What is the point in Bartering EXP?

[Pocahawtness]

Hello!
I've recently taking up sailing!
Setting up my Artifacts, of course I went with what seemed to be the best, which gives Sailing EXP, Bartering EXP and Sailing Mastery.
But looking at it, Bartering EXP doesn't actually seem to do anything, in that there is no Bartering Mastery. So my question is, what on earth is the point in Bartering EXP?
Would I actually have been better just going for Sailing EXP and Sailing Mastery?

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

It lowers your Parley requirements for each barter. Higher mastery means that you can do a few more barters before having to reset. The number of actual barters you do is more important in that it opens up more T4 - T5 barters which is one of the main ways that you make money bartering.

[Pocahawtness]

Yes, but there is no Mastery for Bartering. It's always zero?
I mean, once all the barters are "opened up" then that's it?

[Grizzledorf]

Originally posted by Pirate☠️Pocah:

Yes, but there is no Mastery for Bartering. It's always zero?
I mean, once all the barters are "opened up" then that's it?

are you confusing bartering with trading? theres the trading you can do on land but then there is bartering that you can do with sailing by bartering different goods.

i could be wrong but from my understanding there is a difference

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by Grizzledorf:

Originally posted by Pirate☠️Pocah:

Yes, but there is no Mastery for Bartering. It's always zero?
I mean, once all the barters are "opened up" then that's it?

are you confusing bartering with trading? theres the trading you can do on land but then there is bartering that you can do with sailing by bartering different goods.

i could be wrong but from my understanding there is a difference

No, I'm not.

Bartering does not have a Mastery. Which is why I am wondering what the point of earning EXP is (beyond a certain point).

I think I will get another Artifact so I can swap between the two different settings for everything. I mean, Mermaid III seems pointless, so I can't see any point in "Oceans Embrace". Better, perhaps, to use something like "Chasing the Sunset".

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

How many accumulated barters do have? It shows the number in the up left hand corner when you hit use the barter menu.