http://elanthipedia.org/w/index.php/Crafting_Materials#Rare_Metals

People will buy pretty much anything off the rare metals list. Silver might also be something people will buy for work orders.

The ones that are really marketable are glaes, kertig, haralun, lumium, damite, gold, and plat. I'm sure you could find someone to buy any of the other materials on that list if you tried hard enough.

You can sell them in raw form, but I believe you will get more for 99% quality ingots. You lose material when making purified ingots though, so I would base that decision off how much material you have to sell.

Generally speaking, smiths who buy metals in large quantities don't care if it is 99% pure, just that it's in ingot form for sake of simple storage.

You will always have buyers for the super rares (kertig, haralun, damite, glaes). Likewise lumium, plat, and gold. I personally keep a stock of darkstone for forging brawling gear but never buy it. I've sometimes found buyers for the random odd metals (niniam, electrum, animite, etc.) buy not with any regularity. I mine those out when I see them if there's nothing better to mine.

>>Why are people obsessed with darkstone as a weapon material? It's mediocre at best.

It's pretty much the same stats as midsteel for weapons, easier to forge with than bronze, and sounds cooler.

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>>Considering brawling weapons don't take damage, why would you use anything less than high carbon steel?

If theyre making it in darkstone it's because they don't have the skill to do it in HC steel yet.

>>Why are people obsessed with darkstone as a weapon material? It's mediocre at best.

Well, in my case when I saw darkstone knuckles for the first time, they appraised at "a lot" of impact damage. I couldn't find any info on brawling gear appraisal ranges and so I assumed that "a lot" was a new and better range than others I'd seen.

Of course, I didn't realize that brawling gear appraisals are buggy. It could be that other people, those who don't read the boards carefully, made the same mistake I did.


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>>Because customers ask for it, even when I tell them high carbon steel is better. So I sells it to 'em.

There's definitely something about darkstone brawling weapons specifically. I've heard from a few people a while back who paid 200+ plats for darkstone brawling gear because they were told it was way better than steel brawling gear, and the brawling appraisals were so confusing and unclear that they fell for the scam. I never did find out for certain who was pulling the scam so I don't want to name any names, but that's my bet on why so many people have this idea that darkstone brawling gear is so good.

There is also the legitimate reason to make darkstone hand claws, since those are quite difficult to make in High C Steel that many crafters might opt for darkstone instead. So that could also be part of it.

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Because darkstone sounds/looks cool.

I made/bought darkstone weapons for my young necro and moonmage because they're young and weapon terts. Could probably lock weapons just parrying.

But even if I were to use that darkstone scythe on my main WM, I bet it would still kill stuff. And I'm pretty positive I'd still mindlock halberds.

OMG GUYS GET THIS. People used to gasp train and even mind lock WITH MILGRYM WEAPONS. THE HORROR!

All snark aside though, people play the game for different reasons. Some people want to play text barbie and have weapons that sound cool and still perform well, despite having stats that aren't the absolute best possible.

>All snark aside though, people play the game for different reasons. Some people want to play text barbie and have weapons that sound cool and still perform well, despite having stats that aren't the absolute best possible.

That's cute. And in reality most people simply want to buy the best gear and then either get t altered or flat don't care.

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The optimist in me is hoping that workability will be the major factor in determining if an item can be enchanted. That way your +10 flamesword will have to be made out of darkstone, not out of kertig or high carbon steel.

Abison/Rystien

>>I would imagine that workability is going to remain as the stat that determines if something is hard or easy to craft with, not how well it functions as an X.

So then you are agreeing with me then? Because enchanting is crafting. So having a minimum workability for something to be enchanted fits with how hard or easy it is to work with.

Abison/Rystien

I thought the idea was that the more worked a material was, the less suitable it would be for enchanting purposes.

>>I thought the idea was that the more worked a material was, the less suitable it would be for enchanting purposes.

My understanding is that they'll be some correlation between hardness and "enchantment stat." So a metal with high hardness (like kertig, haralun, etc) will most likely have a shoddy "enchantment stat," preventing you from having a weapon with very heavy slice (or whatever) and very heavy fire damage, for example.

But this is going to be unrelated to workability. Workability is most likely always going to boil down to the ease in which you can turn X into Y. Maybe they'll be a "physical realm" workability and "magical realm" workability, who knows, but I can't imagine workability ever being used for more than being able to determine crafting difficulty.

>>I think niniam, electrum, animite, etc are likely going to be "good" for enchanting, when it eventually goes live.

Definitely niniam, maybe electrum (I'm basing this more on things like those shapeshift medallions, though), not so sure about animite (I think this is always going to just be uber-decorative, but I could be wrong!). I would also add orichalcum to the list of definite enchanting metals, possibly to the same scale as tyrium is for physical property stuff. At least that's what I tell myself as I stare at my 20 volumes of it and wring my hands, cackling like a loon.

I'm also wondering if tin/zinc/copper are going to have any place in enchanting as the bronze/steel-quality options.

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