Tufts of dire wolf fur

[casualeq1]

I was wondering if something has changed with these.

I used to see maybe 50 for sale in the bazaar among various sellers. Lately I saw one seller with 1100 another with 600. The seller with 1100 sold out and 2 days later had 600 more for sale.

I see one or two more sellers recently with 150-200 on them.

I forage and get maybe 6 per hour.

This isnt a case of where one player is trying to corner the market as the usual number of sellers with them were in the bazaar and regular prices. I have NEVER seen quantities of these like this before. I dont mean double t he number available. I mean there are 20-40 TIMES the number for sale in bazaar now than what has been the norm for my server in the past 6 months.

Is there some new place to forage or is some mob now dropping them left and right?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[eniamn]

betting forage bots are supplying them. rash of macroing lately.

[Crossifixio]

I am setting up a deal with a guy who had 2400 for sale in the bazaar, think we are going to do a plat / haversack deal for them and see how it goes.

But if you look at the big picture.

2400 x 50 = 120k

2400 / 36 = 67 haversacks combines

Based on a 90% success rate

You should get 60 combines go correctly

60 x 5k = 300k

I think its a good deal, spend money to make money

[Hibashira]

Best zones to get tuft are Icewell Keep and Thurg. Both at around 20% yield so your 6 an hour is about right (forage recycles every 2 minutes, so 30 attempts an hour, 6 is 20% spot on). I've check in every Velious zone (except PoM and ST), nowhere yields more.

[Fystz O'Malley]

This may be a stupid question but does your Forage skill have any effect on the rate at which you forage these? I ask because I have a low level ranger that I could park there and continously click forage with, if I thought it would work...any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[eniamn]

forage determines chance at sucess of finding something. rare stuff is still rare but a lv1 ranger with one point in it could forage anything a lv 39 ranger with 200 forage could.

[Stabi VanHouten]

However, you will average MAYBE 1 an hour with a skill NOT 200.

So it's not worth it.

I had a druid before )

[Sealody]

Originally posted by Crossifixio
I am setting up a deal with a guy who had 2400 for sale in the bazaar, think we are going to do a plat / haversack deal for them and see how it goes.

But if you look at the big picture.

2400 x 50 = 120k

2400 / 36 = 67 haversacks combines

Based on a 90% success rate

You should get 60 combines go correctly

60 x 5k = 300k

I think its a good deal, spend money to make money

Before everyone thinks that is pure profit. Add in the cost of about another 45k in platinum threads needed. About 60k in blue diamonds (avg 300pp each). Add in alittle more the other misc vendor stuff and acorns if you need to bazaar them. And finally the most painful... 33 sub combines for each bag. Disregarding the minor failures on those subcombines... would love if it was pure 200k profit. You'll be screaming after those subcombines.

Sea!

[andyhre]

I have 200 foraging and my forage key is tied to my right turn key. When I spend any time in Thurg at all, like tradeskilling, i can get a stack really fast. I also, sometimes, hoard stuff and bring it to the market at high prices in bulk. So, while I suspect you do have some macro-ers, it isn't impossible to be in Thurg a lot, to accumulate a decent number (though 2,000 is a bit much), and then show yourself to the world.

[filobeto]

Seal has it right, not near as much profit....

67 Haversacks = 201 Plat Threads = roughly 42K
" = 201 BDs @300pp = roughly 60k.
" = 67 Acorns @ 50pp = roughly 3k.

Add that to the 120k for the tufts, 225k spent to make 300k. Net gain of 75k for 60 bags, or profit of 1250ish pp per bag..... but you are not counting for the pottery failures, the brewing failures, nor the smithing failures that will add a few more K in cost.

I used haversacks as a means to support my tailoring road to GM, however, I don't make them now unless I made 2k profit from each bag.... and I'm selling a handful at a time. I thank bags and solstice robes for making me REvalue my in game time.

Dro has seen a big deflate in the number of BDs that are available, prices are creeping up to 500pp each if you want them in bunches.... and the NPC vendors seem to have less of them to dive for.

However, tuft prices are in check, can find them in bunches (if you are lucky) for ~30pp each, at 600pp a stack, you can afford to spend a bit more on the BDs and still make a couple K a bag.

I wish you great success in this as it will be a nice chunk of change when it's all said and done.

[Kreon]

Last i knew you had to have over 100 forage skill (at least 101) to forage any rare stuff.....so no a lvl 1 ranger w/ minimum forage skill could not sit and forage these tufts. (this was last I knew, I may be wrong now).


Kreon

[eniamn]

any forage skill has a chance for anything. yu fail so much earlier that rare forages become even more rare when you only succeed 1 in 20 times and could only expect 1 or 2 an hour with 200 forage.

[Diania]

the 101+ skill to forage rares was changed, dunno how long ago it was changed, but a good year and a half ago (or so) I was playing around with my newly created ranger, and found the druid/ranger epic forage from greater faydark.

[Noni DeeCups]

Failures. They add up fast. Especially in mass.

Look at the blue diamonds - First burn it, then brew it then smith it = 3 chances to eat that same blue diamond. Odds are not in your favor.

Tufts of fur. 3 tufts = 1 patch. No biggie if you fail really however if you fail a woven? Poof goes 9 tufts. Ouch. I cringe every time.

[Madbakerhobbit2]

Don't cringe, Noni! It's is part of the fun.... lol.

The only saving grace to these bags is that you hardly ever fail on the final combine.

Back to thread topic. On bristlebane, we went through a period where there were literally HUNDREDS of these tufts for sale... Now, I am lucky to see a dozen for sale at any given time...Blue diamonds have thankfully seen a stabilization in price at 400-450 each. That 700p per BD is silly.