Essence of Frustration (long rant)

[Fallwell]

Grrr....

I try my best to subdue my passive aggresive, bipolar, schizophrenic, compulsive personality while playing virtual games. Though my effort is valiant at times, some things just drive me nuts.

From out of the blue, I am getting drowned in orders for Heraldic armor. Everyone wants it! Disgusting amounts of plat just waiting to hop into my happy bank account. But there is a problem...

There is a new smith on the block. One who is evidentally far more devoted, hungry and infatuated than I. I picture him, alone in his mother's basement. A small fridge full of V8, some stale packages of Nutter Butters and an enveloping mass of dirty socks and dishes surrounding his computer. He does not sleep. He has not seen daylight. He only smiths.

He floods the bazaar with masses of Heraldic. Radiant Bracer for 2k, Fetid gorget for 4k, Dragonkin Belt for 8k! Meanwhile, I CAN"T FIND AN ESSENCE OF SUNLIGHT to save my life! He buys them all, every one. He makes armor that nobody will buy for ridiculous prices. He is the bane of my existance.

Fallwell "/auction WTB Essence of Sunlight 200 plat each! pst"
Newsmith "/auction WTB Essence of Sunlight 220 plat each. send tells"
Fallwell "/auction WTB Essence of Sunlight 250 plat each please. pst"
Newsmith "/auction Buying Essence of Sunlight 300 plat each. send tells"

I picture him again with an endless smirk on his face. With each essence he buys scratching a mark on his tally sheet. A giant gold star pinned atop his name and a gravelly charred "X" through mine. The score below reading 38-0. In the 92 hours straight that he has played, I imagine him hitting the "update trader" button a hundred-thousand times. Burning through stacks of SOW potions to reduce the possibility of anyone else getting to an essence trader first.

After 3 days and 2 essence of sunlight accumulated, I went to Qeynos to try to make arms for a friend. I failed on the royal temper.

LOL!

~Fall

(Eternally 39 Cleric)

[Delfontes]

Momma said there'd be days like this....

hehehe

[Lilosh]

:-(

2K? While I sure wish I could find my BD cultural for 2k, I would hate to be a tailor competing against them.


-Lilosh

[kiztent]

Dark Prince Sovereign gloves: currently 1500pp in bazaar :shock:

I know Xlaxx had a complain about someone that was doing some vicious undercutting in the bazaar. While I understand his pain, I still bought the gloves for 2k when they were for sale.

BD cultural is a dying market.

[Varlik]

Bad thing is I have about 6 Essence of Sunlight in my bank and haven't found anyone that wants them yet. I guess they'll just sit there till I find a trader that wants them.

Might add that I'm on Xegony

[Balkin]

Varlik, if you put that in the Xegony marketplace board, I'm willing to bet you'll find someone who wants. them.

[Cyrnan]

Momma said there'd be days like this....

hehehe

Momma always said, " Life is like a box fer tradeskillers. Until you click 'combine', you never know whatchyer gonna git."

Cyrnan "Run through the Forrest, Cyrnan! Run!!" Bloodwood

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

Dark Prince Sovereign gloves: currently 1500pp in bazaar :shock:

I know Xlaxx had a complain about someone that was doing some vicious undercutting in the bazaar. While I understand his pain, I still bought the gloves for 2k when they were for sale.

BD cultural is a dying market.

/sigh

Why is it everything is a dying market before I even get close to being able to make the stuff?

[Kitre Halfax]

I recently did my first batch of DE BD armor - and boy was I excited! Standard pricing is ~7k per sheet/item, on EMarr. And I'm only a 208 smith (w/ 5%, of course).

Then I saw someone selling the Dark Prince Regent Tunic for 5k.

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I swallowed my pride and bought the **** thing. I'll find a home for it, if I have to sell my 4th and 5th children (1st went to RNG, 2nd went to guild, 3rd is on hold for XTC hammer).

And to make things worse, people regularly show up selling Essence of Shadow (the bane of Dark Elves everywhere) for 500pp each.

Makes me want to sell my tempers, instead of use them.

[Quesci]

I swallowed my pride and bought the darn thing.

When I was deciding which skill to GM next (after doing the easy ones), my thought for pottery was that I could make all those cool PoP focus items for myself. It tore me up to start using my 61+ spells, as all of my carefully gathered focus items were useless.

Unfortunately, I can't get the materials to make anything that I want. I regularly make affliction efficiency, haste and extension items. Extended enhancement shields sell well, and I could make enhancement haste. None of those help me. I am unable to get the ingredients for anything that I would be able to make for myself.

I am going to swallow my pride and buy a Ro burner and Marr water sprinkler, just as soon as the elemental guilds have finished equipping themselves. They seem pretty much done with 65 spells, as I have been able to equip myself completely. Now I just have to wait for the tradeskill items to filter down.

[Delores Mulva]

Re: Quesci

If it makes you feel any better, Quesci, we can't get enough glaze components either. We have a few fire glazes, a fair supply of air glazes, and less than a half dozen earth and water glazes completed. Elemental pottery has very low drop rates on the bottleneck component. And given the fantastic mark-up between selling the raw components and selling a finished good, don't expect to see many raw components in The Bazaar any time soon.

Delores Mulva
Lotus Cult
Quellious

[Quesci]

Re: Quesci

And given the fantastic mark-up between selling the raw components and selling a finished good, don't expect to see many raw components in The Bazaar any time soon.

Oh, I have no expectation of buying the components. That was my lament. Despite being a 250 brewer, jeweler, and potter, I am gonna have to buy any items that I want.