Title: Rich Merchant Ring for Life Skill
Family Name: ICFXRS

Region (NA/EU): NA?EU

5% version Guru +1 or higher in all below before any piece drops

Requirements:

Gathering Drops Part 1

Fishing Drops Part 2

Hunting Drops Part 3

Cooking Drops Part 4 (IE:Like Witch's Delicacy)

Alchemy Guru Drops Part 5 (IE:Like Mysterious Catalist)

Processing Guru No Drop

Additional 5% (Adds to above 5%) 

Requirements: All requirements above before any piece drops and Master +1 or Higher in all below 

Training Drops Part 1 from Imperial Training

Trading Drops Part 2 from Imperial Trading

Farming Drops Part 3 from Harvesting/Improving

Sailing Part 4 from Sea Monster Hunting

Barter Drops Part 5 from Special Barter

Requirements can be met on one of more characters!

However the drops should only occur on the Guru Character in that Lifeskill

UPDATE Trading Lifeskill Revamp

Comments: 

Has the the following been removed from the the coming UPDATE?: 

The Rich Merchant Ring Pieces can rarely drop when you sell specific trade items to a Trade Manager.

• Rich Merchant Ring Piece #1 – Obtained by selling Valencia North Gate Trade Goods or killing Desert Traders.
• Rich Merchant Ring Piece #2 – Obtained by selling Valenica West Gate Trade Goods. 
• Rich Merchant Ring Piece #3 – Obtained by selling Sand Grain Bazaar, Shakatu, Runn, or Rock Post Trade Goods. 
• Rich Merchant Ring Piece #4 – Obtained by selling Ibellab Oasis, Orisha Island or Ancado Inner Harbor Trade Goods. 
• Rich Merchant Ring Piece #5 – Obtained by selling Arehaza, or Muiquun Town Goods.

[Update] April 6, 2023 (Thu) Update Details | Black Desert Southeast Asia (playblackdesert.com)

Copied and pasted from link above

• Changed so Rich Merchant's Ring Piece can be obtained when selling new trade items since the existing trade items are no longer available.

You can already get all rich merchant ring pieces by lifeskilling: Trading. Sadly trading is beyond outdated and getting the full ring by trading takes more than 50000 hours average. Ring piece 1/ ash forest piece can be obtained by selling the trade items which can be bought from the trade manager in the western part of Valencia city. Ring piece 2/ Padix piece can be obtained by selling the trade items which can be bought from the trade manager in the northern part of Valencia city. And so on for the other pieces. It used to be the original way to get the ring before you could grind for them but nobody ever got more than 2 pieces by trading I think.

Just bring trading up to date again and add mastery for active trading.

Saeil

If you would kindly give me the reference where you found this information about getting the ring pieces from trading, I did my best to search and did not find this information.  Not sure we are allowed to put active links from other sites or if you can just direct message me.   There is a reference in the BDO COdex but the info seems questionable.

I understood and may be mistaken that when the changes to trading were made in 2020 https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Adventure/History?_groupMasterNo=353

and that all of the previous methods for obtaing the ring pieces were removed from the game with the update.

I am an active in Trading on BDO.

I would at like to at least try to get the pieces without having to obtain High AP-DP gear and then having others help me to grind thoses areas.  As with most who lifeskill, playing the game solo and achieving goals without being helped by others offers the greatest satisfaction    I believe that having an exclusive ring for Lifeskillers would benefit the community and my suggestion for the requiements is meant to be a starting point.  I got my 1st ring piece back in 2018.

I just checked the link and it even says you can still obtain the ring pieces with the old method. 

I forgot when it was but a few years ago there was a big datamine. Even the chances for the pieces were datamined. It was that big datamine which prompted them to show most hidden stats in-game.

Anything but the first 2 ring pieces is pure insanity to even try to get by trading. But that doesn't mean we need other lifeskills to be able to drop them. Trading just needs a revamp so it's relevant again and the chances for the different ring pieces need to be adjusted to be similar like the grinding chances.

Addition thoughts:

The intent of this post was to bring awareness to either adding a Life Skill Merchant Ring and or improve the current Life Skill requirements of the ring pieces which are outdated!

Drop rates should be based on difficulty (effort-amount of items obtained) (IE: Higher Guru level or Mastery level)

Special item for obtaining (IE: Specific recipe for Cooking, Specific craft item for Alchemy, Specific item for Gathering, Specific Hunting Beast, etc), however recipe does not require item from gathering or hunting (Double Dipping).

Drops should have a Minimum amount of items (or kills for hunting, fish for fishing, etc.) obtained before the drop occurs, and a maximum level amount of items collected (or kills for hunting, fish for fishing, etc.) for a guaranteed method of obtaining (IE: a Marni type sensor)