ARGH!!!! Stinking Acrylia

[Armaged]

Why, oh why do so many dang blasted skills rely so heavily on something that is a royal pain to get?

After getting my 8th shawl, I realised I plan on getting 250 tailoring and 250 smithing on my Erudite Wizard.

Well, because of all my tradeskills, obviously, I have no cash.
While dong some XP grinding, I was making quite a collection of condensed shadow. After looking breifely at the recipe pages. I thought I had found a nice, fast way to get my ranger from 196 fletching to 250 making the Condensed shadow tipped arrows.

So, I made a couple hundred arrow tips and transferred them to my ranger. No combine I try will work! So, I go back to the website and read a little further. ONLY WORKS with Acrylia shafts? WTF?

As if it's not bad enough trying to get Acrylia to raise smithing and tailoring. Now, I need it for fletching too?

What were they thinking when they added acrylia to the game? This is not a time sink, this is torture.

Uber rare acrylia drops.
Acrylia is needed for everything.

Forget trying to buy the stuff, tradeskills have a nasty tendancy to kill the old bank account

Aazumar Dracostarr
Solusek's 60th Disciple
182 baking, 180 smithing, 180 tailoring, 185 fletching, 175 brewing, 181 Jewelcraft, 169 Pottery, 200 fishing, 169 research

Agrothar Pathwarden
Tunare's 43rd Protector
196 Fletching

[Glatius2]

Acylia caverns might be your answer. Small bricks and pieces drop fairly often. Large bricks occassionally, and blocks are pretty rare. If you don't need large bricks or blocks, acrylia caverns is a very good source of acrylia. Other wise, you're probably at the mercy of the bazaar or stuck finding grimmlings somewhere and farming them for insane amounts of time.

[Pojodan]

Acylia has me gritting my teeth a bit as well. After leveling twice of tribals in DSP (the lower level ones), 2 times in TM with lots of Grol Baku, several sessions on the higher level tribals in DPS, clearing the grimling caves in TM, and genociding the grimlings in Hollowshade Moor I have manages to amass a total of 40 studs.. 40! That's enough for about 2-3 sill ups, 4 if I'm lucky, 0 if my usual bad luck kicks in. Superb hides are giving me pains (Went to ML, fought till I got kicked out by three stonegrabbers, got 1 Superb and 4 Flawless, go figure.), and I need 30 skill ups to trivial this stuff.
Considering 115 to 158 with Wu's took me about 250 combines and the fact that above 150 seems to get worse for skill ups, I'm looking at needing about 300 or more studs? Lord havew mercy!

What also chaps my hide is the fact that making banded takes 1 small brick per combine. To make studs you take the brick, split it in to two peices, take two peices to make a bit, and 3 bits to make 2 studs. So the LOWER LEVEL combine takes 150% MORE Acrylia than the higher level stuff? Who designed this?

Solstice robes are out of th question for me, I'm barely rich enough to consider enmassing a few hundred papelea bark tanens :? while still thinking I can get my skills all high enough to go for the 7th shawl.

Everytime I read through the walk-through for the 6th shawl I about whimper since goodness knows these sort of things always go bad for me and I'm at a loss at which is worse, farming acrylia and superb hides for weeks or doing the same thing with siren hairs, wolf whiskers, and manticore manes to give me enough to make 10-15 combines in one sitting to ensure I don't go away empty-handed.
At least, being a Vah Shir Beastlord that's about to get his Garrison Cloak, I can get 8% to my tailoring with a Geerlok, so if I can hit 188 I'll have the eqivalent of 203, which is less than 20 below the trvial, which seems to be a spot where combines seem to suceed a lot.

It's getting to 188 that scares me!

[Balkin]

Ummm...

Sorry, but I have to ask. What's the tailoring modification on the cloak?

Verant has stated numerous times, that tradeskill modifiers don't stack, so, unless it's 8% by itself, the best you'll get is the 5% from the Geerlok, and the 3% from the cloak will be ignored.

I have a friend who lost 3 bags of acrylia last night. She wasn't aware of the current drop bug when transfering. 3 full bags on the ground long enough to log in another character... 3 bags still there, no acrylia.

She wasn't pleased, and I felt pretty bad for her... *sigh*

[Aerinha]

As I was about to log out last night, a guildie of mine mentioned to me that he was about to do a blind drop to his smith to do some skillups...I didn't let him. I logged in my character that was closest to the Felwithe forge(he was doing elven and acrylia) and I helped him pass all those bricks to his High elven smith. I helped him collect those darn materials, there's no way I am going to let him lose those things on a bug, or a passerby....


I hate being dependent on acrylia, too. I fletch, and currently I am using the acrylia arrows route. The number of arrowshafts you get from one unstackable small brick of acrylia is pathetic. It takes forever to get a decent number of them together for a skill run. It doesn't help that I pass on the tradeskill stuff I don't use rather than sell it(windstones, essence of sunlight, essence of wind, iron oxide...all bring decent money; all go to the smiths that I know...), so I usually can't afford to buy more acrylia than I can farm myself. (Don't let this get into another "my tradeskill is harder than yours thing..I appreciate how hard it is to advance in the other tradeskills. My husband is a tailor; I help him collect stuff, so I KNOW what it is like already. )

Postscript...no, my smith friend didn't get any skillups from the smithing run...he did succeed on a number of things that were far beyond his trivial though.