Finding Rare Item Collectors

doomette

So I have an unbound pre-Tamriel One BoE dungeon piece, a Viper Sting belt (divines). The set may be meh now, but I’ve been told that there are collectors out there who will pay quite a bit for rare stuff like that. Is that true? Nobody I’ve talked to knows anything concrete about them, just vague assertions that they are out there.

If it’s true, and I wanted to cash in on my, well, gear hoarding ways, how would I shop my piece around?

Alienoutlaw

if you have a guild store and TTC you could try listing it for X amount see who bites, that or link it in Zones chats
pretty sure as the set still drops it wont matter how old it is any changes made to the set will have updated on the piece you have, so may not be worth as much as you think

doomette

XBox pleb, so no addons

I don’t even know how much I’d list it for. I guess I can just do a quick search for any Vipers Sting pieces whenever I stop by a trader.
As far as zone chat, considering how many lowballers there are spamming chat, I’m not entirely sure it’s a trustworthy source

Alienoutlaw

vipers sting is a dungeon set from Fungal if im not mistaken so not sure you could even sell it

doomette

It is now, but before Tamriel One, it was a BoE set.

ProfessorKittyhawk

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

vipers sting is a dungeon set from Fungal if im not mistaken so not sure you could even sell it

He said it was a Bind on Equip version from before One Tamriel. Some sets that were originally overland (like the Warlock set) eventually became dungeon sets. If you had one of these from before they became dungeon sets (thus bind on pickup) then you would be able to sell them or give them to other people as long as you hadn't worn it yet.

preevious

On PC EU, I found a fair bit of these unbound dungeon gear.
I sold them between 30-50k with relative ease.

Saucy_Jack

I still have a face mask and encasement of anguish lying around somewhere..

Taleof2Cities

Same here ... still have a few Worm pieces from pre-One Tamriel that are BoE.

GusTheWizard

I have a worm Necklace that’s still BoE. I think it’s just cool to have, I’m not sure those type of items would sell for much just because they’re very easy to get.

Minnesinger

I have a piece of Shroud of lich when it dropped from Cyrodiil. It is named set piece.

Kalante

aaah back then when you could sell viper sting. If its a bind on equip and non deconstructive then yeah its pretty rare. I destroyed all of them even before the proc nerf because I saw them as crutches. Haha procs were pure cancer in pvp. You could get killed by any noob running three procs if all othem went off at once. But now we got an even bigger problem, cyrodiil doesn't even work properly anymore. At least back then my light attacks registered.

doomette

I’ll probably never sell it, but I’m just going to pretend I have a nice little nest egg just in case I come across a rich and eccentric collector.
A girl’s (ahem, Prof ) gotta dream.

Cavedog

I've never heard of anyone buying an heirloom version of an item just because it's an heirloom....I'm sure it's happened, but I think the vast majority of the time people only buy what they can use. The only reason these items are worth so much is because they are not BoP and people would normally have to farm for them.

redspecter23

Not sure how much value there is in a viper sting belt, even unbound. It is still available in game in a very slightly different form and is very easy to farm. Now if you had something like a Viper bow stashed away, that could be worth a significant amount as it's no longer available in any form.

Nordic__Knights

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

if you have a guild store and TTC you could try listing it for X amount see who bites, that or link it in Zones chats
pretty sure as the set still drops it wont matter how old it is any changes made to the set will have updated on the piece you have, so may not be worth as much as you think

Once he pulls it from guild bank it will bind to him unfortunately

Nordic__Knights

ProfessorKittyhawk wrote: »

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

vipers sting is a dungeon set from Fungal if im not mistaken so not sure you could even sell it

He said it was a Bind on Equip version from before One Tamriel. Some sets that were originally overland (like the Warlock set) eventually became dungeon sets. If you had one of these from before they became dungeon sets (thus bind on pickup) then you would be able to sell them or give them to other people as long as you hadn't worn it yet.

They now bind when you take them out of bank you actually have to let buyer into guild bank to pull it themselves it is more work then needed for an item

Nordic__Knights

redspecter23 wrote: »

Not sure how much value there is in a viper sting belt, even unbound. It is still available in game in a very slightly different form and is very easy to farm. Now if you had something like a Viper bow stashed away, that could be worth a significant amount as it's no longer available in any form.

An bow would be the only part of this set worth big bucks

freespirit

Interesting...… I have loads of early non BoP items...…. never had one become bound when pulling from bank, is this a really recent thing?

Nordic__Knights

freespirit wrote: »

Interesting...… I have loads of early non BoP items...…. never had one become bound when pulling from bank, is this a really recent thing?

Last one i pulled viper dagger became bounded to me was like 4 months ago

freespirit

Nordic__Knights wrote: »

freespirit wrote: »

Interesting...… I have loads of early non BoP items...…. never had one become bound when pulling from bank, is this a really recent thing?

Last one i pulled viper dagger became bounded to me was like 4 months ago

Ok need to check

freespirit

Oh just a thought where I may be seeing a difference...…

Mine are mostly either on characters or in storage chests, will check the chests too

Nordic__Knights

freespirit wrote: »

Oh just a thought where I may be seeing a difference...…

Mine are mostly either on characters or in storage chests, will check the chests too

Mine are held in my personal guild bank

freespirit

Ok checked, unfortunately all my remaining pieces are on characters and therefore are still BoE, however I am curious if storage chests would behave like banked items

Edit:- Forgot to check my jewellery storage chest, can confirm items remain BoE on removal from chest

Checked with Worm and VO items