Tailor Archive

Normally I would never have problems buying stacks of 1000 hides (non-wolly) for 3000 credits ... often times less. Usually lots of posts on the bazaar at this price.

But these past 2 weeks,I rarely see 1000 hide stacks for sale and what is for sale is creeping up to 5+ credit a hide.

Is this a Starsider only phenomenon or is this starting to happen elsewhere?

I see it on Gorath as well. Not sure if people are running more faction missions. Maybemore people are trading amongst each other and not using thebazzars terminals in town for large stacks of hides?

it is happeningon radiant too.... more and more ppl are mastering in their professions, and dont need to get hides any more... they tend to just do missions that provide more cash.. and no hides.....

They also reduced the # of hides that drop, to make up for the fact that multiple scouts can harvest the same dead critter. I definitely noticed a drop when I was grinding towards bio-engineer with my 2nd account.

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Indeed. I can't find anything over 400 hides on Valcyn, and they are charging me 2500! 2500 for 400 hides is out of this world, so now I have to charge like 800 for a pair of Uniform Boots. God, this is killing my business.

Un-nerf the damned missions so I can get my customers back!

harvesting was nerfed badly. I can only manage to harvest about half of what I did before the patch. That is the main problem.

I see this problem on eclipse too. Rarely are there large stacks of hides for sale and when there are...the idiot has made it an auction. I recently bought eight 500stacks of hide for 2000 a piece. Thats about as high as I'll go. The next day I noticed the guy who sold them had the same thing up again, only this time 3000 creds for a 500 stack. Silly. Also, I don't know why folks continue to put stack under 100 on the Bazaar. Who's gonna buy these? I want bulkof one hide, not 15 boxes of hide that I have to sort through when I craft.

If multiple scouts can harvest it might not be so bad! Ask if you can come along with a hunting party and harvest too... All you need is novice scout... This is especially fruitful if you're going with someone that is collecting hides for you anyway =) If you have medicoffer to heal etc...

Happening on Bloodfin as well. I got lucky yesterday and bought 950 for around 200c. Everything else I see is in the range of 500 for 3000 and some cases more. Doesn't look good.

oops, i meant 2000c lol. WOW i wish i could get it for 200

hide availability is drying up not only because people are mastering their professions, but rangers use hides liberaly to make their camoflage packs. Its even getting tough on the test center.

Is this something the we, as tailors, should be worried about ... and express as concern to the Devs?

Or do we just raise our prices (assuming you can if there is no low-baller tailor in your neighborhood)?

I am on starsider and yes Ive seen it too. In fact, I see a glut of entries on the bazaar like '' bristley hide 6 units - 500 cr'' or ''scaley hide 54 units- 1500 cr''. Now, you might think the servers were having problems producing hides. Of course, I asked a hunter friend to gather some for me and he managed about 3000 units of very fine hide in one afternoon with only the basic hunting skill. So, my friends, what we have here is a conspiracy to up the prices of hides, it would seem. If not a purposeful conspiracy then an accidental one. I.e. one person starts uppping the per unit price and lower the total units, and the next sees this as a goldmine and does it worse and so on, creating a chain reaction across the bazaar. This sort of thing is not uncommon. However, rest assured, there is no shortage and if you are paying the astronomical prices...you are being had.