Looking back at these posts makes me laugh... and cry. 2005ish through 2006ish... dang did we have some serious gil problems. selling for 400k now.

500k on phoenix cheap stuff

Just got 2 of these today in a KS30 Run and they sell for 1.8mil on Unicorn Server.

Huberk 1.4 Mil

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i was gonna have a freind make me a hauby...... this alone is up to 3mil on Shiva...

It seems that hjh suggested the ingredients for synthing a Damascus Ingot to be:

Relic Steel x2
Adaman Ore x1
Orichalcum Ingot x1

It does leave two obvious questions, however. Which crystal completes this synth? Most ingots seem to need Fire, but there are many that use Lightning. Also, what smithing level is required? Since the Damascus Ingot is the differentiating and most expensive ingredient in a Haubergeon synth, I'd think it'd be around the same Smithing level as the Haubergeon recipe. In fact, this ingot's recipe might be a higher level to preserve the ingot's price.

Might hafta start scouring the JP sites for info.

Do any of the servers have a stack on AH history? that would be crazy, but i tell you what, if i ever had 40+ mil i'd camp the ah for 12 and post it :p

Historicaly Wootz was used to make damascus steel.
Wootz was produced in India using a crusible and wood to purify the metal. The recipe here is sticking to the historical accounts Wootz ore + Wood => Wootz ingot

I would speculate that a damascus ingot can be made using a Wootz ingot and another type of steel and maybe a third element (Historical glass) to further purify the metal.

Would guess, if they where going to try to follow historical accounts slightly....

Wootz Ingot + DarkSteel ingot/2x Darksteel ore + glass of some type

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A psedo Dasmascus steel can also be made using folded metal and acid.

My guess is darksteel since wootz should be the exotic element in the recipe ruling out tama, or relic (these are also eastern not southern).

I don't ever plan on taking smithing to 100 so I'll never be able to test this.

Edit:
I read some of the previous posts and I'd just like to clear up that damascus steel was never made using a high temperature process.

It was a low temp process (red hot not white hot) and it had a lengthy cool off time and was never quenched.

The patterns on the steel where a result of the aggregation of the carbide that occured as a relsult of the slow cool down.

On a side note if the recipe is ever truely descovered, it should be shared. Wootz is minned if it was possible to create damascus from materials that didn't involve HNM drops miners and smiths would be very happy.

The only reprecussion would be that the HNM LS's out there would make slightly less off the kills. This would relax the compition a bit and could make end game much more enjoyable for everyone.

Edited, Tue Jan 25 12:11:26 2005

Kirin drops it....says on this website, thats how i got here, anyway, The Damascus Bladeis the legendary weapon for Mitsurugi in Soul Calibur II, which would be a prettycool weapon to have in FFXI, like you could make that sword with this ore...

Doing a little research myself I found out a few things and came to a number on conclusions. First, as most of you probably know steel is created when combining Iron (Fe, aka Ferum) is smelted with any number of different elements. Mind you, there is not one single type of steel, it can be combined with many other elements to give it different properties. Damascus steel is steel with (from the source I read) anywhere between 0.4% and 1.6% carbon smelted into the steel. Damascus also has an attractive surface pattern composed of swirling patterns of light-etched regions on a nearly black background. It kind of looks like the gasoline rainbows you see in storm drains. From analyzied pieces of ancient Damascus blades (the last damascus blade was supposably crafted around 1750) modern blacksmiths and bladesmiths have determined that damascus is a series of alternating high and low carbon steels and heating them to a very high temperature in a ceramic cruciable until the carbon in the steel leaks out and creates the water pattern on the suface of the metal. The art of how to create damascus however, as i said before, has been lost. Microscopic pictures of Wootz blades and damascus blades also show somewhat of a "crystaline" pattern in the steel. Supposedly if diamond dust is fused with real damascus as well it will become indestructable. Current "damascus" blades (which are actually fake) are made by smiths simple welding together soft and hard sheets of steel and then etching in acid to give the appearence of real damascus however it is no where near the "legendary" strength and toughness of real damascus. Which leads me to try and figure how the hell, if it is possible, to craft a damascus ingot. After readin the posts, we ca assume that there are at least 2 tama-hagane in the recipe. I have also come to the comclusion that a piece or two of relic steel is also in the recipe. One of the main reasons why i beleive that relic steel is in the recipe is that, relic steel in the AH is under smithing materials, and that as far as any of us know and what allakhazam had posted, relic steel isn't in any recipes. It also has the line in the decription about being forged far to the south, which the tama-hagane also has in its description which makes sense because damascus was used in weapons in Asian, Eastern European countries (i.e. Damascus, Syria)and India. And with the relic steel and tama-hagane there is most likely some other ingridient and most likely it is a metal other than steel/relic steel, I determined this because in the description on the damascus ingot, it has the word "alloy" and an alloy is a combination of more than one type of metal, when really all damascus is, is different types of steel and being such a high level item and SE being such bastards I am assuming the final ingridient could possible be Orichalum Ore or Adaman Ore, or, as what I think is the most probable some Wootz Ore or a Wootz ingot. Hope this helps, also this is all just conjecture based upon decriptions and actual documented research of real damascus, although many of the sourced i looked through had slightly varying info, please correct me if am completely wrong on any of this. Thanks, hope this helps oh and btw, if anyone does figure out how to craft damascus ingots (if it is possible) please DO NOT post it on any forums, so as not to ruin any economy that there is for the item (*cough* *cough* elemental ore *cough* *cough*) and not have dumbasses leveling up smithing just to make these and then also ruin the economy of haubergeons and then proceeding to @#%^ up the rest of the game until everyone quits and shoots themselves. peace.

-Edit-
Doing a little more research I discovered another type of Ore, that now i think, is probably the most likely as one of the key ingridients. It is Molybdenum Ore. I did some research on it as well, and found out the Molybdenum(Mo) is an extremely hard metal with a melting that is only below Tungsten and Tantalum (the two elements with the highest melting points), and one of the sources i looked at said this; "It is a valuable alloying agent, as it contributes to the hardenability and toughness of quenched and tempered steels. It also improves the strength of steel at high temperatures." Sound like somthing that could be used in crafting some Damascus ^^?, however allakhazam doesn't say what drops it or how to get it and if it is a CoP item and I am completely wrong, someone shoot me.

Edited, Thu Nov 25 03:07:03 2004

If my memory serves, IRL this steel was made by sealing iron with some organic materials in a sealed container then heated over days/weeks. Since it was a closed environment, the carbonization of the iron could become a higher percentage and thus would be structurally stronger.
Despite the name, it was not made in Damascus, but rather this was a major trading point for the material.

Damascus ingot is not crafted it is a bcnm/hnm drop only way i will ever believe you is show me a screenshop of someone crafting it

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i saw someone making these ingots, then he failed once, and lost 2 tama-hagane, and all this was near the PC that sells tama-hagane...

it's a high lvl smithing item where you have to mix different types of ores together to forge, just like brass: zinc+copper

Does anyone know what monsters drop these? I've heard that King Arthro and the Roc drop them, as well as some of the higher level Burning Cicle fights. Are there any others?