Hmmmm Augments

[Angelsyn]

Yeah, Mana Pres 3 back piece.

Hmm... I could get the Healing Focus Shoulder piece, then the Mana Pres cloak, then the Spell Haste Ring...

Argh! Shifting focus effects around is such a PITA!

[Vorhees]

Yeah, they're definitely plenty of OoW items coming out with focus effects up to 70. I've actually been surprised at how easy many of them are to get, I figured they would be much more difficult. IE, there's a pretty nice wis/int caster belt that drops in Noble's off trash mobs (rare, random drop) that extends buffs up to level 70 by 15%. And I've seen plenty of others like that as well (bst cold nuke focus, nec poison focus, mag fire nuke focus, range item for casters with magic nuke focus, etc etc, all effecting spells up to 70).

[Nolrog]

the last combine needs a PART made by smiths, but the final combine is still shaman/rogue.

Yeah, a part that costs either 1K or 6K to buy. How'd you like to fail on a 6 freaking K combine when your bank account is only 20K to start with. The prices on those ingots are WAAAAAAAY too high.

Poisonmaking is easily as difficult as tailoring. Almost every single recipe requires drops (just like tailoring) PLUS it is level restricted, and they have *ONE* thing they can sell.

Can't you buy your way to GM in poison making using your training points? That makes it very different than tailoring where you can only "train" to 54.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Yeah, a part that costs either 1K or 6K to buy. How'd you like to fail on a 6 freaking K combine when your bank account is only 20K to start with. The prices on those ingots are WAAAAAAAY too high.

well just my opinion here... but the effects you get from spending this money are well worth that price

Can't you buy your way to GM in poison making using your training points? That makes it very different than tailoring where you can only "train" to 54.

I forgot about that... if it is true (I am not sure I have seen confirmation on this) then yeah, it is awfully easy... you just have to level :/

[Dunthor Warsmith]

Can't you buy your way to GM in poison making using your training points? That makes it very different than tailoring where you can only "train" to 54.

At least last year, you could buy it all the way up to 250 using training points. I doubt they've changed it, but around a year ago was the last time someone I know actually did it, so that's as far as I can confirm.

[Nolrog]

well just my opinion here... but the effects you get from spending this money are well worth that price

I agree completely, the money is indeed well worth it (but that doesn't mean it's not too expensive.) It would be nice if they reduced the price a bit (say 750 and 2.5K or 1K and 2.5K), or even made the thing an uncommon drop as well as vendor bought.