Truthfully you should have started with electrum/malachite as soon as
silver/jade was trivial. At a skill of 38 I had about a 50% success rate
with electrum/malachite which was cheaper than a 70% success rate with
silver/pearl. You can continue with electrum/malachite all the way to the
mid 70's.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lori Martin [SMTP:LMartin@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:59 AM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Where do I start?
>
> Yes, I too noticed at least with high level gems that a 5 gold or so
> profit could be made by selling back to the vendor an enchanted silver
> piece of jewelry. Does not help much if you fail, but still beats losing
> money on those items that don't sell well (at least not for what they are
> worth) but are helpful for raising skill (like silver pearl rings and
> such). I'm almost to opal and am about to switch over to electrum (even
> though I can't enchant it yet). Wish me luck ... I'll need it!
>
> Dietrich of Neriak
> Struggling jeweler
>
>
> ----------
> From: Michael O'Reilly[SMTP:michael@...]
> Reply To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:37 AM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Where do I start?
>
> From: Michael O'Reilly <michael@...>
>
> I got different results than this. While working on jewelcraft last
> night, making electrum malachite, I found that the merchant would buy
> back unenchanted bracelets for about 2cp below component cost and
> enchanted bracelets for about 1gp above component cost.
>
> I decided that it was still better not to enchant the metal, since I
> was
> making about a hundred of them, and waiting on mana made things much
> slower. Regardless, if you have a lot of time on your hands, and money
> is an issue, it might be worthwhile to enchant the metal when
> practicing.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catherine M. Campbell
> [ <mailto:cathyc@...>]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 8:25 AM
>
> Just a note that enchanting the silver does not
> alter
> the price you will
> get at a merchant for your jewellery. Note that the
> merchant might sell
> the item to a player for less than you would sell it to
> them (i.e. the cost
> of a non enchanted item).
>
> When you're improving your skill and just intending
> to
> sell back the
> jewellery, you should try to not enchant the metal.
> When you're making
> jewellery to order, then go ahead and enchant away.
>
> Nimue
> Tunare
>
> According to the illustrious Paul Bernat...
> :)From: "Paul Bernat" <pz.bernat@...>
> <snip>
> :)Enchanting the bars beforehand seems to make no
> difference to the success /
> :)failure rate, although it can increase the NPC sale
> value of your goods.
> :)
>
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