Deluxe Sewing Kit  

 

Looking to buy one of these on Emarr, send me an in-game mail or a tell.

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got one of these today.. only had to buy 1 stack of tokens

as of today 18 dec 2003 they are back in the game. i bought 10k in the tokens for the casino game and won two of them, he called the winning roll on both good rolls or something like that so there not common but there back none the less.

I had a guy offer me 7k for my deluxe sewing kit the other day.

They should bring these things back. They had a legitimate use. Tailoring items requiring more than 8 ingredients when you are far away from a loom. I don't see how these could possibly kill the tailored bag market, since there is no weight reduction. I would have preferred to see VI give tailored bags a bigger weight reduction and lower the amount that the bags themselves actually weigh, rather than take an amazingly useful item such as this out of game permanently.

When they made rockhopper hides usable in place of HQ bear skins and made them a lot easier to get than HQ bear skins, nobody complained. This encouraged people to take up tailoring to make their own bags for fun and profit and flooded the game with bags and people with the ability to make them. Has that hurt prices?? Not much by what I have seen. What makes you think the Deluxe Sewing Kit would have hurt the bag market?

And why hasn't anyone bitched about the Deluxe Toolbox in the same way that they bitched about this? It also holds 10 GIANT sized items and weighs .5 LESS than the Deluxe Sewing Kit!! You people should be in a bigger uproar over those than the sewing kits.


Edited, Sun Jan 26 11:08:11 2003

I was in Thurgadin, checking out the merchants in the Bank (good practice, never know what you find). When loe and behold, a Deluxe Sewing kit. I think it cost me around 2 plat. Wow what a deal.

Ephus
44 Druid
Stormhammer

got one for 1pp off a guy who wanted to clear a slot in his bank (he had bank full of them) i guess he never checked that the no longer dropped

It's been posted here before but if you are just looking for a cheap 10 slot storage item (ie for the bank) that holds giant size items go to iceclad and get a deluxe tool box from the gnome pirates. I got my sewing kit a while back and thought "Gee, I should get some more of these and put them in the bank." Of course I was too late. VI had taken them out. Fortunately all of my chars that tailor have one. Now I also have all my bank slots full of toolboxes. Really nice for us packrat types.

Inivar Gaddavidda - baby

Wizard of Saryrn

I finally worked up to the level in tailoring where I actually need one of these babies (to make Wu's pants, cloaks, and Gis). After complaining that they were no longer sold, a GM told me today that they were, in fact, still sold SOMEWHERE.

So where are these sold? In the meantime, can anyone tell me which cities have a loom?

I saw that they changed them to 10 slots and jumped all over them. I now have about 6 in my bank as well as 1 in my guild bank in case anyone in my guild would need to use it. I am on Brell serilis and if anyone would like one of my deluxe sewing kits they could give me a bizuzz. I currently carry around all 10 slots and 1 sewing kit. I am working on tailoring and I like having one incase I need to loot a giant Item. Thanks Verant for letting me have a bunch of 10 slots in my bank for about 1pp each hehe

Crackercrumbs Buetterscratch
Willyj
Verakat

Way back at the dawn of time, two kinds of tailoring kits were available from vendors: large (8 slots) and small (2 slots). Then, when cultural tailoring (for halflings, erudites, and wood elves) was added, new kits (10 slots) were introduced that could only be used by those two races to make their cultural armors. When Velious came out, another kit was made available from stores in Velious cities, the coldain tanning kit (8 slots) that must be used to make the Velious tailored armors.

Then, because they were about to introduce old world armor that had more than 8 ingredients, the old world original large kits were increased to have 10 slots. But then, people started complaining more loudly because this change meant that the large tailoring kits had as many slots as tailored backpacks but weighed less and held bigger items. So, the Powers That Be decided to remove the 10 slot tailoring kits from vendors. The problem was that they couldn't simply change them back to 8 slots, because that would cause problems for people who had items in all 10 slots. So, they changed the existing 10-slot large kits into a new item, Deluxe kits, and changed vendors back to the original large kits with only 8 slots.

Therefore, the only deluxe tailoring kits in existance are ones that players had in their possession when these changes were made. If you find them on a vendor, it is because someone sold it to that vendor. For those who need 10 slots for the recipes with more than 8 ingredients (Wu's Fighting armor), they also added Looms to some cities. Looms are stationary containers that you go to in a city and use on the spot, like ovens or brew barrels or forges.

(Credit goes to Oakwood Moonblaze and Schmoozo Gladhand for their post here:) http://pub13.ezboard.com/feqtraderscornertailoring.showMessage?topicID=2666.topic

i heard that the deluxe items are sold in the velious area only and is not only sewing kits

Last night I checked all the vendors that used to sell the 10 slot large. THe only thing for sell now is the 8 slot. Even the vendor in Erudin only has the 8slot. If you see any on a vendor my guess is it was sold to them by a player. This also is per V's info that the 10slot kit will no longer by sold.

