What do YOU want foraged?

[DeDanaan Clan]

I'm working on getting cash up to tradeskills. My best way to do this right now is to park my Ranger in an appropriate zone and forage away (my Archery Auttoattack gamepad can map to Forage just as easily). I then sell the foraged components in the Bazaar. Smithing is coming along nicely.

My current moneymaker is dire-wolf fur tufts. Most of the vendors in the Baz sell them for 60 to 100; I sell for 40pp each - very nice profit for me, and they sell overnight. (note - I know Xegony prices are insane. I didn't make the game, I just play it.)

But as more and more folks are playing the Tuft game, I'm looking to move to other foraged items, to avoid competition or saturating the market.

So, the question before the house is: What foraged items do YOU find that you need the most often?

Tcharlee,
39 Ranger
Xegony

[Itzena]

Bamboo shoots

[eniamn]

(my Archery Auttoattack gamepad can map to Forage just as easily)

at your comp controlling the gamepad and hitting the button or programming the game pad and doing it while you sleep or something.

the first is ok and the second will get you banned. tea leaves in ek. takish hiz ldon polished quartz.

[DeDanaan Clan]

What's the difference between sitting at my computer and hitting the forage button, and sitting at my computer keeping an eye on the screen watching The Simpsons while the button is pressed for me every few seconds? I'm at the keyboard, can respond to /tells, will move if I'm in somebody's way.

[mac128k]

It is to the point where I cannot compete with the forage bots anymore. They mass farm so many forages that the prices are always under their control.

I use Dragon Eggs and Planer Oak for my fishing poles. All one of these bots has to do it out price me at every turn until I go away. They have the inventory to out last me and I do not because I have to work for the forages.

It really sucks but I don't see how any honest forager can compete these days.

Dragon Eggs? I have been there for the last 2 days and have 3 to show for my effort. Guys in the bazaar have nearly 300! No way that volume is happening while at the computer.

[Malodium]

One thing I dont see much of in the bazaar on bertoxx is LoY ribbon dyes. There are one or two I see tons (steamfont water or some such) but all the others are virtually non existant.

Being an inkie I was always wanting ashweed (foraged in lavastorm) and was willing to pay 30-40pp each for them, but very rarely did I see any, and it was always one or two.

[eniamn]

sitting at your comp and doing it is a little grey but prolly ok. having your game pad do it while your at work is illegal. the forage "bot".

[Nolrog]

I'm working on getting cash up to tradeskills. My best way to do this right now is to park my Ranger in an appropriate zone and forage away (my Archery Auttoattack gamepad can map to Forage just as easily). I then sell the foraged components in the Bazaar. Smithing is coming along nicely.

Not a bad idea, but can be boring as hell. You could also farm spider silks in EK and combine them into silk swatches, and sell them. At least you'd be killing something. Also farm cat pelts in NK (MQ and HQ usually sell well.) I found that Marus Seru is a good place for LQ pelts, which can be made into leather padding, and that sells well too.

GL with your smithing. If you're on Drinal, shoot me a tell when you get to 250, because I have a combine I need done.

[DeDanaan Clan]

I guess I'm a bad person. Maybe I'm a 'forage bot' in that I do tradeskills on one account while foraging on a second machine on the other. I don't think of my ranger as a bot, since he wasn't created for the purpose - I actually play him, enjoy him, even do tradeskills on him (primarily fletching, of course).

I came here looking for suggestions on what tradesfolk need foraged, so I could supply it at a reasonable price, doing both myself and other tradesfolk a favor. I certainly didn't mean to bring up all sorts of anger and angst. If I've caused anyone grief, I apologize.

I'll be doing some thinking about how and where I forage, changing my methods to avoid 'grey areas.' I don't see how what I do is infringing on anyone else's game play - in fact, given that I typically sell at two-thirds of the going rate I'd think I was doing the trades community a favor in bringing prices down. But if I'm causing people problems, I'll think of another way.

