JD Source: 2010-01-03

Introduction
What charms should go after? I'll discuss every one of them. As far as selling charms goes, it will depend on server and since I play on billows, what is listed here is Billows prices.

Heaven Tome

Heroic Fire
This skill apparently increases the proportion of SP cost that the skill Combat Spirit converts into HP cost by a value of 10% each level. So with the charm, you would have 40%. I still think something is wrong with the translation though as I don't know why anyone would want this tome if all it does is increase the SP <==> HP cost when using skills.

If you are planning on selling the charm, it will go for about 300-500g. If there is a translation error or just something I'm not seeing, the price could be raised to around 400-700g. Most Balos in general will not go for this skill.

Gold Dagger
Ok, so this reduces the cooldown of Dragon Speed and Combat Spirit by 8 seconds with the charm. This means you just have a 2 second delay with those postures. From a PvP standpoint, smart Balos may switch postures a lot at times depending on the situation. If you have the default cooldown of 10 seconds, you will be in trouble. From a PvE point of view, this is the most useless charm to have even if you are fighting some tough boss. I have no idea why you'd want to switch back and forth a ton on a boss losing dps.

So from a selling point of view, this would sell for around 100-350g.

Dragon Shadow
This will increase the base attack of Twisting Dragon by 3% and the paralyze effect duration by 4 seconds with the charm.

From a selling point of view, this is not going to be one of your best sellers. This is because the extra 1% increase is not that great and the extra duration means nothing when you can just spam Powerful Aid. This would go for around 100-300g.

Heaven Vault
Take what I said about the Dragon Shadow charm and apply it here. Instead this time, we talk about the skill Sky Rift and replace paralyze with stun duration.

From a selling point of view, its still 100-300g despite it being our best tier 4 skill and providing a stun effect. It would only be useful for the balo until tier 5 in which they would switch to a different charm.

Noble Hunt
This will the skill Powerful Aid a 40% chance to remove one of your negative status effects, increase the base attack by 8%, and the cooldown is decreased by 4 seconds with the charm. This is the best charm for Balo period.

From a selling point of view, you can sell this for a good amount of $. It is the best selling charm in the game for Balo. I'd say around 900g-1.5k at most. The reason being is because they will be able to spam the skill, Powerful Aid if they followed the right build. Not only that, but if they also got Powerful Aid on their Esper, that means this + the increase from the charm would make Powerful Aid obviously stronger. Who doesn't want a 40% chance to remove status effects either.

Personally, you may be able to get 2k off this charm if the person is desperate or stupid enough.

Blood Blade
Increases the skill Blood Drips duration to 8 seconds with charm. This is only good for Balos who got Blood Drip and use it a lot. I doubt there are many that use Blood Drip a lot, especially in a PvP situation because its just not feasable to use depending on the faction you're fighting.

From a selling point of view, this goes for 100-300g. If Blood Drip's bleed effect was for every second instead of every 2 seconds, it would be more valuable.

Ruthless Kill
This increases the health requirement to one hit kill their opponent for the skill Slaughter by 8% (so 29%) with the charm.

From a selling point of view, this would go for around 500-700g.

Blood River
This decreases the duration of Blood Drip by 4 seconds and Slaughter by 8 seconds with the charm. So they would have 22 seconds cooldown with slaughter and 8 seconds cooldown with Blood Drip.

From a selling piont of view, this would go for around 500-700g because the bleed effect from blood drip would always be on (10 seconds from tome, cooldown with BD with this tome + charm = 8 seconds). Slaughter doesn't become a spammable skill, but its better than having the cooldown at 30 seconds.

Combat Tome

Wary Wind
Reduces the skill Mountain Wind by 3 seconds and gives it a 15% chance to increase defense for 6 seconds with the charm. I am not so sure if it would make the less thing increase which would mean that the increase would be equal to Mountain Wind's level times 30 (if that was the case).

I mention to people that Balo should spam this skill during afk botting, but only if you don't mind the SP cost so this would go for 100-350g.

Cloud Peak
This will reduce the cooldown of reinforce by 4 seconds and gives it a critstrike rate of 4% with the charm.

From a selling point of view, its hard to say since I noticed they changed the description of the skill. If the balo maxes it out, that means they can hit up to 4 targets while having a cooldown of 4 seconds and a 4% extra critstrike rate. This skill also hits twice. The downside to this skill vs its bigger brother, Blade Swinger (T5 skill) is that it hits targets in front of you only.

From a non-ascended point of view, this is great because I obtain a extra 4% critstrike rate when using the skill, but from a ascended point of view, I doubt many balos will be going to 4 monster spots and doubt they will actively be leveling so most likely, its not going to hit the 4 targets. The SP cost at rank 9 is rather high too. Lastly, if the ascended balo is dagos, they really don't have much need for this skill at rank 9 since they would have access to 5 AoEs in the end.

