Buckets of Crab Legs - prices?

[JakartaTorv]

I don't think any have been sold on my server, but I was just curious if they had on others. The claws weren't overly hard to get, provided you have elem access and a decent group. Managed to grab 22 claws and make 70 buckets in under 2 hrs, and 2 aa at the same time.

[Cigarskunk]

I've yet to see them for sale in the bazaar on Xev - I asked our only two guilds that have elemental flags (spoke with folks claiming to be the leaders) and was told hands down that they aren't releasing the claws to the general public right now because thier own chefs need "every claw they can get."

If you're able to get enough claws for one bucket (counting failures) in less than two minutes, then either these two guilds have the worst bakers this side of SoL or they've simply descided that me having a no-drop peice of nice stat food is a significant threat to thier uberness.

Almost makes not being able to make the party platter worth it - my little 53 troll SK is a "threat" to them - WOOT!

[Spyght]

Ive been bugging Zophim to sell me some for a while now, and he just laughs :evil:

[bearcaller]

Re: Buckets of Crab Legs - prices?

I don't think any have been sold on my server, but I was just curious if they had on others. The claws weren't overly hard to get, provided you have elem access and a decent group. Managed to grab 22 claws and make 70 buckets in under 2 hrs, and 2 aa at the same time.

I hate you. Die, pretty please but give me those buckets first

I can say for certain that they haven't been for sale on Solro at all yet. In any way, shape or form. Ive tried auctioning for them at 300 per claw and still have yet to see them.

[Cigarskunk]

I must say that this hoarding of these items by the uber guilds really puzzles me - I just can't understand why they'd be so petty as to hold back on these???

It's not as if anyone is going to sell them.

It's not as if anyone is going to be able to use them as flags or keys.

It's not as if it's going to give anyone an edge to do a quest (if you can do the other steps in this quest then you can get your own claws).

It truelly boggles me.

Do you have any answers for us Jaka?

[Faymar]

>It's not as if anyone is going to be able to use them as flags or keys.


Well, yes, they are. Not every guild member is elemental flagged but you don't need the physical flag to do the quest?

I know one of our elemental guilds have made it a requirement to have 250 baking before they will hand you the crabs. So clearly within the guild there is a higher demand (or expectation thereof) than there are legs. Under those circumstances, selling them outside of the guild doesn't make sense.

I have seen one person with two for sale on Tarew, who was repeatedly shouting for a price check on them. I assume what he/she wanted to know was how much someone was willing to pay; certainly over a 3 hour period I never saw a response.

[Cigarskunk]

The thing is though that the rest of the quest also involves access to these high level planes - this really isn't giving any kind of edge.

I know one of our elemental guilds have made it a requirement to have 250 baking before they will hand you the crabs. So clearly within the guild there is a higher demand (or expectation thereof) than there are legs. Under those circumstances, selling them outside of the guild doesn't make sense.

Nah, being able to pull in 70 buckets in two hours, you only need one bucket per attempt.

Let's say that EVERYONE has a bad run on thier BPP and takes three combines per success.

You get two party platters per success and only need two successful combines to complete the quest - that means under worst case scenario, everyone needs 6 buckets.

Figure you've got 100 people at most that have a real need for them then you only need 600 buckets to realistically take care of the guild - that's just over 17 hours of farming - pure cake walk for a guild of that caliber.

Mind you, again, that's worst case scenario.

[Suva]

Or that the buckets are pretty decent as a stat food also to use....

[Angelsyn]

I was given 5 Buckets by a good friend, before anyone knew they were used in the Quest.

It's the Poppers that I can't get.

Not that it matters, my Cleric is a long way from AAs and my Paladin is a long way from 250 Baking.

Ah well... now I've got yet another thing to work on with my Paladin. Besides her LoY spells, Level 50 Quest Spell & Skyshrine Faction.

[Quesci]

Poppers are usually available in the Bazaar on Quellious. Not too many folks hunt the slugs, but they drop parts a lot.

