I LOVE Vendordiving.

[Nolrog]

I love the double XP week-end.

It seems all fellow vendor divers were busy XP-ing. Two runs netted among more common stuff:

• 3 Glossy Drake Hides (yep 3 on the vendor, just one purchase)
• 1 Metallic Drake Scale
• 1 Metallic Substance
• 1 Pile of Gravel
• 1 Shimmering Aligned Ore
• 1 Highland Sludge
• 2 Raw Pale Nihilite
• 2 Stacks of Blue Diamonds

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Nice haul.

[Xenephex]

I'm not sure what it is about this, but I just can't make myself stick with it. I have always been a firm believer that anyone who wants to make plat in EQ has got to be willing to do tedious and repetitive things, and I have always been able to do that. I can combine for hours. I can farm the same mobs over and over again, and I used to LOVE Vendor MINING, when you could actually buy stuff from the vendors and reveal hidden items.

But a couple hours of vendor diving and my eyes just completely glaze over. My server happened to bounce yesterday morning and so I swore I was going to work it for all it was worth. And it's not like I didn't find anything - nothing great, but 3 Piles of Gravel, quite a few Blue Diamonds - A lot of saltpeter and stuff like that. But, for some reason, I just can't stand doing it. I suspect this could be really profitable for the time invested, but I'm just going to have to stick to other things.

[susiique]

Best day diving:
2 HQ lion pelts
3 crushed diamond dust
1 great reptile tooth
2 stacks HQ rockhopper
1 treant flies
various medium and low quality skins and pelts
all at the Halas Beastlord spell vendor, I always check him now just haven't had the same luck since.

[Buns]

only 2 stacks of blue diamonds and 1 Crushed diamond dust, but was attacked by a highlands lion while loading up my next port at the gypsey camp in NK and he dropped a HQ lion pelt.

[Nolrog]

This is not exactly vendor mining, but I'm quite excited none the less.

I was checking barters today, to see if they were paying a really good price for something. I decided to check the bazaar vendors for Yaeth's pg 73. There were several for sale, all in the 100-200pp range. Typical for a Yaeth's pg. 73 left. I look at them anyway, because you never know. One of those 100pp Yaeth's was a right. I couldn't believe my eyes. I grabbed 100pp from the bank, and ran over to that vendor and snapped it up.

Now the dilemma. Someone was paying 15K for it on the spot. Do I dump it for 15K and make a 14.9 profit, or do I take a shot at RGC? Well, I took the shot. My enchanter has research at 194 (with geerlok.) Trivial is like 178 or so. I clicked combine, and there it was, a spell scroll on my cursor.

Now dilemma #2. Do I scribe the spell on my druid, or do I sell it for 50ish K? Heh. Decisions decisions.

Anyway. That's my good luck story for the day.

[Liwsa]

RGC 50k??? You can get from doing LDON's for like 800 points.

[Nolrog]

RGC 50k??? You can get from doing LDON's for like 800 points.

LDoN? What's that?

[Angelsyn]

LDoN? What's that?

I know what you mean... (assuming you're being sarcastic )

I'm only a mission or two away from being able to pick up RGC for my Cleric... but the odds of finding people around my level who would be interested in doing a couple Tak missions are really bad.

Almost as bad as finding people around my level who would be interested in doing a few Lavaspinner missions so I can do my GM Task!

[Nolrog]

I know what you mean... (assuming you're being sarcastic )

I was.

[Anahka_slivermane]

There is also a vendor at the gypsie camp. The one where you get the solo tasks for faction and/or hand in tokens for faction. Typically better stocked than the Druid port vendor

[Qaladar Bragollach]

On the flip side, people kill the druid port vendor all the time. So her inventory refreshes as far as I can tell far far more often than any other vendor in the game (except the one in your guild hall... but that doesn't really count).

[Rawckett]

Edit: Dumb Question

[Grolyn]

I just love post patch vendor diving, vendors are all wiped clean and easy to find good or rare stuff.

Within 30 minutes from the last patch, I managed to pick up 5 blue diamonds and 2 crushed diamonds. Picked up almost a dozen more BD's throughout the night and put it on my bazaar mule. Almost 14k profit from one night of vendor mining

Sadlyu that 14k quickly evaporated when I tried to work my smithing and tailoring up after I did the baking and brewing quest.

[KyrosKrane]

I love patches, I really do.

Sylisa Cogsworthy tells you, 'That'll be 4 silver 1 copper per Discordant Scoriae.'

[Angelsyn]

1 Bazu Blood
1 Crushed Diamond Dust
32 Hero Parts

And not to mention all the Steel Weapons from Veskar I've been finding. Easy Plat = XP turn-ins right there.