Since there seems to be so much confusion concerning Maple Sugar, I thought I'd just make one post to clear things up.
Maple Sugar can be bought from the Auction House under Food - Ingredients. It normally sells for more than you'll want to pay depending on the week's conquest results.
Maple Sugar can be bought from Benaige in Southern San D'oria inside Raimbroy's Grocery when San D'oria is FIRST or SECOND in conquest. Also, she does NOT sell out. Third place means no Maple Sugar for you. :p
You can buy Maple Sugar from Kopopo/Chomo Jinjahl in BUT[/b] only when it has been sold to them from a PC.
The confusion with the regional venders coinciding with this item is false. BUT whoever holds the Faurengandi region will sell Maple Logs which can be synthed into Maple Sugar, capping at 21 Woodworking.
So, if all else fails, Sandy is in last, and you have no Woodworking skills, you're just going to have to suck it up and buy it from the Auction House at inflated prices. Because they know you can't buy it anywhere, and they'll take all your gil...
Edited, Sun Feb 19 02:43:43 2006