Vana'diel Bestiary: Ellard

so i dont even know how often people look at this NPC but this is the best place to post this for now. I use a ratio system to determine if the item of the day is even worth the GP.

The System is created by taking the average price of a purchaced item if possible first. If the item can not be bought or can be made cheaper than I assess the materials for the item individually. If one of the materials is, itself an equipment or synthed item then I use the purchase price for it if possible or the ingrediants cost.

All Costs are done at Median so it is when the price range of Items from vendors is at the half mark between the fame based Maxiumum and Minimum. Crystals and all AH items are based on my server (Sylph) so obviously there will be differences but do to trends, the great thing about rations is that they should be generally standard Server-wide because prices tend to rise and fall in proportion. Finally, These do not include the guildpoints bonus for trading a +1 item of any kind. Generally when I get a +1 Item I sell it anyway so it doesnt really effect the total, at least consistantly.

Here is an example of how I did it:
Silver Mail
Fire Stack 2,000
Earth Stack 1,000
Silver ingot x 8 16,000
Chain Mail x 2 = 31,000
total 50,000
Guild points 6,640
gil/point 7.5

The first number is the ratio... the higher the ration the more gil you pay per point of GP you earn.

The number after the "-" is the total points available for that Item. It seems that when you are being choosy you may not want to spend too much of a high ratio in a specific situation where your total GP payoff is low. I have notices that generally speaking, situations where you get less GP at one time in a day are cheaper per point but this can take forever because if you only did guild points when you got 2k for the day it would take you forever. Use your own judgement.


Also, if there is a number in () then I though that making one less item than max was a better deal and this is the ratio for making one less. The number after the "-" is the total points available for that Item. It seems that when you are being choosy you may not want to spend too much of a high ratio in a specific situation where your total GP payoff is low. I have notices that generally speaking, situations where you get less GP at one time in a day are cheaper per point but this can take forever because if you only did guild points when you got 2k for the day it would take you forever. Use your own judgement.

If this helps let me know and I can do mark-ups for all the guild reps.. if not then oh well.. If you have questions feel free to ask!

Hope you get some info from it:


Banded Helm
10.5(8.3) - 6640
Brass Axe
6.9 - 2720
Brass Baghnuckhs
6.1 - 2800
Brass Cap
9.6 - 2640
Brass Dagger
11.5 - 2240
Brass Harness
10.1 - 3360
Brass Knuckles
12.1 - 2240
Brass Zaghnal
4 - 3520
Buckler
10.2 - 6240
Copper hairpin
3.8 - 1280
Copper ring
3.6 - 1200
Mythril Baselard
9.6 - 5600
Mythril Earring
6.4 - 4240
Mythril Ring
28.8 - 4240
Sapara
30.8 - 2080
Silver Bangle
6.9 - 4640
Silver Mail
7.5 - 6640
Sollerets
5 - 6320



Edited, Aug 11th 2006 at 4:37pm EDT by keiichikun

Edited, Aug 11th 2006 at 4:38pm EDT by keiichikun

clockmaking is used to make mythril gear machines which is used to make certain automaton attachments. the recipes are mid 40's to 60's.

This guy also sells the skill Clockmaking for 10,000 Guild points, what does this do?