So I suggest you set the price somewhere between 200-600g. People hate consuming tons of SP in afk grinding and they will use blade swinger if they want a real AoE.

Sheer Cliff
This gives the skill reinforce a 20% chance to paralyze the target ignoring resistance.

From a selling point of view, this is one of your worst sellers. Most Balos will opt out and use Powerful Aid or Twisting Dragon. You say Reinforce also has AoE? Only if they max out the skill would they be able to target 4 people and even then, those players or monsters aren't going to be in front of you always.

So this sells for around 50g-150g max. If someone buys it for more than that, they are retarded.

Double Blade
This would increase the base attack of Fiery Flame and Reinforce by 4% with the charm.

From a selliing point of view, this is another bad seller. A extra 1% isn't going to help much with those skills lol. Even if one was to argue that Reinforce would be quite powerful with a 13% total self attack, powerful aid is better.

This should sell for 50g-150g max.

Route Cut
This reduces the cooldown of tiger roar by 30 seconds with charm. I am assuming this tome refers to the skill Tiger Smash though because #1, you can put points towards the tome at lvl 80 and #2, Tiger Smash is level 80. So the JD team needs to fix these stupid issues.

This is a bad seller too. 50-150g. Not going to explain why, but if you want to know, talk to me in game and lets discuss.

Flood Voice
This would increase the skill War Song's range by 4 yards and reduce its spirit consumption by 200 SP with the charm.

From a selling point of view, this is not technically a bad seller, but it just may take awhile to sell. Balos who go Dagos will need this skill maxed. Secondly, the array gives 0.8 extra movement speed when maxed and is useful not only for the Balo, but other members of the party. So this would cut their SP consumption by a good amount. So from a PvE/PvP point of view, this would be a useful charm to have.

I say this goes for about 200-600g max.

Heaven Design
This will reduce the cooldown of Ancient Soul by 80 seconds.

From a selling point of view, this is another hot seller. This means the Balo's skill, Ancient Soul, would have a cooldown of 1 minute 40 seconds (180-80 = 100 secs = 1 minute 40 seconds). This would go for about 900g-1.3k at most. They can't really argue with you on this because this skill is one of our most powerful buffs and a lower cooldown means the more you can have this up.

Thunder Crash
Increases the maximum amount of targets for Thunderbolt by 3 with charm.

From a selling point of view, this is only good for Dagos Balos. But the problem is most would rather have the Song of Antipathy one over this. So this would sell for about 100-300g.

Frantic Charge
Take what I said about Thunder Crash and apply it to the skill Song of Antipathy. Song of Antipathy would stun up to 7 targets with this charm.

From a selling point of view, this is mainly good for Dagos Balos. I would sell it for around 200-400g.

Fury Lord
Increases the effect duration for Thunderbolt and Song of Antipathy by 4 seconds with the charm.

From a selling point of view, this is a little tricky to sell and and set a price at. The reason being is because if the player stuns all 7 targets, that means it would last for 10 seconds making it really useful in PvP and even PvE. The other thing is that balo could get away with getting the additional one target added to blade swinger when this skill is at 3/3 saving one tome point.

I say it would sell for about 300-600g.

Blood Tome

Unbending Soul
This will increase the amount of damage that the skill Iron Guts will deflect to Spirit by 40% with charm. So this is for a grand total of 70%.

From a selling point of view, this is a good seller, but not the best. This is good for the tanking balos out there so sell it for about 400-700g.

Battle Spirit
Go read what I said about Gold Dagger in the Heaven Tome and apply it here. This time, it just deals with the postures tiger defense and Iron Guts.

Cracking Spirit
This would increase the duration of shatterer's resistance reduction by 6 seconds with the charm.

From a selling point of view, I suppose this can go for a little bit higher than normal. It won't go for that much because all the balo has to do is spam durable fighter. So I say around 250-450g.

Dead End
This increases the duration of the skill blade breaker's disarm effect by 6 seconds total.

From a selling point of view, this would go for about 100-350g.

Unceasing Hatred
I kinda forgot if the bounce damage rate is increased by 40% with the charm, but if it is, its 40% (Now that I think about it, it stays at 10%) for durable fighter. It will reduce the cooldown of durable fighter by 4 seconds giving Durable Fighter a cooldown of 4 seconds only if they went the durable fighter route with their skills and the charm is not really needed to obtain a 100% rate to resist damage and negative effects one time.

This is a hot seller mainly due to the cooldown decrease. Most Balos will go the powerful aid route so I suggest you focus on that, but this one would sell for about 700g-1.1k. It may not sell fast though and I'm sure some Balos would argue with you about the price. This is only useful for those balos who went the durable fighter route or were force to go that route if they are Fuwa Balo.

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