Scrapper`s Compendium and Taint

[MYUO]

Is crafting scrapper for sale still a viable trade? It seems that at 120 magery, 50% or more scrappers I made are regular ones (no extra mods). No one wants them even at prices of 1 taint (scrapper cost 10 taints, 10 corruption, 1 trav eye, and some scrolls).
The other 40% scrappers I made have mods like intel +5, eval +9 etc. which may be sold slowly for the cost of 4-5 taints.
Among the rest of 10% scrappers, some may let me break even on the material that was used for that particlular one. If I can not come up one with 15%LRC, I will sure lose gold over all.
That is a tough business.

I am surprised that the price for taint is still that high. Maybe most of scrapper crafters don't worry about profit. I have used ~400 taint for scrappers. So far, I am not sure I break even.

 

[UO Relic]

Viable trade hmm probably not, Scrappers with no mods are a hard sell since most of us have them now. Scrappers with low end crappy mods sell slow and for little profit.

But a Scrappers with high LRC or decent Slayer w/mods attached can still fetch over a Mil, what your really shooting for is a Superslayer Scrappers they are very rare and seen them sell for over 100M and really if you got 1 wouldnt you keep it lol

 

[Connor_Graham]

First, Scrapper's uses a Dread Horn mane, not an Eye of Travesty lol. What you might want to try to do is equip the Tome of Lost Knowledge for the +15 Magery, along with a +15 Ring/Brace (the Crystalline Ring would be even better if you have one). The higher your Magery, the better your chance of making a Scrapper's with at least one mod on it. I've tried both with and without all of the extra Magery and have seen a marked improvement in the number I can make with Mods.

Then there's always the off chance of making a super slayer Scrapper's. All except the Demon slayer sell for minimum of 50mil, with a Demon slayer selling for anywhere from 60-100mil. Even an Ogre slayer or something along those lines will fetch several mil, and an LRC one can get you 15mil or more.

 

[von Beck]

Connor: are you suggesting that equipping +magery items would be helpful even if the crafter already has a real magery skill of 120?

 

[Radun]

It's not that good for making money... people keep making them because they want to make demon and undead ones... selling the other ones is just a way to recoup some of the cost on your way to making the ones you really wanted.

 

[MYUO]

It would be nice to have a turn in system for player crafted arties, including the scrapper. It will encourage players to continue to hunt and craft.