Gold BarGB is actually an item
GB means "Gold Bar". It's an item whose description says it's worth 100 million Noah. So GB isn't a separate currency, it's coins in packaged form.
The logic is simple: carrying 5 billion coins in your pocket and counting them is a chore. Carry the same amount as 50 GB and it takes a few slots in your inventory, and saying "50 GB" in a negotiation is easier than saying "five billion coins".
That's why price talk between players runs almost entirely in GB. A weapon being "12 GB" means 1.2 billion coins are being asked.
Coin, M and GB: three scales of the same money
Because the numbers grow fast, players use shorthand: M means million, GB means gold bar. All three describe the same money, only the scale changes.
1 M = 1,000,000 coins. 1 GB = 100 M = 100,000,000 coins. So if someone says "250 M" they mean 2.5 GB.
In the market, cheap items are talked about in M and expensive ones in GB. To switch between the two all you do is divide or multiply by 100.
GB, M and coin values
| GB | Coins | In M | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 GB | 10,000,000 | 10 M | 10 million |
| 0.25 GB | 25,000,000 | 25 M | 25 million |
| 0.5 GB | 50,000,000 | 50 M | 50 million |
| 1 GB | 100,000,000 | 100 M | 100 million |
| 2.5 GB | 250,000,000 | 250 M | 250 million |
| 5 GB | 500,000,000 | 500 M | 500 million |
| 10 GB | 1,000,000,000 | 1,000 M | 1 billion |
| 50 GB | 5,000,000,000 | 5,000 M | 5 billion |
| 100 GB | 10,000,000,000 | 10,000 M | 10 billion |
The conversion is always the same: divide the coin amount by 100 million to get GB. In game the coin count is written as a full number; just drop the last eight digits.
Convert your own number
- Write down the coins you have.
- Divide by 100,000,000; the result is how many GB you have.
- Multiply the GB by the server's current price; that's the TRY value.
- If you're selling, use the price in the "when you sell" column; if buying, the "when you buy" column.
How many TRY is 1 GB right now?
Why is the price so different from server to server?
Every server's economy runs separately. Because GB on one server can't be moved to a character on another, there are effectively eight separate markets. The gap between them isn't small; in the table above you can see more than a twofold difference at the same moment.
What creates the gap is the player count and farm speed. On a crowded server that's been open a long time, a lot of coins have been produced; with plentiful supply the TRY value of GB drops. On a new or small server supply is scarce, so the same GB costs more.
On top of that come event periods, server merges and player migration. That's why the price moves even within the day — the details of the reasons are in the why do GB prices change article.
What GB is for
- Buying items. Every weapon, armor and accessory in the market is priced in GB.
- Upgrading items. The scrolls and materials needed for an upgrade attempt are bought with in-game money; as the number of attempts grows, the cost gets measured in GB.
- Resetting skills and stats. At level 83 a single reskill costs around 0.80 GB — reset fees rise with level.
- Buying premium. Timed membership can be converted with in-game money too.
- The shortcut to building a character. Buying in one go what a month of farming would collect, to save time, is the most common reason to use GB.
Three ways to get GB
1. Farming in game
The slowest but free way. You kill monsters and collect coins, sell the items that drop, and turn the accumulated coins into GB. Your earnings depend on your level, your zone and the server's economy.
How long it takes is a much-asked question; the how to farm 1 GB a day article has the math zone by zone. In short: hours at low level, much shorter in the right zone with the right character.
2. Converting cash into in-game money
With Knight Cash bought from the game's own shop you buy sellable items and sell them in the market for coins, getting GB indirectly. The critical question here is how many GB the TRY you pay equals.
This math doesn't always come out in your favor; don't decide without comparing the cash package's TRY price with the GB that comes out. The how many TRY and GB is 400 KC page has the comparison package by package.
3. Buying it
The fastest way. Broker sites sell GB for TRY, delivery happens in game. The one deciding factor here is price: the same GB on the same server sells at a visibly different price from site to site.
GB bought without comparing almost always means extra money. In the table on the site's home page, prices collected from the GB sellers for eight servers sit side by side; look at the "sell" column when buying, the "buy" column when selling. The step-by-step walkthrough is in the how to buy and sell GB article.
The most common mistakes when buying and selling GB
- Looking at one site. The price gap can be hundreds of TRY; comparing takes seconds.
- Picking the wrong server. GB bought on Zero can't be moved to a Felis character, and getting it back is hard.
- Misspelling the character name. Delivery can go to someone else.
- Mixing up the two prices. Buy and sell are separate columns; the gap is the seller's cut.
- Forgetting the market tax. If you sell through the market in game, 3% is taken — the math is on the market tax page.
- Being hasty. The price moves during the day; waiting a few hours can make a difference.
- Not knowing the minimum. Most sites don't buy below a certain amount; selling 10 M is not the same as selling 10 GB.
- Forgetting payment fees. What the site pays and what lands in your account can differ by payment method because of fees.