Recommendations sought for improving tradeskills??
Lumpy
easiest, cheapest way to drive these skills up...
Thanks in advance to any masters who can help me...
Baking 191
Brewing 162
Pottery 136
Tailoring 20
Blacksmithing 16
Fishing 1
Fletching 1
Chris Howe
> These are my 56 druid's current tradeskills. I am interested in the
> easiest, cheapest way to drive these skills up...
"Easiest" and "cheapest" don't go hand in hand, unfortunately.
Picking "easiest" because you can't put a price on sanity. :)
All: GoD freebie to 55. Mildly annoying, but cheap way to
start all your tradeskills if you own GoD.
> Brewing 162
Faydwer Shakers to ~180
Minotaur Hero Brew onwards
Both use store-bought ingredients, and compared to other
tradeskills, it works out cheap.
> Tailoring 20
Ooh boy.
Woven mandrake to 66
Cured silk till trivial
Now it gets expensive
LoY ribbons to 187
Leave it there unless you need it higher.
> Fishing 1
Buy/make a fisherman's companion, summon a rod, and put one of
those drinking bird things on your "fish" key. ;)
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Chris
Graeme Faelban
g...@adelphia.com:
> These are my 56 druid's current tradeskills. I am interested in the
> easiest, cheapest way to drive these skills up...
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance to any masters who can help me...
>
> Baking 191
Have not worked on this seriously, but lots of good infor at
www.eqtraders.com.
>
> Brewing 162
Trivial to do with the new UI. Make Minotaur Hero's Brews up to 248.
>
> Pottery 136
Kind of a pain, do the various poison vials until they all trivial.
>
> Tailoring 20
Easiest, make woven Mandrake, then Picnic Baskets up to 82 or so. After
that, it starts to get painful. You will have to farm.
>
> Blacksmithing 16
Go to www.eqtraders.com, do the next thing that is not trivial to you,
keep doing that through Banded armor, after that, time to farm.
>
> Fishing 1
Easiest, spend training points, cheapest, go fish.
>
> Fletching 1
See smithing, you can get to 202 doing arrows with vendor purchased
ingredients, after that, you can make bows with vendor purchased
materials (very expensive), or you can farm for acrylia arrows (very
cheap).
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Remington Stone
}These are my 56 druid's current tradeskills. I am interested in the
}easiest, cheapest way to drive these skills up...
}Thanks in advance to any masters who can help me...
Be aware that you can only exceed 200 on -one- of the six non-fishing
skills listed until you have purchased levels of the AA Tanaan Crafting
Mastery. Fishing is capped at 200 anyway. :)
Definitely go to www.eqtraders.com. Know it. Love it. Use it.
}Baking 191
If you can forage, get a bucketload of mushrooms (foraged in any luclin
zone) and make ohabah truffles. Once those trivial, make Misty Thicket
Picnics. Another possibility is Halas 10lb meat pies, which requires
farming rather than foraging. If you're of planar level, save nearly any
meat that drops in the PoP planes and look up what it makes (Hobgoblin
Suprise, Hero Sandwiches, Mephit Sandwiches, Jord Meat Pie.)
If you're not choosing baking as your one skll to exceed 200, I'd probably
leave it at 191 until I was ready to work on the Aid Grimel quest.
}Brewing 162
Faydwer Shaker will take you to 188, which is where I generally stop.
Beyond that, Grobb Liquidised Meat, Minotaur Hero's Brew, and Demi-Sec
Champagne are the reasonable choices.
}Pottery 136
Posion Vials. There are a dozen kinds of skins you can use, Black Wolf
skin, Zombie Skin, and Puma skin being the most common, and generally
easily vendor-farmed. Then Casserole dishes to 199, which is where I
generally stop.
}Tailoring 20
The suggested woven mandrake is a simple route, but rather expensive. you
can save a fair chunk of change by hanging on to all the MQ and HQ
bear/wolf/cat) pelts and spider silks you find while vendor mining skins
for poison vials, and using the following recipes:
S/M/L tattered mask (you'll need about half a stack of ruined pelts to
get to the 26 trivial)
Raw Silk Mask (about a stack of silk swatches to 36, which sell well, so
you might skip this one)
S/M/L Studded Mask (gets you to 56 - If you have GoD, go do that free
thing and skip to here!)
-Then- do the woven mandrake to 66
and picnic baskets to 76 (they're better than using up valuable silk!)
