[Selling] New Weapon Vendor: Tell me what you want.

[Eric Ravenwind]

I'm going to be starting a new vendor soon & I'd like to get some feedback on what to stock. I plan on selling suits, but I'd really like to hear what weapons people want to buy. I don't plan on making any Max Property weapons for the general store (just for custom jobs), just property levels that don't require the special ingredients.

Please list:
- Weapon Type (Dagger, Double Axe, etc)
- Item Properties (SSI, DI, etc)

Thanks in advance for the feedback.

 

[Sargatanza]

Need super powerfull and lethal weapons, greate armors and a lightsaber please Aa, and Boolean detector!

 

[FrejaSP]

You forgot a Boolean slayer weapon

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

I could use some more feedback on this, please.

 

[calaman]

I'm looking for a bokuto with 70 lighting on it

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

I'm looking for a bokuto with 70 lighting on it

I can't do that; the highest it will imbue to is 50%. What other weapons and properties do people need?

 

[Max Blackoak]

I can't do that; the highest it will imbue to is 50%. What other weapons and properties do people need?

well you might want to look into runic reforging then...

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

well you might want to look into runic reforging then...

Ahh, ok. I don't know much (if anything at all) about reforging.

That would be a custom job still. I'm looking for ideas on types of weapons and basic properties; not maxed out stuff. Weapons that can hold their own, but still be cheap enough to replace in case their lost.

 

[Max Blackoak]

That would be a custom job still.

Custom job for sure, but I can guarantee you that clean Bokutos with 70% hit lightning on them will sell for a lot of gold. Don't imbue anything else on them since people's requirements differ too much, just reforge the 70 hit lightning and sell the weapon like that so they can imbue and enhance according to their needs.

The same goes for clean 40 SSI composite bows or double strike weapons with 100% elemental damage (other than physical). They will sell for sure!

I'm looking for ideas on types of weapons and basic properties; not maxed out stuff. Weapons that can hold their own, but still be cheap enough to replace in case their lost.

Will be hard to provide those because people have different suits and thus need completely different mods on their weapons, even on throwaways.

There are some general rules of thumb though but they're not nearly enough to narrow it down to something that people will definately buy on a regular basis:

PvM weapons absolutely need mana leech as high as possible and should have either double strike or armor ignore as special move. feint is also a nice special move to have. This basically limits your choice of weapons for PvM. Everything else on PvM weapons very much depends on the template and suit a character is running and the monster he wants to kill, so it's hard to generalize.

PvP weapons shouldn't waste any imbuing slots on mods like leeches (don't work well in PvP) and preferably have two special moves that make sense in PvP, but here it's even harder to tell what people want exactly...

I am assuming you never really played a dexxer in PvP or PvM against high end content, correct?

 

[Max Blackoak]

edited my post a little to add more info

 

[Lord Frodo]

Considering how hard it is to get resources on SP this could cost you way more than what you will make.
Reforging is a hit and miss and then people will want enhancement which will add another huge chunks of gold.
Making custom gear on prodo shards is hard enough but trying it on SP i don't know.

 

[Max Blackoak]

Considering how hard it is to get resources on SP this could cost you way more than what you will make.

well he could (and actually should) add all the resources needed to the bill. I am sure some people would be happy to pay big money for a clean 40 SSI composite or a clean 70% hit lightning bokuto just so they won't have to do alle the ressource and BOD collecting, bribing, crafting, turning in and reforging themselves.

... and then people will want enhancement which will add another huge chunks of gold.
Making custom gear on prodo shards is hard enough but trying it on SP i don't know.

That's exactly the point I've been trying to make: do not enhance or imbue the reforged item. Just sell the clean overcapped reforged item and let them do the PoF-ing, imbuing and enhancing themselves so they get exactly what they want. Those last two steps are really not the problem for the customers (unless they don't have imbuing), the reforging part is because it involves a lot of extra work and time.

What I'm saying is basically there are three ways to reliably sell weapons to players on Siege:

either sell the clean gm crafted weapon (not really a moneymaker),

or sell a gm made weapon that has been reforged for (desireable) clean overcapped mods like mentioned above (could rake you in good money if you get lucky with reforging a lot and if you can find wealthy customers wanting to invest money rather than time on a regular basis),

or sell custom made weapon where your customer tells you exactly what he wants (can make you some nice money if you can find wealthy customers wanting to invest money rather than time on a regular basis).

Everything else is a hit and miss game that will for the most part end with a miss...

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

I've played a PvM sampire on GL with all imbued gear & he does ok, not great but...

My main weapon choice is a double axe with SSI, HCI, HLL, HML, DI. Or, a double axe with a slayer property + HCI, SSI, HLL, HML or DI.

My archer uses repeating crossbows and magical shortbows: DI, HCI, SSI, HML, Hit Lightning or slayer.

 

[Lord Frodo]

This is SP not GL