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Some of the LOWER level spells made from these materials fetch 15gp. I think it's a fair price at the moment. If you are a sage however, you'd probably be jumping off a Griffon station shortly.

I would have to agree with the above poster. I do however think that 5g is a good price, but only compared with the recent prices I have seen. Lately they seem to be around the 10-15g range, which is extremely sad to me..

I still believe they should be sold for around 2g a pc.

See this THREAD for my reasoning.

The only reason I make adept 3's now is for myself, and that's only if I find a raw silver or coral myself or see one for a very low price. Until people quit being dumb about raw pricing they won't see any adept 3's made by me. But I will most certainly be stronger than them :-)

I too sell things I'm going to use for personal, not just with rare harvests but anything I plan on using for myself. This is symtomatice of an overall epidemic of crafter greed and ignorance running rampant in the game. Take iron spike for example. I get workshop tasks that require I make 10 items that require Iron Spikes. As a scholar I need to get these from an outfitter as it's a level 10 outfitter recipe. To my surprise the lowest listed price for these was 10s. !!! Then I looked up eolith tempers, the scholar item needed to make the iron spikes... 5sp!! It's really no wonder people are selling things at inflated prices. I'm thinking they make things for their own use and then maybe a couple extra for sale at extremely high prices in case someone really really really wants them.

Rather than spend 1.5GP on a workshop task that would take 2-3 hours to do and only yeild 32sp (oh freakin yay)I actually rolled up a secondary character, levelled him to 10 and turned off combat XP so he can farm artisan recipe books in lowby areas, and made him an outfitter. There, baboom... now I can make iron spikes all freakin day for coppers on the gold. I sold 3 "extra" iron spikes from my new guy (who's name is incidentally "spike" and who has a spiky mohawk) for 3 weeks of rent. I also sold all the extra eolith tempers that were on spike for grossly inflated prices (2sp each which is still a pretty high price, but considering i have to do a shared bank x-fer fair.) So basically, prices are high on things because people plan on using them for personal but figure if people want to pay a premium for them they'll go for it.

The lesson to be learned here is, there's a huge opportunity to make money right now in crafting base materials. If someone wanted to make 5 stacks of 20 eolith tempers they could sell them in one session for 1sp each. They cost: a candle, an iron cluster, and a water to make 4, which comes out to about 3cp for 1sp. That's a huuuuge profit and the demand is enormous. Here's to hoping people stop being stupid. I look forward to the economy normalizing at reasonable prices and the only way this will happen is if people like myself point out the obvious. Go out there and make a bundle people.. by selling at reasonable prices. I shouldn't have to roll up 3 characters to make all my crossclass-subcomponents. I should be able to buy those 10 spikes at 15sp at the very most.

Consider this, the 10 attacks I made and turned in for 32sp to the wholesaler would have sold on the open market for 2gp at a modest 20sp each. What did I get for my 2 hours? (just combine time, not harvesting. etc) I got 32sp and 100 points for my society. Somethings wrong here, and I daresay I don't think SOE should have to adjust the wholesaler payout for workshop tasks. If they do, it will only create inflation, but as it stands it's not practical to do most workshop tasks.

I'm posting this as it's own topic as it turned out quite long.

I hear you when you say don't bother with workshop tasks because it helps those who hurt the economy. I've made it to #1 in my society, so I'll prolly just chill for awhile and rake in some $$. But I won't do it by price goughing, I'll do it by selling at reasonable prices- the demand is so high on certain items right now I'll make a mint just being fair.