What Was Your Best Pawnshop Find?

[Fallen]

A comment from Archigeek
To be honest, I picked it up off the pawnshop a couple years back, so while I'm not 100% certain, I'm pretty sure we're talking about the same thing. ...made me wonder what other gems people have managed to score from the pawnshop. I'd love to hear what some of you old-timers have managed to salvage.

[Fallen]

The best item I can recall off-hand is I bought a VLA pin-worn container and later sold it for a few mill.

[Asha]

Fishspine sword. Not the good one, the other one.
Still, was a great find.
Otherwise my favourite finds were just nice alters.

[Tolwynn]

a 500 pound sack, hard to top that

[Fallen]

a 500 pound sack, hard to top that

Very nice.

[BriarFox]

I found a MA pin-worn that I turned into one of my first alters and still have. Some veil iron and golvern pieces, especially lately. Lots of decent enhancives and flared/padded armor pieces. Can't recall anything utterly mind-blowing, but there may have been something.

[Archigeek]

Other than the afore mentioned dagger, I've found a couple of razern katanas (2x vhcw) and a few other notable items. Mostly I'm just looking for 401, 406 and 414 scrolls, but since I'm there I check all the tables. I'm going to have to start looking at the clothing more closely.

[Methais]

I found a MA pin-worn that I turned into one of my first alters and still have. Some veil iron and golvern pieces, especially lately. Lots of decent enhancives and flared/padded armor pieces. Can't recall anything utterly mind-blowing, but there may have been something.

Were those enhancives just something you gambled on and bought? Or do enhancives have some sort of pricing that makes it obvious, similar to the 35k thing when selling to the pawnshop?

I found Anticor's dildo in the pawnshop once. It was on the magic table.

I did this:
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/PJP863/Back_away_slowly.gif

[BriarFox]

Were those enhancives just something you gambled on and bought? Or do enhancives have some sort of pricing that makes it obvious, similar to the 35k thing when selling to the pawnshop?


Just gambles. If it's a nice piece of jewelry with a high price tag or a useful weapon base with a high price tag, I'll often gamble and buy it.

[Sile]

0x mcw morning star, massive iron or something like that. A few scrolls with heroism.

[NinjasLeadTheWay]

VLA Pinworn Vest and a set of FGB, I used to be a pawnshop whore, but I'm in recovery.

[DaCapn]

0x permablessed scimitar

[Asha]

FGB? Really?
Did it have the original fgb description?

[tallkris3]

I don't check the pawn very often but I've picked up a couple of 1750 scrolls there in the past.

[Whirlin]

Yeah, I'm with the other scroll people... I always check the magic table and read them all for anything good or cheap.

Of course, that's how I've gotten to the point where I'm carrying like, 60 scroll on me... each with a good spell that I usually don't even need when I hunt..

[Methais]

Of course, that's how I've gotten to the point where I'm carrying like, 60 scroll on me... each with a good spell that I usually don't even need when I hunt..

I hate scrolls now, mainly for that reason. I'll usually have a bunch of scrolls that I plan to use, but I usually just forget about it and it ends up just sitting in my container forever.

I miss my old scroll combiner. Didn't they nerf it?

[tallkris3]

I hate scrolls now, mainly for that reason. I'll usually have a bunch of scrolls that I plan to use, but I usually just forget about it and it ends up just sitting in my container forever.

I miss my old scroll combiner. Didn't they nerf it?

I'd love to be able to combine my scrolls and cut some of these spells off. Most scrolls never have more then 1 or 2 spells that have any use for me.

I always thought a scroll combiner would make a good NPC service

[Methais]

I'd love to be able to combine my scrolls and cut some of these spells off. Most scrolls never have more then 1 or 2 spells that have any use for me.

I always thought a scroll combiner would make a good NPC service

It would be quite awesome. The old scroll book was convenient as fuck. You could hold up to 6 spells on each combined scroll up to I think 20 charges in each spell slot. You could have the same spell in multiple slots too if you wanted. You could invoke any garbage spells off the scrolls you were combining to make room.

Then scroll infusion came out and I'm pretty sure they nerfed the book. I have no idea how badly they nerfed it though, I just remember hearing it got nerfed. It might only work with locked scrolls or something for all I know. Pretty sure they just didn't want people combining 40 charge scrolls all over the place. Or maybe they dropped it down from 20 charges to reduce sorcerer QQ since they love to QQ.

Anyone know who has this book now?

[Buckwheet]

They are still incredibly effective and more so now with scroll infusion. Certainly an expensive item to operate, but once you get them pre-loaded and get your scroll selection setup and find reliable infusers it is quite simply amazing.

http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Thin_beige_portfolio

[Drew]

I'm too lazy to even sell things at a pawnshop much less check it. My best find has been a pure potion!

