Launch week decides who controls the early market. Get your farming route locked before prices settle.

The setup: two Merchants (future Blacksmiths) + one Acolyte. Merchants print steady zeny. Acolyte farms cards. That's the whole system.

No chasing rare drops. Just items everyone needs on day one.

• The Core Farming Team
• Why Merchant Wins Launch Farming
• Merchant Stat Build: Skip Heavy STR
• Best Items to Farm
• Best Early Farming Maps
• Acolyte Card Farming: Speed Over Fights
• Sell or Hold: Market Logic
• First-Month Timeline
• FAQ
• What's the best class for zeny farming at launch?
• Why run two Merchants instead of one?
• Is Acolyte better than Merchant?
• Should Merchant go heavy STR?
• Which cards should we farm first?
• Summary

↖ The Core Farming Team

Logic: if gear prices crash, cards still sell. If card RNG is dry, materials still move.

↖ Why Merchant Wins Launch Farming

Forget flashy damage. Uptime wins launch farming.

• Weight Limit — farm 2x longer before a town run
• Overcharge — NPC sales pay more
• Cart skills — more carry capacity, less downtime
• Ore Discovery (Blacksmith) — free bonus materials over thousands of kills

If your Merchant farms 45 minutes straight while others reset every 20, you win on volume alone, even with lower DPS.

↖ Merchant Stat Build: Skip Heavy STR

AGI first (~50), then LUK. STR stays low early.

LUK is the efficiency stat — one point, four benefits. A weapon with +20-30 ATK or race bonus often outperforms raw STR anyway.

Gear to grab: Hammer or Ring Pommel Saber, race-bonus affixes, Andre Card (ATK), Caramel Card (insect farming), Soldier Skeleton Card (crit, if affordable).

↖ Best Items to Farm

Focus on broad demand, not niche loot.

Practical checklist:

• Armor: Coat, Cotton Shirt, Chain Mail
• Garment: Hood
• Weapons: Hammer, Ring Pommel Saber
• Upgrade mats: Rough Oridecon, Rough Elunium
• Elemental stones: Wind of Verdure, Green Live, Crystal Blue
• Thief gear: Damascus (sells hard when Thief/Rogue demand spikes)

Boring drops move fast during launch. Thousands of fresh characters need basic gear — Coats and Hoods sell just fine.

If an item stalls after repeated listings, drop the price or switch farming maps.

↖ Best Early Farming Maps

Rule: an 8-second kill beats a 20-second kill unless the drop is worth 2.5x more. Speed = more rolls = more cards.

↖ Acolyte Card Farming: Speed Over Fights

Acolyte isn't your main earner. It's a card-farming specialist.

More kills per hour = more card rolls. Simple as that.

Why Acolyte dominates card farming:

• Increase AGI — faster travel between mobs
• Teleport — skips Fly Wing cost, cuts downtime
• Low SP/gear cost — cheap to run for hours

Best card targets (one-shot kills):

The one-shot rule: need 3+ hits per kill? Move to an easier target. The class exists to farm weak mobs fast, not to prove it can fight.

↖ Sell or Hold: Market Logic

Don't hoard for the sake of hoarding. Zeny in storage does nothing unless the item is actually appreciating.

↖ First-Month Timeline

Markets swing hard early. Check prices, move maps, don't marry one route.

↖ FAQ

↖ What's the best class for zeny farming at launch?

Merchant. Weight limit, Overcharge, and cart skills mean long farming sessions without town runs. Not the fastest killer, but the most efficient long-term.

↖ Why run two Merchants instead of one?

Double the loot volume, double the coverage. Both scale into Blacksmiths later — stronger than betting everything on one character.

↖ Is Acolyte better than Merchant?

Different jobs. Merchant = steady zeny. Acolyte = card farming. Increase AGI and Teleport make Acolyte the fastest low-level card grinder in the game.

↖ Should Merchant go heavy STR?

No. AGI first, then LUK. LUK covers crit, hit, attack, and perfect dodge in one stat — better return than raw STR early on.

↖ Which cards should we farm first?

Pupa, Willow, Rodda Frog, Andre. All cheap, all in demand from fresh characters building basic survivability or damage.

↖ Summary

Two Merchants for zeny, one Acolyte for cards. Merchants scale into Blacksmiths and farm gear, upgrade mats, and Damascus. Acolyte one-shots weak mobs for Pupa, Willow, Rodda Frog, and Andre cards.

Stay flexible. Crowded map? Move. Prices crash? Switch targets. Killing too slow? Upgrade gear or downgrade mobs. The system beats the route — that's what keeps the zeny coming while the market shifts around you.