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how many uo banks did you hold up to afford d'em goodies!!
i love that collection
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Hehe, this was the result of buying/looting/selling/trading for the past 10+ years. Mind you I started out like everyone else with 1 item. It was an open book I bought on Pacific back in 1998 for 30k from an player named Greyson. I had a choice of either buying a silver vanquishing broadsword or the open book. Hehe I guess the book won.
Now that you brought this up, actually I would love to hear how people got started in this business. What was your first item? What made you started collecting rares? Was there an influence? Did you have a mentor etc..
I think this would be a positive thing for this board and people would enjoy instead of all the recent rants about dupped items.
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My first year or so was spent actually 'playing' the game. Gaining skills by killing monsters, attending guild hunts and so on. I was by no means rich.
Then one day I managed to buy a glacial staff for 5k at wbb. Sold it the day after at wbb again for 20k. I made 15k, which normally would have taken me days, in about 5 minutes of work. So I figured, why bother killing monsters and why not trade? So the next few days I spent at wbb, admiring people in full Phoenix (a guy called 'Mandrake had the set. He used to be big trader on EU) and trading. I made a few hundred k in a matter of weeks. That amount grew and grew until I had a castle and a keep and a LT, pretty full of rares. Also I finally managed to get the item I had been wanting since I saw the guy at wbb.. A full phoenix set.
Mind you, this was pre xsharding and pre global economy. Some of the newer players might not realise this, but the economy used to be WAY different. An item could be worth 1m on 1 shard and 25m on the other. For example on Europa I owned 2 ploughs (bought them for a few million) and a knitting (again for a few million). These kinda items were relatively common on EU. While nowadays those items have been distributed over all shards, and people that wanted one just xsharded one out of EU. The best example of this is donuts. Those were VERY common on LS due to an event and very rare on other shards. LS they were 100k, EU millions. Nowadays there's a global price for donuts.
Anyway, I kept trading until I got bored with the small EU economy. I had owned pretty much every item that was 'available' on EU. If a new item popped up a couple of big traders jumped on it and kept reselling it back and forth until someone kept it for their collection.
After a while I had enough of it and stopped trading for the most part and just gave stuff away to friends. I had always been generous, but after a while it was all I did.
I quit after they ruined neon hair, vases, open books, pots and several other rares in span of 1.5 months after about a year of no changes.
Until I returned a while ago
. I took off where I left and was finally able to buy some of the items I really wanted back then. Full marble table, 2 story statue , more event items and so on.
As for my first real rare.. It was true black blessed sandals. I still have them and wear them on my main char.