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  • #31
    woven mandrake are great, the two mandrakes and boning are one of the more expensive precombines in picnics.

    One time I found a shattered crystal on a merchant, right after an earth exp group landed a liquified earth. Bought that and boom, ceramic totem of rathe for 50k in baz. The other day I found a chunk of wind metal, that will go nicely toward my next grimel earring.

    I wouldn't call it vendor mining as such anymore, but more like simple vendor luck. Someone else said it's just good timing, that you recognize what's there before someone else does.

    I feedbacked this idea, and really hope they implement it, that they make the inventories flowing instead of static. Once a vendor's inventory fills up, anything new he buys, is instantly destroyed. that does no one any good, and the vendors often fill up with junk loot that nobody buys and so they have the same inventory for weeks. When they buy something that they don't already have, it should go in at the top of their inventory, and push the very bottom item out (ie the oldest item that hasn't sold). it only makes sense from all angles. Any smart businessman wouldn't throw out what he just paid for.
    Maybe if enough feedback this idea, it might be put in, and while it still wouldn't be mining, it'd be a lot of movement of goods.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Doebi
      <Does the happy vendor mining dance>
      Found a Tolan's Darkwood Breastplate on a vendor for 800p.
      (Ranger clicky armor from Kunark. Has Ring of Faydark on it)

      I've seen it for sale up to 80k. I've been offered 64k so far.

      Someone, someplace, is bummed.

      Zoinks !

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      • #33
        I guess I am lucky on my server, I have been selling blue diamonds in the bazaar for 425, but you guys are right about regular diamonds, vendor cost is more than I would get in the bazaar.

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        • #34
          I am just a novice, but I have gotten shadow wolf pelts off of vendors for a pittance and sold shadow silk for 50pp.. bought 6 unfired opal encrusted steins for 6pp, and fired them ( at a pottery skill of 130) and sold them for 30pp each. Just bought a stack of tainted planar essence for 6pp ea. Must skillup.... !


          Torquemadda
          Evil Cleric Extraodinaire

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          • #35
            Lol, vendor mining is my favorite tradeskill Items I have found just in the last couple of weeks:

            2 alabaster beaks
            7 fiery granite
            4 words of torment
            2 copies PoG
            3 copies SoE
            1 ornate chain mold(forget what piece, not having any chain class chars)
            1 words of distress
            about a dozen or so windstones
            6 wind-worn stones
            well over 1500 shadeling silks-lol, ran alts through the Shadeweaver vendor until I had bought them all-thought I was gonna run out of slots before she ran out of silks. Ended up with over 3 HM backpacks full of shadeling threads, after all the combines. I now have my 30 Bst perma-camped, hehe, in MSeru, for LQ rockhopper hides. Can you say over 10k in leather padding? SOMEONE must have been hunting swirling shadows for days, lol.
            Bunches of other assorted stuff. Sometimes I just cannot believe what I stumble upon. On the other hand, last week was watching over the shoulder of a friend playing, and when he went to sell after a while, didn't pay attention, until he mentioned words of torment. quote "Words of Torment, do those bring anything in the bazaar?" Myself-What, the vendor has some? Quote "No, I just sold 2 to him. Are they worth anything?" Sob, full vendor, words gone, VM dead/sigh.
            Ask not for whom the bell tolls...just tell the jerk at the bottom to stop pulling on the darn rope

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            • #36
              Perhaps the article on Mining should be updated?

              http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/ar...r=070000000000

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              • #37
                I think that the main purpose of every expansion since PoP has been to add dozens of worthless items to clog up vendor space. What is the point of doing this? Well, I guess it makes people happier when they have a few items to sell after they're done, as opposed to having to carry loads of cash as they kill and loot... but it still feels like there should be a better solution.

                Even more baffling... why do the vendors pay so much for that junk?
                It's like we're all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively...

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by TheCraftyBard
                  I think that the main purpose of every expansion since PoP has been to add dozens of worthless items to clog up vendor space. What is the point of doing this? Well, I guess it makes people happier when they have a few items to sell after they're done, as opposed to having to carry loads of cash as they kill and loot... but it still feels like there should be a better solution.

                  Even more baffling... why do the vendors pay so much for that junk?
                  No joke. PoP upset me a bit. I mean, they need to make a "PoP vendor Trash" vendor.

                  There was enough stuff before PoP to making diving difficult. Now I have to wade through "Gran of Burning Sand" "Fiery Mephit Talon" "Vallon's Left Eyebrow".


                  :-(


                  -Lilosh
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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Lilosh

                    There was enough stuff before PoP to making diving difficult. Now I have to wade through "Gran of Burning Sand" "Fiery Mephit Talon" "Vallon's Left Eyebrow".
                    Greetings, Krel! You look like you could use a...

                    "Gooey internal organ"

                    "Crud from under banshee's fingernail"

                    "Thing you saw on the ground and kept because it kinda looked like Richard Nixon"

                    "You're better off not knowing what this is"
                    It's like we're all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively...

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Lilosh
                      No joke. PoP upset me a bit. I mean, they need to make a "PoP vendor Trash" vendor.

                      There was enough stuff before PoP to making diving difficult. Now I have to wade through "Gran of Burning Sand" "Fiery Mephit Talon" "Vallon's Left Eyebrow".


                      :-(


                      -Lilosh
                      Originally posted by TheCraftyBard
                      Greetings, Krel! You look like you could use a...

                      "Gooey internal organ"

                      "Crud from under banshee's fingernail"

                      "Thing you saw on the ground and kept because it kinda looked like Richard Nixon"

                      "You're better off not knowing what this is"
                      ROFL

                      Ok, you two owe me a new keyboard, mine has coke sprayed all over it now.
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by TheCraftyBard
                        "Thing you saw on the ground and kept because it kinda looked like Richard Nixon"
                        That's where my Tricky Dick shrunken head went.

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