Tailor and Smith BODs are all sorted by reward, type of iron/leather, group (plate/chain/etc, male/female/etc) I sort them out as much as I can. I also have Bribe up books. All this is stored on 76 bod vendors LOL
The only thing I have to say is do what is easiest for you to keep track of your BODs.
I bribe up all cooking, alchemy, and inscription BODs that make larges.When I get a large I bride it up and make it.
Smithing I keeps the ones that make armor larges and drop weapons. Also bribe those up to make as I need. I use shields for PoF.
Tailor I only keep the leather that make larges and bribe them up as I get the large.
I only need one book for each. No need to collect BODS for eternity.
As the books have filters for Large/small , skill material type and numbers, that work well.
Its best for me to sort after other things. Smith after reward type . I use 1 vendor for pof bods and one book for each colour on it. 1 vendor for hammer rewards but no armor bods that go into larges that i want to fill. ..The keepers for large armor bods are sorthed after armor type. One book for bods i want to bribe if i need them. All others are easier.
Tailor larges after rewards, and different material types for all small. All others i have after reward type, no matter if small or large.
Filled bods not claimed yet ..saves space.. i dont keep on vendors as it happened I didnt get the security settings right and there are people checking bod storage vendors that gladly pick up such book..House being set private doesnt help there.
I manage on 47 vendors . All dress coded in clothes with material colours or just the colour of the bod for newer skills.
I like to let them build up for a while and then fill them on a rainy day. For me, I am fine with using the BOD book's built in filters for size, quantity, and material. Most are going to get bribed up anyway. Instead, I separate them by the BOD itself. When I am ready to fill a large, I can pull out the BOD book that has that type of small and find it easier. Junk BODs are ones destined to be filled and traded in for, hopefully, better BODs.
Tailor for example has 1) cloth/shoes, 2) leather/female, and 3) bone/studded. There are no ''junk'' bods for tailor, as every single possible small BOD can be paired with a large.
Blacksmithing has 1) Weapons (strictly for Artisan Festival bank points, as any reward that can be claimed by these larges can be done easier and cheaper with a colored small), 2) Chain/Ring/Plate 3) Junk and smalls that I can bribe up for fort powder and low end runics.
Alchemy has 1) Lesser/Regular/Greater, 2) Explosion/Poison, and 3) Junk.
Tinker has 1) Jewelry, 2) Dining/Tools/Key, 3) Junk and certain colored smalls that can be bribed up for the fort keg.
Etc.
For me, I don't put unfilled larges in books. I set them next to the book with their matching smalls, and when a few larges have accumulated, then I start digging thru the BOD books to fill at least one or two of them. If larges start to pile up without enough smalls to fill them, then I spend an afternoon filling junk smalls to trade in. (In the case of tailor, this means cloth smalls that cannot reward CBD.) I also start filling non-junk small BODs like lesser heal that have way more smalls than I will ever have enough larges for.
For storage reasons, I keep filled large bods in a book rather than claiming the item. When I need a certain reward, I flip through the BODs that are ready for redemption first by using the book's filters for skill, then look in the unfilled books.
I am a casual crafter with just one char on Siege collecting BODs (when I remember), and I do not sell rewards. So, this is what works for me.
Thanks, everyone. All four of you have mentioned bribing, which I have yet to do. I knew about it but didn't realize bribing was so normative. Looks like I need to get on that.
I put all of my BODs in skill specific books and then keep track of which BODs I have in Microsoft Excel.
I have a BOD reward vendor and use some rewards myself as well. Without bribing I doubt this would be possible even. And there are NPCs that charge very little most of the time so recall around and check other towns if you think its expensive,.
Without the bribe system, a huge stockpile of BODs needs to be horded so that different sizes of smalls can eventually match larges. This is how it was done for many years, people are used to it, and see bribing as a waste of gold since they never "needed" it before to get BOD rewards, and still do not.
