Great Finds in Vendor Mining

[splunge]

My main on E'ci. Splunge v2.0 =)

http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=549821

99.9% funded by Dumpster Diving (I killed some EK spiders for an hour)
Well over 100k in gear. Ill be picking up Glittering Rings soon.

Heres a brief list off the top of my head:

STACKS UPON STACKS UPON BAGS of Hero Parts. Its insane.
Blue Diamonds galore (262p->400p = fast cash)
PoI Tinkering drops (Innovative parts, ball bearings, coiled springs, Grease, COMBINED grease, Knuckle Joints)
Jord Meat, Boar Meat, Vann Toes, Swamp rat parts, the list is long...
PARCHMENT SPELLS. Oh my goodness... the PoP parchment spells people sell back the the vendors when they get duplicates... (Heres a little secret.... with 110CHA they buy for 5p 2g 5s exactly)
Nature Walkers Behest! - Circle of Seasons! - Black Acrylia Dagger!
Drops of Pure Rain, Sandstorm Pearls, Midnight Stones, Razorfiend Talon, All kinds of PoP blood, Nightmare arachnid silk, you mane it, i prolly found it (except for Metalic Liquid, still waitin on one of those, not like its gonna be a super boon with GRoJs down to 15k.)
Unfired Opal Enctrusted Steins. I just fire em and sell em. =)
Bags and bags of Acrylia studded/reinforced masks. They go fast at 10p.
SHEETS of Acrylia, Windstones, Iron Oxide, Silks, Pelts of all types, bone chips (yes, I buy and resell Bone Chips at 1000% profit and people eat em up! They love me!)

Prolly the oddest one i can think off offhand is the 2 stacks of Champagne Magnums on one of the vendors by the brew barrel in the back of Thurgadin. (WTH?)

Ill be glad when i hit 46 and can actually dive PoT. =)

Sometimes its more fun than leveling.

[KyrosKrane]

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Tae Ew Blood Vials on a vendor for 227pp or so. I ran as fast as I could to the bank, and walked away with 5 vials. Market value is about 10,000pp each.

Update: That first batch of vials finally sold for 3,500pp each. No one bought them at the higher price, and no one else seemed to be selling them, so I kept dropping the price until someone bit.

Then the Tae Ew crafted stuff starts hitting the bazaar for absurdly high prices -- and it sells like hotcakes. :twisted:

I later find another six vials on a vendor. I buy them and put them on my trader. Ten minutes later, all six sell for 5500pp each. Easiest 32kpp I ever made in the game. :shock:

The next batch I find will go up for 7000pp each.

And yes, I am now running around in Radiant Heraldic Breastplate, Leggings, and Visor, with a Bracer in the bank. Graphically, I look utterly ridiculous -- but the armor sure does its job well.

[Qwiny]

Heh as a GM potter the best vendor fodder find I had was during the PoTC craze and found about 5 iron oxides for something like 2gp each or some such foolishness, back when they were incredibly hard to find or sold for 1k each.

However, some great finds have been

--BD for about 280pp back when they sold for 2-3k ea
--Hero Parts - 5 stacks the day before the recipe was fixed/figured out
--Stack of laquered star rubies - 18pp each or something, unlaquered they sell for 68pp approx LOL
--finding a disgruntled baker unloading all MTP subparts except the brew, was able to make about 5 stacks of MTP for myself out of it all...less clicking!!! Was dirt cheap but forget the exact price.
--LOTS of midnight stones for 6pp each

[Faedia]

I found 10 marmalade sandwiches and 34 stacks of Jumjum spiced beer on a vendor today. She had more, but my inventory and bank were both full. ops:

Not much, but I was happy!

34 stacks of Jumjum spiced beer

/em wonders how thirsty you have to be to buy that much beer.

/em goes looking for all the stuff others seem to find

[Koutarou]

Yesterday's finds:

2 BDs
3 Black Marbles
3 Pristine Emeralds

All on the same vendor.

Someone must have been clearing out bank inventory.

[Lilosh]

Can you pass those Black Marbles to Povar, OMGPLZTHX.


-Lilosh

[Kaidian Blade]

I vendor farm constantly and pick up lots of random tradeskill items. However the best of the best have been:

-3 stacks of Demi-Sec Champage for ~3gp each; resold for 150pp each.
-12 Iron Oxides off one vendor in Ak'Anon; NOT resold.
-9 Geerlok Fermentation Devices for a few cp each; resold for 100pp each.
-7 Excellent Sabertooth Hides for 4gp each; NOT resold.
-2 1/2 stacks of Dragon Eggs in SS for 7sp each; NOT resold.

All-time Best:

-Elaborate Scimitar in Thurg for 11pp; resold for 8kpp.



