Alumen!

[Aleczan]

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.