Short sword + 5 - price check

[djhoerauf]

So I am rather new to DDO, not to online games mind you but yesterday was my first day to DDO, found I liked a lot so upgraded to VIP.

Anywho I was doing some very low level quests in starter town and a guy was advertising a +5 sword for answer a trivia question. I won and now am wondering what it is worth as i think I could use PLAT more then a sword i cant use for 6 levels and am more of longsword or great sword person anyway.

any offers or at least price checks?

[NeutronStar]

Whatever the vendor in House D offers you, take it.


(That's my way of telling you it isn't worth very much.)

[djhoerauf]

Whatever the vendor in House D offers you, take it.


(That's my way of telling you it isn't worth very much.)

Haha good to know.. thought it sounded great but really who uses short swords!

[shad0wguns]

its not the fact that its a shortsword its the fact that its only +5 nothing else on it

[SaisMatters]

pure vendor trash

[Ratnix]

Haha good to know.. thought it sounded great but really who uses short swords!

A low level Dex thief. It is the offhand weapon until you are able to get Oversized Two-Weapon Feat

[RobertHut]

hey OP,
welcome to stormreach!!!
heres a link you might find helpfull for gettin your first cpl. plats together.
even though i am doing okay in items and plat for quite some time now i found a few usefull news in there:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=296536

good luck rob

[Standal]

Keep the +5 shortsword until you have something better. Your first time through the game, you're not going to pick up great weapons easily. A +5 hits more often than any other weapon with the same ML and does very similar damage. Until I can purchase a +5 weapon with effects, I'm always carrying a plain +5 for those times I start to see misses.

PS: Why do you favor longswords/greatswords? Longswords in particular are just terrible.

[Lithic]

If you insist on selling it, you could put it up on the auction house for 75% of base value. You'll get about 50% of base value back after auction house fees, and I think it should sell at that price.

If you are that new though, I'd just keep it in the bank till you are level 8. Every character should have a set of +5 weapons for enemies with higher than average AC (well, every character that isn't loaded down with tons of raid loot and twink items, and past life feats).

[t0r012]

Sell it on the Auction House.
You won't make tons but you will make more than you would from selling to a vendor.
A vendor will give you ~10% of the items base value only, so it wont be worth a ton.

I am surprised at how often the plain jane + weapons I put on the Ah do sell. Vendor offering you 25 plat? put it on the AH for 25*1.3 + 1 starting bid 33.5 so 34 starting price. and put a buyout just a bit below the base price. If its base is 2,500 put a 2,250 buyout on it.

they sell much more often than a +1 shock X of junky suffix weapons with the same pricing scheme.