Poison Components

[Aalar]

A few questions for all you rogue out there.

1> Do you acquire your components for making poison yourself?

2> Do you buy them in the bazaar at a reasonable price?

3> Only buy them from vendors?

The reason I am asking is that I am all the time running across posion components that I discard. I like to think that when I sell something at a reasonable price in the bazaar that I am doing the community a service - and making a buck in the process.

Aalar

[Ironoak]

It depends.

If I decide to try a poison out and if I know I can gather the components myself with getting killed by the green mobs that drop them, then I get the components from the mobs. If the components are on light blue or higher mobs then I have to buy the and opt for the npc merchants first because they are usually cheaper. After I determine the poison is as useless as all of the others I don't make that one any more. I usually don't buy from the bazaar because of the expense and the fact that the poisons are just not that useful.

This is just what I do and should not be interpreted as being what all rogues do. If your stuff is selling in the bazaar the by all means keep selling it.

[Raddan]

Please do put your poison components up for sale. Chances are high they won't sell, because one charge, even a 15min proc, just isn't worth spending much, and skill ups can be had by receipe's that have all components for sale from NPC's. I would assume you would want to get 3-10pp for each item you sell, to make it worth your time, and I would guess the most a rogue would pay is 1 or 2pp per item, unless NPC's already sell for less (in which case, obviously they won't even pay that much).

Spider venom sacs sell on NPC's for around 5 gold, and I consider that too high of a price to pay for a one-in-100 (feels like) shot at a Apply Poison skill up.

But maybe you'll find some ingredients for a poison that a few rogues on your server make regularly, and you'll get some customers. I do think just getting it out there, even if the trade value doesn't match, would be a service.

Drop of Mercury, Twilight Worms, Plague Mites, anything required for the hate reduction, or some of the nastier DoT or DD PoP poisons just might sell, and I would buy hearstring venom sacs, or those fish from LoY needed for the slow poisons.

But take plague mites for example. I believe they sell to a NPC for more than 1pp each. So why woud anyone sell them in the bazaar for less than 2pp??? Now what would be a palatable price for a rogue? Well, I'd rather go to KC and farm and maybe get a lupine dagger, locluster or swarmcaller to sell while I'm there, than pay 2pp for a poison component. So even though I am an active poisoner, I'll never be part of the plague mite market, due to what NPC's give PC's for them, and what I am willing to pay. My point is I think this is the common situation with poison ingredients, due to the lack of encounter-altering punch poisons provide, and therefore, your efforts may be wasted.

But hey, there is only one way to find out. Put whatever you find up for sale at a price that works for you and see what happens. It can't hurt, just may be a waste of your time.