I *love* looking at armor, so I started looking at some of the Rt stuff, and I was completely shocked at how expensive some of it was, particularly the Seitung.
Here's one example I tried last night:
Rt Canthan 15k, all 5 pieces:
400 cloth = 6400
40 ink = 11200
+ 75,000 to craft
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86,200 gold
Seitung 1.5k, all 5 pieces:
Monstrous claws: 35,200
Hide: 3,400
+ 7500 to craft
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46,100 gold
Now, the 15k price is reasonable - I can deal with it being high because it's 15k. But let's take the 15k and the 1.5k out of the picture, and just compare materials. Canthan 15k costs 11,200 in materials. Seitung 1.5k on the other hand costs 38,600 in materials.
This is all based on the trader rates, of course, because it was the best baseline I had. And my numbers could be flawed for all I know, but offhand, it looks pretty off here.
I kinda wonder if monstrous claws are supposed to be more common than they are or something, but it's not just that. Shing Jea seems to be decent, but it's not like most people when they're that early in the game have leather squares falling out their butt (and if they do, I want to talk to them and work on the movie rights).
Has anyone else noticed this, or am I crazy?
(well yeah I'm crazy but... yeah anyway you know what I mean)
And while we're here, anyone have any good thoughts on where to snag some claws?
-Eli/Kel
And I've stored up a lot of silk already.
