old world pelts and poison vials

[Mitsune Foxfire]

Re: Skins

Thick[/i] Grizzly bear skins for the shaman alchemy bags. I think the regular Grizzly bear skins are now used in one of the new Freeport newbie armor quests (but don't quote me on that )

Actually the old "Grizzly Bear Skin" has been renamed to "Thick Grizzly Bear Skin". It does combine for the Alchemy bad and it *can* be used to potter vials.

[Brodybeard]

Re: Skins

No, you use the new Thick Grizzly bear skins for the shaman alchemy bags. I think the regular Grizzly bear skins are now used in one of the new Freeport newbie armor quests (but don't quote me on that )

Actually the old "Grizzly Bear Skin" has been renamed to "Thick Grizzly Bear Skin". It does combine for the Alchemy bad and it *can* be used to potter vials.

Not a name change — Grizzly Bear Skins still exist. They are used in the Freeport newbie bard Songweavers Platemail Greaves quest armor.

I have no idea why SoE decided to add the Thick Grizzly Bear Skin and change the bearskin bag recipe instead of just using the new Thick Grizzly Bear Skin for the newbie bard quest armor.

And I can confirm that the TGBS works for poison vials.

[Zallarenya]

Here's what I have for pelts that work with poison vials:

1485 - LQ wolf skin
4841 - MQ wolf skin
4842 - HQ wolf skin
3758 - white wolf skin
4843 - mist wolf pelt
1452 - black wolf skin
4844 - MQ cat pelt
2119 - HQ cat pelt
4845 - MQ lion skin
2878 - HQ lion skin
4846 - puma skin
1373 - LQ bear skin
1484 - MQ bear skin
1356 - HQ bear skin
3759 - polar bear skin
2117 - thick grizzly bear skin
1551 - zombie skin

The story on the thick grizzly bear skins - when the Freeport newbie quests were added, they added a 0.2 wt, small sized Grizzly Bear Skin. Then, someone realized they already had a 5.0 wt, large sized Grizzly Bear Skin (the one for vials and bearskin potion bags. Very shortly after the newbie armor patch, the 5.0 wt skin was renamed to Thick Grizzly Bear Skin and is still used to make vials and potion bags.

I know this because the day of the patch, I suddenly found lots of Grizzly Bear Skins and some didn't stack. Not having room to carry them all before I could experiment to see which weight was used for vials, I guessed that the smaller ones would be for vials and destroyed the heavy ones, only to learn the next day that the name had changed.