most frequently used foraged & fished items

[nml_dc]

I'm trying to figure out which fished and/or foraged items, and those things that can be brewed from fished and/or foraged items, are most used or needed for other tradeskills.

basically, which items are worth getting and/or keeping because other folks can or will use them?

I only fish & brew, and I'm not really interested myself in taking up tailoring or baking, which seem like the most common areas.

any info or opinions welcome.

thanks!

[Tyfold]

Search is definitely your friend. There's been a few threads like this.

[ruodrra]

i SO hate 'search is your friend and nothing else' posts. I can see it (maybe) if the person has hundreds of posts and not a newbie...

that said, search IS your friend but to get you started, i think plant shoots and tea leaves are brewed for in demand items, along with several other forages for loy ribbon tailorers i cant recall off the top of my head.

Fishing? cod from cobalt scar for tailorers and saltwater seaweed from oot for smithing come to mind but i'm not sure how in demand they are anymore.

[Elyssanda]

i SO hate 'search is your friend and nothing else' posts. I can see it (maybe) if the person has hundreds of posts and not a newbie...

The problem is, there have been LOTS of threads about this exact post. Every month or 2 someone else asks it almost to the WORD. and anyone who is new, should be using the search button anyway just to see whats out there.. we get tired of answering and reanswering the same question and then when we answer it we watch the prices in Baz soar because what ISN'T Asked is *how much are you willing to pay for foraged items.*

My answer to that question is, non-rare forages, is not much, rare things as forages, no more than about 10-25P depending on the item and what I know it takes to forage that item, my 2 mains are both foragers, but I will pay 10p for tea leaves from EK. Plant shoots 25.

[ruodrra]

Actually the question was rather unique i thought, specifically relating fishing/foraging to what could be brewed that was in demand (or at least the way i read it the first time -- a second reading can make the question more ambiquous and generic I will admit). Oh, and not to belabor the point -- but demands can often change 'within a month or two', e.g., foraged vegetables used to be going for insane prices after gates came out but then dropped again like a rock when soe created an alternative source.

As for the cost of 'non-rare' forages, using your example of paying 10p for tea leaves, it takes me usually between 2 and 3 hours to forage one stack of them (even with level 1 of nature's bounty). No way I will ever sell them for 10p each when I can make 6 qeynos teas (QATs) from 1 (even assuming i had as low as a 50 percent success rate on the qeynos tea combines).

The person buying one tea leaf at your suggested maximum price of 10p will sell one qeynos tea for 10-20p on average. I'm not good at math (why I gave up on halas pies lol) but isnt that something like a 600 to 1200 percent return per tea leaf purchased at 10p?!?!?! If that's a 'fair' return, why would you complain that the person lower down in the supply chain should get any less return relatively for his/her time invested in foraging it? (I am, of course assuming you are selling the QAT's, and if so, you are doing so at a price the market will bear to maximize the return on your skill level and time. If you are making them for self consumption or guildies only, disregard all the above lol.)

That's the logical argument of course. Practically speaking, however, I share fully your frustration when '...the prices in Baz soar...(sic)' and component costs go totally out of synch with finished product costs -- my personal pet peeve is the absurd prices of spell research components but that's another show.

For better or for worse, the free market is alive and well in eq -- and the only people really in control of it are the developers that can adjust supply and demand. I will never be willing to pay 50p for a plant shoot, but I sure am glad there are others who will pay me 50p for mine

I guess the lesson to the original poster of this thread is -- see what the finished product from your fishing/forages sells for on your server, and price it accordingly if you want to move it in a reasonable period.

[Elyssanda]

I do only buy tea leaves when I need more QAT. I refuse to pay the going price of 20-25pp per drink which seems to be the current price. And yes, if there are none at the price I'm willing to pay I will take a day and run out there and forage tea leaves myself. I don't buy to resell, at level 70 I make more PP selling things that I find while Xp'ing. But it still makes me angry to pay those outrageous prices for drinks which makes it worth my effort to forage tea leaves myself if I can't find them at prices that I deem affordable.

[Koutarou]

4 pound saltwater tuna is a ROYAL PITA. Once you get over a certain point in fishing you can't fish them any more, and weven when below that point they are one of a huge laundry list of possible catches for the zones they're in.

I pay through the nose for these, hundreds of plat each, considering I get about 1 an hour if I'm lucky fishing them myself with an alt (which I'm rapidly running out of with sub-100 fishing skills).

[Tyfold]

Koutaru...you realise you can break down anything higher than 4lb, dont you? I havent done GoD for a while, but im certain that a 10lb will break into a few 4lb

[Flehmen]

Koutaru...you realise you can break down anything higher than 4lb, dont you? I havent done GoD for a while, but im certain that a 10lb will break into a few 4lb

Umm, the DB doesn't mention that.

He needs specifically 4lbs fish for certain combines and in my experiance all the tuna break down into 1lbs chunks. So a 10lbs tuna makes 10 - 1 lbs...

[Tyfold]

Ooh maybe I'm wrong sorry...Like i said I haven't done GoD baking in ages...I knew there was some breaking down involved

[nml_dc]

thanks, this is helpful info.

I did actually search all the threads as thoroughly as I knew how, and didn't find what I was looking for, and I apologize to veteran maxed out trade skillers for the repeat of these mundane questions.

to clarify, I'm not interested in making money, I was more asking which things other people needed that could be made as I train up my skills. I like fishing and am trying to make it to 200, and I keep everything I forage and am trying to use that stuff to train up brewing, so if I can also do those things and create output that other trade skillers actually need for *their* trades, so much the less junk I have in my bank as a result of skillups.

I did get some general answers about dyes and the epic quests in other threads/places, so I'm getting a better sense.

[Zaltak]

Fish in DoDh and brew Blind Fish Pale Ales:-)
Also save those Mossmatts (foraged) to brew mossmatt meads.

[Heynanni]

Noooooo... Save the mossmatt for mossmatt spice for baking! I need tons of it and never enough time to fish