Recluse Merchant (Hermit Trader) Event Guide

🗓 Updated: 2026-10-12

Recluse Merchant (Торговец-отшельник) is a 28-day special-event shop where patience beats spending. Behind an ordinary-looking rotating storefront sit rare relics, awakening shards, and other items that are normally much harder to farm — and part of the stock can be claimed completely free. The rule of the event: do not spend Hermit Coins on the first resources you see; wait for the offer that actually moves your account forward.

How the shop works

• The merchant lives in the special-events tab and runs for 28 days, with many refreshes available over that time.
• Each storefront shows six items:
  • Slot 1 is always free — claim it every time.
  • Slots 2–3 are big-discount offers — check carefully.
  • Slots 4–6 sell at regular price — buy only out of real need.
• Every refresh brings a new free item, so refreshing is rewarding for F2P even when the discount slots show nothing interesting.

Rare items worth watching for

• The free slot can hold a rare relic that is normally a paid item — a genuine chance to get one for nothing but a lucky refresh.
• Free rewards also include an awakening-shard selection chest. Note: it is not universal — you pick shards for a specific hero, and awakening one hero needs 10 shards.
• The discount slots are where the real prizes appear: a UR-relic selection chest, 100-shard UR-relic sets, and rare relics from paid bundles such as Demon’s Eye and Dragon Blood.

Ordinary resources, speedups, and consumables can be farmed in many other places. A discounted rare UR relic comes around far less often.

Refresh rules

• 2 free refreshes per day, plus up to 8 extra manual refreshes for diamonds.
• The trap of the event: a couple of dry refreshes turn into “just one more,” and suddenly the diamonds are gone and the shop offers a bag of common resources.
• Guideline: always use the free refreshes; treat diamond refreshes with care. First accumulate Hermit Coins, then hunt the expensive item — spending diamonds on ten refreshes just to see a relic you cannot afford makes no sense. Every refresh re-opens the free slot, so free attempts pay off even while you are saving.

Recluse’s Enigma: 4700 free Hermit Coins

The main free source of Hermit Coins is the linked Recluse’s Enigma event:

• A grid of 15 missions with 7 days to complete them.
• Missions sit on lines; closing them unlocks side chests — 8 side chests in total.
• The eight chests together pay 3,200 Hermit Coins.
• Finishing all 15 missions opens the final reward: 1,500 more Hermit Coins, a random-relic chest, and extras.
• Total: 3,200 + 1,500 = 4,700 free Hermit Coins — a solid event budget.

Do not spend coins as they arrive. 4,700 looks solid until the shop assortment proves otherwise — finish the missions first, know your budget, then pick one big purchase. Two things remain unconfirmed: whether Enigma refreshes after the first 7 days and whether Hermit Coins carry over to the next cycle, so do not plan around future cycles yet.

What F2P should buy

The F2P goal is not to buy many items — it is to land the rarest possible item for the limited 4,700 coins:

1. UR-relic selection chest — choosing the exact item beats a random drop, especially when building a fixed main squad.
2. Rare relics in discount slots, especially ones normally locked behind paid bundles. Free — take it instantly. Big discount — seriously consider it.
3. Hero awakening shards — useful, but easier to source elsewhere. Spend your last coins here instead of on a rare relic only when the shards complete an awakening right now.
4. Ordinary resources last.

Value depends on the account: if one hero is a few shards short of a key awakening, those shards can beat a relic nobody can use yet. Buy for a task, not for the frame color.

Coin packs and the 28-day plan

• Hermit Coins also come from daily-limited coin packs in the event. Do not buy them in advance: wait for a genuinely good storefront offer first, then check whether you are short.
• Days 1–7: close all 15 Enigma missions, collect the full 4,700 budget. Use free refreshes daily and always claim the free item. Do not spend coins on common resources until you know your target.
• After the budget is saved: consider diamond refreshes to hunt the UR-relic selection chest and discounted rare relics. Seeing the perfect item with no coins to buy it is the failure mode — coins first, hunting second.
• Near the end: spend down the remainder. Until coin carryover between cycles is confirmed, do not sit on a large balance without reason.

Worth doing for F2P and spenders alike: 4,700 free coins, a free reward per refresh, and with luck, items that are normally far less accessible. The most common mistake is buying a little of everything — saving for the one offer that moves the account wins.

Source: Торговец-отшельник в Last Asylum: Plague - полный гайд by Гейм-Знаток on DTF.