[Methais]

They are still incredibly effective and more so now with scroll infusion. Certainly an expensive item to operate, but once you get them pre-loaded and get your scroll selection setup and find reliable infusers it is quite simply amazing.

http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Thin_beige_portfolio

That seems slightly different than the one I was referring to. I don't know how old the one I had was, but it predates all those paid events and all that.

I just found an old post I made about it here with a bunch of information and showing it in action:
http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Scroll-combining_book_%28saved_post%29


Scroll-combining book (saved post)
From Krakiipedia, the unofficial free GemStone IV encyclopedia.

Category: (Unknown)
Topic: (Unknown)
Message number: 848
Author: BARAKA (In Zod we trust)
Date: 8/11/2004 2:57:42 AM
Subject: Re: Scroll Combining Book

You hold the scroll you want to combine spells/charges onto in your hand, then put a scroll(s) in the book. Close the book and wave it at the scroll in your hand and it'll combine the charges/spells in the book onto the scroll in your hand. When you do this, each scroll in the book at the time loses 1 or 2 charges off it in the transfer process, even on extra scrolls that weren't transfered to the other scroll due to not being enough slots left I'm pretty sure. You could stuff 10 scrolls in the book but if there was only room on the other scroll for 2 slots left, the first 2 spells in the book (and any other spell in your book that is already on the scroll, which adds to the charges of that spell's slot on the book, max of around 30 charges) would transfer over but the rest wouldn't, but would still lose a charge or two. Hope that didn't come out all confusing. You can READ the book to see all the spells on the scrolls inside the book and how many charges are left. It costs 15 mana per scroll in the book to do this.

Like this:

In the hide bound book you see a torn scroll, a faded palimpsest, a tattered scroll, a smeared palimpsest, a sheet of burnt vellum, a smeared scroll and an obscure scroll. Mana Points: 417 Remaining: 417

read book

Your field of vision narrows to the book and its contents. As your mind clears, you begin to see the contents more clearly...

A torn scroll

12 of Spirit Warding I (101)
2 of Sun Burst (609)
8 of Minor Sanctuary (213)
9 of Spirit Warding II (107)

A faded palimpsest

6 of Phase (704)
13 of Curse (715)
10 of Disease (716)
10 of Blood Burst (701)
13 of Pain (711)

a tattered scroll

Many of Strength Of Will (1119)
Many of Benediction (307)
Many of Adrenal Surge (1107)
5 of Fervent Reproach (312)
3 of Spirit Defense (103)
Many of Well of Life (308)

a smeared palimpsest

Many of Quake (709)
Many of Cloak of Shadows (712)
Many of Eye Spy (707)
2 of Corrupt Essence (703)
11 of Nightmare (713)
Many of Limb Disruption (708)

a sheet of burnt vellum

7 of Neutralize Curse (309)
12 of Prayer of Protection (303)
10 of Prayer of Protection (303)
8 of Spirit Shield (202)

a smeared scroll

6 of Phoen's Strength (606)
8 of Mobility (618)
13 of Resist Elements (602)
Many of Natural Colors (601)
Many of Bravery (211)
3 of Self Control (613)

an obscure scroll

1 of UnDisease (113)
10 of Spirit Barrier (102)
14 of Spirit Defense (103)
Many of UnDisease (113)
Many of Dispel Invisibility (109)
Many of UnPoison (114)

Your vision returns to normal. Mana Points: 417 Remaining: 312

Max of 6 spell slots can be put onto one scroll, max charges for each slot is about 30 charges I think, not sure exactly how much but I think 30. You can have more than 1 of the same spell slot on your scroll. So if you have 107 maxed out with charges in its slot, you can put another "set" of 107 into another slot. So if you wanted, you could have a scroll with 6 slots of 107, 30 charges each slot. So basically you could have a scroll with 180 charges of 107 if you really wanted to.
Combining

Here's how combining works: In the hide bound book you see a burnt scroll and a smeared scroll.

read book

Your field of vision narrows to the book and its contents. As your mind clears, you begin to see the contents more clearly...

a burnt scroll

5 of Limb Repair (1102)
5 of Bind (214)

a smeared scroll

2 of Spirit Defense (103)
3 of Bravery (211)

Your vision returns to normal.

get scroll from my book

You remove a burnt scroll from in your hide bound book.

close book

You close the book and bind it with its cover, making it completely weather-proof.

wave book at my scroll

You concentrate heavily as you circle your book slowly around a burnt scroll. A whispy tendril of energy sprouts from the book and stretches towards the scroll, wriggling back and forth like a reader's finger as he or she scans a page. With a sudden darkening in hue, the tendril begins to tap here and there upon the scroll. The tendril stops momentarily, then retreats within the book. Roundtime: 10 sec.

open my book

You unbind the heavy book and open it.

look in my book

There is nothing in there.

read book

Page after page of the book is written in an archaic scrawl and formal language that makes it difficult to read and even more difficult to understand. The subject matter seems to be all about the theory of using runes.

read my scroll

It takes you a moment to focus on the burnt scroll.

