What to spend money on? | Strategy guide Risen 3 Guide

Taking lessons from teachers requires a lot of gold.

In the previous chapter you could learn about the difficulties you may experience related to earning gold in the Risen 3. Obviously it means you should carefully judge and plan every expense and avoid wasting your precious property. I recommend to spend almost entire money for the unlocking new skills offered by teachers. Contrary to all appearances every training is quite expensive. Basic training costs about 500 gold pieces, but more complicated lessons can require even 2000 gold pieces.

In the other parts of this guide you will find knowledge about teachers and where can you find them, although you shouldn't visit them in random order. Training needs to fit to your play-style (so for example melee warrior should learn a lot about fighting in hand-to-hand combat) and your additional skills which you find interesting (such as alchemy or blacksmithing). It's worth mentioning that few of the abilities can actually help you to get larger amount of gold. You should notice especially these:

• Prospector from the Hunting category will help you to get more valuable resources.
• Skinning, Pull Teeth, Pull Claws, Take Horns and Pull Trophies from the Hunting category will allow you to get new trophies from defeated monsters.
• Sneak, Master Thief and Safecracker from the Thievery category will make it easier for you to steal from the non-player characters and their houses.

You should buy the lock pick as soon as possible.

Merchants in the game are not a useless addition, however I recommend to use their services as little as possible, especially at the first part of the game. I don't recommend buying new weapons, outfits, food, potions or herbs since you can all of these things easily get thanks to completing quests and find them when you carefully explore the islands.

Remember! I suggest to develop the skill Haggler from the Thievery category. Unlocking this skill on every three levels will allow you to lower the prices of every merchandise by 15% and will allow you to buy more items at lower prices.

One of the most important items you need to buy is definitely the lock pick which you should buy even during the first few hours of the game. In the Calador you can buy the lock pick from Wilson, Kramer or Travis, on the Kila Island you can buy it from Buddy or Quinn and on the Taranis Island you can buy it from Rumold, Gadi or Agila. You will have to often visit merchants if you are going to focus on using the ranged weapons (such as muskets, guns, pistols, crossbows or throwing knifes) since you will have to bear a lot of extra ammunition and you will not find enough of it during your adventures. Remember to return to the merchants that can offer you the ammunition at the lowest price since it will help you to save even few hundred gold pieces during bigger transactions.

It's also worth mentioning that few merchants can sell you the special legendary items that may increase your abilities and attributes permanently. They are obviously very expensive and you should buy them at the further parts of the game, also considering only the ones that will be useful for your hero.