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mikk · Nov 26, 2011, 11:57 AM // 11:57

Would like to ask whether the following has any value whatsoever:

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sorry if my questions are stupid, but im not an experienced player.

Thanks in Advance!

Gruff · Nov 26, 2011, 12:14 PM // 12:14

Two hundred and fifty six gold

LicensedLuny · Nov 26, 2011, 03:53 PM // 15:53

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Originally Posted by mikk

Would like to ask whether the following has any value whatsoever:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/820/idolq.png

Thanks in Advance!

"Nice" dual-modded inherent foci are pretty rare to find and are sometimes very valuable if well-funded collectors get into a bid war over one. The infrequent appearance of them for sale and the unreliable/difficult to attract nature of such collectors' attention leaves such things a royal pain to PC!

First, I'm going to say that the particular skin of your "Idol" might very well make a huge difference in who is interested. If it's the more uncommon knife skin it *might* be more attractive to collectors (I'm not too sure of the overall average opinion of such things from all the collectors.)

Second, I'm going to say that the mods on yours are more what I'd call "decent" than "nice." +45wE and 10 HCT all spells isn't a bad combination, but the combination can be duplicated with inscribable gear if all the end-user is looking for is the functionality. I'm not sure how likely anyone running a Blood Magic bar is to find such a combination all that useful anyway, though.

EDIT - Sorry for the confusion. I had originally typed this up as the combo could not be duplicated by inscription system gear. For some reason, I decided that was wrong and edited my post a few minutes after submitting. I just read Yawg's reply below; he's right. That focus in your picture has the equivalent of two focus cores - devotion and swiftness. Such cannot be duplicated with inscribable foci, as they allow only one attached core. (The second mod comes from an inscription.) So sorry.

So I think it's safe to say the market for this thing is well within the group of players who like to collect inherent foci with dual max mods.

I would guess that you might be able to get 15-20k for the hand/claw skin variant if you find an interested buyer. Finding the interested buyer could be tricky, though. There's a chance (albeit a small one I think) that two interested buyers could bid it up, and then there's just no way to guess ahead of time what kind of final price you'd see.

If you're looking to sell fast, sell cheap ... merch it or maybe try 5k?

I hope this helps, and I wish you luck.

And ...

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Originally Posted by Gruff

Two hundred and fifty six gold

I do hope you were just making a bad joke with how you chose to reply your own sincere, honest, and informed PC answer to mikk's question, of "I think it's merchfood."

Otherwise, PLEASE find some other section to farm your post count on Guru. Uninformed or completely bogus replies to PC threads aren't simply the sort of thing that will give some of us a really unpleasant impression of you .... they're downright rude and dangerous to folks who look around here (now or in the future) trying to find answers to legitimate questions. Really, seriously, truly - not cool dude!

Yawgmoth · Nov 27, 2011, 01:45 AM // 01:45

Important things to note:

* it's mod combination cannot be replicated, so can't easily get this functionality otherwise.
* both mods are perfect
* this mod combination is not impressive but far from bad - it may be more useful to Blood Magic builds than to many other attributes (you're likely to be enchanted by for example Awaken the Blood, and many Blood skills have short recharges so HCT might be more useful than HSR). Of course a 20% HCT Blood would be better but good luck finding one with +45^ench.
* Unfortunately Req matters here more than and hurts it's value by reducing usability - a focus with an universal HCT mod would be often more wanted by someone using a 2-3 attribute build, for example Death + a little Blood.

Because I'm more than a year behind on the current market I can't give precise pricing. But items like this have always had a wide price range - I can imagine it selling anywhere between 15k (I wouldn't sell it lower) and 70k+ (from a buyer wanting it's functionality.) It's never been easy to find the right buyer though.

mikk · Dec 06, 2011, 10:35 PM // 22:35

would appreciate PCs on the new items; sorry if the blue one is stupid, i just hv no clue if it could be useful to anyone since the inherent mod is crap.

thanks in advance!

Our Blood · Dec 06, 2011, 10:45 PM // 22:45

celestial sword is def food for the merchant, q9's are not that rare, and beter inherent mods are available
also the focus is merch imo, q8 insc focus are not popular at all. and this one isn't even insc. maybe a weird collector wants this but then again 1k max or merch

and as luny and yawgmoth said above, dual perfect mods on a offhand and wand are very rare BUT functionality is not that great and the skin is kinda dull. i would just post it in low end auction and let some people bid on it, be happy with the bids you get