Merchant in Dark Alliance refers to Kartik who is the only Merchant in the game. Kartik can be found before starting any missions and he will provide you with potions, and upgrades for your equipment in exchange of Crystals and Gold that you can gather by completing Missions, looting the area and defeating Enemies. You can also sell unequiped equipment to Kartik in exchange of Gold.
Upgrading Consumables
You can upgrade Potions at the merchant's stand. All potions start at level 1 and can be upgraded up to level 3.
Materials: Crystals
There are 5 types of Crystals that can be obtained:
- Common (
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- Uncommon (
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- Rare (
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- Epic (
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- Legendary(
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The rarity of the item you want to upgrade will settle the rarity of the Crystals you are going to need. You can upgrade or downgrade Crystals to obtain Crystals of higher or lower rarity.
Currency
Gold () is the Currency throughout the game that can be obtained by defeating Enemies, looting the areas for chests or breakable stuff that may store something inside. Completing Missions is rewarded with Gold and Materials. The harder the difficulty chosen for the Quest, the higher the reward in Gold.
Gold is mainly used to upgrade your equipment, but you will generally also need Materials to do so. Gold can also be used to upgrade Materials.
Skins
You can customize the visual appearance of your Equipment. Skins are purely cosmetic and do not change the Equipment's combat stats

Materials

Consumables
Upgrade & Downgrade Materials
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Dark Alliance Consumable Items
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Restores a certain % of the character's health based on the item's level, up to 90% of Health at max level. | None |
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Restores a certain % of the character's Stamina based on the item's level, up to 50% of Stamina at max level | ![]() |
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Restores a certain % of the character's Ultimate Meter based on the item's level, up to 75% ot Ultimate Meter recovery at max level | ![]() |
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Deals a certain % of Physical Damage in a Radius based on the item's level, up to 250% of Physical Damage at max level | ![]() |
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Removes Debuffs and grants Unstoppable buff for a period of time based on the item's level. At max level it lasts for 50 seconds. | ![]() |
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Grants a certain % of Physical Damage Resistance for a period of time based on the item's level, up to 50% for 75 seconds at max level | ![]() |
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Grants a certain % of Elemental Damage Resistance for a period of time based on the item's level, up to 50% for 75 seconds. | ![]() |
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Reduces a % Cooldown for a period of time based on the item's level, up to 50% for 75 seconds at max level, up to 50% for 30 seconds at Max level. | ![]() |