Later
Acrqon Stormtamer 35th Druid E'ci

you think they made bigger containers cuz they mad more complex items so they needed more room?
just a thought.

You're little off there, it's a silk cord and a grizzly bear skin. Also, I'm not certain, but I believe it only holds small items, as the purpose to combine those little alchemy potions together.

i just wish verant had left well enough alone.

i had outfitted all my characters with 8 slot large sewing kits because of the low weight. they changed them to 10 slot and i said "cool". then they just changed them all deluxe kits with a weight of 4. now all my characters are encumbered! i don't rally care about the extra 2 slots per kit (except maybe in the bank) i just wanted the low weight. now i have to go trade out all the one's on my characters for the low weight ones again. this is kind of a pain for me since my main characters are dark elves and they can't buy the stupid things.

USE YOUR BRAIN VERANT!

Here's the straight scoop on the deluxe sewing kits from the May 30, 2001, patch message and the subsequent clarifications from Alan (Absor).
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5/30/01 Patch Message - "Sewing Kits: No existing sewing kits are being changed with this patch. But from now on, kits sold on vendors will be somewhat different. Large Sewing Kits will have 8 slots. Deluxe Sewing Kits will have 10 slots and weight slightly more than the Large Sewing Kit."

Absor - "The intent of the change was to keep the ten slot kits so that people wouldn't lose things, but to make them less desirable for carrying things. The cleanest way to do that was to rename the old kits to deluxe (and increase their weight) and to make new large kits for sale on vendors. So the 10 slot ones can't be purchased anymore, and the 'large' kit is reduced to 8 slots."
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So the existing large sewing kits held by players on 5/30/01 were converted to "Deluxe Sewing Kits" and the vendor sold sewing kits are all back to no more than 8 slots. Unless they change this at some future time the currently existing 10 slot Deluxe Sewing Kits will remain the only portable, 10 slot sewing kits for general, non-cultural use in the game.

If you want one of these you will need to find somebody who has an extra one with which they are willing to part. The alternative is to use the new 10-slot looms that are found in each of the starting cities in Norrath when you need to sew a non-cultural item that requires more than 8 slots.

I went through a week of smithing for the express purpose of getting my skill up high enough to make a Fier'Dal sewing kit (wood elf) because I had heard they were 10 slot and still weight 0.4. Well, I finally made one, but their weight was nerfed along with the other kits. It now weighs 4 stone and has 10 slots, but is definitely obtainable in GFay...

Nathtier Silverthorn
49th Druid of Xegony

Verant purposely does not have these on Vendors.

1) Removes the profitability of 10 slot backpacks
2) The same time they renamed them to Deluxe, they added the stationary looms which have 10 slots
3) Tailoring is not a purchasable skill (ie all other trade skills anyone can raise given enough money, tailoring requires obtaining many drops from tough mobs) and the high end items made for it make it worth the effort to the select few.

there are three wu's items that require nine components, tunic, cloak, and pants. and yeah, verant blew it on this one. they wanted to fill in the skill gap for tailors so they introduced wu's, and since three of the items require nine components, they upped the slots of the large kit. They did overlook the fact that they made 10 slot backpacks unprofitable, and after being petitioned by every master tailor who lost the only profitable tailoring item (the only good one anyway), they corrected the mistake by creating the deluxe sewing kit as a fix, only they had to do it quick before the market reaction got too big, and they didn't have time to add the deluxe to any merchants. (this is all opinion, but think about it) I will bet a full set of wu's that the next major patch will find a merchant or two or ten selling the deluxe sewing kits.

There are two known recipes that take 9 items (Wu's fighting tunic and imbued vale studded tunic). The vale tunic has to be made in a special sewing kit that only halflings can use. There are stationary sewing kits in towns, like forges. They looks like white looms, click on the top bar to activate them (maybe other places u can click too).

Want a 10-slot container for bank? Go to the igloos in Iceclad Ocean to buy a deluxe toolbox. Can't go to velious? Get 2 small pieces of HQ ore (the stacking kind, drops in Runnyeye) and find a halfling smith in Rivervale to make a special "vale sewing kit."

Personally, I believe that the disappearance from the stores of the "deluxe sewing kit" was a blunder by Verant. It should be obtainable at some location, maybe hard to get to, like the igloos in Iceclad Ocean, or the brownie camp in Lesser Faydark. It should not have been fouled up like this for future tailors.

There is no vendor in East or West Cabilis that carries these. I should have gotten more before the patch, and during the short 10-slot time

Bosek Wyrmrider
Seventh Hammer