Platinum in Velious
 

What's worth buying with plat in Velious? I started looking at upgrades for my main, and every single item is either a raid/guild quested item or is a no-drop item off a raid mob.

What are the must haves that are tradeable items (aside from quest gems) and will actually hit the market from players farming, or is Velious basically different from Kunark in the sense that most higher end items are not able to be traded?

Note, I'm approaching this from the perspective of a bard, and the Ornate Velium Pendant and Holgresh Elder Beads are easily replaced by faction song and Singing Steel Helm.

Drums of the Beast - Only primary usable drum in game.
Quest Gems + Armor MQs as you cite. It'll be awhile before Dragon/Giant armor MQs are available but you can buy Kael ones right now I bet.
Silver Chitin Wrist is good
Velium HP Rings

Beyond that... Yea most things are No Drop and it's fantastic. Platinum being less valuable makes having a group or guild to kill things far more valuable in EQ. Which is good. People just farming Tranix for months and selling crowns to fund all their gear is lame. Now you have to go out and quest most of your own gear $$$.

Well depending on how much plat you want to spend, a number of good raid boss drops are tradeable.

http://i.imgur.com/oBtsci7.jpg

Mask of Tinkering
Dozekar MQs (might be a long while off)
Lodizal Shell Shield
Queen's Carapace
Matchless/Peerless Dragonhide BP
Crystal Spider Eyes (slight upgrade over Enshrouded Veil)
Mask of the Dragonslayer

http://wiki.project1999.com/Barbed_Dragonscale_Boots
http://wiki.project1999.com/Lodizal_Shell_Boots
http://wiki.project1999.com/Mithril_Boots
http://wiki.project1999.com/Boots_of_the_Storm
http://wiki.project1999.com/Mithril_Gauntlets
http://wiki.project1999.com/Velium_Encrusted_Gauntlets

Bracer of Benevolence is great (non-lore) just needs a couple of friends and ally to CoV faction. (Camp is Ragefire click fest sometimes though, maybe let it cool off)

I've yet to see the drums of the beast named spawn. I am wondering if its not correctly coded to spawn.

shimmering sea spirit?

saw a few of them on beta, i think the drums dropped too iirc

Drums drop, we got them yesterday

Give it time. Once people get tired of velious and start liquidating for plat before RMTing, plenty of valuable droppables will be available. Even BoCs, SoDs, barb legs, barb mask? lots of really top end shit are droppable but simply unavailable outside of guilds. That is, if they have any intention of staying in the guild :3

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Are dragon steaks in game yet?