bazaar.

August 22, 2007, 3:14 AM

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Originally Posted by VengefulRonin

You talkin about recipes?

Maybe. I think I remember seeing something that said you can create items and stick them in the bazaar to sell. I might be wrong, but if I'm not, how do you do that?

August 22, 2007, 3:26 AM

I liked the bazaar system

it was something fresh, new and different. I liked having to sell items for better ones - it reminded me of how a RL merchants would work in like the 1500s.