Palen - Can I place an order? :)

[Lady Shylah]

Well, I finally got stacks of snappers... and I have apples and honey. Not so much on the green tea leaves.

Do you have time to make me some food and drink? I can cover any costs that you might accrue.

[malliner]

Shy,
I think I have a stack of green tea leaves on Mall.. will check and if so, I'll send em to ya.
Mall

[Palen]

Just send the supplies in the mail. I have slowly been getting most of everyones orders taken care of. If you want faster service on food, 2h15min is what you'll get but it's 2 combines so won't make me want to quit the game out of boredom, lol. Drinks, the apple tea is easiest for long duration but still takes a while. Coffee is 36m or 1h35m and takes one or two combines and is quick and easy. Up to you as to what you want.

[Lady Shylah]

The 2.15 food is fine for me. What exactly do you need?

Is there a 2.15 drink? If not, I don't mind the simple 1.35 drink. What exactly do you need?

[Palen]

The food is jerky for the 2h15m duration. I know there's bear and I think it's manticore for the other tier4 jerky. It's easy because everything else you need is bought from the merchant and it's 2 combines for that reason (4 if you make everything but that would be STUPID). Coffee is the same way, everything is purchased from the merchant with the added benefit that coffee beans can usually be bought on the broker for 1-2 silver no matter what tier you are buying from. Sometimes you have to shop at different times to check prices but its better than paying peoples inflated (5-10s/each) prices.

If you do send some tea leaves and apples, I will make some longer duration drinks but I get bored doing those, honestly, and it takes me a bit longer to do them since there are more combines. As of now, I still owe Candu and Maliner 1 stack of apple tea (I haven't forgotten, lol).

What I think all of you need to do is get up to level 40 by the 12th of September (hint, hint). This way I can make tier 5 food/drink and start working on level 60. I will be the first one there (hehehehe). Even if I have to buy all the food supplies, there will be such a HUGE demand for it that I can make back more than enough for my drive to 60 (can you say 4g/drink?).

Oh well, enough kidding, after all we all know provisioners are greedy so it will probably be 5g/drink since we all need 1plat per stack. Just send me what you have, like Malliner did, and I'll figure out what to make. With him, I converted all the meats into bear meat so it would be easier to stack. I may have to do the reverse on you, lol.

[Palen]

BTW, there are 2.5h drinks but they are a pain to make. They are usually the low level alcohol drinks which take 4-5 combines. For that much work, might as well make the tea.

[Candu]

You know Palen. It would be a WHOLE lot easier if you quit being so nice and just gave us a list of things you are willing to make/things that give the most for the least effort kind of stuff. I would have never asked for all the apple tea if I knew it would be a pain. I figure 1 apple, 1 tea leaf presto 1 drink. No idea it took so long.

So, before we all go nuts here just give us a list of easy to make stuff and we'll deal with it

Candu Altings

[Palen]

Making the tea isn't too terribly hard but it's a 4 step process. The problem with food/drink is that as you get into the harder combines, the durability needed to make a pristine increases. Just takes a while. For example, making the 2 steps for jerky including changing recipies takes about 1.5-2 mins total. To make tea which is 4 steps takes about 6-7 mins. Not much of a difference but it adds up when you're doing stacks, lol. Plus, I've been distracted a bit lately with leveling up 5 characters (mainly tradeskills) which just makes me burn out a bit faster.

So, enough complaining, lol. I will get to everyones food/drink sometime soon. If there is something special you want, just give a holler and I'll queue it up with everything else.

[Lady Shylah]

I have all these stacks of fish

Ok...

So, I need:

1. Food-stack of bear meat + coin for combines
2. Drink-stack of t4 coffee beans + coin for combines

?

Heh, I just need the black and white answer as Candu requested.

If you want me to give you a stack of this and that, then i'll get it. I have too many 'ifs' on the list. I just want to know what I need to get you

PS I am lvl 40 ;D

[Palen]

For fish, to make anything other than 1hr duration food, I will also need a corresponding amount of shallots. For bear meat and griffin meat it's a lot simpler. The 2h 15m needs only the meat and merchant spice. Coffe is the same, it requires only merchant materials.

For prices of materials, I can't say 100% what it is since the servers are still down at the time I'm writing this. Here is the rough totals, though

Tier 4 fuel - 55c
water - 6c
milk - 6 or 12c
sugar 6c
spice - 1c

So, for bear jerky the cost would be 1.12 silver to make
For creamed coffee it would be 1.28 or 1.34 silver

For all of you that are level 40 or above, as I suggested to Shylah in game, stick with the tier 4 food/drinks for a few levels. Benefits are capped by your level and you will only gain a couple of points more per tick with tier 5 items. IMO it's not worth the almost increase in cost. Tier 5 items generally sell for at least 2-3 times more than tier 4 on the broker and actual creation cost is about 4x more than tier 4 items. My recomendation for switching over to tier 5 would be about level 43 or 44 to see any significant benefit.

Start collecting tier 5 items, though. In one month, when the expansion comes out, I'll be crafting like crazy again. If you want anything without having to wait more than a few hours, that will be the best time to get it because I will definately be a bit burned out by the time I ding 60.

[zabia]

Hey Palen,
I could use some rolled oat milk. I have a level 33 provisioner who needs it to make a recipe in her book. There is this annoying recipe for wild apple milk that I can't make because I can't make the milk part. I could help it along on number of combines for you by makeing the rolled oat malt ahead of time.

Zabia

[zabia]

The more I think about I don't really need the milk. I am not sure but I get the recipe at level 34 I think. So I will just have to get there by making other things.


Zabia

[Lady Shylah]

Thanks Palen!

I sent you an ingame email with supplies and money. Let me know if you need more of either!

Zabia: sounds like you have a lot of stout artisans

[Palen]

Yes, you get it at lvl 34, Zabia.

Here's a good link for those of you who don't know about it yet. It is very helpful since it has all the recipies and you can sort by level, class, skill, book, etc. along with a lot of the finished products. It is also very useful when you are looking to see what recipies you will be getting in the next level or two. Just look up the book and it will tell you all the recipies along with how many of each fuel, wash, temper, etc. that you need to craft every recipie in that book.

eq2craft.computersims.com/

Last night, while perusing the forums, I came across a stat chart for chain/plate armor for all the crafted items. I will either link the post or the image with the stats here sometime soon. Why it is an image instead of text or anything else, I don't know. It is informative, though.