Tcharlee

[Hurk]

if they would just add an advanced foraging skill to the game for tradeskillers to use that allows you to find higher numbers of foraged goods this would be such a problem.


(just imagine something like track for foraging: you think there is more fruits to your left..)

I would rather have forage be a on/off like tracking than a click to use like it is now (convert it to sneak like skill, including the movent slow down)

then you could turn on foraging , and just slowly move around based on the feedback you get, and what your after.

[mac128k]

Originally posted by Hurk
if they would just add an advanced foraging skill to the game for tradeskillers to use that allows you to find higher numbers of foraged goods this would be such a problem.


(just imagine something like track for foraging: you think there is more fruits to your left..)

I would rather have forage be a on/off like tracking than a click to use like it is now (convert it to sneak like skill, including the movent slow down)

then you could turn on foraging , and just slowly move around based on the feedback you get, and what your after.

This sounds a lot like SWG

Tcharlee,
I don't have a problem with someone 2 boxing the forager as long as you are hitting the button. What I am talking about are the people that use scipts to forage while they are out on the town living it up. Those people can do numbers that nobody would sit there and do because you are not going to man your 2 box 24 hours a day.

If you can walk away from your computer and forage more than 2 times (using a legal macro) you are a forage bot.

[eniamn]

Originally posted by DeDanaan Clan
I guess I'm a bad person. Maybe I'm a 'forage bot' in that I do tradeskills on one account while foraging on a second machine on the other. I don't think of my ranger as a bot, since he wasn't created for the purpose - I actually play him, enjoy him, even do tradeskills on him (primarily fletching, of course).

I came here looking for suggestions on what tradesfolk need foraged, so I could supply it at a reasonable price, doing both myself and other tradesfolk a favor. I certainly didn't mean to bring up all sorts of anger and angst. If I've caused anyone grief, I apologize.

I'll be doing some thinking about how and where I forage, changing my methods to avoid 'grey areas.' I don't see how what I do is infringing on anyone else's game play - in fact, given that I typically sell at two-thirds of the going rate I'd think I was doing the trades community a favor in bringing prices down. But if I'm causing people problems, I'll think of another way.

Tcharlee

nope. as long as you are at your computer it should be ok if you aren't using a hacking program. macro bot recently some ppl have used bots to macro a combine for profit. very small profit but 20+ doing it all day long and you have problems. has tanked the high end economy on several servers.

you program the gamepad and leave it on all is bad. if you are sitting there and watching it you are 2 boxing.
3rd party software to do anything (well maybe the play outside music one would be allowed) is bad.

[Mitsune Foxfire]

You do know that you can write a quick macro and map that on a movement key. That way you always forage when you move and you will gets lots of stuff without hitting a forage button. And it is legal.

macro would look like this:
/do X (where X is the number of the forage ability)
/pause 2
/autoinventory

[Gherad]

LoY ribbon dyes are a good thing (Sylvan berries, ashweed, etc.). I've bought a lot of those lately in the bazaar (I'm done now, but they seem to sell well). Were the people I bought them from forage bots? Probably. But it saved me foraging myself, so I didn't complain.

[Velurian]

I don't find what you're doing the least bit problematic, as long as you sit at the computer, are responsive to tells, etc., while you do it.

To answer the original question:

-- Bamboo shoots. Rare forage in a zone where almost no one goes for XP, so there's usually very little supply in the bazaar. As an Erudite tailor, I'll usually pay pretty well for these. (Or at least I will once I work through the large supply I got a while back.) There will also be markets for some of the other LoY tailoring forages, but Robes of Tempest seem to be the most popular robe, and most of the other zones from which the forages comes aren't quite as low traffic.

-- Dragon Eggs and Drake Eggs. Best place for these may be the Temple of Veeshan, but you can't get in until 46. Western Wastes is a reasonable alternative if you can find somewhere safe or are on good CoV faction.

-- Justice Fruit. Again, won't work until 46, but these are valuable to people working on baking, and make a reasonably salable product so people are prone to pay even more than they usually do for skillup ingredients.