No, certainly not going to buy the armor from people, but you may have
noticed that each item requires some 200pp worth of gems to acquire. And
certainly buying the gems from vendors is the quickest way of getting them.

At 09:35 AM 10/13/99 -0700, you wrote:

>From: Ryan Honeyman <slasher@...>
>
>>I'm level 28, and I have 1000 pp in the bank, just waiting
>>to buy a drum.
>
>Money... yuck. Money is so worthless these days. If I was a
>non-bard class with a mistmoore battle drum I would want some
>item in trade for it. (i consider the drums ~500pp)
>
>>Of course now, that 1000pp will probably start going toward
>>lambent armor.
>
>You gonna buy your armor from people? Ugh. I can feel the
>value of that armor rising already. This is just my opinion,
>but I wouldn't dish out a lot of plat for these things, else
>you drive the price up on the armor. Let's face it, less than
>10% of any server population is class: Bard. It's not like
>Mr. Wizard Killstealer is gonna farm up the items for the quest
>and start selling off to bards for outrageous prices. This is
>one case where you can tell someone to go 'stuff themselves.'
>For crafted armor, there's always another warrior around who
>needs it and will pay big money for it. Bards are not a dime
>a dozen, so sales outlets tend to be rather small. Mr. Wizard
>wont tell you, 'Fine I'll sell to some other bard' -- cause he
>ain't gonna find many others. hehe. At level 39, I think I am
>in the top 20 list now of activate bards on my server. All the
>other bards either are too low to complete the quest themselves
>or too poor to foot the bill for this armor.

*snipped*
Steven S. Klug
-- sklug@...