99% or MP ?

[Belthar]

What is your experience as a crafter, do ppl order 99% (they dont have enough money for MP) or do they order MP more ?

 

[old.CrazyMuppet]

Ask if i have MP's in stock, otherwise order 99's.

Ive never actually gotten an MP order on my armorcrafter.

Willing to do MP orders for AF102 BP's though .

 

[Khalen]

I've done loads of MP orders but mostly by people who knew it was expensive and therefore had money saved up for it.

But when I was just LWCer I had loads of orders. Like 20+ a day mostly 99%. And when you make MPs you get some 99ers usually too. They can be sold for premade price.

 

[Pin]

Well, I've stopped taking orders for 99s completely (except for guild). If it's in stock it goes cheap, otherwise I have better things to do with my time - and the customer is better off buying from another weaponcrafters stock than paying retry price for a 99% weapon.

As for MPs, I'll do those if:

1) I feel I have time and nothing better to do
2) the customer understands that it can get expensive
3) I don't already have a vault loaded with 20+ 99% cast-offs from previous MP attempts of that item

 

[greenfingers]

Originally posted by Pin
Well, I've stopped taking orders for 99s completely (except for guild). If it's in stock it goes cheap, otherwise I have better things to do with my time - and the customer is better off buying from another weaponcrafters stock than paying retry price for a 99% weapon.

As for MPs, I'll do those if:

1) I feel I have time and nothing better to do
2) the customer understands that it can get expensive
3) I don't already have a vault loaded with 20+ 99% cast-offs from previous MP attempts of that item

I think most crafters think that way

 

[Pin]

Originally posted by greenfingers
I think most crafters think that way

And why shouldn't they? Once they have had experience crafting most come to the same conclusions, that it's boring, frustrating, time-consuming with little in return in terms of profit, gratitude or entertainment.


What I want from the game is fun. Mostly I get this from variety, not by sitting at a forge for 4 hours doing a MP order which doesn't actually give me any profit until after spend the next weeks selling the 99s I make in the process.

So this weekend, I did 1 MP order, sold a few 99s from stock, levelled my 4th and 5th chars to 50, got my 6th to 44, did some RvR, did some item-hunting, some questing, some dungeon raiding and a bit of cash farming.


All in all, I'd say I got a whole lot more out of it than I would have done if I had sat at the forge the whole time touting my weapon stock in /broad.

 

[Mishy]

agree with pin... which is why i dont do it no more, cept guildies/friends etc.

 

[heath]

Nerf Pin and his alts ((o;
Took me ages to hit 50...Pin rattles them off like it is a production line.