Trading and the Market

Heroes can trade in two ways. A trade is face to face and instant. The Market works while you are away: list an item, go hunting, and collect your lumens later. Both are safe by design, and neither lets you hand over things you should not.

Who can trade

• Trading and listing on the Market need level 20.
• Your account must also be at least 72 hours old. This keeps new accounts from being used to funnel items.
• Buying on the Market is open to everyone.

What can be traded

Most items you find in play can be traded. A few cannot:

• Bound items. Quest items are bound. So is anything that arrives from the Cash Shop, the Lumen Pass, the login calendar or ad rewards. Bought or free rewards never become tradable power.
• Gear you are wearing. Take it off first.
• Starshards. They are never tradable.

Cash Shop looks

Looks bought in the Cash Shop have one exception. After a 7 day lock, a look can change hands once, in a trade or on the Market, for lumens. The new owner gets a bound copy that cannot be traded again. A look you were given as a gift never changes hands (see Gifting). Consumables such as Teleport Stones, charms, boxes and tickets always stay bound. See The Cash Shop.

Face-to-face trading

1. Tap a hero and press Trade on their card. You both need to be on the same map and channel, close together, and not already trading.
2. The other hero gets a prompt, which expires after 30 seconds. When they accept, the Trade window opens for both of you.
3. Each side can offer up to 9 items and an amount of lumens. Tap any offered item to see its full card, including stars and potential.
4. Press Lock when you are happy with what is on the table. Any change from either side unlocks both.
5. After the last change, Confirm unlocks after 3 seconds. This stops last-second switches.
6. When both confirm, the swap happens at once. Both bags need room.

The trade is cancelled if either hero cancels, changes map, dies, logs out, walks away, or leaves the window idle for 3 minutes. Both sides are always told why.

The window warns you in plain words if you are giving something for nothing, and it shows a red change when the other side edits their offer.

The Market

Open it from Menu, People, Market, from anywhere in the world. The AUCTION tab holds the realm's own lots of rare Forge materials, bid on in lumens. See The Realm Auction.

Buying

• Search by name, or use the category chips: All, Weapons, Armor, Accessories, Consumables, Materials and Cosmetics.
• Sort by lowest price, highest price, newest or ending soonest.
• Stacks can be partly bought. Want 20 potions from a stack of 200? Just buy 20.
• Your lumens are taken at once. The item goes to your Market Box.
• You cannot buy your own listing.

Selling

1. Pick an item from your bag. It must not be bound.
2. Choose a quantity and a price for each item (between 1 lumen and 2 billion).
3. Choose how long it stays listed: 12, 24 or 48 hours.
4. Press List.

Costs:

The item leaves your bag and waits in the listing. You can have up to 10 active listings at a time. The sell sheet shows the last 7 days of sales for that item (average, lowest, highest, and number of sales) plus the lowest price now on offer. It warns you if your price is far below or far above the average.

The Market Box

Everything the Market gives you waits in your Market Box: items you bought, lumens from your sales, and items from cancelled or expired listings. This works even when you are offline. Press Claim or Claim All. Anything that does not fit your bag stays in the box until you make room. A sold item shows a toast and a badge.

You can cancel a listing at any time. The item goes to your Market Box, but the listing fee is not refunded.

Trading safely

• A finished trade cannot be undone, so read both sides before you confirm.
• Only the trade window and the Market move items between heroes. Nothing else is safe.
• You can block a hero who bothers you, and report them. See Chat and Emotes.