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The original intent behind the Rich Merchant Ring was to get players to engage with the inland Trading mechanic (you know, the ones with perishable goods). Specifically, players had a very low chance of obtaining a ring piece based on the town they were trading with & the type of trade item they were selling. 

Now that inland Trading has been patched out of the game, the only actual way to assemble a Rich Merchant Ring is by PVE combat. 

It really doesn't make any sense for a treasure item originally based on Trading to only be obtainable through combat. Please allow players to get a chance at assembling the ring through Bartering, the only other mechanic remotely close to Trading. 

There are four possible implementations: 

1. Much like the original Trading method, players get a very low chance of obtaining a ring piece for each barter attempt made.

2. Make any of the 5 ring pieces appear as Special Barter items (like Garmoth's Heart).

3. Make any of the 5 ring pieces appear as low-probability normal barters (like Tear of the Ocean). 

4. Allow all 5 merchant ring pieces (or the Rich Merchant Ring itself) to be purchasable via Crow Coin (like the Ebenruth Nol, which costs 2 million crow coin). 

Would greatly prefer option #4 as a "flavor win" (i.e., the player becomes a rich merchant by accumulating that many crow coins), but that is ultimately up to the discretion of the devs and/or user feedback from this thread.