Legend: Legacy of the Dragons Forum

I see a lot of listings for grey plants on exchange. I assume people make lots of weak elixir of life beacuse mistletoe and clover oftenly being listed by the same person. But ı cant understand how is this even profitable for them?

İngredients for 100 weak elixir of life:

-100 frosted glass flask [40 silver]
-20 collected mistletoe(100 plants)+20 collected clover(100 plants) [42 silver]
-320 aquamarine dust [20 silver is the best ı have found]

So, 100 weak elixir of life costs about 1 gold at best. And you cant make profit out of it even if you sell it on market price due to taxes and stuff. Same if you collect your own plants. İts more profitable to wait for a better listing and sell them 23-25 each. So what am ı missing? I am seeing tons of listings for grey plants and ı wanna know how this guys make profit that way. Are they buying dust cheaper than this? Or there is some tricks to create more units with same ingredients? I really wanna know this. Can someone enlighten me?

But a level 3 person buying them in quantities like 2000-3000. İs there a quest needs that amount of resources? And even if they are higher level, they all have herbologist-alchemist profession.

So there is no profit making elixirs on this level? Should ı keep selling every plant ı gather?