This guide goes over how to through Hogan’s trading post quest and recruit him in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.
How to Recruit Hogan in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
To recruit Hogan in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, you have to speak to him, and then make a profit of at least 50,000 baqua from trading post transactions. Note that you have to speak to him first, then turn a profit—if you’ve been buying and selling from trading posts before you speak to Hogan, that profit won’t count towards recruiting him. The only profit that counts is what you make after speaking to Hogan and initiating his recruitment quest.
With that in mind, there are two ways to proceed with Hogan’s recruitment quest:
- If you’ve already found Hogan at the pier in the middle of Twinhorne West and spoken to him, start at the section “Making a Profit at Trading Posts” to quickly reach the 50,000 baqua profit goal.
- If you haven’t spoken to Hogan yet, make your way to the “A Faster (and Cheesier) Method to Recruit Hogan” section.
Making a Profit at Trading Posts
Once you’ve spoken to Hogan in Twinhorne West, the game will start tracking your trading post profits. Hogan wants you to make a profit of 50,000 baqua before he joins you, which can be a bit confusing since different trading posts have their own buying and selling prices.
The following table lists the items that you should buy, from which trading posts, and at what prices, as well as the location where you should sell them to make the highest profit:
| Item to Buy | Location to Buy | Price to Buy At (in Baqua) | Location to Sell |
| Diamond | Werne Village Impershi’arc | Lower than 5,000 | Ardinale City |
| Rug | Werne Village Treefolk Village Hishahn | Lower than 1,347 | Impershi’arc |
| Hot Spring Black Egg | Werne Village Hishahn | Lower than 400 | Treefolk Village |
| Silk | Werne Village | Lower than 875 | Twinhorne East |
| Chen Rock Tea | Werne Village | Lower than 700 | Hishahn |
| Tanned Leather | Werne Village Treefolk Village | Lower than 500 | Impershi’arc |
| Perfume | Treefolk Village Hishahn Ardinale City | Lower than 373 | Twinhorne East |
| Corn | Treefolk Village | Lower than 200 | Impershi’arc |
| Rock Salt | Treefolk Village Hishahn | Lower than 124 | Impershi’arc |
| Glassware | Treefolk Village Ardinale City | Lower than 400 | Impershi’arc |
| Black Pepper | Treefolk Village | Lower than 250 | Ardinale City |
| Wine | Treefolk Village | Lower than 360 | Athrabalt |
| Pink Coral | Hishahn Impershi’arc Ardinale City | Lower than 1,212 | Treefolk Village |
| Crystal Ore | Hishahn | Lower than 670 | Treefolk Village |
| Pearl | Hishahn | Lower than 2,400 | Athrabalt |
| Foreign Clothes | Hishahn | Lower than 2,355 | Ardinale City |
| Painting | Impershi’arc Ardinale City | Lower than 2,250 | Twinhorne East |
| Kimono | Impershi’arc | Lower than 4,667 | Ardinale City |
| Tar Stone | Impershi’arc | Lower than 800 | Athrabalt |
| Carving | Ardinale City | Lower than 2,500 | Impershi’arc |
| Leather Clothes | Ardinale City | Lower than 1,000 | Werne Village |
| War Scroll | Ardinale City | Lower than 3,333 | Hishahn |
Hogan’s dialogue will change to indicate how close you are to reaching the goal in a general sense, but there is no in-game number to show you your exact profits. If you want to keep track of your exact numbers, you’ll have to do that on your own outside of the game.
Do Not Trust the Arrows
You’ll notice upward and downward arrows on the items at trading posts. These arrows do not indicate that you are buying items for a low price in a general sense or selling them for a guaranteed profit. Instead, these arrows indicate that the item is at a lower or higher price than usual only for the location you are in. If a place usually sells an item for 800 baqua, it will be marked with downward arrows if it’s on sale for 500 baqua, but you may still be able to get it somewhere else for 300 baqua with upward arrows if it’s usually on sale for 200 baqua in that location.
This is important to keep in mind because if you sell something for a lower price than you bought it for, it will revert your progress towards Hogan’s goal. For example, if you have made 45,000 baqua in profit but then sell an item for a 500 baqua loss, you must now make 5,500 baqua in profit (rather than just 5,000) to make up for the loss you have endured. The 50,000 baqua profit is a very strict net profit you must make at the trading posts to recruit Hogan.
A Faster (and Cheesier) Method to Recruit Hogan
You can cheese the system by buying items from trading posts before speaking to Hogan. Once you speak to him, the 50,000 baqua profit goal will activate. The game didn’t count how much you spent on your purchases before speaking to Hogan, so you can sell everything you have and register it all as a profit. If you buy at least 14 Diamonds in Werne for around 1,200 baqua each, speak to Hogan, and then sell them for at least 5,000 baqua each in Ardinale City, you’ll reach the 50,000 profit goal with no issue. It will take a few trips, since the trading posts have limited inventory, but they will restock over time.
Once Hogan has joined your group, you can start working on recruiting another character with an exhausting quest: Reid.
