Part 1:
I've played this game for over nine months and now I'd like to share my Bazaar experience.
In the beginning I used the bazaar very rarely and made some bad deals but after a while I got comfortable with it and made some good trades and gained a lot of experience.
Firstly I realised that cheap fams like Baego, Red Drake or Sir Galahad, Road Knight will go often for 1 HB because newer players get them as starting reward and want to build them up as fast as possible. And the used HB they also get with it. So I could prepare very well for tower events as I used this strategy. Baego would go better if leveled to 70 but Sir Galahad goes also perfect at level 1.
After a while I discovered that tower bosses, event elites and shadow bosses are very good in exchanging for familiars with greater value. You just have to consider some rules:
1. The faster you do the trade after the event the greater the value of fam asking for you can choose.
2. There are old stars like ghislandi, lanvall, desna and odin whom have still its worth for newer players and are great rewards for the offered fams.
3. If you offer these fams for R2s with slightly higher worth the trade would work nearly all the time.
4. If you regard the skill of the offered fam and looking for a fam with other stat based skill the trade will work more often (i.e. WIS skill for agi skill). I think this works because many people focus on a special stat buff or maybe two and want to get rid of skills they couldnt use with it.
5. If you are asking for fams people will get via silver and copper pact the trades will work more often cos some of them have no use for it or dont know their worth.
With those rules I worked out some trade lines to build up a good brigade.
Trade lines that still work:
Ghislandi R2 -> Lanvall R2 -> Odin R2 -> Lanvall R1 -> Odin R1
or
Desna R2 -> Lanvall R1 -> Odin R1
Odin R1s and R2s are perfect in exchanging for event rewards directly after the event ended (won't work for long). Also you can get some very worthful fams with them:
Odin R1/R2 -> Doog EP1 -> Batraz EP1 -> Iji EP1/Ignis EP1
Sometimes you'll have to level the fam up before trading but its not always necessary, depending on the time you'll do the trade (i.e. ignis and fomors are far more expensive before and during raid than after these event).
If you build up two of the above mentioned EP1 fams to their ultimate form you can get even more valuable fams with them (i.e. grellas, cuelebre, olitau or even hraesvelg EP1).
To use this you will have to know the current worth of every fam you are working with and sometimes change your trade lines if you notice that it wont work as good as before or implement a new released fam that fits in worth.
There are far more strategies I've used till now but for today its enough ;-)
To be continued...