General Prices...

[pandoras]

I'm hoping with this thread to get a general price listing on various drinks stat or otherwise that are typically available and/or sought after in the bazaar or from players! My toons are mostly on Drinal server but all will be appreciated! Thank you and Blessed be! =)

[Zaltak]

I've seen Drinks of Timeless Energy selling for 5k ish on my server.Thats a bit much IMO:-P

[Roanne]

The only stat that really matters regarding food and drink is the duration. Longer lasting food and drink don't take away play to restock as often. No other stat provided by food and drink amounts to any appreciable difference (at least in the end game).

Since Grobb Liquidised Meat is made completely with vendor obtained ingredients and has a miraculous duration, I recommend making it in large quantities so you only have to visit it for resupply once in a while. Even its "drawback" of negative wisdom and intelligence arent serious enough in an the era of maxed base stats to warrant any extra effort in farming or foraging to get something "better" for caster characters.

When the Halloween events are live (or whatever it is that season is renamed in EQ), I recommend stocking up for the year with the help of a mule on whatever free miraculous duration food and drink best strike your fancy and use your time hunting and farming drops that matter more.

Sorry this doesnt really answer your question but it challenges the notion of asking the question in the first place. The eating and drinking mechanic of EQ is a legacy feature that receives little development attention and serves as more of nuisance than anything else. Because force feeding allows any worthwhile stat food to be abused, the response has been to make those few foods and drinks that might even make a noticeable difference at the middle levels of character development so time intensive to obtain they aren't worth the effort to most people (and certainly not worth the cost most artisans want in compensation for the effort).

There is a lot of potential in this mechanic, but it is well known to be a feature of little interest to the developers because its problems lay in legacy code. Any fix to those problems would require more time than the coders deem worthy (and justifiably so). For now, because we can force feed means we get food and drink products that also mean we should force feed to justify the effort (and even then arguably not worth the effort of the meager stats these items provide in the big scheme of things).

So if you aren't interested in remembering to force feed, I say keep it simple.

[pandoras]

curious becuz...

I was mostly wondering about prices because I've been working my brewing and wasnt sure if there was maybe a particular set of drinks that sell better/are more useful that I should be making and the generally acceptable price used on said items! Thank you for your awesome responses =)
Blessed be!

[Zaltak]

I disagree Roanne if stats aren't important only durations then you should just buy the hair tonics sold in Freeport off the gnome.
Currently a first lvl toon can buy one Timeless drink and get +75HP/Mana!

[Roanne]

I did qualify my analysis by stating "in the end game," (e.g. high level characters). At level 85, 75 hps is less than a speed bump; at level 1 its probably several extra hits (but honestly who is going to bother giving that kind of stat food to a level 1 character instead of just power leveling up to the point it doesnt matter anymore?)

If the stats are important to you, by all means sink your time into making the drink or remember to force feed. I'm just saying they don't really matter in the big picture at the levels where most characters live.

I dont think there are any vendor sold miraculous duration food or drink other than from the temporary Halloween vendor, but if Im wrong please point me in the right direction.

Id say as a merchant goes, you have to make the best tradeable hp and/or mana stat foods available at the lowest prices and hope enough people find it worth their time to remember to force feed to warrant you charging enough for the items to make a profit for your time.

Take a look at whats available in your local bazaar and decide if you can afford to compete. There is a real market for these items. I just think its already highly competitive and saturated by people who can easily acquire the time sink parts and either dont mind doing this with their time or have some kind of arrangements worked out with alternate suppliers.

[Silvermink]

I sell Kaladim Constitutional's for 20pp ea. I have seen people sell Qeynos tea for 100 and other miraculous drink. But I also know that each servers economy is very different. I can make back my cost plus a small profit because there dont seem to be an abundance of crafters on Xegony. I do have some competition but they realize that if we have a price war, we all lose. When I run low after I max my trophy I will probably only make enough for me and my alts. The inventory hassles arent worth the profits.