Iron Oxide  

 

seems to just be RUSSET Oxide on Al'Kabor

These Used to be worth about 2pp. Then the new pottery items came out that use Divine Crystalline glaze. Most notably, the goldent idols, and faithstones/spiritstones. When these first came out, the drop rate on iron oxides was low, these were rare, and the demand for golden idols was high (since they are used in the solstice earring quest, which has Flowing Thought 1, as an effect). The price quickly shot up to 1kpp per iron oxide. However, SOE changed the drop of iron oxides. It used to be that you could only get them in a few locations. Steamfont (groundspawns, and dropped by elementals), najena, Nagafen's lair and the hole. NOW, elementals everywhere in Norrath and on Luclin drop these, and the drop rate has been increased. On my server (Rodcet Nife) the value of these has fallen to about 50pp. They are NO LONgER rare. as a nice side effect, the cost of golden idols has dropped to under 1500pp. :)

I have gotten a few off of Stonegrabbers in Merus Seru ..

Yep. I picked up a couple myself there over the past couple of days.

The price is dropping too...

Sell in bazaar. It takes time, but if you can keep a trader up overnight or during the day (while at work/school), you should have no problem selling it. 800pp - 1000pp is a good price range. I have sold around 25 of these, most for over 900pp.

I hunted twilight sea for 4 hours killed maybe 150 earth elementals with a coulpe of friends and did not find any iron oxide.

Najena seems to have become a popular place to farm this (does anybody ever bother going into Najena to kill, say, Najena anymore?) Najena is usually empty except for people hunting spell components or farming iron oxide. Probably the easiest place to get this (though still rare).

Anyone know what the respawn time is on these ground spawns? I came into the zone and found none on or near the metal surfaces where I previously have. Nobody else was in the zone, but I figured someone might've come through recently, so I waited 20 minutes or so, but nothing. I wondered whether maybe it only shows up after a rain, but alas Wake of Karana only lets me stop rain, not start it!

Sadly, I can actually imagine someone paying 1000pp for this item. All of the combines it is used for are low-risk, so you would really only need one for any given item, and the golden idol of tunare can sell for as high as 5k.

Incidentally, the quest is the Protection of the Cabbage, which returns a very nice earring, and a no drop spell called, oddly enough, Protection of the Cabbage. Level 59 druid spell, single-target version of the level 60 group spell, Protection of the Glades (hence the confusion).

No longer true... I'm not going to list them all here, but there's many new pottery recipes between 188 and 250 now. Would suggest casserole dishes to 199 then opal encrusted steins to 222 before doing something expensive as golden idols. Check http://www.eqtraders.com for details on pottery recipes.

Edited, Sat Nov 2 00:32:43 2002