Boots of Flowing Slime  

 

Rare drop eh? Well I see 2 or 3 being sold every week in bazaar. Maybe those who had them are giving them up en mass? They are typically 50 - 60kpp in ooc and trader modes.

Question: How does one actually know that a drop has been nerfed? Does SOE publish a list of "NERFED" items? In the patch message does it say an item gets "NERFED"? Or is it actually people who farm the items spreading rumors that an item is nerfed in order to inflate the price?

I heard Bone Chips got nerfed, and I am selling stacks for 2000pp each! Please send me a /tell so we can deal! :P

The boots still drop normally and the price is holding steady at 50 - 60k. with more people
getting burned out with EQ and leaving the game, and with the expansions released every few months, and with EQ2 comming out later this fall (SOE's statement, not my own), prices are falling on just about every tradable item in the game. Just be patient and get these for 55kpp average price.

If they don't sell for that price on your server, find a server where they do sell for that (Stormhammer being one). Watch the auction channels on other servers and make deals. Here is a secret I use to get REASONABLE prices for items:

On Stormhammer, people there can move their characters from ANY server back and forth from home server to $tormhammer (notice that $ :P) for FREE. So get the channel name and password for $tormhammer's auction channel (auction:lockedup), and make a deal with a seller. Takes a few days to complete the deal, but the money saved is well worth it on many items. Works like this:

You see an Uber item selling on stormhammer for 100k less than your server (yes that happens alot). You send a tell to stormhammer seller asking them to sell you that uber item. Explain that you are on a different server and will offer them a tip for taking the time to create a mule on your server, then transfering that mule up to stormhammer (takes about 2 hours to make the automated transfere up to Stormhammer). Once their mule is on stormhammer, they transfer the item to mule, then petition to have mule returned to your server with item (this can take up to 5 days, 2-4 typically). They then meet you on your server, make the transaction, and then move their mule with cash, back up to stormhammer (again takes about 2 hours). HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

Stormhammer people get the privilage of doing that and not having to pay the $50.00 fee to move characters across servers. Also, there are less than 8,000 people/accounts on $tormhammer. This allows almost all zones to be farmed constantly. It is also not uncommon to goto Rathe Mnts, Grey, UP, SolB, CT, Ssra Temple, ect., and be the only person in the zone! Getting groups sucks on $tormhammer at times if one is not hunting in the "newer" zones. I have bought and sold and will continue to do so in this fashion.

Edited, Thu May 1 13:12:39 2003

No it doesn't. I don't know CT loot all that well, but let's say I'm hunting in Seb. As a pure caster, there's very little loot there for me....especially on the first floor. Should I never get a shot at the vast majority of loot, simply because I'll sell it?

Of course not. I get the loot, I sell it and I buy something else, perhaps boots of flowing slime.

Alternatively should I not have had a roll (and subsequent win) of a Fungus Tunic? IF not, then why would I even bother hunting there?

Hah, that's funny. Breeze is 3 points of mana per tick, clarity is 6, c2 is 12, kei 14.

Flowing thought 3 would equal breeze.

Ohh and they look like leather to me

Some servers such as FV things are not necessarily no drop.

My word! Some dumb info out there. Yes, you can estimate the amount of mana (it isn't exact) you get per minute while *medding* from your meditate skill level, but FT = 1 mana per tic regardless per level. this is why FT items are really not that meaningful for casters, as they are usually (unless a kiting druid/wizzie) sitting for most of fights. FT does far more for hybrids or casters that kite as staning you have a base of 1 mana per tic (outside of clarity/FT/aa abilities), and these boots by them selves quadruple your mana regen while standing if you have nothing else with FT or clarity or mental clarity.