Trade | Basics NWN2: SoZ Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Trade is the main source of profit in game. You start off as a unimportant figure and slowly climb towards the top. Towards the end you will grab the reins of a powerful organization bringing a profit of hundreds of thousands gold pieces. Your can start trading as soon as you complete quest 4: Samargol - Job Application, which you are given at the very beginning of the game. From this point on you will be able to buy resources at one city and sell them in another. Early in the game you will only be able to carry 10 resources. Once you reach the Sword Coast the limit will rise to 15. You can buy resources for trade bars. In turn, bars you earn can be exchanged for gold. 1 bar is worth 15 gold pieces. You can make the exchange with Osi Tchaluka (Samargol), and later with Variel (Crossroads Keep). Trade gets interesting once you reach the Sword Coast - resource prices are the same in all cities in Samarach so you can't really trade between them.

Resources

There are 11 resources available in Storm of Zehir:

Basic:

Ore, Timber, Skins

They are the most common resources, but for this reason their price is the lowest

Rare:

Cold Iron, Darksteel, Mithril, Adamantine, Zalantar, Ivory, Mead, Salt

Rare and thus expensive.

Prices in towns

	Samarach	Leilon	West Harbor	Phandalin	Conyb.	New Leaf	Port Llast	Highcliff	Thunder.
Ore	8	6	9	9	15	9	15	6	9
Timber	4	12	6	6	6	3	6	12	3
Skins	10	5	3	1	5	3	5	5	3
Cold Iron	80	80	40	40	40	40	80	80	40
Darksteel	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
Mithril	200	200	80	80	80	80	200	200	80
Adamantine	300	300	50	50	50	50	300	300	50
Zalantar	130	130	70	70	70	70	130	130	70
Ivory	200	200	100	100	100	100	200	200	100
Mead*	80 / 60	80 / 60	45 / 20	45 / 20	45 / 20	45 / 20	80 / 60	80 / 60	45 / 20
Salt	75	75	50	50	50	50	75	75	50

*There are two kinds of mead, available depending on your choices during West Harbor - Dragon Hunt. If you decide to cooperate with the dragons use the second value.

Trade Outposts

All throughout Sword Coast you will be able to set up trade outposts from which you will be sending caravans. The more outposts and caravans you have, the more profitable your company will be. Profit, generated in trade bars can be collected from Variel (Crossroads Keep). Be sure to check in with her every once in a while to collect your share. Setting up an outpost in a city may be expensive and may sometimes be tied to some quest. Below you will see the requirements for each of the cities:

Leilon - 300 trade bars and 5 skins

West Harbor - you need to complete West Harbor - Dragon Hunting and kill the monsters

Phandalin - 200 trade bars and 5 ore

Highcliff - 100 trade bars and 5 lumber

Neverwinter - you need to complete (Neverwinter): Trade Outpost

Thundertree - 100 trade bars and 5 ore

Port Llast - 100 trade bars and 5 ore, complete (Neverwinter): Under New Management and get rid of Luskan forces

New Leaf - 800 trade bars and 10 ore, Quest 12: Shortage

Conyberry - 500 trade bars and 10 skins

Caravans

Caravans can be sent from one trade outpost to another. They generate profit which can be collected by talking to Variel (Crossroads Keep). Caravans can be upgraded to make them more resilient to bandit attacks and more profitable. It pays off to create as many caravans as possible and upgrade them when possible, the expenses you take should be covered pretty quick. If a caravans gets looted by bandits you can approach it and repair it by giving it the amount of resources or trade bars. Below, you will see a table containing the costs for creating caravans (in gold pieces), upgrade costs and the income they produce:

Leilon

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Highcliff	3750	75	7500	112	11250	150
West Harbor	6000	120	12000	180	18000	240
Crossroads Keep	4000	80	8000	120	12000	160

West Harbor

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Leilon	6000	120	12000	180	18000	240
Highcliff	5000	100	10000	150	15000	200

Phandalin

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Crossroads Keep	3500	70	7000	105	10500	140
Conyberry	2500	50	5000	75	7500	100

Crossroads Keep

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Leilon	4000	80	8000	120	12000	160
Phandalin	3500	70	7000	105	10500	140
Highcliff	1000	20	2000	30	3000	40
Thundertree	2500	50	5000	75	7500	100
Neverwinter	2000	40	4000	60	6000	80

Highcliff

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Leilon	3750	75	7500	112	11250	150
West Harbor	5000	100	1000	150	15000	200
Crossroads Keep	1000	20	2000	30	3000	40
Neverwinter	1000	20	2000	30	3000	40

Thundertree

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Crossroads Keep	2500	50	5000	75	7500	100
Neverwinter	3000	60	6000	90	9000	120
Conyberry	8000	160	16000	240	24000	320

Neverwinter

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Highcliff	1000	20	2000	30	3000	40
Crossroads Keep	2000	40	4000	60	6000	80
Thundertree	3000	60	6000	90	9000	120
Port Llast	4500	90	9000	135	13500	180
New Leaf	10000	200	20000	300	30000	400

Port Llast

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Neverwinter	4500	90	9000	135	13500	180

New Leaf

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Neverwinter	10000	200	20000	300	30000	400
Conyberry	8000	160	16000	240	24000	320

Conyberry

To:	Build cost	Profit	First upgrade cost	Profit	Second upgrade cost	Profit
Phandalin	2500	50	5000	75	7500	100
Thundertree	8000	160	16000	240	24000	320
New Leaf	8000	160	16000	240	24000	320

Organization upgrades

You can also increase your profits by upgrading your organization. Those upgrades can be performed with Variel (Crossroads Keep). Such an investiture is best performed when you have trade outposts in most or all of the cities. Each investiture costs a set amount of trade bars:

1 investiture - 500 trade bars

2 investiture - 500 trade bars

3 investiture - 1000 trade bars

4 investiture - no costs

5 investiture - 5000 trade bars

Possible upgrades:

Propaganda - costs 5 ore, 5 lumber and 5 skins

Chapel upgrade - costs 5 lumber and 5 mithril / Opens the temple at Crossroads Keep.

Greycloaks weapon upgrade - costs 5 zalantar and 5 cold iron

Greycloaks armor upgrade - costs 5 mithril and 5 adamant

Portal upgrade - costs 5 adamant and 5 darksteel / After the upgrade you will be able to teleport from Crossroads Keep to your trade outposts. The travel, however, is still one way.