Is BD cultural becoming a skillup exercise for anybody?

[Grimina]

I've actually been considering this since I never pay more than 262p 5gp for my BDs hehe. I've found 56 of em of vendors so far. Of course my skill is only 205 (with geerlok 215? 216?) But if it takes me 20 tries to make one bracer that's okay, sell it for 10k and start all over again. I'd likely only make 2 out of the ~50 attempts I'd have (assume I'd lose at least 6 possibly more in turning them to tempers) I'd still come out with more money than I put into it and possibly get a couple skillups in there.

Of course it would make more sense to skillup on something else and be able to make even more armor at a higher skill, but those BDs are burning a hole in my "pocket" LOL

Grimina

[wold2]

sickles vs BD

Concerning the imbued emeralds, we found it easy to just level a tunare druid to 29 to do the imbues. Only atkes a couple days and pays back fast
Of course that harder if you only have one account/computer.

[Derok]

Re: re skill up on BD cultural

If you have that much money to spend why not just do sickles

For me, it would be more practical to try and skill up on BD Cultural rather than sickles.

Sickles just don't sell very often on my server anymore. Plenty of them sitting on merchants in the bazaar. But I haven't seen a single piece of Ogre BD Cultural for sale ANYWHERE. Plus, being on Ogre SK (Rallos Zek Worshipper) the only cultural armor available for me is the Ogre BD Cultural. I'll attempt to smith it, and whatever armor I manage to successfully combine I can either a) sell or b) wear myself.

I agree it's not the most efficient method of skilling up, nor is it the cheapest. But for me, after trying various alternate methods to raise my skill, this is my personal road to madness. It gives me a chance to skill up as well as smith a piece of armor that I would normally not have access to under normal (ie buying from a merchant) circumstances.

[Veril]

Hmmm, BD looking like more and more a route, I can buy BD's at 400 each or so. Sickles require so many combines along the way that it's not fun. BD cultural seeming a lot better because of the far fewer sub combines needed

[XeonioRZ]

RE

BDs on Rallos Zek are 200-500pp... but of course no one buys 'em off the vendors who charge 500.

[Kronepsis]

BDs on my server are 500...probably my fault since I auction for them at 500 and amass something like...um...enough. They ARE looking tempting though, considering that it is not only more MANA efficient, skilling up on Artkeepers would be more Morning Dew efficient than anything else! Just one problem. VERY little market for it. Someone on my server is selling Blessed Artkeeper's now and I'm sure not touching it...the only pieces being sold that I even LIKE I already have. I also don't relish the thought of trying to skill up on Blessed Mithril armor since it chews 2.5 extra Morning Dews an attempt, and the Dew vampires in the Bazaar charge from 50 to 100 plat. While I CAN buy them out, the fact that they will raise the price more if I do makes me decide that it just isn't a valid option for skilling up except on whim.

[Angahran]

Given that it would be not great effort to get 4k in an evening,

wish I knew where to get that sort of money, I don't even have that sort of bank balance total.

Angahran Frosthair,
54th level Knight of Shadows
Bertox.

[Flabbo McFattyfatfat]

Kill guards in hhk. sell their swords to the vendor downstairs. Each guard drops a fs ss (6pp) and up to 6pp. They are pathetically weak, like 1khp, and on a 6 minute spawn timer. Bad faction with freeport, but its a ghost town on my server at least, so who cares?! Plus you are a sk, be EVIL for a change! :P

I'm always surprised when people claim they cant raise money, so SO many opportunities available for those willing to work a tad.

[kiztent]

Re: sickles vs BD

Concerning the imbued emeralds, we found it easy to just level a tunare druid to 29 to do the imbues. Only atkes a couple days and pays back fast
Of course that harder if you only have one account/computer.

I'd rather gouge out my eyes than level yet another character. I already levelled a cleric to 53 to help 'soloing' (I 2 box), working on a shaman because of the sheer ownage of slow versus CH as I level, plus the obligatory enchanter for doing anything tradeskill related.

I'd just like to be able to practice my tradeskills in peace without facing the choice of levelling a dozen supporting characters or getting severely gouged by the tradeskill bottleneck classes. And on stormhammer, the only gouging you see is severe.

[kiztent]

Given that it would be not great effort to get 4k in an evening,

wish I knew where to get that sort of money, I don't even have that sort of bank balance total.

Angahran Frosthair,
54th level Knight of Shadows
Bertox.

Ok, 4k a night might be a bit much, but not too much so. I probably do in the area of 10k a work week, plus any weekend farming I might do.

My big money making activity is Kael armour MQs, which drop rarely at the bank, which I can 2 box easily (plus I get exp in a radical change from smithing activities). Average MQ is 2k, prices run up from there (40k for a tunic/robe/bp if I ever get one to drop).

I also clear a fair amount of money selling drink and food - having GMs in both of those- as well as dumpster diving (hm, acrylia reinforced wristbands on a vendor for 1gp, let me resell those for 50pp each) and foraging (dire wolf furs - 10pp each, branches of sylvan oak - 25pp each), plus twink turnover (upgraded robe, sell old robe).