HQ Ore & Post-production Sellback prices >:(

[Kyrros]

Grrrrr... so now HQ Ore's price has been raised to match the price of other cultural metals... (HQ Ore's price now 18.163pp, 52.048pp, and 83.490pp respectively)

BUT THEY DIDN'T RAISE THE SELLBACK OF ITEMS OF OLD HQ ORE COMBINES

(Heck, I don't even think they raised the SELLBACK price of HQ ore itself to match)

With the cost of HQ ore now 315%+ what it used to be, how hard would it actaully have been to go back and change the prices of the combines and subcombines... not to mention that you STILL have to "restock" HQ ore vendors.

1 Large Brick - 52.048pp

becomes => 2 HQ Metal Rings - 10.476pp (5.238 x 2)

becomes => 2 Small Ornate Chain Gorget - 9.066pp (4.533 x 2)

I don't expect to make money with my tradeksills just getting them up, I DO expect to lose lots when I fail... but now with this broken (unfixed) system, lower level smiths lose over 80% of their investment on a SUCCESSFUL combine and ~99% when they fail.

[You say, "Well, what about Solstice Robes?... those are expensive to succeed at"]

Yes, they are, but if you manage to fail, you actually get the expensive part back... at low level smithing, you get only your tool of choice of back when you fail...

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My point of all of this of course, was that Devs did not think laterally about what would happen if they lazily raised the price of HQ Ore to match the other culturals, instead of creating a separate vendor ore for Humans to work with. Roleplay aspect is kinda nice - but I think it was more a 'shortcut' than roleplay.

Ore price was raised, but return products recoups were not...


Any serious suggestions for lower level smiths to get to Fine Plate (MQ Ore) without having to spend scads of time, that they don't have, farming components? (read 'FS Weapons' or 'DoN Cultural metal components')

[Flehmen]

Any serious suggestions for lower level smiths to get to Fine Plate (MQ Ore) without having to spend scads of time, that they don't have, farming components? (read 'FS Weapons' or 'DoN Cultural metal components')

Coming soon, to a smithy near you... lowered trivs on Shadowscream armor... Wonder if this will plug the hole? It is not as time intensive to farm as some other stuff but farm none the less....

In the end, this sudden price change came when I was about 150 and in the middle of that progression. I ended up figuring out I was a karana followed and did steel arrowheads.... Various cultural sewing/fletching kits can triv at 168 and can sometimes sell well. Hmmmm...

Good luck and hope that helps.
I never did like doing ornate chain anyhow.

[Therac]

Hmm, from what I recall, these prices have been in effect for a long time on TEST as the 52pp is what I payed for the past several months skilling up. At the time, I noticed it was out of line with some of the guides but thought they were just mixed up but guess not.

[Astroshak]

Don't forget you can convert FS weapons into HQ ore. I'd suggest finding a camp for FS weapons, and converting them into HQ ore for use in smithing. The coinage and other drops from the mobs can fund your mold/bar expenses, too.

[Boleslav]

Also, HQ ore drops from goblins in several parts of Norrath. So they couldn't raise the buyback of the HQ ore in a vaccuum. It would be unbalancing to triple the buyback value of one of the higher buyback items in a place like High Keep or Permafrost.

Boleslav

[Jyll]

when i did the part where i needed the HQ ore i just farmed all the guards in high hold keep. They drop 1 FS weapon everytime and up to 5PP in plat. there are about 30 guards in the complete zone and easily farmed by a lvl 45+ ( i was going to be kos there anyway for exping on the nobles and bards in there )