Cured Silk Mask (waste a bit more silk to reach 82)
Greyhopper hide mask (if ya happen to find any greyhopper hides, to 88)
-or- Hand Made Backpack (to 88, and they sell well in bazaar)
Small Reinforced Mask (to 108 - you saved the Bear pelts for backpacks,
right? And you'll need the HQ cat pelts for...)
Tailored Quiver (to 115)
Now you start on various Wu's and Crystalline Silk to 158, which is where
I generally give up. :)
Note that for some of these recipes, there's an equivalent recipe with
rockhopper hides and shade silk, so if you find those vendor diving, grab
em!
}Blacksmithing 16
Make metal bits to 18
use some metal bits to make yourself a file, and maybe get a couple
skillups.
make a million more metal bits
use them to make studs to 35 -- you'll need the studs for the Studded Mask
under tailoring
make a stack or two of steel boning to 37, you'll need it for reinforced
masks
make 16 million more metal bits
skewers to 38
scalers to 41
dairy spoon to 72
filleting knife to 76
lockpicks to 88 (even though it generally means running all the way to
fungus grove for molds)
If you have easy access to an enchanter, make worked silver chains to 111
embroidering needle to 122
Now you're ready to go read the thread where MJ and I argued about whether
Ornate was worthwhile or you should just move straight to fine plate,
and make up your own mind. :) http://tinyurl.com/25wy9
}Fishing 1
Go fish. :) Pick somewhere safe, bring lots of bait and a spare pole or
two. Iceclad, Cobalt Scar, Plane of Nightmare and Plane of Valor are good
places to fish for something sellable, or possibly Sebilis. Try to get a
Fisherman's Companion, as others have said, but otherwise, make -sure- you
bring a spare pole. I frequently skill up fishing just in shadowhaven, so
there's a spare-pole merchant 20 feet away. :)
}Fletching 1
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/aoenla/fletchguide/raising_skill.htm
says it better than anything I could write. :) It hasn't been updated
since time began, but most of it is still very accurate, with the
exception of the very first sentence. :)
[38 Enchanter] Zinphandel Chianti <Alliance of Empires> (Gnome) Firiona
Tracey
Remington Stone wrote:
> Lumpy said:
> }These are my 56 druid's current tradeskills. I am interested in the
> }easiest, cheapest way to drive these skills up...
> }Thanks in advance to any masters who can help me...
>
> Be aware that you can only exceed 200 on -one- of the six non-fishing
> skills listed until you have purchased levels of the AA Tanaan Crafting
> Mastery. Fishing is capped at 200 anyway. :)
OR you have a class/race specific tradeskill, such as tinkering or
poison-making. You can have a 'regular' tradeskill at 200 and tinkering
or poison-making over 200 at the same time with using AA's.
Tracey
Remington Stone
I assume you mean 'withOUT using AA's' and 'tradeskill OVER 200'. :) Aye,
Lumpy didn't list Tinkering, Posionmaking, or Alchemy, so I assumed he was
a non-gnomish non-shaman/rogue, and it was safe to skip that detail. :)
[38 Enchanter] Zinphandel Chianti <alliance of Empires> (Gnome) Firiona
Tracey
Well, yeah, that's what I meant. Sheesh, teach me to post when I'm
tired, cranky and hot. :) Thanks for the corrections.
Tracey
Jonathan
> Lumpy said:
> }These are my 56 druid's current tradeskills. I am interested in the
> }easiest, cheapest way to drive these skills up...
> }Thanks in advance to any masters who can help me...
>
> Be aware that you can only exceed 200 on -one- of the six non-fishing
> skills listed until you have purchased levels of the AA Tanaan
> Crafting Mastery. Fishing is capped at 200 anyway. :)
Seven tradeskills, you left out Jewelry Making. The best site I know of for
JC is
http://www.valendor.org/gumkak/jewelcraft.asp
Basically, you start with silver and a cheap jem and then skill up buying
more and more expensive jems, then you move on to the next metal and cheap
gem and work your way over. The site lists the most opportune times to
switch metals so you are spending the least amount of money while still
succeeding enough to not lose too much on failures.
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Arch Lich of Misericordia
on Brell Serilis
Graeme Faelban
news:c52376$ejk$1...@woodrow.ucdavis.edu:
Alchemy is capped at 200 regardless, so no need to mention it.