Gorthag's Guide to Pottery

[Obina]

Kazim

Heh heh so you are the one who flooded the Karana market with Opal Steins. I used to get 50pp for them, now I'm lucky to move them for 25.
By all means, switch to Heavy Clay farming

Obina
Cleric of the 52nd Light
Potter of the 222nd Dirty Hand

[Kazim]

Ha! Nope, I'm on Drinal. My druid worships Karana (for imbuing planes pebbles) which is the confusion. I used to get 50pp each also, but someone has been selling them for 35pp recently, which I matched. Still let's me break even, which is nice.

[Samoht]

You guys are lucky.
On BB, I've seen them for 15pp! some for 25pp, and some for 35pp, but they never sell.

I used to sell for 45pp all the time.
Gonna make a batch soon and try to sell at 45pp again.
Server has been crazy lately and I havent seen any for sale.
Hopefully, no one else is making them anymore. :P

[Velisaris]

Wow...35pp for an opal stein...hehe.

I remember when the recipes first hit and I was selling them for 250pp a pop (that's for ONE stein). 8)

[Unmei]

Heh

They hover in the 20-30 zone on Lanys, and my own price wobbles all over the place depending on what the competition's price is, and how many they have to sell. I did the create/destroy method of planar steins to 216 though, so my fail rate on opals was darn low, and even at ~20 plat, I was just about breaking even (Since I'm an enchanter and can magic up my own clay and whatnot)

But heck... once upon a time, I paid 300 for one of the darn things. And ironically never even used it. It just seemed like a good gear option at the time.

Aaaanyway... skill 222 is mine! No more opal steins! *does the happy dance*

[Velaraa]

Re: Gorthag's Guide to Pottery

Skill 1-36
Make Ceramic linings - lots of them =) Cost: about 1 gold per combine
Small block of clay + ceramic lining sketch + water

Its a waste to do these until after 26, claw/water mixture trivials at 26 and is just the small block of clay and flask. Overall i give this guide a 2 out of 5, sorry should come back and edit it though to reflect better methods.

[Sunfire]

skill ups on the cheap

For those without a lot of cash, I've made it from 199 to 215 in a semi-reasonable amount of time alternating between combines of golden idol of tunares (the skill up rate is better than you'd think even at 199+geerlock) and opal steins. You'll make money on the idols and minimize your losses on the steins and be able to skill up without a lot of seed money - although its much slower.

[Cuthul Paindancer]

Im curious,

Why arent ceramic bands considered for skill ups?

Unfired they sell back for about 5pp and change... and I used to sell them at 1500 each, in days gone by... long past.

[Unmei]

Meh.

Because, in general, Ceramic bands are more expensive than the alternatives. If you do the math:

Green Ceramic Band: Lacquered Emerald (13 plat) + Cloudy Mana (11 plat) + Celestial Essence (~1.5 plat if you buy the components) = 25.5 plat per attempt. Trivial: 222.

Opal Encrusted Stein: Lacquered Opal (17 plat) + Celestial Essence (1.5) = 18.5 plat per attempt. Trivial: 222

And while I can't speak for sellback value to merchants on most ceramic bands, both fired and unfired white ceramic bands (did some with my leftover lacquered opals =P ) sell to a merchant 1 silver, 1 copper. Bleh.

[Sethlic]

Just wanted to say thanx for the guide
It has served me well. I am currently at 215 doing the unfired stiens.
On my server no one has any idea what these are for so they don't sell.
But I'm not in this for the profit...yet?
One question though. Why not use plains pebbles till 242 on the last item?

[K.Rool]

191 Skill, close to 400 combines without ever getting 191 skill...does the RNG hate me, or what?

[EnragedFilia]

because, on a scale of ways to get components:
buying>foraging

even if you consider that karana imbuers are much easier to find (oops, did i step on you again?) than emarr imbuers, it's generally easier to spend a few silver on a gem than try to forage it.

of course there are other ways to get pebbles, like buying them in the bazaar at an outrageous markup, which of course defeats the purpose of using pebbles to begin with.

[Sethlic]

in rebutal :twisted:
Ever try to find a erolsi mar cleric on fenin ro?
I do better sittng in the karanas fishing for storm salmon than finding one, let alone finding one who has even bought the spell.

[Unmei]

Heh

Well, the spell is readily available to anyone who's not KoS in North Freeport for not really all that much money, so if you keep running into people who don't have it, maybe you should buy a copy or two.

[Aquila Swiftspirit]

Mendan,

I think you may have looked at the "golden idol" rather than an imbued idol. I've done that more than once...