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This slot 11 augmentation grants the wearer the effect Faerune.

Faerune Grants: Ultravision (The best vision in the game allowing you to see both objects, (walls, rocks, trees etc) and creatures better in the dark. See Invisible. And Enduring Breath. (you can breathe underwater)

The item augmented with the Faerune aug must be worn, the effect is not ‘cast’ but rather always on simply by wearing it.

Attuneable means you won’t be able to trade the aug once you put it in the item. You can however remove and reuse it when you up-grade to a higher lvl setting for it. The old setting will revert back to tradable form so you can sell or trade that when you’re done using it, but not the aug itself.

To get the full benefit of most augs you must wear the appropriate solo/duo/trio item for your lvl. I’m told that you get the next lvl bonus if you are really close to the rec but I can’t confirm this. I don’t know if this restriction applies in any way to the effects augs like Faerune though.

There is a wonderful tool out there for playing with all the different setting and aug combinations. I’d like to give credit to the creator of the “Gnomish Jewelcrafting Gizmonotron” for the basic information on stats here. To it’s creator, my thanks and appreciation. Google the quoted name for the tool and you should get the link. So far in my experience, and the experience of others, the tool has been accurate.

Trivial is pretty high. The stone moderately expensive though, costing about 62 plat but it’s available all the time from npcs. The Jewelers glass you need to make this is a little fussy to make but it’s trivial is low and all the ingredients for it can be found on the venders on the boat in the Abysmal Sea. If you do the Abysmal freebie or collect quests you will have all the skill you need to make your jewelers glass. * See the mini JC Guide at the end of this post.

Warning on Silver:

In my opinion there is no use at all for silver because Electrum has no lvl rec and gives the higher stats even to lvl 1. Unless this changes, Electrum is the twink jewelry.

Now Bazaar Info:

Extended Warning on Silver: The only exception to using these augs in Silver is if you can make it yourself and can’t make or afford something better. If you’re buying a set, keep in mind you pay for the setting and the aug/s that go in it. In most situations there will be better options for low lvl players than silver and usually at a much lower price. Never pay much more than 20plat for silver jewelry, if that. Silver only costs 10 plat and can be enchanted by low lvl players. The stats are better in Electrum even for a lvl 1 player so the value for Silver pieces just isn’t there. There’s no call to charge newbies or anyone else the 1k+ prices for the silver trio that I’ve seen up on Bristlebane.

Make sure you never put this up for less than 62p in the bazaar because NPCs will pay you about that much for them. I just noticed the 120 tribute value up there, if that’s accurate it’s worth keeping in mind and checking out.

I love this aug, almost all my characters have one, and there is a demand for it, especially if you advertise it’s benefits. You only need one and to me it was especially worth it, I explore solo a lot and I hate dark zones, and better than half the game seems to be in the dark. More useful to adventuring types than raid types I’m sure. Anyway, a lot of players who are buying other forms of these effects don’t know the Faerune aug is available but they love having the option once they do know. As with other augs though, they sell slowly, not every day or even every week and even if you maintain or match the best prices. Unlike the slot 10 augs these are more expensive to make if you’re buying the gems from npcs. I prefer to charge 200 - 250 for them because they do sell slowly and unlike other augs they only go out one at a time. Having them up is as much a public service as anything else. I’ve sold only 5 in the last 3 weeks, and then only after advertising what they were in the bazaar over /occ. The prices I got ranged from 150 – 250. You must at least match the lowest price to have hope for a sale in the bazaar. I prefer matching the lowest price to undercutting the lowest price because that only leads to price wars. After all, if someone else is trying to sell these too they can hardly afford to hand over the market to you because you’re willing to sell a little cheaper. Whenever possible, it’s better to share a market with other traders. After all, not every competing trader is up every hour that you’re going to be up, and even so, shared odds of getting a sale at a good price is better than no odds for getting a sale or even great odds at a sale at a sh*tty price. Over time the prices you’ll get for those augs your trying to unload will be better if you share markets and avoid price wars.

Time/Stress Factor

Selling a wide set of any of the good augs is pretty relaxing given that your competing traders are reasonably few and don’t constantly price check and undercut throughout the day. If they do however, this aug probably doesn’t fetch the price to warrant having to put up with that much of a hassle. Right now though I can usually match the best price with only a few price checks of my own. The augs stack well and trickle out slowly so there is no restocking headache. The gems are easy to come by and easy to cut once you have the skill. The only problem in addition to maintaining a good price and your chance to sell, is they are not big money makers, and supply can easily swamp demand.

* Mini JC Guide: Lvl to 15. Go to your hometown and follow the instructions of the whispering voice to get your Adventurer’s Stone. (lvl/stone no longer needed see note below) Go to the guildhall Magus and transport to Nedria’s Landing and from there to the Abysmal Sea. Do either the freebie or collect quest there. You’re skill lvl is now high enough to make your Jeweler’s Glass with the least trouble, so make it before you leave Abysmal. Now go to Freeport and start the testing to get your JC Trophy. It is easiest to get at low lvls and will evolve as you skill-up naturally. You won’t be allowed to start testing if you don’t have enough skill though so doing it after you do the abysmal quest is the perfect time. Now start cutting augs, with vender gems at first, then move to baz bought gems when it becomes cost effective. Most Uncuts and Nihilite have been pretty cheap and can get you to 300 fast and easy, though not always cheap. Shimmering Nihilite, and Uncut Rubellite can even max out your Trophy but they are usually more expensive than those that trivial under 300. You may need to learn how to earn money in the baz from time to time as you progress. If you want to farm your way to JC mastery though, good luck, because I can’t help you there. Enjoy! ;)

**Mini Guide Update: (2/29/08)

You no longer need the stone before you can get transported to Abysmal by the Brotherhood Majus. The requirement has been dropped recently and the Majus will now transport anyone to Nedaria’s Landing and then from there on to the Abysmal Sea. So now there’s no need to wait to reach the best freebie trade-skill quests in the game and it’s a wonderful advantage if you want to make your own equipment and provisions as you go. Going for a swim from the floating platform is fine but just make sure you don’t fall/jump off the boat. Instant Death! In this case… Lev is good. Sow is bad.




Edited, Jun 29th 2008 5:56am by HuntingAnnie