That method, while effective, sacrifices efficiency. You are spending less gold because you are not bribing, but you are making less gold because you are selling a 110 PS claimed with a normal 10ct 6pt plain leather LBOD that could have been used to claim a barbed kit. The value of the BOD reward outweighs the overhead expense of bribing (if you do it right).
On Siege, bribing costs the same as other shards, but gold is much more valuable. The profit margin can be very slim, so the best method is a mixture of old school and bribing. As for trading in junk BODs for a roll of the RNG, that has to be done wisely as well.
I would rather spend less gold buying the rewards then bribing up a million bods to get one of my own thanks 🙂
psst Cooking and alchemy BODs.
dont tell anyone. Cheap and the dyes sell fast.
Cooking BOD's are horrid....there are certain things that I can do over and over and over...like Andro's...spawns...shadowguard...I can chain spawns all day long..if I have my guildies on we could chain shadowguard all day long....filling BOD's?? Not so much...I used to like filling BOD's...but with Bribing and all the changes I don't care for it so much anymore...I was so proud the day I made my first platemail gorget with my name on it...GM smithing OMG what an accomplishment that was! I had fun with it then...now? Meh....I'd rather spend my time doing things I enjoy.
The bribe prices are the same everywhere. But you reach a point where they are much more expensive than 3600. Bribe your highest level smith and tailor bods. Taking a small 10 iron plate to 20 exc valorite is not cheap.
Are you sure. They always start low or 0 on a fresh one. Then go up as you do it.
How can you test this?
Also I have done diff ones on same guy. The fresher one is low or zero after an expensive one.
yes they all start at zero but it also depends on what you are bribing and how much that NPC was used. If you have 3 NPCs in the same shop and use one the other two do not go up they are all separate.
Sounds good. Dont use my method.
I grab a large leather or metal and the smalls then go out and use an NPC until they quit bribing it up. Then go to the next one and bribe the same one up until he stops.
I should split the BODs between NPCs to save gold. Corect?
I have rune books (Tram/Fel) to all the shops and I rotate between them all. I also set a limit on the amount I will spend on bribing depending on the BOD. I have seen where people have used a NPC so much that just to bribe a 20X iron to a 20X dull for PoF is 60K, recall to another shop and it is 5K
Ya I made the mistake of putting 500 in a book. I was dragging it around and it went under the house and poofed later. Was Carpentry. Those dont work anyway.
Most people put them on a vendor and hit escape.
I like them better on a vendor. They use lockdowns on the floor. Im sure mine was a fluke, I was dragging it to a vendor.
None of the furniture BODs bribe up. The only high one that works is the weapons that require gems and stuff.
I have vendors set up for bods. 100 Bods per book, each vendor can hold 5 books that way. Plus the lower count means I don't have to worry about emptying my pack to get one off the vendor
I would like to see them do away with the deed / item ratio and treat a BOD book as a single item no mater how many deeds are in it. But that may encourage people to just horde deeds and never complete and turn them in.
if you put BODs on a vendor & don't want to sell them, you can opt out of search (that way people can't find it, in case you accidently don't hit escape when you add it).
I believe it was stated that if you put them on a vendor for storage that you must put on them that they are not for sale ( I name the vendor Elf names cause I live at the North Pole & name the shop NOT FOR SALE) & that you can only do one or the other with a vendor. Either you have the vendor to sale the BODs or they are for storage.
I do put them on vendors cause I can put one full book (500) & another book (115) for storage. When these additional BODs first came out I went overboard collecting them & had them spread out amongst all my houses. I just recently found 7 of my vendors in the house moving crate (which I had been checking everyday cause I had a ship in the water). the home-owner had to get it out cause the one who put it there couldn't get it out. And the crazy thing is that the exact amount of vendors that were in there is the same number of stewards I had in the place.
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people keep asking if they would change the item count or change how you interact with them. As much as I think this is a priority for crafters, I am looking forward to the fall content that they are working on. wondering if they will have the bone containers this year. wish I could get one with a governor title but I'm thinking personal titles are off limits
