I know ... I've heard that from others, too, but I can get less failures and
more money back from NPCs by doing it this way, plus my guildmembers like
those +disease/+ac necklaces :). I love the thrill of making truly new
jewelry with gems I've never worked with before (and probably won't again).
Only four stinkin' levels to go before I can enchant electrum :(
Dietrich
> ----------
> From: Farr, Robert[SMTP:robert.farr@...]
> Reply To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 1:17 PM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Where do I start?
>
> From: "Farr, Robert" <robert.farr@...>
>
> 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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