Thats it...I give up

[Utumil]

I simply cant afford it. I just tried and failed my third attempt at my GM Baking Spoon. I know that there are horror stories of people trying and failing six or seven times before they finally succeed, and I knew this coming in, but there we still the ones that did it on the first try. I cant keep trying though...I just dont have the resources. Each attempt has cost me 7k, which seems to be the best price i can get the seal for (I dont have the jewlcraft or pottery to make them myself). Each attempt has also meant sitting in bazaar for a week and a half trying to sell MTP to raise that cash while competing with everyone else. Even if I succeed on the next attempt the stupid thing will have cost me 28K. My freaking robe only cost me 75pp, and I still have a few pieces of my newbie armour. THere are just too many things I could use 7K a pop for.

Maybe when im in my 50s or 60s when I can farm things and make 7k in a day or two I will try again. It so very frustrating that they put the limiting factor on a Tradeskill trophy not on the skill or time invested in that tradeskill (with my geerlok my skill is maxed), but rather on how much money that person can throw at it.

A very frustrated and disgusted baker.

[Axterix EnObelix]

You should be able to do it much cheaper than you have been. Don't buy a seal in the bazaar. Find a pottery person, find a jewelcrafter...ask them to do the combines. Tip them with some nifty stat food. They'll be happy and you'll spend less money.

I feel your pain there

I'd reccomend that trophies had 250 skill restricted combine, but it was no-fail.

I just spent 30pp and an hour or 2 to get to 128 pottery, I think it is trivial there.

JC is slightly more, and I have not done it yet... but even getting to trivial on both you would surely spend less than 1k, and all future trophies would cost you 4k for what it's worth.

Unless you fail the Seal, then you get to start another rant

[Cigarskunk]

Ouch!

I never really thought about how much of an SOB this could be for someone who hadn't cross trained in multiple tradeskills.

As a suggestion - hit up the guys who do the Kei for donations in the Nexus - since they're all chanters you've got a better than normal chance that they might be GM jewelers as well. You can also have the guy enchant the mana you need.

Pottery isn't too bad to train up still - it isn't the best 10plat and 15 mins you've ever spent anymore, but it's still not too bad.

So even if you have to donate 100plat per subcombine in the JC kit and another 100 for the mana potion, that's still atleast 2k less than you're currently spending,

[Moonlilly]

Have to agree with the guys above, hunt down someone that has the skill. Its much cheaper than to buy the seal outright. As for vials of mana I have about 4-5 enchanters I can tap to make them...The trick is to give them the spell to do it. You'd be suprised how many enchanters never bother to take the time to buy those things.

[Lilosh]

Heck, Look in your server specific section on eqtraders.


I have 199 pottery, 153 JC, and 250 Baking.


If anyone from EQTC came to me needing Gems mounted, or a seal attempted, I would be GLAD to do it. Providing, of course, that they realize

1) I can fail, just like anyone else, even though they are "trivial".
2) Artisans seals are , for reason , a bit tricky, and like to fail a bit.


-Lilosh

[Mystic Lioness]

Well,

There is another option... you could skill up pottery and JC to be able to do the combines yourself. Not as costly as you might think.

I feel for you, however, on failing the trophies. Hang in there!

[NammyTheShammy]

Just goes to show how much EQ can be a waste of time, effort, and frustration.

Items like that should be automatic success after a set number of failed attempts.

Nammy The Shammy