DON JC stuff out of wack?

[Dalur]

Is it just me, or does the newer DON type stuff for JC seem totally out of wack when selling the finished product back to the vendors?

I was skilling up making Palladium Ruby Engagement Rings. I had quite a few stacks of scale ore and went ahead and converted the ore to bars of the Palladium.

I went and purched 40 Rubies and then proceeded to work on making the rings. After successfully making 38 rings, I went to sell them back to the vendor.

The price the vendor was purchasing was for 9 silver and 5 coppers. I then checked the price on the Palladium bars and they also were 9 silver and 5 coppers. So it would seem the newer DON jewlry doesn't have the cost minus the mark down of the gems involved when selling back to the vendor.

Is this a purposeful thing on Sony's part? or is it a accidental thing?

[Druegar]

Intentional or not, it's incredibly lame.

[Kahmon]

No skill is as easy to raise as JC, especially all teh way to 279. So what if you actually have to either put real work or real money into those last 21 points.

[Oona Wynterbreeze]

No skill is as easy to raise as JC, especially all teh way to 279. So what if you actually have to either put real work or real money into those last 21 points.

Depends on how you look at it. I'm stuck at 295 (244 combines and counting) and it's taken me 1328 combines to get from 279 to 295. The luck I'm having is almost making the "ease" to get to 279 completely null and void and THEN some.

[YurienStonebow]

personally i think all prices need to be reviewed. if you make an item from merchant materials you should be able to sell it back for almost cost or maybe a little over depending on the triv. i understand SOE wanting to ahve a plat sink since there is soooooooooooo much free plat but i'm still trying to find it. maybe i should be a plumber

[Fudapuda]

There will never intentionally be any sellback to vendor items that actually yield a net gain for the tradeskiller again in SOE. There used to be, and it eventually generated macro-runners creating millions of plat which was either banked in game or sold to cash-for-plat sellers on the Internet, and SOE has put quite a bit of effort into eliminating all such recipes, quickly stamping them out whenever a new one is found. Even just a few coppers per sale gain is enough to get those macroes running once again

That being said: I would LOVE to see SOE go back and "fairly" evaluate all of the current sell-back prices for tradeskill items, both those made entirely with vendor-bought components (such as most alchemy recipes) as well as those that combine vendor-sold items with dropped items, to try and bring the prices in line with a system when one doesn't have to go bankrupt skilling up in a skill that will NEVER return on investment (i.e. pottery).

For skills such as smithing or possibly jewelcraft, I understand vendor sell-back being slightly lower, since there are at least a few recipes usually available that can yield a profit in the Bazaar. But even then, a return on vendor-cost of 80% or something similar wouldn't be out of line. As is, returns on things like the palladium jewelry, or acrylia arrows, or holgresh hats, or sooooo many other things, is just insulting. I usually just drop them on the ground rather than let the vendor insult me by telling me all of my hard work is worth so little...

Fudapuda
Bertox

[lonomac]

I've been at 289 JC for 4 months now, gone through about 6-7 stacks of blue diamonds and no skill ups. Something is wrong..

[Zaltak]

Gone are the days of fish fillets:-( /sigh

[KB1]

wuwu, over 800 combines later, I quit counting, I got 293 from a black saphire pallaidum earring, excuse the spelling.

[Yammez]

wuwu, over 800 combines later, I quit counting, I got 293 from a black saphire pallaidum earring, excuse the spelling.

I had a terrible time getting 290. Many Blue Diamonds and chains were made to no avail. I finally ding'd 290 on a failed aug attempt lol. Oh well, at least I got the skillup. Only 10 more to go *sigh*

[andyhre]

My friend's chanter was stuck at 289 as well. Then this weekend, we realized there is a new merchant in the Lavastorm DoN camps, and she had over 500 diamonds on her, so he grabbed some velium bars and powered the 290th point. Sadly, someone had snagged all of her blue diamonds, but for point 290, you might try there, before hitting the Palladium stuff.

[Kemie Dreamshadow]

I've been stuck at 292 for so long it isn't funny.... literally months. The point before that took me something over 200 combines, but this time I think I'm way over that (so many I've lost count anyway).

I expect to pass out from the shock if it ever turns over again.

Kemie

[Fazor]

I have no numbers for you to crunch on but... I did Platinum Diamonds until they were gone and then a combo of BD's and Geode/Amethyst/Polished Quartz (forage farmed from Takish'Hiz) to get to 300. Getting to 294 was a bit painful (20-60 combines per skillup) and then it took me about 60 more to get 295-300 which were almost all Geode combines.

Even though the Tak foraged items require velium bars and sell back for next to nothing (if at all), they are decent favor at your local tribute master (780-1150). I now have lots of tribute. /shrug