In the year of our lord 2026, October the 3rd. the economy in the zone Ail'Vorith is a horrific mess. It is one of four starting regions. it is the newest, unfinished, largely untested. But players (me specifically) have put in detailed feedback/bug reports about this. and the discord is a chorus of people complaining about these things and a fix would be great. this is where some large portion of the players start, and the (economic) gameplay experience is pretty damn horrible.

I. the horrific income

Nothing in the deep sells well due to the entire foreign quarter being 'shady vendors'. a few notes about this:

the weapon vendor (not the generic shady vendor) buys cracked staves for like 2.04 silver.
beetle carapaces are only vendored for 1 copper. fungus parts 1 copper. runt hides 1 copper. rusty weapons? 6-9 copper.
There is no "pays better prices" vendor for most things.
the cook. the lone fellow who payed more. he payed 3 for meat. and a massive (for the deep) 70 copper for beetle eyes. literally the only thing worth selling in the deep.
as of the patch of 10/3/2026 at 5:40am. that was nerfed. now beetle eyes sell for 9cp.
if you get access to the upper city there is NOT (that i have found) the same array of vendors to sell things to. if there are some, they are not convenient and hidden. no weapon buyer. no leather buyer. no jeweler/miner to buy gems. there is a cook who will pay literally 1-2 more cp for any given item now. awful.

II. the long struggle to reach zero.

you have to grind for 8-10 levels to reach the level of service a normal player gets in NH/EW.

You have to (depending on your class) grind to around level 6-8 to do your house entry quest. t his makes you disdained in the upper city. some quests involve swimming across shark infested waters and pulling mobs out of dangerous paths into buggy shallows which some times cause mobs t o fall under the world and teliport into other mobs and train you. cool.
Once you accomplish that feat you are disdain in the city. you still can't shop. so you need to kill goblins. you cannot do the next quest till level 12. so go grind.
Once you have grinded to uneasey (took me level 10). i can now access the vendors in the upper city who have "normal" prices (still a lil high compared to other cities). what is available you ask?

III. the dismal shopping options.

So lets say you're a cool guy and you farmed like a machine to amass wealth before the Great Beetle Eye Nerf. what can you buy?

spells are still wacky expensive even after 10/3/26 patch.
there is no jeweler's bag/supply vendor.
there is no ingot molds. anywhere in the zone. you cannot make ingots or be a smith.
some of the recipe vendors (the tailor specifically) is in the foreign quarter and it's prices are 'shady vendor' terrible prices.
there are no hides in the deep ( so far) can't be a leather worker. poop for a leather class.

IV current available solutions

leave AV. stop testing the zone that needs testing. stop helping new players who want to experience what the game has to offer. they will reroll or stop playing the game, or leave themselves.
blind midden. i hear it actually has decent drops. awesome! not sure it can serve all the players of AV. and even EW had normal vendor options very early in it's release by comparison

If anyone has any feedback i'll add it to the list up here for the devs to review when they want to address this stuff.