Shops

Six places take your money, and five of them do not take gold. Each currency is earned by doing one particular thing, and it buys things you cannot get any other way — which is how the game keeps its activities from collapsing into "grind whichever pays best".

The trader

The NPC trader holds 12 items and restocks every 8 hours. It is the one shop that sells ordinary gear, and the rarity mix is fixed:

Charisma discounts everything here by 0.2 % per point to 20 %, then 0.1 % per point up to 25 %. The trader buys unwanted gear at the sell price shown on its in-game item card, but it does not buy pouch materials. Those have a reference value, not a trader sell price; Praeco buys eligible materials at 30 % of that value, up to 5,000 gold per day.

The Ossuary

Crypt Marks come from dungeon clears and they buy the one thing nothing else in the game sells: control over chance. Reliquary, Certus, Numinis and Fatum remove one specific roll. Vinculum is the exception: it guarantees that the affixes you name survive — up to 2 of them on a single Vinculum — but the other affixes and therefore the final result are still random, and it consumes a Tessera beside itself. Prices scale with your level so their cost stays tied to roughly the same number of clears as you advance.

House of Laurels

Laurels are won in the Arena, and you get fifteen arena tickets a day — banked up to three days — so what you spend here is measured in duels won. Prices scale with your tier for the same reason the earnings do: a fixed price would cost an endgame gladiator half as many duels as a new one. The costs below are the base at level 20. Energy you buy here fills your bar first and the overflow goes to the Aerarium, so a draught is only refused when both are full.

Vote Shop

Vote Points come from voting for the game on the listing sites linked in the Vote tab. Each site has its own cooldown, and the rewards here are deliberately small — a nudge, not an income. How the points are earned has a page of its own: Voting.

Guild Shop

Valor is earned by fighting in guild wars. It is the only source of the war portrait frames, and one of the few ways to get elixirs without an Herbalism skill of your own.

Tessera Emporium

Tesserae are struck by Laborum shifts — one for every shift carried to its end, more for the glimmers you catch — and nothing else mints them. The Emporium sells four kinds of thing. The keepsakes and names are bought once and kept for good: a portrait ring, two titles, and the Magisterium, which is a title with a hammer behind it. The bench sells timed oils and the foreman's whistle: an oil lights the moment you buy it, a second bottle stacks its hours onto the first up to a day, and a bottle that would not fit is refused rather than poured away. The masterwork strike they raise is the 3 % chance that a crafted piece comes out one rarity higher than it rolled (never Mythic); Master's Unguent and the Magisterium's hammer add to that chance, and a crafted piece still does not outrank a Sealed Reliquary. No oil ever lowers the profession energy a craft costs, and Scholar's Wax does not touch Laborum shifts at all. The valve is a spare point of energy for the evening, a few a day, and it too is refused rather than clipped when your bar is full.

None of the token currencies can be traded, converted into each other, or bought with Aurei. Their purchases follow the purchased thing's own rule: cosmetic unlocks have no market row, the Ossuary's control reagents are bound, the Emporium's oils are a state of your character rather than an item, but Sealed Reliquary gear and the Guild Shop's herbal consumables can reach the market.