Xbox One Black-smithing raw material

MaxwellC

I'm looking for guild stores that sell a lot of black smithing raw material at reasonable values. If anyone know of guilds that sell a lot of them that would be a big help as I am gunning for the refining achievement, which requires I refine 180 more raw material.

MaxwellC

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helediron

Raw mats are expensive because they have a chance to drop legendary improvements. Better to go out and farm them.

MaxwellC

I know that but the prices on consoles are outrageous for the most part, a good example would be someone trying to sell 17 calcinium for 10k. I attempt to buy those that are priced at reasonable rates like I found one seller who was selling 100 galatite for 4.5k.

ReXu_Recon

I sell 200 galatite ingots for 2,400...

MaxwellC

nah I'm only interested in raw materials but thanks anyway.

MaxwellC

Anyone else know any guild traders where I can buy loads of raw materials for a decent price? I'm pretty close to 300 (150/300) so I'll need 1500 raw materials of any crafting material from black smithing, wood crafting, or leather works.

Nestor

I would never consider what Raw Mats sell for to be a reasonable price. They are always going to be about 5 to 10 times what the refined sells for. The only thing you can do is hunt all the kiosks and hope. I have seen maybe 3 listings at a bargain price in my travels on the PC.

It would take you less time to farm 1500 ingredients than to find bargains in the Guild Stores.

Oh, that Achievement your chasing, you don't get the dye until you have 3000 Refining Operations. On my master Clothier/Wood Worker who has refined every cloth, leather and wood material any of my 8 characters has farmed, still does not have that dye unlocked. And, she has been doing this since one month after PC Release. My Blacksmither will never get this one.

MaxwellC

The birch white dye unlocks at 300 raw material refines which is like you said 3000 refining operations; I'm currently almost half way there assuming you're saying that you have to refine 300 black smith material to unlock said dye instead of refining any material, if that's the case I don't think that to be true.
My reasoning is because I've been checking everytime I refined something in large quantities, how close I was from 300.

I should also mention I'm playing on the console version (XB1) so it could differ from PC.

Nestor

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

The birch white dye unlocks at 300 raw material refines which is like you said 3000 refining operations;

You have it backwards, 300 Refining Operations requires 3000 materials. This covers all materials, cloth, leather, wood and metal.

I forgot this is one of the things in the game that has dyes at interim steps. There are not many of them. Most of the time you get a smattering of points until you finally get the dye. There is another dye that unlocks at 3000 Refining Operations (30,000 raw materials), I did check this stat this morning, and my crafter is at 2571 operations and there is a Silver dye to unlock when I get her there. I think the other dye is at either 1000 or 1500 operations, but there are 3 dyes for this one.

Now, here is a trick and you will help two achievements at the same time (and your leveling skills, character, and getting loot and gold) More Bang for the Buck than you can shake a stick at.

Go find Mudcrab Clusters and kill them. They drop hides. I can run the West Coast of Grahtwood from Southpoint to where you can't walk north anymore and kill 80 mudcrabs, each dropping leather. Port back the WS at Southpoint and repeat the path. You will also work on one of the harder to get Nature Slayer achievement parts as Mudcrabs go docile after a while so you tend not to kill them. But, you need 500 to get part of the NS Achievement.

There are other places like this in other zones where there are clusters of mudcrabs. Then there are wolves, they are squishy and drop hides. Anyway, a couple of hours, you will have more gold and loot than you know what to do with, several skills leveled, and all raw mats you need to get the dye you want.

LordDovakhiin

If your in Daggerfall on Xbox one I can probably help you out, I constantly farm ore Anything from dwarven to void stone. I sell a lot in the guild stores in Daggerfall and to my friends. You can message me on xb1 if you want, I'll be on later today. I farm during the after noon til very late at night. My gamer tag is xOGxMeDiCaTeDx

MaxwellC

That's what I do normally I just go find mudcrabs and kill them since they drop them almost every kill.