Items that are in Demand

[Tenlaienye]

Okay, I am a low skill tradeskiller and am wondering what all of you doing skilling usually purchase or would be willing to purchase.... im trying to make some cash and have had positive experiences before with this... So what items would you want farmed and served up in the bazaar for you.... Assume everything that can get to at lvl 57.....

[Aquila Swiftspirit]

I think typically making pre-combine stuff works really well.

For example, make leather paddings, silk swatches, Sacred Silks (I'm not certain that these sell a lot, but maybe worth looking into on your server), Heady Kiolas, dyes, tempers, and so forth. Also straight pharmed stuff, especially velium and acrylia.

What to look for?

I'd focus on items that higher level tradeskillers use to skill up but that require pharming or pre-combines that folks get bored/irritated doing.

For smithing, therefore, leather paddings for fine plate, LDoN Tempers.

For tailoring, sillk swatches, Heady Kiolas, and LoY ribbon dyes.

Before the new UI, I would have suggested Celestial Essences, but with the new UI, they're pretty painless to make, and so the market for them among tradeskillers may not be as good anymore. Also, many of the newer skill up paths don't require CEs so much now.

I would check on my server before making steel bonings (which bakers use for misty thicket picnics), velium or acrylia bonings/studs, or acrylia arrowheads. From my personal experience, I don't even think to look in the bazaar for these things before I do trade skill runs, but just make them up myself.

Good luck!

[iasmin]

I posted a nearly similar post on the Alchemy forum but the information for me is typically the same for any tradeskill, so I raided that post and picked out the alchemy-specific info, rewording it for here. This is my advice, fwiw. -- Jaddari

Every server is different. Some of the guides recommend making some items and selling them back to vendors immediately, others recommend keeping or using the items or even selling them off in the bazaar. Here's my recommendation:

Look at items that appear often for all tradeskills or for a lot of recipes in one tradeskill. Leather padding, silk or silk thread, tempers. Learn about tradeskills from the inside out, about how ingredients work together.

Do a little research on your server.

Listen to the shouts in various zones, like the PoK or zones where people go for major experience on your server. Listen near the Wayfarer's camps or the entrances to LDoN adventures. See what items people are selling or asking for there.

Camp a toon in the bazaar for a couple of weeks and log on at odd times of the day. Watch the market on items to see what appears to sell and what doesn't appear to sell. Watch the level of the items that get sold and who's selling them.

Do some vendor diving, without buying anything. Go to the most popular vendors and check for items that people have sold back, especially within a day or two of a server reset. Check the bazaar vendors for frustrated trader sellbacks. Check the vendors nearest to those portals where people return from adventures that are currently popular, be they portals in the PoK or vendors nearest zone lines. Check the vendors near the tradeskill containers in various cities.

Whether looking at NPC vendors or player traders, think about these things:

Does the trader always have those items for sale at roughly the same number or does the number of them vary over time?

When do people on your server start coming home from work in the various time zones?

When do people go to bed in those time zones?

Is there a major national, religious, or government holiday coming up that's celebrated by a lot of people on your server? Will people be playing EQ on that holiday?

When you see a player selling items, send them a tell and chat them up; find out their interest in that tradeskill market. Commiserate with them. Tell them frankly you're a new tradeskiller. As long as you don't pester them constantly or interrupt them, you could meet a fellow player that will be your buddy for life in the game.

Admitedly this is imperfect and likely sounds a bit more complicated than it really is, but if you watch the game a bit and long enough, you'll see patterns that I like to think are "market indicators." Those indicators will likely give you a rough idea of who's skilling up and who's making tradeskilling items seriously (rather than merely as a skillup path). And it will tell you again a rough idea of how much the items are selling for at various times of the day.

Comparing your research to what's in the guides on the traders site can only help you, not hinder you. Do what you love. Enjoy the game. When it stops being fun, stop playing.

[Nanndas]

Also a lot of us doing tradeskills are not high enough (player level) to get certain items that we need to make a TS item. For example I would like to try some high level fish recipes but they come from the planes and at 35 I can't go there. You very seldom see them in the Bazaar. Check a lot of the higher trivial recipes for components that can be gotten/purchased in zones at your level. Buy a stack and see how they resell.

For an example: brownie parts (used in MTP) are just about non-existant in the Bazaar. I buy them when I see them. I can't track so finding the scouts in Gfay is just about impossible and I really don't think I'd go to Lfay...

Nan

[Dhomal the Scavenger]

Hello-

As an aside - if you are looking for Brownie Parts - i'm pretty sure they are also to be found in Steamfont. Out by the windmill or so.

They are not nearly as tough as those in LFey. Hope that helps you!

Dhomal the Scavenger
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[Mocean]

!!

Ceramic linings! I hate those things...

[Fulminate]

You can also get brownie parts off Nillipus in Rivervale.

Of course, he only spawns once in a blue moon...

[Nanndas]

Just checking my trader atm and there are 5 Brownie parts at 100 each and someone has 4 listed for 180pp each....

I bought 35 whole cakes for 175pp total earlier this morning..

Nan