Crystallized Sulfur & Saltpeter drops in TSS?

[Carleton]

These must drop somewhere in TSS zones. Where? I'm hoping Ngeth made the sulfur farming a little easier ala saltpeter in Undershore.

[Ngreth Thergn]

don't think they are on any tables in TSS. Ogre not perfect!

[Sharrien]

Replace those jade and bloodstone drops with sulfur and all's forgiven.

[Sharrien]

BTW...noticed a real price spike in sulfur lately. I don't think more people are doing research, I think instead it's because fewer people are killing in GE, Seb or Chardok to grind AA now that they are 71+.

[Strokker]

BTW...noticed a real price spike in sulfur lately. I don't think more people are doing research, I think instead it's because fewer people are killing in GE, Seb or Chardok to grind AA now that they are 71+.

This is the second posting I have noticed about Crystallized Sulfur. My toons are not very high so I play in the lower zones all the time and am finding this stuff so much I'm destroying it, I got like 4 stacks in the bank but alas no Saltpeter as there are only two places that drops PoI and Undershore < a supposedly 45 zone...HAH!>. It would be nice if saltpeter was more common of drop, but then the price gougers on Fennin Ro would not be able to make a profit...lol.

[Grenoble]

It would be nice if saltpeter was more common of drop, but then the price gougers on Fennin Ro would not be able to make a profit...lol.

Saltpeter drops off the creep reapers in CC. Common enough that farming here for faction netted me enough stacks to have to start destroying some.

[Canyar]

Saltpeter drops off the creep reapers in CC. Common enough that farming here for faction netted me enough stacks to have to start destroying some.

Hmmm! I wonder what else drops off the creep reapers? Let me guess, could it be crushbone pelts? No. Could it be bone chips? No. Ohh! I know clockwork gnome bolts! Although I can't think why lvl 70s would permacamp the reapers for them, can you?

[Bobaten]

Hmmm! I wonder what else drops off the creep reapers? Let me guess, could it be crushbone pelts? No. Could it be bone chips? No. Ohh! I know clockwork gnome bolts! Although I can't think why lvl 70s would permacamp the reapers for them, can you?

Which is why if were to buy every single crystallized sulfur for sale in the bazaar (at prices ranging from 20-70pp) I still wouldn't have enough sulfur to use the hundreds of saltpeter people give me, or I find on npc merchants.

[Zacatac]

Creep Reapers is camped 90% of the time. Almost every trip when I go to CC to do some spells researching there is 1 other person in the zone, and they are at that camp.

It was a serious fight to get that camp so I could do the Belfast mission for the instruction book (to make mechanoinstructions). I would often have to sit around for an hour or so and wait in line for the camp, hoping the person would leave soon.

[Bobaten]

Do you ever talk to the people camping the reapers? The vast majority of them are after bolts. Generally they are more than happy to sell or give away saltpeter. Many people who do that camp consider saltpeter to be worthless trash worthy of npc merchants or even the destroy button.

[Sharrien]

I can only guess at the reasons of it's recent scarcity, but all I know is that as of last night I am down to a single pathetic unit of crystallized sulfur. Lots of saltpeter and three stacks of smudged runic parchments sit idle....

[Ravanta Suffer]

If you can't find it for sale, you're probably not paying enough for it!

We used to be able to reliably get saltpeter from bazaar at about 40-50plat a few weeks ago, and now you can't even really get it even by sitting in buyer mode at 100 plat each lately.

Personally, I pay as much as 175 plat a piece for saltpeter. I'm sure this hurts for people who are still on the path to 300, but let's be realistic. Parchments are a lot easier to get now that people are chain farming lost notebook, so the price of those goes down as well. It just makes it even MORE important for a person to not sell their solutions if they are using them to skillup to 243.

This might not be true on all servers, but I also think that people *ARE* doing research more. On nameless for example, as I understand there were really only one or two people doing research consistently since DoDH. The spells were priced accordingly, but eventually the price on the spells lowered to about 10k for 65's.

Now that Qaladar and myself are selling 69's for 50k, and 70's for 75k, I'm QUITE certain that other people are skilling up on research. Especially with the people doing lost notebook so much.

[Eleena Transient]

With Aqua Regia and Muriatic Acid now for sale (153p and 79p respectivly), there is no need for sulfur and saltpeter.

[Eanelder]

With Aqua Regia and Muriatic Acid now for sale (153p and 79p respectivly), there is no need for sulfur and saltpeter.

Is it wrong for a High Elf to love an Orge (named Ngreth!)

[Sukrasisx]

If you can't find it for sale, you're probably not paying enough for it!

We used to be able to reliably get saltpeter from bazaar at about 40-50plat a few weeks ago, and now you can't even really get it even by sitting in buyer mode at 100 plat each lately.

Personally, I pay as much as 175 plat a piece for saltpeter. I'm sure this hurts for people who are still on the path to 300, but let's be realistic. Parchments are a lot easier to get now that people are chain farming lost notebook, so the price of those goes down as well. It just makes it even MORE important for a person to not sell their solutions if they are using them to skillup to 243.

Ouch! As you say, some of us are still trying to make solutions by the bucketload as we skill up, and saltpeter at those prices is just too high for my budget. I was reliably getting it in buyer mode at 15-20, but the supply has dropped off sharply recently. I saw the update notes about the additions to spell vendors, so I rushed here to see if someone had reported the prices. 153pp for Aqua Regia and 79 for Muriatic? Yikes! I was hoping the prices would be at a level that might stem the price gouging on the sulfur and saltpeter, but nope, those are way too expensive for me to use for practice. Sure, if I were just making one spell and didn't have saltpeter around (sulfur is so easy to find I can always have a small amount when I need it) I might buy those, but for practice I guess I'm still stuck farming for saltpeter or hoping people will part with it for a reasonable price.