Smithing BOD Question
Hey Folks, can someone that is savvy with the smithing BOD system tell me what they would do with BODs like normal Bronze, Shadow, Copper, Gold singles.
It seems as if you never change to exceptional above dull copper/iron when bribing. Above that, the bride seems to always go to the next color up and at significant price. You need 20 normal gold just to get a powder of fort that sell for 150k per jar of 10 charges. If you bribe it all the way to 20 normal verite you can get a shadow hammer that sells for ~300k.
It seems that you can still make a profit but most is eaten up during the bribe for the normal color BODs, especially if you start at, say, shadow.
Anyway, I was just curious what others are doing with these BODs because my OCD has them piling up and not tossing them in the trash when I feel like I should.
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If an NPC requests a bribe higher than one of my limits I just move onto the next NPC. Which is easy because I have runic atlas's filled with NPC shop locations.
For some bods I just say enough is enough, fill them, then stick them into books for use during the artisan festivals.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
The gold price of PoF is crazy high compared to the past. 450 BOD points
Use the armor pieces that are exceptional and take them to shadow. Any amount in exc shadow is 460 points.
The ones that are not exceptional will probably take a while to get exceptional. So, those you use to make shadow hammers once they get to agapite or exceptional earlier.
Bribing. Have a book with all the smith locations. Start with the highest BOD and find a smith that does it for 0. Sometimes you may have to hold BODs for a day or two depending on how many have bribed them. But an exceptional armor BOD will usually bribe to shadow in 2 tries.
Hint: Zento has a lot of all the Professions to bribe up BODs.
Interesting that you go for Val hammers; is there a real use for them? I feel like they give way too much randomness while also not enough max properties.
I've done some smithing recently for just a change of pace and I'll bribe up bods until they are at least POF but over the past few days I've spent a little more to bribe them up to the gold ore maps because it seems like my stash there is lacking (agapite/verite/val all are well stocked from pirating).
I do take all armor BODs bc eventually you can bribe them into something good... but if I receive a weapon BOD I just leave it on the ground.
Fill the weapon BODs and turn them in to get more BoDs. Just remember to not turn in more than 3 weapon BODs at a time before you ask for more BoDs because you will max out at 3 again. So if you turn in 10 BODS at once you will get only 3 BODS in return. But if you turn in a BOD then get a BOD ten times you will end up with 10 unfilled BODs.
UO RNG.
That's why I said use the armor exceptionals for PoF then the ones that just keep changing color you use for hammers.