I don't think that everyone gathering crab legs is doing so for the quest. They want the food. I can't imagine any guild selling the crab legs as long as the party platter continues to be the best food in the game.

As soon as the BPP recipe came out I crossed off reruga crabs from my list of cool food to have on a merchant. I knew they wouldn't be made available to the unwashed masses.

[Taraddar]

Why is it always that the ubers are the evil oppresser looking to keep the little man down? Why is it so hard to beleive that they just simply don't have any excess to sell.

Lets look at some simple facts here.

The claws are not easy to get. Sure anyone who has acess to get to the zone can probably put together a group to get them but that doesn't mean they are easy to get. The mobs do hit hard. Yeah if your in the elemental planes you regularly kill stuff that hits harder but you also aren't gonna have the entire guild turn out to farm claws. It is still going to take a pretty solid group to go farm the claws.

As one would expect PoWater is under water which for alot of people means they don't like the zone. Hits interupt ALOT under water because of movement. It's harder to melee mobs alot of times because you sink below them and mobs don't. Etc etc etc. Lets face it for one reason or another alot of people don't like fighting in underwater zones.

Also remember that not only are platters a nice food, altho no drop, but the buckets of crab legs are a pretty nice food too and still tradable so it's not all that unreasonable to think that people will be using one or the other as thier normal food. It really isn't that hard or expensive to skill up baking so it wouldn't surprise me if people skilled up just for the purpose of making and using the platters as food.

As far as farming them for money I hardly think that would be worth the effort. The claws just couldn't sell for enough to make it comparable to farming other tradeskilled items in the elemental planes. Head to PoE and farm stuff for the bows or the int caster legs. Head to PoF and farm stuff for the pottery made stuff. Heck even farm the other tradeskill stuff in PoW if you want to farm stuff to sell.

[Sylphan]

When I inquired about a similar subject on another thread, the answer I got was that the uber bakers are using BPPs as food. Not 'keep it in the first slot and click on rations' food, but 'make a whole stack and eat it up' food.

I could think of no appropriate response to that. I just accepted it.

[JakartaTorv]

To be honest, when I said they were "easy" to get, my view may be skewed. Myself and 3 friends farmed them for a few hours, but we each play 2-3 chars. We had a total of 8 chars down there, and the mobs are not trivial - hit for 1100ish. It's doable for any elem flagged group, but I think most people wouldn't consider it worth the time.

If the elem+ guilds on your server aren't selling, it's more than likely because no exp groups typically go down to that part of the zone.

[Cigarskunk]

As for folks just outright eating them - as a 250 baker, I tend to not worry about truffles and HMPs and I'm not even all that upset about losing the occassional MTP - they are easy for me to bang out.

To someone else, this might be viewed the same way we view those ubers being too lazy to force feed to preserve thier BPPs.

As the someone else in this case, I'm of course, horrified that they would be so wasteful towards something which I want and need and they're probobly pretty clueless that the rest of us would be upset about them outright eating these.

At that level though, if they're anything like me, most of thier backpacks are probobly filled with situational and clicky gear - I've got 16 slots already taken up by items which I'm always switching in and out for one reason or another and that's not even counting potions.

[Raiyaeq]

As the someone else in this case, I'm of course, horrified that they would be so wasteful towards something which I want and need and they're probobly pretty clueless that the rest of us would be upset about them outright eating these.

I don't know about how other ppl in other uber guilds are, but I know for sure, we don't do that in our guild. We are encouraged by our officer to raise baking skill if we have not yet a 250 modified GM already. Once we received our trophy, we are handed pp (as some ppl spent pp on buying griffon, anaconda etc meats) + components to make BPP. The fail rate is not low on BPP. With 250 + trohpy, I magage 1/2 the first time I did it.

I don't know how other guilds do it, but when we raid water, we probably get a stack claws the most in each raid session, I doubt even that many.