Noted, good idea. But it's still the case that on the older servers, people
are skipping straight to bronze, or receiving very underpriced banded from
higher-level friends who don't need it, or whatever. The market for banded
is getting younger and younger, and hence people expect banded for cheaper
and cheaper just because they don't have that kind of money to spend.
Also, of the friends that I group with regularly, only 1 can wear banded who
hasn't already got it :-(

But let's not go too far into a smithing discussion...

A question:
Despite clerics traditionally being a poor class, I suspect that many
clerics do one or more trade skills... Anyone? My favourite is baking
because you can cook on the move.

Elbeno

> From: AoS/Aosinator <darshan@...>
>
> Actually I'm quite serious. If ye need to armor 3 or 4
> players, and they
> are willing to pay for the base costs of the materials, you
> could easily
> gain enough skill to make banded reliably. I estimate it would take
> roughly 250 to 300 platinum pieces to bring smithing up to the level
> necessary to create Banded. With 3 or 4 people, that comes
> out to 75 to
> 100pp each for banded.
>