Alumen!

[KaiCrystallis]

Hello ^^. Not a fan of alumen I assume? Haha. Kida and Thal made great suggestions. Just look for the items that you want to acquire in the patch notes and then look up their respective sweet spots on DoL.com. One positive to mining alumen is that it's always in the same spot and can be "dug up" with one strike which makes for faster leveling. Hope this helps!

[Bluetaro]

People are going to end up vendoring their alumen because their retainers can only hold so many items. We need our market sell limit increased if you want to see these items for sale more often.

[Vanguard319]

Don't Do This!!!!!!!!

Alumen is required for essentially every Leather Working recipe, and NPC vending your gathered goods really hurts the overall economy of the game.

Share you mats, sell your mats for 1 gil, sell it for what the NPC would buy it at, sell it for 5k a piece, Just don't vend it.

It's pure profit, especially, especially, especially with Alumen. You can earn stacks upon stacks within minutes at the higher ranks. If you're actively trying for it, double that. Don't be greedy.

This may varies from server to server. On my server, I vended Alumen at 500 g which is already cheaper than what NPC sells (640) but no one would buy it even after 3 days. Ended up NPC'ing them because I generally get 2 full stacks of Alumen per day if I am mining.

By the way, to be able to find specific ore or gemstone you want, you should aim for its specific "sweet spot." For example, when I mine for Electrum Ore at Nophica's Wells, I aim at +4. I would get or hit an Electrum Ore about half of the times.

Still, Alumen is much more common to find at many of the mining areas.

true, Alumen is sometimes less than 100 gil on my server, due to an oversaturated market. Since the economy lives on "buy low, sell high", it's good to know what an item npc's for, and whether or not you can make a worthwhile profit.

To sum up: If it's selling lower than the npc will buy, then npc; If it's selling much higher than what the npc will offer you, then sell at the market wards, but at a price lower than the current rate.

[Lebannen]

I know for a fact that you dont get alumen from camp bloodshore area.

[Lienn]

Alumen is good though! I never have enough of them! ^^

But if you get too much alumen, just stay away from exposed ore -1. Cobalt ore is -3, Mythril ore +3 and electrum ore +4 so you might never want to stay near the -1.

[Conradus]

In clearing out some inventory, I sold my alumen (of which I had a couple of full stacks). I NPC'd a lot of stuff I judged had no chance in the Merchant Wards, but, looking at the current sellers and sale history for the alumen, I went with a sell price of 140, which is almost twice what the NPC will give you. I sold out in about a day. This was on Trabia. You won't get rich on that, but it was nice chunk of change for stuff that was just cluttering up my inventory.