I understand that multiple potions can share reagents, but the prices for the reagents are absurd, and you can’t make a profit by buying reagents, making a potion with them, and then listing that potion on the AH.
So how is it that these reagents are actually selling? Because clearly no one is making a profit from them, and since they’re used for max level potions, you wouldn’t use them to max out your alchemy.
I just don’t get it, why is it done this way? it makes no sense, since people shouldn’t be buying reagents if they’re not going to make a profit off them, and since people looking to make a profit wouldn’t buy such absurdly priced reagents, people wouldn’t make a profit off them either.
I just don’t get it, can someone explain to me how this garbage works?
Mats can be used to make multiple things.
The easy things to make generally do not make profits, because as soon as they are profitable people start to buy the mats + make the stuff and the gap gets closed.
Things that are hard to make (need rare recipe or more complex items) tend to make profits from mats (or at least give you a new item to use).
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Then I guess it’s a matter of figuring out which potions you can make a profit from by buying the mats.
I just did that with faps, ghost dye, and invis pots. Thanks tho.
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its to do with potion master etc, if potion master is a 30% chance to proc, that means you can pay extra for the base material and still profit
technically i’m still waiting for the money to come in, but I listed them at a price that should turn a profit.
You sure that’s a classic era thing?
oh yea its not in era, hmm, are the mats you are using part of a flask?
i read an almost identical post to this like 2 mins ago on the sod forum so i thought i was still there
flasks on era giga inflate anything that’s used to make them
The reason you see some herbs going for more than the potions, is you have two types of alchemists.
The first are self sufficient, they farm all their herbs, based on the current market, they might sell the herbs, potions or both, and sometimes the potions will cost less then the mats, but its all depending on the prices, ultimately they make a profit either way.
The second type is just an alchemist, they buy all their mats, while they obviously could buy the potions cheaper, if they don’t look at both, they could end up paying more, or they simply might be needing to make something that isn’t on the AH, in general they often will only make potions for themselves, or guildies, but in general will make far less options to make gold on the AH unless they are good about sourcing.
This is probably how it should be, the real effort of alchemy is in the herb gathering, it takes zero effort to sit safely in a capital city and hit craft all.
Major mana potions and major healing potions can be farmed by doing solo DMT runs with a hunter. So the prices on those may have little to nothing to do with the mats required since crafting them can be completely circumvented.
The people posting the herbs are not necessarily looking at the price of potions. I sell herbs and rarely look up the price of the potions. I just slightly undercut the lowest stack.
The reverse is true too. Some people probably just look up/buy the herb they need assuming its cheaper, not checking.
Key point being not everyone is making informed/rational decisions with their purchases.
opps the reply was because I was going to say also sometimes you farm the easy herb, or just have the one half of the mats and buy the other half because you need the thing now. Or dont wan’t to go to that zone, or its being farmed etc.
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Which cluster?
On Mankrik cluster the mats for potions/flasks are cheaper than the end product. So we just buy the mats cheap and profit of completion or use.
Whitemane probably has less bots farming low end mats or mankrik’s mat stock is just higher?
