Deluxe Sewing Kit  

 

You're little off there, it's a silk cord and a grizzly bear skin. Also, I'm not certain, but I believe it only holds small items, as the purpose to combine those little alchemy potions together.

i just wish verant had left well enough alone.

i had outfitted all my characters with 8 slot large sewing kits because of the low weight. they changed them to 10 slot and i said "cool". then they just changed them all deluxe kits with a weight of 4. now all my characters are encumbered! i don't rally care about the extra 2 slots per kit (except maybe in the bank) i just wanted the low weight. now i have to go trade out all the one's on my characters for the low weight ones again. this is kind of a pain for me since my main characters are dark elves and they can't buy the stupid things.

USE YOUR BRAIN VERANT!

Here's the straight scoop on the deluxe sewing kits from the May 30, 2001, patch message and the subsequent clarifications from Alan (Absor).
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5/30/01 Patch Message - "Sewing Kits: No existing sewing kits are being changed with this patch. But from now on, kits sold on vendors will be somewhat different. Large Sewing Kits will have 8 slots. Deluxe Sewing Kits will have 10 slots and weight slightly more than the Large Sewing Kit."

Absor - "The intent of the change was to keep the ten slot kits so that people wouldn't lose things, but to make them less desirable for carrying things. The cleanest way to do that was to rename the old kits to deluxe (and increase their weight) and to make new large kits for sale on vendors. So the 10 slot ones can't be purchased anymore, and the 'large' kit is reduced to 8 slots."
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So the existing large sewing kits held by players on 5/30/01 were converted to "Deluxe Sewing Kits" and the vendor sold sewing kits are all back to no more than 8 slots. Unless they change this at some future time the currently existing 10 slot Deluxe Sewing Kits will remain the only portable, 10 slot sewing kits for general, non-cultural use in the game.

If you want one of these you will need to find somebody who has an extra one with which they are willing to part. The alternative is to use the new 10-slot looms that are found in each of the starting cities in Norrath when you need to sew a non-cultural item that requires more than 8 slots.

I went through a week of smithing for the express purpose of getting my skill up high enough to make a Fier'Dal sewing kit (wood elf) because I had heard they were 10 slot and still weight 0.4. Well, I finally made one, but their weight was nerfed along with the other kits. It now weighs 4 stone and has 10 slots, but is definitely obtainable in GFay...

Nathtier Silverthorn
49th Druid of Xegony

Verant purposely does not have these on Vendors.

1) Removes the profitability of 10 slot backpacks
2) The same time they renamed them to Deluxe, they added the stationary looms which have 10 slots
3) Tailoring is not a purchasable skill (ie all other trade skills anyone can raise given enough money, tailoring requires obtaining many drops from tough mobs) and the high end items made for it make it worth the effort to the select few.

there are three wu's items that require nine components, tunic, cloak, and pants. and yeah, verant blew it on this one. they wanted to fill in the skill gap for tailors so they introduced wu's, and since three of the items require nine components, they upped the slots of the large kit. They did overlook the fact that they made 10 slot backpacks unprofitable, and after being petitioned by every master tailor who lost the only profitable tailoring item (the only good one anyway), they corrected the mistake by creating the deluxe sewing kit as a fix, only they had to do it quick before the market reaction got too big, and they didn't have time to add the deluxe to any merchants. (this is all opinion, but think about it) I will bet a full set of wu's that the next major patch will find a merchant or two or ten selling the deluxe sewing kits.

There are two known recipes that take 9 items (Wu's fighting tunic and imbued vale studded tunic). The vale tunic has to be made in a special sewing kit that only halflings can use. There are stationary sewing kits in towns, like forges. They looks like white looms, click on the top bar to activate them (maybe other places u can click too).

Want a 10-slot container for bank? Go to the igloos in Iceclad Ocean to buy a deluxe toolbox. Can't go to velious? Get 2 small pieces of HQ ore (the stacking kind, drops in Runnyeye) and find a halfling smith in Rivervale to make a special "vale sewing kit."

Personally, I believe that the disappearance from the stores of the "deluxe sewing kit" was a blunder by Verant. It should be obtainable at some location, maybe hard to get to, like the igloos in Iceclad Ocean, or the brownie camp in Lesser Faydark. It should not have been fouled up like this for future tailors.

There is no vendor in East or West Cabilis that carries these. I should have gotten more before the patch, and during the short 10-slot time

Bosek Wyrmrider
Seventh Hammer