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I looked again through all my saved files could not find the links. Ill try to find the patch notes that have the across the board price drops of trade skill items.

Like many of you i do remember high quality ore being lower price , BUT that was done at later time(than this server time line). The price of almost all trade skill supplies / items where dropped which lead to a VERY BIG EXPLOIT from a very low Black smith skill item that sold for a LOT more than the cost of materials when combined.

I know of this exploits because a guild mates told me about it at the time. I was one of the guilds blacksmiths. IT got to the point that people where smithing for like 8hrs straight making a lot of plat. NO it was not 1million plat as some rumors put it. 15k to 20k in 4hrs was doable with right support. The exploit was fixed within 3 days by simple patch which raised the price of all high quality ore to what is stands at now on live servers.

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February 13, 2002 3:00 am
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** Trade Skill Related **

- Added several trade skill items to Grobb; including a brewing supply
vendor, a brew barrel, a baking vendor, a standard forge, a pottery
cooking mold vendor, a kiln, a pottery wheel, and a sketch vendor.
- Added water flasks to two merchants in the Bazaar
- Added high quality ore vendors to Bazaar, Kaladim, and Qeynos that
sell a limited supply of HQ Ore
- Fixed an inconsistency with the armor class of Enchanted Imbued
Dwarven Plate compared to the armor class of other Dwarven-smithed
plate armor
- Batwing Pie, Bug Bites and Deadly Medley now exist
- Repaired the recipe for Superior Gnomish Spirits\Gnomish Cleaning
Substance
- Increased the drop rates of cultural armor temper components
- Added hilt mold vendors to more cities

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The price change to trade skill supplies happened after this I do not remember exactly when. these HQ merchant being added combined with lowered prices of high quality ore lead to the exploit and subsequent fix.