Proud member of VDA (Vendor Diver's Anonymous),

[Cyrnan]

My latest and greatest --

Lambent Vambraces, Boots, Breastplate and Gauntlets, all for under 60pp each.
Hero parts, Blood Raven Parts, Jord Meat, Hobgoblin Parts, Wurm Eggs and Dragon Eggs (none of which I sold )
Sandstorm Pearls for 23pp each
Bracer of Acuity for 13pp
Vambraces of Avoidance for 26pp
Bricks of Nightmare Iron, Heavy Clay, Storm Vorlaas Hair
and the following which i bought under the guise of "Justin Case", and which I have no clue about:
Glob of Tar
Star Stone
Windstone
War Stone
Thunder Stone
A Chant Stone
Stone of the (Jungle/Mountain/Field?) Spriteling
Star Dust??????
Functional Frost Module
Funtional Force Module

I probably wasted my money on my "clueless" purchases, but until I can find out what they are or do, I'd rather have 'em than lose 'em. :?

[Kronepsis]

My latest and greatest --
...
and the following which i bought under the guise of "Justin Case", and which I have no clue about:

Glob of Tar -- junk
Star Stone -- junk
Windstone -- Acrylia smithing.
War Stone -- junk
Thunder Stone -- junk
A Chant Stone -- junk
Stone of the (Jungle/Mountain/Field?) Spriteling -- Kejekan weapon conversion, get one of each.
Star Dust?????? -- junk
Functional Frost Module -- junk
Funtional Force Module -- junk


That's AFAIK.

[Kemie Dreamshadow]

Glob of Tar is for Clockwork Watchman Bracer (tinkering)
Star Dust is Twilight Armor Quest drop for warrior gorget

Lists lists lists... never go vendor diving without them!

[Mileron]

hmm

Dozens upon dozens of Twilight Sea armor quest pieces (AUGH I gotta get rid of these things, three mules full!)

lots of assorted tradeskill items, including around 5-6 stacks of windstones for 17pp each, when they sell for 200-400pp on Xegony, plus about a dozen blue diamonds (But I only sold one out of the 4-5 stacks I looted)

Kunark armor back when it was still Good Money(TM) including -two- Cobalt Bracers (Cobalt Bracer, 262pp)

Other assorted armor and weapons (Jagged Blade of Mourning, visible suit of Acrylia Plate. BP - 198pp, sold for 3k)

Lots and lots of Kunark, Velious, Luclin, and PoP spells that either got resold (if I found enough copies) or that got banked or donated to my Guild's Library. (SoEagle when it was worth 4k, for 7pp. Donated. No Avatar, Torpor, or KEI though.)

That KEI and Torpor scroll find could have been a Guild Library person who totally screwed up. KEI still runs 60k on Xegony, and I hear about Torpor selling for like 40-50k.

[kiztent]

Enough silks to make a handmade backpack full of swatches (2+ of crystalline, partial of shade, 5+ of normal). Enough pelts and spiderling to make 6 stacks of padding and still have most of a backpack full of pelts left over (including a partial stack each of HQ bear and hopper). 4+ stacks of heady kiola. 2 stacks of grey hopper hides.

Enough ore pieces to fill 75 percent of an ore mule with 16 10 slot bags with velium and acrylia, as well as a hand made backpack full of small velium pieces and 4 10 slot bags full on another ore mule.

A stack of flawless hopper hides. A stack of superb hopper hides. 3 stacks of othmir fur. 4 stacks of arctic wyvern hides.

6 war wraith blood.
2 fire elemental silks.
3 earth elemental silks.
3 drops of pure rain.
Enough stormrider blood, wind worn stones and electrified copper to make 7 electrified earrings of the tempest, fail 2 combines, and still have 2 stacks of blood and 5 pieces of copper left over.
12 razorfiend talons
2 alkaline etched stones
6 nightmare mephit blood

Enough PoP baking drops supply half my combines from 200-220 (most of the other half being supplied by mammoth and wolf meat on vendors and a frenzy of LS egg hunting).

Enough blue diamonds that I leave them on vendors.

Enough black sapphires that I flooded the electrum black sapphire earring market.

Enough jacinths and diamonds that I have 4 seal combines ready to go barring 49, and still leave them on vendors.

A black acrylia long sword.

A dozen coterie general cloaks and boots.

The entire spell content of a juggs camp (IE about 30 different spells).

Spells (including 61+ spells) and other items too numerous to count.

[Lilosh]

A dozen coterie general cloaks and boots.

These are valuable? D'OH


Anyway, I had a heck of a 12 hour period, starting about Midnight last night.

From 2 side-by-side vendors.

4 War Wraith Blood
4 Drake Egg Oil
4 Blue Diamonds

And then this morning, after the patch (Which I hadn't known about),

From all of PoK and the Bazaar

2 Pain Stones
10 Blue Diamonds
almost a stack of Dire Wolf Tufs
Some globe with Mana Pres 2, and Int and Mana.

Along with silks and pelts and other minor good stuff.


-Lilosh

[kiztent]

A dozen coterie general cloaks and boots.

These are valuable? D'OH

Valuable is a strong word. They sell for 60 and 110pp from merchant and can be resold for ~300pp. Stats are pretty decent on them.