On the burnt scroll you see

(1102) Limb Repair
(214) Bind
(211) Bravery
(103) Spirit Defense

put scr in book

You put a burnt scroll in your hide bound book.

read book

Your field of vision narrows to the book and its contents. As your mind clears, you begin to see the contents more clearly...

a burnt scroll

5 of Limb Repair (1102)
5 of Bind (214)
2 of Bravery (211)
1 of Spirit Defense (103)

Your vision returns to normal.

The book will hold things other than scrolls, like a normal container. I'm not sure of the weight capacity, but I'd guess not a very large amount since it's made for scrolls. Weighs about 2 pounds.

[Fallen]

CRB owned one and yeah it was nerfed to shit.*

[DaCapn]

That's one of those philosophies I can't stand. Things that are really convenient and just make the game less annoying shouldn't be high-end auction quality items. I've always thought there should just be a scroll transfer skill in the sorcerer's guild (move spell from scroll A to scroll B) and scroll tubes that worked like gem jars or something like that.

[Kastrel]

I just want a book that HOLDS my scrolls. It doesn't need any fancy combining or charge-refilling.

>invoke 503
The pages of your worn leather tome flip rapidly before opening to one page, upon which a line of text glows!
Blah blah, scroll invocation formula

>invoke 509
The pages of your worn leather tome flip rapidly, but slowly come to a anticlimactic halt. That spell doesn't seem to be in this book.

>put scroll in my tome
You gently unroll your scroll and place it within the pages of your tome.

As DaCapn said, basically just like gem jars. Though a 50% weight reduction would be nice . . . it seems like scrolls weigh 2 pounds last time I weighed a few.

[Methais]

That's one of those philosophies I can't stand. Things that are really convenient and just make the game less annoying shouldn't be high-end auction quality items. I've always thought there should just be a scroll transfer skill in the sorcerer's guild (move spell from scroll A to scroll B) and scroll tubes that worked like gem jars or something like that.

I agree. I feel the same about cross realm teleport stuff.

Technically speaking though, a scroll combiner would theoretically, though indirectly, reduce encumbrance, giving it a mechanical advantage. But that's really just nitpicky thing more than anything, as the difference would be negligible.

[Kastrel]

I agree. I feel the same about cross realm teleport stuff.

Technically speaking though, a scroll combiner would theoretically, though indirectly, reduce encumbrance, giving it a mechanical advantage. But that's really just nitpicky thing more than anything, as the difference would be negligible.

I'd be happier if it just let them be put into a locker and only take up one space, like with gem jars.

[Mobius1]

I'd be happier if it just let them be put into a locker and only take up one space, like with gem jars.

Can't agree more. Scrolls are taking up my locker space more than anything else.

Admittedly, I tend to horde scrolls, yet don't use them often. But those times when I do need them, I really need them. I'm probably going to have to spend a couple hours going through them, just to see what I'm willing to get rid of, to free up space.

They just need to make some off the shelf merchant item, that makes scroll management more feasible. Like a book, as someone mentioned. Or a scroll combiner. Or anything!

[Allereli]

it seems like scrolls weigh 2 pounds last time I weighed a few.

they weigh 1/2 lb. I usually have 50 in my scroll case + some other stuff, I phase 30 lbs

[DaCapn]

I agree. I feel the same about cross realm teleport stuff.

Technically speaking though, a scroll combiner would theoretically, though indirectly, reduce encumbrance, giving it a mechanical advantage. But that's really just nitpicky thing more than anything, as the difference would be negligible.

I agree that there's a mechanical benefit but I'm of the opinion that they weigh too much in the first place.

[Methais]

I agree that there's a mechanical benefit but I'm of the opinion that they weigh too much in the first place.

Same here. But the locker space issue mentioned is just as if not more annoying.

[Kastrel]

they weigh 1/2 lb. I usually have 50 in my scroll case + some other stuff, I phase 30 lbs

I don't know WHAT was going on then. All I know was that I pulled out 2 or 3 scrolls and the weight of the container shot up a ton. Must have been just really bad luck with random weigh variation.

Even so, they should weigh as much as a gem.

[Methais]

I wish chronomages were always 100k and didn't jump to 300k for 3 days.

Just thought I'd throw that out there because just because.