Aqua Regia

[morromid]

I put a lot of this on an allakhazam post but not everyone looks there.


If you're going to do spell research you're going to need parchment solutions and to make them you need Aqua Regia. You can buy it from merchants but it is very expensive, at least if you don't have much plat.

I've been buying aqua regia because I'm tired of so many combines needed for spell research but I finally looked up the prices of the parts to see if it was any real savings to craft it myself.

It's a big big savings! It costs about 10pp if you make it yourself.

Most ingrediants to make it are single, but the vial of pure water makes 5 and takes 4 water, 5 empty vials and 1 gnomish heat source, so I end up with fractions for parts for 1 Aqua Regia.


To make 1 Aqua Regia it takes:
Bought:
3 and 2/5th Gnomish heat source
1 rock salt (from fine salt)
1 and 3/5th water
2 empty vial

Dropped:
2 crystalized sulfur
3 saltpeter


On a massive scale if you've collected 100 crystalized sulfur you need:

100 Crystalized sulfur
50 rock salt
170 gnomish heat sources
150 saltpeter
80 water
100 empty vials

The combines to make 1 Aqua Regia are:
1. Vial of pure water (makes 5, you need two)
2. Oil of Vitrol (make it twice)
3. Rock salt
4. Aqua Fortis
5. Vial of Muriatic Acid
6. Aqua Regia


the empty vial and dirty empty vial you end up with can be tossed. They just take up inventory space. You can recycle them, but I don't.

Crystalized sulfur drops in many zones. Probably 30 and 40s level mobs are the best is my guess. The Geonids in the Wakening Lands work well for me. You can just kill thru the caves and have them repop, there's no searching for mobs or anything and they drop at an ok rate, probably every 3-6 mobs drops one and while it's not every mob, it is somewhat regular.

Saltpeter drops mostly from mechanical mobs and not counting the high end mobs that means Plane of Innovaton and Corathus Creep.

For my gnome, he also collects Steel Ball bearings and Coiled springs while he's in PoI.

edit: 8/3/2008 because I can't multiply.
The number should be correct now, thanks to Danedori
--Morro

[Danedori]

I put a lot of this on an allakhazam post but not everyone looks there.


If you're going to do spell research you're going to need parchment solutions and to make them you need Aqua Regia. You can buy it from merchants but it is very expensive, at least if you don't have much plat.

I've been buying aqua regia because I'm tired of so many combines needed for spell research but I finally looked up the prices of the parts to see if it was any real savings to craft it myself.

It's a big big savings! It costs about 10pp if you make it yourself.

Most ingrediants to make it are single, but the vial of pure water makes 5 and takes 4 water, 5 empty vials and 1 gnomish heat source, so I end up with fractions for parts for 1 Aqua Regia.


To make 1 Aqua Regia it takes:
Bought:
3 and 2/5th Gnomish heat source
1 rock salt (from fine salt)
1 and 3/5th water
2 empty vial

Dropped:
2 crystalized sulfur
3 saltpeter


On a massive scale if you've collected 100 crystalized sulfur you need:

100 Crystalized sulfur
50 rock salt
95 gnomish heat sources
75 saltpeter
80 water
100 empty vials

The combines to make 1 Aqua Regia are:
1. Vial of pure water (makes 5, you need two)
2. Oil of Vitrol (make it twice)
3. Rock salt
4. Aqua Fortis
5. Vial of Muriatic Acid
6. Aqua Regia


the empty vial and dirty empty vial you end up with can be tossed. They just take up inventory space. You can recycle them, but I don't.

Crystalized sulfur drops in many zones. Probably 30 and 40s level mobs are the best is my guess. The Geonids in the Wakening Lands work well for me. You can just kill thru the caves and have them repop, there's no searching for mobs or anything and they drop at an ok rate, probably every 3-6 mobs drops one and while it's not every mob, it is somewhat regular.

Saltpeter drops mostly from mechanical mobs and not counting the high end mobs that means Plane of Innovaton and Corathus Creep.

For my gnome, he also collects Steel Ball bearings and Coiled springs while he's in PoI.

Your numbers are a bit off for the large scale combines. If you have 100 crystalized sulfur, that would make 50 aqua regia, which would require 170 gnomish heat sources and 150 saltpeter. The rest of the numbers are correct.

Danedori

[Gorse]

There is a similar guide I built and posted under the FAQ section above. Butm instead of stoping with just Aqua Regia, I listed all three Aqua Regia, Aqua Fortis and Vial of Purified Water as all three items are needed for most/all solutions above 200.

This was also back for alternative routes over 200 skill and the merchant solutions available now. With all the subcombines, most of the time now I buy from the vendor and tack on the price to the spell or I have the person I am making the spell for provide the parts.

The post I was talking about can be found here (#3):
http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showthread.php?t=6718



Gorse

[Shadrok]

Heh

If you were a spellmaker when DoDh came out, this was the only way you could make acquire Aqua Regia.

I buy Saltpeter and Crystalized Sulfur whenever they are available at worthwhile prices. It takes one of each to build Muriatic Acid, which you can buy at 72pp, so ... that should guide whay you can pay.

Because I always run out of Saltpeter, I've stopped making the Aqua Fortis (which costs the same as Muriatic Acid and requires an extra Saltpeter) and simply buy it.

Finally, if you can't find any Saltpeter, buy the Aqua Fortis and Muriatic Acid instead of the finished Aqua Regia and save 10pp.