Ribbons?

[Denak]

I have just finished with Wu's Fighting Armor and was getting ready to start making ribbons when i looked through the bazaar and every single type of dye for ribbons was 60pp a piece. I now have to find out what would be the best path. Farming dyes would be fine but i have tried clearing steamfont and havent gotten a single spring water. I do have quite a large bankroll but I am trying to save it for the end of tailoring.

The only other path seemed to be acrylia armor. Looking for any suggestions, thanks

Duke Denak Lightbringer
Officer of the Altruistic Valorians

[Kaaba]

I used my druid bot to forage the components for dyes. While I was raiding my druid was on the other computer foraging. Took a couple foraging sessions to get enough to get to 187 on both characters with some left over.

[Tweedledea]

Yep, get a character that can forage. And go to one of the zones with few junk forages, so that the items you really want can be foraged more often.

[Poulgera]

Just a hint to help with making those dyes. When I started doing ribbons, my brewing skill was just high enough for making Heady Kiolas..46, I think. Dyes are trivial around 127 or so ..so needed a quick brewing skill up. I found that making Fetid Essence was the quickest, cheapest and most painless way to skill up fast.

Fishing Grubb + Water Flask in a BrewBarrel..that's it.

Poulgera Snowyowl
65th Season Archon of Tunare
Fennin Ro

[Griksh]

Try checking all the vendors in Steamfont. I go round and check them every couple of days, sometimes i get 2, sometimes i get 15, helps if you can't forage.

Failing that just kill the Kobalds at the camps. they have a drop rate in the region of 1 in 10 and they have a 5 min respawn. Takes about an hour or so to get a stack. Failing that hunt the bazaar each day and pick up the component for 20-40pp each. cheaper than the dye themselves and as the poster above stated it is easy to get your brewing up to the required level.

[Silound]

I sat and ran two foragers on my computer non stop for around 14 hours (yes I sat there at the computers) and netted around 100 or so plant shoots apiece. not bad, but I ran through 500 or so getting to 190 skill =/

[Tweedledea]

But if you're human, those ribbons will give you up to a hundred further chances at skilling up and the robes might sell. Possibly.

[Rhyianna]

as an aside, the robes are good tribute items too. they keep me in ID 4 forever it seems .

[keats]

Yeah I'd usually head to steamfont, and then forage while I cleared the kobold camps. I'd also hunt the bazaar a couple times a day, pick up any components or dyes under 50pp. Later I made an enc twink to enchant clay and silver and stuff (was doing some pottery stuff I needed the clay for) and I took him to steamfont to level up on the kobolds, got me 3 stacks or so before they greened out.

[Qilue Shar'Molo]

Of the components needed for ribbons, what one is the easest to get.. or the most common to forage?

[Silound]

Springwater is probably the fastest to get, but stos at like 182 trivial. Honey Berries are a common forage and drop in Dreadlands, buy IIRC, those also stop at 182 trivial. Almost all the ribbon dyes that trivial at 187 require some work obtaining.

[Aalar]

I suggest you do what a lot of us have already done - level a druid so you can forage. I have a druid that I sit in various zones and forage for me while I am raiding. It is nice to do something while waiting for a raid to start/restart and it doesn't take much to click forage every couple of minutes.

Also, the raw components are generally cheaper then the dyes. And if you are not in a hurry you can normally find what you want for a reasonable price.

Aalar

[flashg]

tip

Here is a tip I would like to share. I had been farming/mining/buying dyes for weeks. I eneded up with 6 stacks of Steam dye, about 3 stacks of common dye, and about 2 stacks of rare dye. I started with Golden Steam dye ribbons and got to 162 then I made a MISTAKE I went to the Golden Rare dye. ARGH... I got to 165 and relized I should have started Platinum Steam dye ribbons. That way I could have saved my rare dyes for going from 182 to 187. In any event I went from 150 to 185 in about 2 hours last night

[shadowrings]

Jaggedpine Dye

I've come to discover on Povar at least, it seems there is a higher forage chance for plant shoots for Jaggedpine Dye in Nedaria's Landing than in Jaggepine itself. You still get some of the JP quest armor forage items in NL but not as frequently as you do in JP. Also one can do some of the collection quests for plat and a bit of xp while foraging in NL.

[Shamgar]

I really wanna do ribbons/robes for skillups, as its is a two for one deal, skill up on ribbons then use the ribbons to skill up on robes.

Problem is, I NEVER can find dyes/foraged components. I have 3-4 stacks of the research components from vendor farming (in like 3 days or so of trying), but have yet to see a single plains root/dye and a total of 4 jaggedpine dyes. I have more luck finding the occasional ribbon then the forage components.

I have access to an alt that can forage in nedaria/jaggedpine and WC, and a guildy forages alot overnight and is willin to do WC/nedaria's some, but I would like to take into my own hands a bit more.

I guess my question is, how long does it take, on average, to forage a stack of plains roots from WC, and to forage a stack of plant shoots from nedaria's? As i will be sitting there clicking forage instead of being on my main, if its really slow, I mind as well say screw this and do solstice robes or something else. Faster to farm pp in pow/sol ro if it takes 50 hours of foraging to get enough.

Thanks all.