Market for old/new Koada'dal items?

[Korrick]

I am contemplating a smithing push with my cleric who trived banded 175 on the old system (yes, I am still beating myself up for not going further!)

As I look at the old pieces of cultural for skill up and the new ones just on a lark, are there any pieces that have some sale value in the bazaar. I know that before the new stuff came out, many of the imbued enchanted plate items were pretty snazzy for a tunare cleric. With the influx of high stat low price items that came with the expansions, is there a market for any of these pieces? I am also curious about the most desirable/sellable of the new cultural.

Thanks in advance

Korrick

[Korrick]

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Anyone?

[Dulsin]

I was looking at this also and it looks like there may be a market for the more expensive pieces. Bracers, and visors are cheep at the bazaar but a good set of legs, arms, or BP may sell. Besides the worst part of the Cultural smithing is getting swirling mist for the temper.

I ran the numbers and you can sell a mithril BP or Legs with Bazaar purchased components for about 1K and break even. (Assuming a 60% success rate) Anything more would be profit and if you can't get 60% success then you will need to charge more.

[Meirril]

Generaly, I don't think making the old cultural items are worth it.
You use a foraged/dropped component instead of water with each smithing combine (morning dew), and to make the temper. Getting the one swirling shadow needed and the 2 essence of moonlight is far easier than aquiring the six morning dew necessary for a single plate combine (one for making a block, one for making a sheet, one for making 2 rings, one for making a ring into chain joining, one for the temper, one for the final combine.)
If you happen to have a foraging character (like myself), you can go into Lfey and terrorize the brownie village. I've found the common brownies uncommon drop morning dew. In a typical hour I've managed to collect 6 morning dew (3 foraging, 3 dropped.). I know other mobs in the zone have a chance to drop morning dew, but out of a slaughter of 120 pixies, 1 dropped. I haven't managed to get a drop from the non-fey creatures in the zone. I also haven't gotten any morning dew drops from the brownie scouts or guards. I leave the brownie merchants alone, mostly because their corpses should poof like any other merchant in the game.
All in all, I think your better off hoarding your morning dew for the new cultural recipees that require much less in the way of morning dew per combine.

[Taushar]

Agreed. Morning dews are PITA to get. I did a few old cultural to break up the boring Acrylia combines to get to 200 and they all sold well, specially after the LoY expansion. Currently I have sold out of about 7 pieces of old cultural in last 3 weeks. Last night was my last piece which was a mask. The BP and Legging seem to go fast so although it's pain to make them, they do sell well.

Taushar

[Korrick]

Thanks a bunch guys. Good points. The old cultural stuff isnt the greatest anymore compared to all the great new drops but it still provides nice ac and pretty darn good wisdom. As I recall, I had toon wearing a full suit of this without any rings or earings and was at about 200 wisdom.

I forgot that you actually need the morning dew for each combine. The dew is super way over priced on Dro from my initial assessment. It just takes too **** long to forage the stuff in the needed quantities.

Guess I will look closer at the acrylia stuff since my main is a 45 ranger and could probably get exp while collecting it.

Thanks agian :-)

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[Meirril]

Umm...windstones are rare drops. You need 2 for each combine (assuming the brewing combine dosn't eat them. Even though the combine is way trivial for me, I swear brewing has the worst success rates of any trade skill). Unless you are getting better drops than I am (about 1 per clearing of TM mines, or 1 in every 10 or so blue aliens), your just as well off with the old cultural!
I hate saying this (mainly because my smith is too low of a level to do it) but shadow scream armor is the fastest way to get ingredients for combines (even if the quest is a major pain).

[burnttoastv]

I agree that with the effort involved in getting morning dew, it makes the new cultural the easier to make as long as you can afford the blue diamonds over old cultural. And that opinion is including having a foraging class with 200 in foraging. Course I couldn't afford to keep trying to skillup on new cultural for very long until more of my results sell so my opinion is based on sporadic skillup attempts.