Aqua Regia  

 

Both items needed to make this are sold by Eric Rasumus in POK. He's a research vendor in the Southern Tradeskill Area.

I've been buying aqua regia because I'm tired of so many combines needed for spell research but I finally looked up the prices of the parts to see if it was any real savings to craft it myself.

It's big big savings! It costs about 10pp if you make it yourself.

Most ingrediants to make it are single, but the vial of pure water makes 5 and takes 4 water, 5 empty vials and 1 gnomish heat source, so I end up with fractions for parts for 1 Aqua Regia.


To make 1 Aqua Regia it takes:
bought:
3 and 2/5th Gnomish heat source
1 rock salt (from fine salt)
1 and 3/5th water
2 empty vial

Dropped:
2 crystalized sulfur
3 saltpeter


On a massive scale if you've collected 100 crystalized sulfur you need:

100 Crystalized sulfur
50 rock salt
170 gnomish heat sources
150 saltpeter
80 water
100 empty vials

The combines to make 1 Aqua Regia are:
1. Vial of pure water (makes 5, you need two)
2. Oil of Vitrol (make it twice)
3. Rock salt
4. Aqua Fortis
5. Vial of Muriatic Acid
6. Aqua Regia



It takes 3 saltpeter to make one Aqua Regia, so 2/3rds of your supply will be used to make Oil of Vitrol. The other third is in the Aqua Fortis. So make all your Oil of Vitrol up front with that 2/3rds of your supply


the empty vial and dirty empty vial you end up with can be tossed. They just take up inventory space. You can recycle them, but I don't.

Crystalized sulfur drops in many zones. Probably 30 and 40s level mobs are the best is my guess.

Saltpeter drops mostly from mechanical mobs and not counting the high end mobs that means Plane of Innovaton and Corathus Creep.

For my gnome, he also collects Steel Ball bearing and Coiled springs while he's in PoI.



edit: numbers were changed to protect the reputation of druid mathematicians.

edit: While I prefer to make it all myself you can buy parts or all of it
1. Aqua regia entirely storebought is 152 pp
2. If you buy aqua fortis it's 74pp
3. The other half, Vial of muriatic acid is 78 pp

and pretty much no resale value to merchants for these 3. (3-4 pp)



Edited, Mar 24th 2011 5:59pm by morromid

Yield is 1 per combine /kry