Great Finds in Vendor Mining

[Corii]

Some of the best thing's I've found vendor mining lately....

1 metallic liquid
1 wind-worn stone (which I got an earring with yay)
1 iron oxide
25(!!) hero parts
a 63 magician spell (which a friend needed)

And of course I always consider finding baking stuffs a great find.
What's the best stuff you've found?

[kiatek]

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I found some silk swatches yesterday =) yay less camping of spiders!

I also found a brick of electrified copper-big deal for me since I have been collecting all sorts of pop tradeskill stuff.

I also found a slew of small pieces of acrylia! for 9 gp each and one large brick of acrylia (34 pp but cheaper than bazaar)

Not a bad day for vendoring =)

[sir0die]

i've found 20 hq rings and 40 meduin quality folded sheets of metal.

[etitameh]

i've found:

3 chitinous belts (20pp per)
10 blue diamonds (going bazaar price then was 1k, vendor price 260pp per)
2 copies rod of mystical transvergence (pre-mass version, they converted to mass, 3pp per)
about 10 iron oxides, all told
stone of prophecy (or something like that, not great item, but bought for 150pp and traded to someone for 2k worth of decent stuff)
MANY baking items (plant shoots, hero parts, blood raven parts, jord meat, etc, each under 3pp per)

and i'm sure i'm missing some things. most of these were found on "Bargain Merchant" in Shadow Haven, soon after (within a month or so) the bazaar went live.

/em hugs Bargain Merchant.

[Lilosh]

2 Metallic Liquids
4 Blue Diamonds (Found in 2 sets of 2)
Countless Nightmarewood Sap
Lots of misc baking items, (Plant Shoots, Griff Meat)
2-3 Hobgoblin Meat.
5 each of Innovative Gears, and Bolts (found one at a time)
2 Clockwork Carapaces
A single vendor once had 30ish Quality pelts, of almost every kind. (30 total, not each)
A decent amount of nightmare arachnid silk.

And I bought every single Hero Part I ever saw on a vendor. Even when people told me I was stupid for wasting plat on a broken recipe. On Thanksgiving, when the recipe was discovered, I had almost 300 parts.

-Lilosh

[Greymantle]

My absolute best find was a Shadel bandit ring for 9g and change.

Just your random boring stuff myself.

Lots and lots of pelts, mainly LQ, but also MQ/HQ on occasion. Acrylia, condensed shadow.

A few Polished Steel Ulaks.

Lots of silk, I once found over 50 spiderling silk on a guy...

Hundreds of bone chips at a time, so much that I no longer buy them out of bone chips. 4gp each in bazaar isn't worth the time anymore, hehe.

Snake eggs are common. Found a cockatrice egg once in Erudin, but when I tried to make noodles out of it it failed, so no clue on the yield.

The rule seems to be that when you need a specific item, it isn't there, but when you have given up on the item it shows up. I am not sure exactly how Verant coded mind-reading vendors, but they did.

[Craftah]

Best: Many Iron Oxides, about 600 or so spiderling silks (back when I was making leather paddings) on one of the halfling vendors in Misty Thicket, hundreds of spider silks, loads of pages for research, drop only gems, etc.

Worst: Accidentally buying some kind of hammer for @ 800pp. Forget the exact name, but it was something like 10 Damage 40 Delay. I ended up selling it for about 100pp or so to a druid who was really happy with it.

[Iannyen]

..I found 20 Nightmare Mephit bloods, 2 Midnight stones, and 2 Blue Diamonds on one vendor. That was pretty cool.

[Zopharr]

Just in the last month and a half:

1x Metallic Liquid
10x Razofiend Talon (used some for rings, sold the rest at 1k each)
5x Bubonian Blood (Planar Blood Brew all around!)
about 20 Stormrider Blood
about 30 Nightmare Mephit Blood
about 40 Fetid Slime
Brell knows how much Nightmare Iron, as well as several BDs, Midnight Stones, Sandstorm Pearls, etc.

People are starting to wise up - or more likely, Sinuuyanea is beating me to the vendors now - but was a fun few weeks for farming.

Of course, not as earthshattering now as when I pulled 640 spiderling silks and 390-odd quality pelts off the two vendors in Everfrost when Zoph was around 200 in smithing and still skilling up.... <grin>

[Liwsa]

21 stacks of spiderling silks off newbie lift vendor in Gfay. It was awhile ago(before you could see 80 inventory slots).

[Cigarskunk]

centi long sword for 75pp
2 blue diamonds
bear fang glove(?) got 'em for a few gold or plat and resold in bazaar for 850plat (woot!)

Have been doing alot of MTPs lately and have been very lucky in finding peoples mandrake cords (from tailoring skill ups?) for 2gp each considering that they cost 4pp to make.

[Mridule]

Since PoP cam out

highlights:
1 metallic liquid
2 imaculate steel
7 molten ore
1 obsidian bow staff - yikes
7 Windworn Stones
1 storm watcher stone

also:
several stacks of Blue Diamonds, Inovative bolts gears, Coiled Springs, Razorfiend talons, Stormrider blood, Mephit Blood, Fetid Slime, Sandstone pearls, Midnight Stones, Nightmare Silk, PoP meats, stormrider skin, mephets skins

Tons of velium and acrylia (still not enough though )

Also several armor pieces I have resold on my merchant (Glowing black stone, Coterie General Cap, Chitouns Belts Legs,

Of course I have stacks of useless items but thats the price you pay for being a packrat.

[Clementine]

I love vendor mining as well I've bough at least a dozen L50+ spells for no more than 25pp each, Blue Diamonds, Iron Oxides, and numerous baking parts/meats. I just have to take a few hours to patiently go around the cities but most of the time it's been very worthwhile.

Happy shopping

[Cyrnan]

Best finds recently...hmmm

I'd say the following:

-13 Essence of Sunlight for ~2pp each (PoK)
-Sarnak Tabard for 17pp (for my newbie shammy) (PoK)
-Shadowscream armor pieces (boots, collar, bracer) for ~25pp each (PoK)
-Blue diamonds for 216-267pp each (which I couldn't afford, but this post is for 'found', not purchased) (BB, PoK, Kaladim)
-Iron Oxides for less than 10pp (varied per vendor in the following zones: EC, WFP, OOT/Isle of Erollisi)
-Brownie Parts for 7sp (Woot! Winter Chocolate, here I come!)

Oh, and there seemed to be a veritable cornucopia (like that one?) of Scorpion Meat in PoK yesterday. What's up with that?!?

All this on Morrell-Thule.

Cheers!