just to give you all a heads up, I have gotten my skill up to 205, with a geerlock my chance of making this stuff hovers around 5 percent. I have recently finished the shadowscream armor quests from kitty land and can now raise my skills by getting wailing/shrieking substance and other semi easy items to gain. Its a hard road, but well worth the trip.
I dont know about your sever but it's not as easy to gain the substances as one would think. Peeps on Bristlebane LOVE to run the Hollowshade Moor Wars so trying to keep 1 mob up ina particular place is a real pain. You are either running around the zone chasing the mob from place to place, or working the war yourself and then someone else comes in and screws it all up for you claiming that you can't camp and entire zone. I'm at 192 without the geerlock atm, and I wish you good luck in your skill raising attempts using the scream. It's great when you can get a fair amount but tough at the other end of the stick. Unless of course you have the ability to just take mutliple mobs on all at once, ie; REALLY high level chars.
Does anyone know what this Bp looks like when worn? I think i will start back working on smithing. This is a vey Nice item. You have to love the AC on this. For clerics this is a must! I'm kinda torn between SS Bp and this. SS has nice stats as well with an mana free effect but a lot lower AC. Hmmm maybe i'll get both(some day)
god i love the new trade skill items.. FINALY something worth working on.. makes me wanna get my rangers Blacksmithing up that extra 20 or so to max it.. (1st charactor back 2 years ago, and i was one of those people who ruined the market BTW, dropping my prices hehe.. ***** the mastersmiths, go LOWER... hehee...) o then i gotta get the components too.. but hehe.. thats easy compared to the skills ...
It's disappointing that all the highest end tradeskill products so far have been aimed at the "standard" deity for each race. My main is agnostic because 2 1/2 years ago that was the only choice that made sense (oh and a half elf, good thing I didn't waste time on any trade skills). Then, I intentionally chose "odd" deities for most of my alts to make them fun / different, but once again, at the time there was no compelling reason not to (deity imbued jewelry had just come in but it was not race specific, nor particularly spectacular). Now my halfling cleric of bristlebane and enchanter of erollisi marr, amongst others, seem to be getting screwed again. Ah well. Maybe PoP will have something for those who took the "roads less travelled by". Kinda doubt it though.
This is close to the DW bp (40 ac) and better than thurgadin (42 ac) minus the procs. DW bp goes for 40K to 60k so I would imagin that this would sell for the same price range. It is the best ac for a dropable bp that I know of, correct me if I am wrong. Finally VI has put something worth doing for smiths. For all the non tradeskill people smithing skill to 160's is easy and inexpencive however it is very expencive to raise above that and this stuff as far as I know eather trivs above 220 or doesnt triv at all. Amateur tradefolk killed the banded and fp market lets not let em do it to this! Just my 2cp worth
Shilox Pally 51 seasons (finnaly AA) master smith 179 (back to the forg for me) master fletcher 171 master berwer 110 aspiring tailor 59
Now there is a rainbow at the end! Been hording a lot of temper ingredients for the earthen temper, now need to hord more different types of ingredients and an astrinomical amount of plat to make this set which is awesome armor! And I do believe it be worth every attempt!
this was for sale for 60k on prexus. My smithing is only 175, so I am going to hav to buy it, but i'm trying to wait til i can find an accurate pc. what are these going for on other servers? What is the cost to make one, assuming no failures?
What you are willing to pay is the only right price. A good deal is when the buyer and seller both think they made a fair trade. I am so tired of hearing people talk as if there is some "absolute" right or wrong value to items.
60k probably isn't that far off of the "right" price. You will, of course, be able to get it cheaper as time goes on, but that's a because of supply/demand and people selling their old gear cheap, not accuracy.
The trivials on these items is over 250. The smith has spent thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of plat just to get to the level to be able to make one of these. Then you get into the costs of the item itself. Takes a bunch of blue diamonds and other assorted high-cost items. THEN factor in the fact that the maker has probably failed 2 or 3 breastplates to the one he's selling you.
Oh, and let's not forget that the stats are comparable to the Velious quest armors.
Honestly, just finding these for sale is going to be a big problem, most of us who can make this new stuff are making sets for ourselves/guildies first, and then may consider making some for the general market. And it won't be cheap, or we just won't make it. It's not like this is a skill up piece, the people making it are grandmasters already.
Well, I sure hope that the smithee has spent over 10s of thousands to increase his skill that high because if he hasn't, and considering one of these costs probably around 10k to make at most (which I highly doubt) he, the seller, will make tons of plat from selling just ONE of these at 60k.
If the cost vs the price sold is anything like alchemy, it probably costs around 25 to 30kpp to make it. You can more than likely expect the market to drop about 10 to 15% also as the pieces become more prominent in the game just as the SoW potions and the Rallic pack(30% drop there if not more) have all done. And also the smithing is NOT a cheap thing to do. Mine is now at 152 and has already run me about 3kpp, and compared to what I have to do to get further that is nothing more than a drop in the bucket. If I ever make it to Grandmaster, I will have lost all track of how much it has cost me, but it's gonna be worth it in the long run. BTW, to smith do't forget you also need brewing up to the mid 130's for your tempers or know a good brewer, but then thats also the fun and easy part).
Skilling up smithing past 175 is a very expensive and time consuming task. Something that will get much worse if/when the trivial reducing patch goes in.
Personally, if I had the money, I would pay 60k for the breastplate. It seems a reasonable price to me, but then it is better than anything I have any reasonable hopes of attaining myself with my reduced play schedule.
Considering that many PCs have platinum in the hundreds of thousands, and that many guilds keep their own coffers as well, it would only stand to reason that, through natural server progression as previously stated, the cost of tradeskill items would eventually skyrocket, to give these players something worthwhile to spend their time and money on if they're tired of just hack 'n' slash. I, for one, am happy to see all the new recipes with the May 8 patch, I only wish I had held on to those precious few blue diamonds I had managed to get my hands on. Those players who barely manage 10 hours per week of gameplay are really going to suffer, though, because they can get stuck in a Catch-22 situation: Can't buy the gear without the money, can't earn the money without the gear (my situation, anyway).